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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1887
Page
7
A lyrical meditation describes a world where a toothache thrives in a frontier land with scarce dentistry. The speaker recalls walking creaky puncheons of a log cabin as night deepens while a tooth bundles immense pain within its roots, capturing a brutal, haunting ache.
In a Colorado mining camp saga a brakeman Henry Richards saves a passenger train from disaster by disarming a dangerous situation on the Great Occidental Railway. His actions avert a potential lynching and tie together a backstory of a gambler named Spencer and a former feud in Sodom.
A Baltimore area clipping details sturgeon fishing at Bay Side Cumberland County New Jersey with over 100000 invested. It covers harvesting methods roe production and shipment to Europe, gear specifics including nets and weights, and notes on sturgeon biology and market conditions. The piece also includes brief anecdotes about shark attacks sawfish turtles and a Boston dinner tattoo-like decoration trend and a note on breach of promise suits in Kansas.
A Puck humor piece showcases Miss Featheredge visiting Farmer Curtis’s farm boarding house. Witty exchanges lampoon rural life with banter on dew, cows, milkmaids, a hay mow ride, and the manners of a city belle admiring rustic charm and its quirks.
The piece argues minor arts deserve respect as they train patience and industry. It cites Charles G. Leland on craftsmanship, notes how small arts foster thinking and moral discipline, and mentions practical insights from a note in St. Nicholas and a water-velocity fact from a Boston Budget. It also includes a cabbage pest tip from the Indianapolis Journal.
A collage of aphorisms and quips from old newspapers mocks manners and marriage, with lines about a fast youth, a starry proposal, packing a trunk, almanacs, and a Boston almanac collector. Snippets reference a message boy, a widow, and social codes in playful, period voice.
A Washingtonian tale contrasts a pampered coachman with a stubborn American mistress and recounts the tale of four brothers in the Ohio Fourth Corps. The two surviving G’s twins endure trench and battle at Stone River and Chickamauga, where two fall and the last dies after a final charge, leaving the surviving brother to carry their memory in the regiment.
A Dolroi Free Press item tells of a strawberry seller who shouts in the streets and dies, then a second seller slowly sells door to door and rises to prominence with a syndicate making him a national bank president. The piece uses satire to contrast methods and outcomes.
Stanley served as First Lieutenant in 1862 in Arkansas and later joined the Union as a correspondent for the New York Herald. The tale, authenticated by Colonel Thompson, recounts a 1863 paymaster incident when Stanley vanished with company funds, fled north, and returned after forty days with a trail across the Rio Grande.
Three costly swords captured by General Butler at New Orleans in 1862 are in the Treasury Department awaiting owner determination. Congress authorized return to rightful owners via the Court of Claims after debate among Treasury officials and lawmakers. The swords include the “Congress sword” by Twiggs, a Georgia State sword, and Augusta citizens’ city sword with gold and precious stones, totaling substantial value.
A bolt struck a local man in Condinam arca Colombia inflicting severe burns on his left eye eyebrow and right side. His hair beard and breast were singed. buttons tore from clothing and a watch was damaged. Tommy and his father witnessed a five cent gift to the injured man and debate bread at supper. A quip about music and organ accompaniment follows with a playful exchange over singing.
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