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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1890
Page
3
A reflective poem describes an editor who died, remembered for lifelong work to aid the world, forge noble truth, curb wrong, and guide public virtue. It contrasts the hearse passing with the editor’s steadfast toil, vision, and courage amid critics, urging perseverance in face of adversity.
Mrs Walsingham and Colonel prize a jeweled butterfly lost on their first anniversary. Scotland Yard detective Sawder recovers the piece amid a grand fraud tale, claiming to have found it in a Sleepy Jim hideout during a Fenton Court robbery. The couple host him at home and later doubt crept in as a chase for papers twists the night.
Colonel Walsingham loses his eighty guineas fur coat after a visitor posing as an embassy bearer retrieves his papers and umbrella and vanishes. Scotland Yard identifies the sleight as James Croft alias Sleepy Jim, Fred Sawder the alias partner. The incident reshapes the colonel’s view of criminals.
The article explains the Chinese mail handling in ports and post-offices. It notes no dedicated Chinese interpreter is employed domestically. Chinese senders write in their language, an interpreter adds the English address, and letters travel via China to San Francisco then to recipients. Incoming mail uses English addressing by a Chinese post-office interpreter, but clerks sort by street and number, not by nationality.
A short essay urging readers to stop dwelling on past regrets and sins. It counsels living today with purpose, turning over a new leaf, and focusing on forward action to achieve positive outcomes. It compares regret to a harmful atmosphere and champions proactive effort and optimism.
A Chinese physician advertised an infallible cure for curvature of the spine. A hunchbacked man trusted him, was laid on a board with weights, and died as the doctor claimed fees for straightening. The tale contrasts medical roles and ethics, noting sharp division between physicians and surgeons. A rich arrow wound case also highlights professional boundaries and etiquette. The Arkansas Traveler lampoons a hotel ad about gas lighting and bellows.
A roundup of notes: Tokyo water is piped to wells on street sides. London’s Carleton Club earned 110000 and spent 90000 with a 15000 loss. Germany bans officers from heavy pre-dinner drinks at clubs. France exports eggs, fowls total 45 million with 4 million for eggs, yield 8.6 billion eggs. Saratoff in Russia sells tar on credit with door-post marks. autumn pay clears posts. Paris hosts a dahlia centennial banquet, 1790 origin. Japan to expand universal public telephone service, Yokohama to Striznoka line built. A photographer-member faced jury summons and royal summons for the Shah photo. a NSW pest called flying fox harms fruit crops. Chinese land holdings are numerous yet small per family. field hands paid 12 dollars yearly with employer-provided food, straw, shoes, and shaving.
Mr Glave recounts six years in the Congo among the Bayanzi where a slave killed a free man after defending himself. Tensions erupt between villages until a fetid doctor arrives with a claim of medical insight that shifts the crisis and quiets the feud.
The passage notes a slave's fight with a ghost, a man already dead, and an accepted claim of peace. The bereaved family accepted indemnity offered by Mr. Glave. It took $30 worth of beads to wipe out the insult Glave's servant had offered to the ghost.
The Philadelphia Press notes Henry Drummond in Tropical Africa describing Central Africa as a vast region with rivers Nile Congo and Zambesi, great lakes, and an intricate trail network. It quotes Drummond on native life, poverty of wants, minimal possessions, and paradoxical laziness as a cultural trait.
Italian papers recount the arrival of Lino of Orenburg in Reggio with a passport note from Baron Marocchetti. Once a Grenadier Guard in Napoleon's Grande Armée, he fought at Jena Friedland Smolensk and Moskva, was wounded at Platov, spent years in Russian exile, joined the Caucasus campaign in 1829, married Nerawska, lost all children, returned to Italy with Italian government aid, and now, 105, in Hoggio asylum, revered as a surviving veteran of a hundred battles.
A compilation of brief maxims from various authors and publications. Notable inclusions mention charity, temper, fame, victory through work, truth, spirit, influence, education versus commerce, certainty versus hope, and the need to act with restraint. Public figures and period voices are cited alongside a wide range of themes.
A collection of two century old anecdotes from France. A parson roasts a goose with the old crucifix causing the crucifix to fall on the goose while the nephew watches. A dying man speaks of judgment day and wagoners praise the land of plenty. A learned doctor gets lost and is mocked by a simple countryman who knows the way to Savonnieres.
A New York Weekly excerpt argues humans die early due to irregular temper and excessive labor. It contrasts animal lifespans with human longevity, noting strong, irritable natures hasten decay while milder, temperate creatures live longer. A Washington Post quip about Cleopatra’s needle closes the piece.
A wartime reminiscence recounts Grant and Lee maneuvering in the Wilderness as dawn nears. A Confederate company post experiences a night of dread and a life ending by a hunter’s bullet. A wounded woman dies near the speaker with the horror of combat all around.
An excerpt from a Civil War memoir recounts two soldiers inside besieged Vicksburg as they plan a ration raid on a cabbage field. A sentry and a Major risk exposure, gunfire, and shell bursts test nerve during the covert operation.
In Allegheny Pennsylvania veteran George T Luttrell a Civil War hero born in Raleigh North Carolina meets a Southern stranger Alan C Luttrell Birmingham Alabama at a crowded post office. A mistaken identity leads to a long lost brotherly reunion after twenty eight years and the blotting paper becomes a cherished keepsake.
Detnott Michigan seeks the 1891 national encampment while a Corps of the W R C aims to organize in New Orleans and a permanent W R C department forms in Tennessee. The Historical Grand Roster will span over 2 000 pages and the Ohio department shows 46 214 members with 2 962 added last year, plus substantial relief funds and a note on Memorial Day attention to Fredericksburg. A Georgia man's persistent requests for a furlough led General Lee to test a soldier’s understanding of marching orders with an unhalted advance.
In a hotel room account from Hontzore Travels, Elizabeth I’s table is set by a procession of kneeling attendants bearing rod salt cellar and bread. A Countess and a married lady with a tasting knife perform ritual cleansing before the twenty four gilt dishes arrive. Yeomen guard in scarlet with a golden rose serve courses as trumpets and kettledrums sound. An array of unmarried ladies then remove meat to the Queen’s private chamber, after which the Queen dines alone with few attendants, admission tightly controlled by power intermediaries.
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