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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1889
Page
7
The verse depicts a woman freed from chains only to be bought as a luxury asset by a wealthy buyer. She travels across the sea to serve as a consort, raised in privilege, with the sole condition that she must kneel and thank her new lord for attaining noble status.
Dr. Packard cements his garden as a playful test for local children and blesses Lucy Carter with a rose and a reading book. He shares cheerful moments with Lucy and her father, while Mrs. Carter watches from the porch as anticipation for a first bloom grows.
A poor couple accorded to their daughter Lucy’s dream to grow roses as a family boon. Lucy’s garden blossoms fade with illness but the rose’s cuttings spread healing memory as a city florist buys the rose, ensuring Rose Cottage and Dr Packard’s garden endure in memory and commerce.
Sallie Joy White recalls meeting Louisa May Alcott in a Boston library during Little Women popularity. A reader rejects the book, the narrator defends it, and the librarian and the author’s mother share a laugh. The encounter becomes an unintended compliment to Alcott’s work.
A collection of judicial anecdotes highlights witty exchanges and memorable sentences from judges and officials. It recalls Baron Maule and other magistrates lampooning lengthy arguments, and includes notable quips about bigamy, larceny, and military court remarks. The tone reflects historical legal humor and sharp courtroom ethics.
The article details new costumes with Medici style high capes and frock coats, silk and velvet gowns, and intricate trims. It notes pale cloths, Russian jackets, pelerines, and long sleeves, with Grecian and Directoire models, plus jewelery trends, hats, and dance dress fabrics for the season.
Merald of Heath notes that harsh mouth shapes in young women arise from childhood finger and thumb sucking. He cites two New York women as examples, one with thick lips from thumb sucking and another with a protruding, wide mouth blamed on forefinger comfort.
The article reviews how delicate Parisian note sheets gain or fail in American taste. It contrasts hand-made papers, subtle tints like heliotrope and white, monograms losing favor, coats of arms restricted, and plain elegant styles rising among high-class users.
A masked assailant bored through an alley door into Paradise Hall and triggered The Colossus of Roads trap but fled. a fragment of ear and boot heels remained. The Detroit Free Press notes this is the 34th such attempt in ten years, with a $50 reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the unknown assailant.
A single slate pencil factory in the United States employs 25 hands and produces about 8,099 pencils per day. Modern machinery replaced older methods, with blocks cut into squares and finished with emery belts.
A compilation of maxims on self reliance hard work temperance and personal virtue drawn from the Burling ton Free Press Somerville Journal Chesterfield Washington Post Collier Once a Week and United Presbyterian sources. The collection urges practical effort calm conduct and steadfast pursuit of good in life.
A collection of curious facts on the human body and wonders, including skin pore counts and total surface, skin thickness, and daily pressure from the atmosphere. Also mentions an ancient Rouen clock running fourteen years on a single wind, the mythic phoenix, and the first living skeleton Claude Sewrat born in 1709.
The article notes Russia’s prolific noble classes tracing to Rurik, naming the Gortchakoffs Narisehkins and Dolgouroukis, and recalls a late 18th century fad where menial figures were titled princes. It recounts Souvaroff’s shock at a barber crowned a Prince Luboff and his rebuke to his own barber.
Experiments by J. B. Francis show water passing through cement in brick tunnels at fourteen gallons per square foot in twenty four hours under seventy seven psi. Other engineers deem a tight cement laid brick bulkhead impractical beyond sixty four psi. Arkansaw Traveler.
In 1864 General Hunter’s troops entered Shepherdstown burning farms and crops in a bid to cripple Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Mrs Boteler and daughters faced destruction of their home as a peremptory order forced evacuation. A young lieutenant pleaded, the daughter sang hymns as the mansion burned, and the officers sheltered by duty witnessed a moving farewell before the house was consumed. The scene closes with a note on New York police veterans in the late war.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch notes Restless, a six year old horse of the Restless line, was given to Colonel Samuel Fowler in 1862. Restless served with the Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteers through Petersburg Fredericksburg Gettysburg and more, later aiding the wounded and weary. Retired five years ago he remains hale at Hamburg with Chaplain A A Haines keeping him as a cherished relic of the war.
A Washington correspondent recalls interviewing General William T. Sherman in 1881 during Garfield's illness. Sherman dodged questions with terse replies, yet his sly, amused demeanor made the encounter memorable and entertaining for readers of the New York Tribune.
Captain John Quincy Adams of North Vanceboro Maine survived a shattered femur after Cedar Mountain by secretly defacing chalk marks indicating amputation. Surgeons later reconsidered and, with Dr Garcelon’s involvement, avoided amputation and saved his leg for the rest of his life.
The Random Shots column lists membership counts for groups such as Liscoln Post and the Loyal Legion, pension plans for ex Confederates in South Carolina, and charity expenditures by the Ohio Women’s Relief Corps. It mentions a bronze statue of General McClellan for Philadelphia City Hall, and a 82 pound Fort Sumter cannon ball relic in Georgia. It also notes Commodore Joseph B Hull as the oldest living U.S. Navy Commodore at ninety, with service in the Mexican and Civil Wars.
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