Van Wert Werkly Bulletin Highlights Diverse Local Topics
The issue reports over $30,000 worth of Northampton quarries exported to Europe. It notes George Francis Train’s forty-eighth year of “evolution.” Richwood discusses a tiger replacing a leopard in local interest, likely escaped from a menagerie. Mollie McCarty to race against Parole Ten Broeck and Tom Ochiltree in the West. The poem urges ring out pride and subdue party strife while Aspinwall land ownership in Brookline traces back 227 years. An exchange claims no man can swear as Ohio’s next senator, though several may swear they failed.
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Northampton
George Francis Train
P. E
Richwood
Union County
Mollie McCarty
Rocky Mountains
California
Parole
Ten Broeck
Tom Ochiltree
Mollie
United States
Ohio
The Japanese have no cuss words in their language
A jumbled column notes a mix of items from a New York Graphic piece. It covers a stove pipe mishap, a San Elizario inquiry, Salt Lake City polygamous marriages, Beecher and Hell debates, a looming Democratic Senate fight, wheat shortages in Russia, bread price controls, Turkish loaf sizes, Philadelphia Ministerial Union support for hell doctrine, and evangelical church unity on eternal punishment.
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New York
Hubbard
Texas
San Elizario
Mexico
Salt Lake City
Beecher
Ministerial Union of
Philadelphia
Minnesota massacre survivor tale and village love plot
A first person narrator recounts Maud Carringsford Merriman's capture during a raid by Indians and Charley Merriman's daring rescue leading to Maud's eventual marriage to Charley. Interwoven are other vignettes including private Corbett’s court martial, a monster seen near Memphis, and unrelated reminiscences of Temple Bar and public figures.
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Charley
Silas Wheeler
Maud Carringsford
Father
John Carringsford
Charley Merriman
Wheeler
Maud Carringsford Merriman
Minnesota
Old Santa Claus Mission in the Cincinnati Christmas Tale
A Cincinnati Commercial verse describes Santa as a roaming figure who journeys east and west, sharing crumbs of the Christmas feast with delighted children. It urges youngsters to be good to the “little old man” and hints at a discovery of his identity.
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Cincinnati
Santa Claus
Nighttime marriage visit in Wheeling prompts unusual wedding
A bridal couple in Wheeling arrives at a minister's home at night. The wife, posing as the elder, explains she will marry Charley to become his stepmother and take him home, despite a license hitch. The couple wed and left with Charley in tow.
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Nicodemus
Preacher
Charley
Glass type printing shown in Paris with new benefits
A Paris exhibit presents a hardened glass printing type said to outlast metal, resist crushing and sudden cooling, not harm handlers, and offer lower cost. The material is touted as a safer durable alternative for type manufacture.
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Paris
Truth Under Trial Shapes a Loyal Merchant’s Reward
A Detroit youth wrongfully judged by his criminal past returns home after three years in prison to find work at five dollars weekly. A mercantile owner reads a deceitful anonymous report, then grants him thirteen dollars weekly and future promotion, praising honesty and earning lasting gratitude.
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Detroit Free Press
Swift
Bagley
Detroit
Uncle Dick Bishop Seeks Dual Ohio Roles
Ohio figure Dick Bishop, a Cincinnati Southern Railway trustee earning 5000 dollars, weighs serving as Governor with an official salary of 4000. Judges say no law prevents holding both posts, while the Cincinnati Enquirer predicts a law forcing resignation. The writer notes his head would not swim.
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Ohio
Cincinnati Southern Rail Road
Supreme Court
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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Y. Zridune
Drunkenness and Crime: Grim National Statistics
Prepared statistics claim over six hundred thousand drunkards in the United States and seventy thousand deaths yearly among them. Each year one hundred thousand people are jailed under whiskey influence, with three hundred murders and four hundred personal crises linked to drinking. Two hundred thousand orphans rely on charity, and a large share of crime and poverty are tied to liquor at a federal and personal cost of about sixty million dollars annually.
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Inter Ocean
Globe
Northwest
Republic
United States
California Exports to Australia and Zealand Rise in Ten Months
The San Francisco Bulletin reports California exports to Australia for the first ten months total $707,000, up from $313,000 year earlier, and to New Zealand $131,000, up from $108,000. Much of the trade comes from New England and the West, with Troy carriages aiding Victoria line and Massachusetts pianos, American plated ware, silverware, Yankee sewing machines and agricultural implements widely present in both countries.
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California
Australia
New Zealand
New England
West
Bulletin
Troy
New York
Victoria
Massachusetts
Evarts Quotes Davis On Court And Senate Roles
Secretary Evarts credited with remark that David Davis was too political on the bench and too judicial in the Senate. The line reflects a critique of Davis balancing roles between judiciary and legislative branches.
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Evarts
David Davis
Senate
Lessons for righteous young men and their conduct
A moral admonition urging boys to value honesty, practical education, and skilled trades over pretensions. It calls for respect for elders, protection of the weak, and avoiding dissipation, stressing that virtue spans all genders and that character matters more than wealth or appearances.
Saloons by state show New York leading in numbers
A New York Times compiled tally ranks states by liquor outlets. New York lists 23 854 saloons and 111 distilleries, with high counts in Illinois and Pennsylvania. DC hosts 1 105 saloons, while overall there is about one saloon per 280 people. The beverage split favors whisky in the South and beer in the West and North.
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New York Times
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Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
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Massachusetts
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North Carolina
Union
Frnangelist Not Needed as Beaver City Oil Pays Church Expenses
Kimball the frnangelist is unnecessary in Beaver City Pennsylvania where the Lutheran Church operates an on site oil well. The well's flow covers all church expenses and sustains church activities.
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Kimball
Beaver City
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