07 Dec 1877
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1877
Page
1
A sprawling column covers diverse items from postal cards sold to a crown princess advocacy, a St. Louis grand jury about whipping, new bridges, marriages, wages on Austrian railways, a Virginia death after chestnut intake, and a Spanish minister leasing a mansion. It also notes political shifts, odd local tales, and social tensions across the United States and Europe.
Say and her mother and Will share a modest Thanksgiving. A stranger, Mr. Marsh, arrives, learns of their plight, and after Say invites him as a guest, he proposes to marry Say’s mother. Head of family vows a new life. Say calls it the most thankful day. The couple wed next day and move to town, beginning a brighter chapter.
In rural Pennsylvania a thrifty farmer Henderson plans for his daughter Maude to marry Harry Masters after Ellen, with a modest marriage portion. Maude is robbed on a country road by a pistol-wielding stranger but escapes, the haul revealing counterfeit plates and over fifteen hundred dollars in good money. Father and son-in-law-to-be finalize Maude’s portion and marriage.
The Boston Journal lauds Harper's Magazine for maintaining wide appeal since its early New Monthly Magazine days. It notes consistent quality in travel discovery and fiction, with lively editorial departments and continued reader anticipation over the years.
Harper and Brothers announce postage paid subscriptions in the United States for Harper’s Magazine, Weekly, and Bazar at annual rates. Extras offered for clubs, back numbers available, complete sets with binding options, and Analytical Index volume details with prices. Subscriptions limited to Harper’s Periodicals. newspapers may not copy this ad without permission.
A cited set of encomiums extols Harper's Weekly as the best cheapest and most successful family paper in the Union. The Louisville Courier Journal praises its editorials illustrations and design quality while Harper's Weekly is urged for every household by the Commercial Bulletin of Boston and the Brooklyn Eagle notes its national standing.
Harper’s Weekly Magazine and Harper’s Bazar offer prepaid postage subscriptions at 1000 for one year to one address with 700 for the year plus free postage. Club deals provide free extra copies or discounts with bulk remittance. Annual volumes in cloth binding priced at 700 each, twenty one volumes at 520 each, cloth cases 100 each, indexes gratis with stamps. Newspapers are forbidden to copy without express order from Harper & Brothers.
Harper's Bazar and Harper's Periodicals advertise annual subscription rates: one year for 400 dollars with prepaid U.S. postage, or 1000 dollars for Bazar plus one year at one address. two Harper titles for 700 dollars. Extra copies offered for clubs. complete sets priced per volume. annual volumes cloth binding 700 dollars. Broadsheet notes shipments, terms, and that cig promotions may be excluded.
A December St Nicholas vignette frames a boy named YOUTH in youth maturity and old age sections. It contrasts his thick coat with a thin cap and his dislike of study with strict parenting, then shifts to a life of poverty, debt, and regret before aging under the namesake Dora Goodale.
Our Counsel General at London says there is no room for American mechanics in England. Bad as affairs may seem to be in America, they are infinitely worse in England. American mechanics will make nothing by going to Europe to seek employment.
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