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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1887
Page
3
J. Edgar Jones of Chicago Inter-Ocean extols the West as a rising realm of freedom and industry. He invokes settlers, pioneers, and railways forging cities from sea to shining gates, promising wealth, unity, and mighty destinies under the flag as waves of immigrants arrive.
In Red Gulch a German host and three miners guard a treasure of 110 ounces of gold dust hidden under Widow's Rock. Felix Mitchell, a fresh arrival, befriends a wary old miner named John Stevens, while Jack Rawson and others plot to move the stash. Felix faces pressure from locals as vigilantes, and the tale hints at a planned expedition and a looming decision.
In a mining camp tale, Jem Howe hides four bags of gold dug from Widow's Rock but Felix exposes the theft. A mob nearly hangs the old man before Felix reveals Howe framed him. The missing gold is found in a chimney, Howe is killed, and Rawson and Felix profit from Widow's Rock splitting four hundred thousand with a San Francisco syndicate.
Grant Allen paints the Thousand Isles as endlessly varied yet fairy like. He notes cliffed edges carved by river frost and spring ice breaks, with jagged rocks, ferns, creepers, and cedar crowned islets reflecting in silver water. Each cluster offers unique shapes and timbered shores.
A comic vignette follows Fred Falsestep who marries young, grows rich and cultured while his wife clings to him, and wonders why he remains emotionally distant though she loves him and stands by him. A separate brief item notes a South Macon Ga cow minding tale of a dying man whose delirium sounded like cattle.
Mrs Wixby declares economy must begin at home as business slows. She abandons a hat to save five dollars and shops for gloves ribbon lace and other goods, finally spending sixteen dollars ninety-eight cents. Husband Charley condemns the overzealous saving.
A humorous sketch from American Magazine about language mishaps while traveling in Europe. An English clergyman seeks ink in a Swiss hotel, a German conductor misreads tickets, and four English travelers trigger a comical lemonade order to ham and eggs, illustrating cross language humor.
The Chinese will have a new mint by next April with ninety coining presses in England. The noiseless automatic presses can produce 2,700,000 coins per day in ten hours. Coins include silver dollars and fractions plus brass cash tokens. The daily coinage value is about £26,650, with 100,000 silver dollars available if needed. London Times notes Royal Mint comparison. Also reports the Portland to San Francisco express train time now thirty nine hours.
A collage of brief humorous lines and sayings from multiple papers including the London Times Philadelphia North American and Detroit Free Press. The items poke fun at editors, manners, finances, and social quirks through witty exchanges and satirical snippets.
A city man plans a dime museum and seeks diverse curiosities. He wants proof of long friary keeping, an umbrella not lost, a tenor who never flirted, an unboastful actor, a strong minded skeptic at moonrise, a serious college graduate essayist, capable national managers, a man immune to a pretty woman's sway, a self made man never studied by pine light, a conscience carrying Pullman porter, an ugly yet loyal love doubter, a European tourist who avoids the other side talk, and a man who can spell his name yet never wrote for public action.
An authentic sketch details Old Abe the eagle captured in 1861 and served with Company C, Eighth Wisconsin. The bird sparked crowds from Eau Claire to St Louis, rode into battle at Island No. 10, and inspired Union morale. Old Abe was finally presented to Wisconsin after mustering out, with the cannon from Shiloh as his pedestal.
A traveling man bets a clerk that he can guess the desires of an old man seen approaching. The clerk refuses payment after the guess. The item ends with a humorous exchange observed at a wholesale cloth house counter. The World’s examination notes widespread drug adulteration in New York City, finding nearly forty percent of samples below purity, with tinctures of nux vomica and opium most affected.
A Pittsburgh Times tale recounts how Mrs Sheridan refused to part with a caricature of General Sheridan. She secretly defaced the painting to prevent it being gifted to an Ohio G A R post. The General confronted the change, but she reminded him of their promise to never mention it again.
Polly McRae of Missouri outsmarted Confederate cavalry by using beehives. Facing threats from Southern sympathizers during the Civil War, she calmly stepped outside, clutched a hive, and released bees to disrupt the horsemen, forcing their retreat. The tale, recounted by Herbert J. Tillapaugh.
A fragment reports Tris speaking on veterans matters including 10 000 ex union soldiers, poor houses funding, and a Cleveland Ohio monument to be completed in about two years. It notes a 30 000 rise in Grand Army membership and Corumses Ohio’s entry for the 1333 National encampment site.
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