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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1890
Page
3
A brief sprawl of text from a Ohio Pan Wert Hulletin page noting editors and proprietors John A Arnold and Co and location Van Wert. The fragment signals a local publication listing but lacks a complete narrative or dated event.
Florence W. Cox recalls a June afternoon with a dainty maiden. They stroll a grassy path through daisies and clover as bees hum and birds sing. A sting incidents leads to a gentle lesson about bees and innocence, ending with a wistful memory of a perfect June day.
In 1871 a New York private investigator recalls pursuing a bank thief who fled to Deadwood. After tracing Thomas Carter across plains, Hawke's Pass ambush, the robber captured the investigator, but a quick reversal and a single pistol shot ended Carter's plan. The detective freed himself, captured Carter’s associate, and delivered Carter to authorities before leaving for home.
A Vienna shorthand prize winner, slave trade bans across African coasts with Portugal exception, Paris salon etiquette, Scotland births and marriages data, Queen Victoria’s reign length, Louis Napoleon watch returned and resold, steers’ weights history, Krupp giant gun to Cronstadt, Spanish queen’s reputation, Czar fears among guards.
In a Texas Siftings note, Mrs. Jones asks Phyllis why she is anxious over the European steamer. Phyllis replies that her father ordered a Count from Germany and it is about time he arrived.
A dialogue from Puck features Mr Infrit proposing to Miss Chanse and Miss Chanse replying with playful caution. He insists he is not particular, while she gently declines, noting her fastidiousness in a light theatrical tone.
A Broad Street gambling house tale reveals a little dark complexioned man earning $250 with a mailed steel shirt worn under clothing. Report notes gamblers and private eyes in the city favor armor to resist bullets and knives, testing a flexible, pinlinked shirt that withstood a dirk blow and remains undented, used by operatives when tracking dangerous suspects.
An essay from Harper's Weekly extols the enduring bond of soldiers to their old regiment. It highlights camaraderie among men, the steadfast pride of service, and the supportive role of soldiers’ wives and families, recalling a reunifying visit by a former commander.
A detailed 19th century craft note describes making a decorative fountain using two quills and almonds. Quills are slit, almonds blanched and impaled on tips, arranged into sprays, fixed into an apple, then set on a dish with raisins. The piece may be crystallized with egg white or varnish. Also notes on the Longfellow family home in Cambridge and a Detroit grocer's view on cash-only independence in buying.
A New York Morning Journal excerpt notes a practical move to equip soldiers with chain mail shirts, deeming it a worthwhile precaution. The casual remark underscores a shift toward protective gear and the value placed on preserving a seasoned operative in combat.
The piece recounts Bryant as a precocious child who mastered letters, geography and languages early, pursued poetry with fervor, and authored Thanatopsis before 18. It details how his father discovered manuscript verses, how editor William Phillips helped publish them in the North American Review in 1817, and notes the remarkable, patient wait that led to national fame.
A Japanese youth presents a six century old sho organ claimed to be for a Kaga prince. The article traces its Chinese origin as the cheng, notes the instrument’s bamboo pipes and air chamber, and links its evolution to the grand cathedral organ. It mentions a Buddhist priest selling the piece in Kioto and outlines the device’s reed and fingering mechanism.
A collage of humorous snippets and cartoons from various papers. Jests about manners money and marriage, from a talking horse to a baby like its father. Puck Boston Transcript and N Y Weekly crowd together lines on fate and folly.
Mr. Frank Bolles describes raising two barred owls, Fluffy and Puffy, from the nest. Puffy injures a wing and cannot fly but retains keen daylight vision and remarkable eyes for tracking distant hawks, guiding Bolles in ornithological study. He recalls Puffy perched on a stick, obeying lessons, and noting hawks sailing southwest on September 10 during a northeast gale along the St John river.
The narrative describes a Civil War encounter at Malvern Hill where a young Confederate scout, a boy not more than fifteen, leads a northern army volley. The narrator refuses to shoot the boy, then witnesses the boy’s escape and eventual retreat with two comrades. A grim frontline soldier with a grim face falls dead, the narrator reflecting on the moral weight of firing upon the boy.
The treasurer of St. Clair County Michigan received an envelope containing 100 in money. The note offered no explanation beyond stating the money was not the giver’s, implying a conscience-led act.
Colonel Steigers recalls loaning a horn-handled carver to Colonel Blodgett during General E B Browns staff duties near Springfield Missouri in January 1863. A bullet glance saved Blodgett and a mangled brass piece from the knife proved its worth years later when Blodgett returned to St Louis with a matching modern replacement bearing dates of 1863 and 1889.
A Civil War era tale from Sergeant-Major Martin recounts Captain Patrick O Flaherty a Catholic temperate Irish captain who could spell poorly. A unit’s alcohol ban leads to a miswritten order for a gill with disastrous results as the sutler and soldiers twist the term into gallons and canteens. The captain forbids further liquor and stops issuing prescriptions.
A Maine official recalls a Civil War battle scene at Chantilly. He describes a tiny scalp wound from a fence splinter that left him near death before a quick recovery. The account, from Lewiston Journal, emphasizes how a minor injury can reveal how close he came to death and how he survived.
A random collection notes veterans and pensions across the postwar era. Tur, a Fifth Infantry Maryland National Guard unit of Southern army veterans, donates 75 to the Grant Monument fund. The government lists 79 national cemeteries in 24 states plus DC and Indian Territory holding 418,176 military dead, with 46 percent marked unknown. GENERAL Ricketts, Gettysburg hero, profited from 50,000 acres of Pennsylvania timberland, now selling near a large sum. A Confederate ex colonel in Richmond jokes about old comrades paying into a shared fund. Southern states largely tax residents to fund veterans pensions. Jordan Nasir, the Drummer Boy of Chalmette, dies in New Orleans. born 1796 to enslaved parents, served as a drummer under Jackson at New Orleans and in Florida and Mexican wars, and led a colored unit under Butler in the Civil War.
The small republic of San Marino, population about 8000, uses a political lottery to choose its dual capitani reggenti for the year. Retiring magistrates lead a public procession to the church where priests read eligible names, a child draws two tickets from a silver vase, and the elected rulers are proclaimed. Pietro Tornini and Francesco Marcucci began their term on April 1.
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