08 Jul 1881
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1881
Page
1
The poem reflects the hard toil of farmer life across seasons. A narrator contrasts leisure myths with the demanding tasks of planting, threshing, churning, milking, and market duties. The piece ends noting enduring labor as the farmer and his family endure weather and toil, as printed by Inter-Ocean.
Mrs. Meredith scheming for a housemaid cousin from Philadelphia triggers a domestic mix up when a new girl arrives. Martha Meredith introduces herself as Pattie, proves capable in the kitchen, and plays a witty reveal that she is the intended Philadelphia cousin, not a servant. The scene ends with all sharing a meal and light mischief as Tom comments on her being a gem of the first water.
A Friday promotion within Hancock’s staff follows a directive from the General. The item catalogues various 19th century affairs from temperance in Russia, Grant’s sympathy visit to Mrs Garfield at Long Branch, to court battles over a will in North Adams and political remarks on debt reduction and Republican management.
The Bonnet Carre crevasse near New Orleans releases river water across plantations into Lake Pontchartrain, decimating salt water fish varieties and injuring the local industry by about 100000 dollars annually. Sediment fills the lake, shrinking deep channels to allow only small vessels, risking it becoming a great swamp unless halted.
Dr Frank Hamilton praised as leading gunshot wound surgeon at Bellevue Medical College famed author of a top authority on gunshot treatment. Eight tail feathers on the first 1878 silver dollar sparked mint circulars clarifying no value difference. Beecher receives confidences, including a distressing hair crimping tale illustrating fashionable morality and personal vanity among women.
In Burmah two Armenian court painters returned from Calcutta to face royal wrath as a poodle wandered into their portrait of the Queen. The monarch ordered rough handling and the artists remain in durance as authorities weigh decapitation as the punishment for this alleged insult to royalty.
The New York Times reports industrialists and railroads seeking workers abroad due to domestic shortages. Denver Rio Grande advertises for 10,000 laborers in Britain, while another company plans to import Chinese laborers despite stringent immigration laws. Urban scenes show many idle, houseless men in New York as beggars solicit pennies. The Brooklyn Eagle notes parallel labor pressures and public worry over pauper labor and urban poverty.
The article lists long-ago droughts with Summer rainfall gaps from 1621 to 1876, noting 1762 as the longest drought and mentioning hay shortages. It then critiques public misreadings of the Declaration of Independence, citing Henry Ward Beecher and Thurlow Weed on the phrase all men are created equal versus created free.
Captain John P. Fort and Mr. Charles E. Campbell found on Cumberland Island a large box containing smaller boxes with bronze statuettes two vases a tete-a-tete tea set and a ma jolica set valued about 500 a Chinese letter in the box suggests it washed from a vessel or the cargo of a wreck near Fernandina In the last month firkins of butter cap and a sewing machine in good order have been found by dwellers on the island.
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