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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1880
Page
1
Reports include sixty one deaths from yellow fever in Havana last week, plus items on missionaries expelled from Germany, gold shipments to New York, and various crime and social tales across American cities. The broad piece mixes disasters, crime, public notices, and vivid anecdotes with verse and editorials.
A fragmented OCR item lists Holgate Dupont Fort Jernings Delphos Ar Delphos Ly Venedocia Jonestown Shasta Van Wert JcD Beldon Wiltshire Pleasant Mills Decatur Ar with time marks 4.00PM 4.36 6.55 8.00, suggesting a schedule or timetable snippet.
A Tennessee lover pleads with an old man his lover’s father, asking if whipping him would ease the heartache. The father rebukes him and the next day appears with mourning in his eyes.
In Meriden Connecticut 1861 Philip Stevens shot John Green. Green recovered and settled for 130 dollars with Stevens agreeing to enlist in the army. Nineteen years later the bullet still in Green’s body caused his death.
A ten foot shark was caught at Seabright on the New Jersey coast. The presence of sharks unnerves nervous bathers and the sight of a man in a bathing suit is noted as a deterrent, the text humorously suggesting even sharks avoid taking too many chances.
August Ludeke, angered by a blow from a neighbor in Morrow, swore to kill him. With no weapon, he bought powder and shot, loaded a gun, and fired through a window at his enemy, wounding him seriously.
A visitor reports a enormous brown haired spider the size of a sparrow with wings folded. It feeds on cockroaches and young mice and may kill hummingbirds. kept in a heated case, its bite is said to be dangerous. The note also mentions dream theories and a New York dog pounder drowning about three thousand dogs this season.
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