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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1887
Page
7
A patriotic verse by Julia H Thayer celebrates America's freedom and heritage. It honors Pilgrim Fathers and national unity, urging reverence for liberty and the enduring flame of patriotism across lands and seas.
A village Independence Day celebration unfolds at Colonel Bradish's grounds with a grand program, patriotic music, and a gun salute. Ida Marble and Barrington witness a marriage proposal rejected, while Barrington is unmasked as a fraud before the crowd. A missing act of Barrington is revealed as Tabb, a veteran presumed dead, returns alive to joyful family reunion and a night of fireworks.
Fashions from the New York Post highlight dressy novelties in ladies boots sandals and summer cloths. It notes toned down toe shapes, favored silk stockings colors, and refined daytime and evening garments including ornate low-cut sandals and carriage wear.
A Washington Craftsman note praises George W. Childs for fair wages and generous benefits, urging thrift and constant improvement among workers. In Crawfordsville Indiana a man pressed the mayor to jail him for drunkenness, was refused, but a policeman filed the affidavit and the man served fifteen days. A humorous Golden Days quip contrasts a servant asking where butter is kept in the rep erator for the mistress.
A Pall Mall Gazette piece marks Ludwig Uhland born April 26 at Tubingen noting his stature as a German poet, scholar, lawyer, and politician. It praises his patriotic ballads and later songs, Longfellow translations, and enduring influence across Germany and England with his legends and Edenhall ballad.
A Fulton street shopkeeper touts the newest cane style a hazel tree shaped stick with a large end and finely grained wood costing seventy five cents to a dollar. He notes factories in New York produce thousands daily using machinery and mentions woods like Florida oak English hazel boxwood and lusious options. Local traders describe carved motifs and clever natives shaping canes with sham rocks harps and thistles amid legendary Blarney Stone tales.
A Brooklyn Eagle report surveys cane fashions from bog oak to ebony and rosewood, noting rough hand carving, aged woods, and the shift from gold to silver or natural handles. It cites prices from two to twenty dollars, warns of fake silver or gold contents, and contrasts American and English tastes.
The twenty ninth annual report of the Chicago Board of Trade, prepared by Secretary George F. Stone, details 1886 crops and prices. It notes 136,158,866 acres farmed with 2,774,793,000 bushels of wheat corn and oats, value 1,110,674,950 dollars, and highlights Illinois leading with 209,818,000 bushels of corn and 447,218,000 of wheat.
A compilation of household tips and recipes from a past issue, including remedies for sore throat and flavorful kitchen ideas. It also offers farming observations on pig breeds, well safety, and care for window plants, plus instructions for simple dishes like meat cakes and orange pie and notes on varnish clouding and chair repair.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat excerpt recounts an English barber’s view on baldness. He blames washing the scalp for hair loss, argues water strips natural oils, and notes English men avoid washing the hair. He praises the comb and stiff brush and mentions a gas engine powered scalp cleaning device used abroad.
Cocoanut-raising grows in Southern Florida with pineapples. Ten thousand pineapples per acre and fifty coconut trees per same space. Coconuts bear in nine to twelve years and yield eighty to one hundred fifty nuts per tree at about five cents each. Several groves planted recently, including 330000 trees by a New Jersey gentleman. Also news of a Paris nobleman arrested for pocket picking at fairs and markets and a joke about a wood pile and buck-saw.
Prairie Farmer explains thinning techniques for crops like beets, carrots, parsnips, and turnips to prevent crowding. It details hand and hoe thinning, spacing guidelines of nine inches to a foot for most crops, and closer spacing for onions, plus notes on transplanted plants and annual flowers needing ample room to thrive.
A trainer explains finely bred horses are quick to alarm and bolt. To calm them, expose the horse to feared objects gradually. Let it smell touch and observe with the upper lip, repeated lessons over time will reduce nervousness and improve familiarity.
The Vassar College treasurer reports yearly totals of food and supplies consumed by students, including 4000 pounds fresh meats and smoked meats, nearly 5000 pounds of turkeys, over 4000 pounds of fish, 82002 clams, 141 gallons of oysters, 230 bar rels of flour, 14100 pounds of butter, 45000 quarts of milk, 25000 pounds of sugar, and thousands of fruits and staple foods. Separate notes mention rising demand for small houses by builders, spreading building and loan association fever in the West, and money outflow from the East fueling enterprise in many small channels.
A jumble of promotional blurbs covers liberty, medical tonics, cosmetics, and household cures. Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is touted as a cure for women’s ailments with manufacturer guarantees, alongside fashion and health tales, cosmetic potions, and various patent medicine pitches from Chicago to Boston.
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