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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1889
Page
7
A tender poem by Ellen F. Pratt from Chicago Journal speaks of maternity as a divine gift. The speaker contemplates her newborn’s future, pledges trust in God, and sends the child to sleep with kisses as tears fall.
James Pink, a traveling country lawyer, falls for a young Italian at Naples while on a Easter visit with his sister Maria. Maria tracks his romance with sharp wit and tries to curb his infatuation as James pursues a private illusion amid the bustling port and a showgirl.
In a drenched town a man with an umbrella confronts an inquisitive acquaintance. He insists the rain is none of the other’s business and orders him to mind his own affairs before walking away. The exchange ends with the warning to let the weather be.
An engineer recalls a political autumn and a runaway locomotive named Hannah. On a late Chicago run the engine fights a headwind and drags a six-coach train, then unexpectedly clears a flurry of peril as sheep wander onto the line. The story centers on Uncle Jerry taming the engine and a humorous belief that Hannah acted to cheer a missing political meeting, killing sheep in misguided zeal.
The Missouri River extends about 1000 miles through North and South Dakota and remains navigable for much of its length, offering shipping and transport potential across the region.
The piece recounts Wisconsin Congressman Clark as a self made leader who aided a sick Black veteran with two dollars and funds for medicine. It also describes a National Museum key from Hamilton era and a House post office messenger remark about overbearing mail to Congressman Peters of Kansas.
Colonel Peter Paul Dobory of Kansas City and Captain Sproul, a Post Office clerk, recall Garibaldi era friends and their shared service. They meet in Washington after years apart, embracing as former comrades from Hungarian Hussars and Garibaldi’s staff. Both served for the Federal army in America.
In a Time style vignette Gworge recalls officers arresting Fweddy by mistake, seizing Fweddy's cane instead of the man. The blunder is described as sad and Fweddy clearly needs his cane.
A compilation of aphorisms and maxims from papers like Philadelphia Call Chicago Mail Somerville Journal Detroit Free Press Milwaukee Journal and others. They cover prudence virtue patience obedience and social advice from notable thinkers including Ruskin and Tillotson.
The article argues that curfews were not solely a Norman imposition but widespread in Europe and possibly earlier in England. It notes the curfew’s purpose to guard against fires when houses were built of wood and cites Alfred the Great and Oxford’s Carfax as early examples. Henry I later restored lamps and candles at court after curfew bells.
The Riddell Museum curator at Agra reports a gharial stomach contained hair pebbles beads rings and a defaced coin suggesting a woman or women were devoured. The note warns crocodiles in Indian rivers lakes estuaries and tanks remain dangerous and disease and famine follow animal predation.
An 1860s narrative recalls Morgan's raid through Ohio border counties and a family at a weathered house that feeds approaching home guards. Grandpa Drummond, Aunt Piety, and Rob serve fifty soldiers before realizing the raiders were guests, not foes, prompting reflection on war and faith. Later a Confederate soldier and Rob’s father both praise the memory, while a Gettysburg Testament is returned to a veteran in Oregon.
A Youth's Companion account recalls an Indiana sharpshooter who stalked rebel lines at Petersburg. He killed a Confederate marksman using a fence rail concealing a rifle and later felled cannons’ crews by sniping from a mile away. His feats highlight the 13th Indiana’s bravery within the brigade.
Catherine Chase a Paterson New Jersey resident and World War II era nurse who served in the Army of the Potomac died recently. She tended wounds and offered comfort at battles from Fair Oaks to Petersburg during the Civil War while accompanying her husband a veteran of the Sixty second New York and Mexican War who survives with limited pension and health. She belonged to the W R C National Tribune and she marched with the regiment as long as there were wounded soldiers to carry.
A Colerain Township man who claimed total disability and a pension of 81,500 plus 14 monthly was visited by a well dressed stranger who boasted about his daily output. The man later learned the visitor was a government detective checking the pension claim and he has not received payments since.
Mrs. Mary Pierson of near Charleston West Virginia receives a large pension recalling a Civil War tale. Her Union supporting family faced a deadly event when 18 Union soldiers shot her husband after he killed a lieutenant who sat on a fence. Pierson and three children were killed in retaliation. Harvey, the eldest son, died later in battle. The mother, now seventy five, lived in poverty with seven children.
The New Hampshire W R C reports thirty seven corps in good standing. A Soldiers and Sailors monument is planned for Prospect Park. Detroit hosts the Brook lyn Navy National Headquarters G A R at Bates and Larned. Michigan holds April 13 1890 as the next department encampment in Adrian. Kaltes Post 32 in New York prepares to attend the national encampment. About 790 War of 1812 survivors remain with 10500 widows pensioned. Detroit Post 384 will escort Commander in Chief R A Alger to the Boston encampment in June.
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