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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1887
Page
3
The Han Wert Bulletin from Sumerset and Arnolds presents a Friday July 8 1887 issue. Editors list Han Wert Bulletin by Sumerset and Arnolds with notices, items, and local notices for readers.
A Boston Globe poem narrates a country maiden who makes butter on a gray farm and dreams of a letter from a sisterly admirer. The piece playfully blends rural love lore with imagery of butter, ribbons, clover, and provincial courtship, ending with a note on a likely parental disapproval.
Reverend Clement Jenifer inherits Waterdell Hall to the dismay of his discontented curate life. He travels to claim the estate, facing a curious ghost rumor among locals as twilight falls on the secluded hall and its somber grounds. The tale contrasts his reluctant, solitary vigil with lingering memories of a life of service.
Clement Jenifer faces a spectral confrontation with the youthful self he forsook. The double accuses him of neglecting duties and harming souls, prompting Jenifer to seek redemption. A bedside epiphany leads him to vow contrition and renewed faith, ending with a moral awakening in a dim sitting room.
A Cosmopolitan excerpt surveys Ottoman sultans Murad IV and Abdul Aziz, detailing brutal excesses and perversities. Murad’s murders and acts of torture contrast with Abdul Aziz’s passion for cockfighting and a menagerie, including a famed parrot and other birds, reflecting reckless indulgence and autocratic cruelty.
In a London Strangers' Club a debate on female beauty led Count Patrick to wager with Sir Arthur McCamur. A beautiful chamber maid and a plain stewardess were sent to beg in aristocratic areas with identical clothes, but both were arrested after failing at the task. They confessed to accepting three pounds each from the gentlemen. the magistrate sentenced them to eight days. He notes beauty does not influence law and highlights cases where beauty matters little.
Ostrich feathers sold during March at Port Elizabeth in South Africa realized £26 2s, according to local market reports.
A collage of humorous quips and adages from various newspapers. Topics range from marriage and courtship to medicine and prosperity. The fragments reference Boston Transcript New Haven News Lowell Citizen Harpers Bazaar and others, with light social commentary and playful one liners.
A School Journal essay argues that cause and effect govern all events, urging teachers to study causes within students. It claims teachers mold behavior by managing underlying influences, teaching whole children beyond minds alone, and acknowledging broader street, home, and society impacts on learning.
The article recounts how war correspondents faced dangerous duties in the Civil War era. It explains varied practices from partisan bias to on the ground reporting, highlighting cases at Stone River and Chickamauga, and notes how some reporters earned lasting reputations through direct contact with senior generals for accurate field descriptions.
Softley asks why an egg is like a song. Nibson concedes no direct link. The joke lands on the egg being the roundest lay, a pun explained by Crate's Travelers' Magazine.
A Century account describes Union troops at the Bloody Angle during the Spottsylvania battle. Ammunition mules carried three thousand rounds each behind the lines while officers opened boxes for rapid supply. Confederates used loopholes and shelter tents as they occasionally surrendered after intense exchanges and counterfire.
The War Department figures show 2,850,132 enlistments with likely 2,250,000 serving. Deaths in service total 47,? including 1,? 10 died in action and 35,050 died of other known causes. Prison deaths likely exceed 40,000, with total wartime deaths over 317,000. Fewer than 1,000,000 survivors remained by 1868, and about 10,000 die each year as the G A R age average nears 45.
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