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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
7
A waking dream warns against earthly pleasures and procrastination. A river of life and bright fields symbolize transitory joys, while the fruit represents heavenly gifts. Time speaks through specters, urging readers to forsake self indulgence and seize eternal worth. Amen.
A handsome young man on Fifth Avenue confides to a doctor friend that his happiness is shadowed by his wife’s mother. The woman’s kindness cages him, and he jokes that marriage has not freed him from misery, fearing sleepless days with a devoted mother-in-law. The dialogue surfaces with satirical bite about marriage and dependency.
John Kimball, a New York lawyer, plots to entertain his mother-in-law Mrs. Swiftly to win her favor while his wife and mother-in-law are watched by Dr. Raymond. The doctor engineers a scheme to woo Mrs. Swiftly, claiming marriage and wealth will free Kimball and his wife to live alone. The tale ends with the mother-in-law set to marry the doctor, and a share of her fortune passing to Kimball.
The piece contrasts heavy wooden shoes worn by citizens with the strain of living cheaply. Children drag shoes, mothers listen for mischief, and elders recall frugality as times stay hard. It notes laborers earning about fifty cents daily supporting families and funeral costs, then shifts to a Portland Rifle Corps reunion with only two survivors.
The Sultan hosted a select Turkish nobility dinner in Chalet-Kiosk as the German ambassador Madame de Radowitz and American Minister S. S. Cox attended with Mrs. Cox. The Grand Master of Ceremonies awarded Mrs. Cox the Grand Cordon of the Shefarat for promoting Life Saving in America. The evening featured music by Herr Wilhelm and piano by Tewfik Effendi, ending with the Sultan's good night.
A historical survey details child prodigies in art from the Renaissance to Britain. Mantegna, Raphael, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, and Canova are cited for precocious starts, with early showcases by Murillo, Holbein, Ruysdael, Vernet, and Landseer. In Britain, Morland, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner, Wilkie, Flaxman, and others show youthful talent and early exhibitions.
A compilation of home and farm tips from varied sources covering dehorning calves with hot iron, deep rooting vs shallow soil, pasture formation in calves, maple cream candy, selecting fowls by constitution, baby care in heat, humane skunk disposal, rye green forage for hens, and stewed raisins as a gentle dish for digestion or invalids.
A strong editorial argues for public manual training alongside academics, citing Girard College’s example. It notes apprenticeships declined but now thrive with a connected manual program, improving job readiness and reducing time wasted on irrelevant studies. The piece cites President Fetterolf on shifts toward skilled trades and urges making manual training part of common schools.
In a Chicago Rambler item a defendant named Patrick Mulcahey is charged with resisting an officer of the law. The tale portrays a dialogue in dialect with pleas of innocence and an accusation that the officer sought a five dollar fine plus costs to prevent a repeat offense.
The article argues for intensive farming to maximize profits on smaller plots. It urges young farmers to buy a few acres, start with a few cows, and select crops and livestock suited to local markets. It contrasts this with land-skinning, warns against heavy mortgage use, and promotes careful management, manure use, and market-driven choices.
A remarkable find in Bari Apulia reports more than two thousand Byzantine diplomas on blue parchment walled in a cathedral niche for safekeeping. Uncertain if the blue hue is original or the result of chemical action during burial. The Bari Cathedral Chapter plans full access for study.
In the Philadelphia Call exchange the Author describes costumes in each act, noting nets with corn colored silk costume in act one and two dresses in act two, plus latest wraps and parasols. The third net shows a fad dressing pattern, while acts four and five feature three full Worth gowns. The Actress asks the author to name a price, predicting the play’s success.
A brief item from the Somerville Journal notes that within moments after marriage two women caused a household prima donna moment, as a couple of drawers were scrambled far from order. An hour of careful effort could not restore neatness quickly.
Reports describe a notable rise in the New Jersey mosquito population this year, with larger size and higher feeding activity prompting concern from residents and health officials.
The Monon Route Passenger Department issued a 100 plus page book of parlor games tricks charades tableaux and calls for amateur theatricals adapted for home use. Request from Wm Baldwin for a copy with three cents postage. An exchange notes hairless Americans and asks for place date and excursion rates. A dentist sign quip cited by the New York Ledger.
Five Hundred Dollars is the sum br. Pierce offers for detecting any calomel or mineral poison in the celebrated Pleasant Purgative Pellets. They are small as mustard seeds, easily taken and said to cause no griping. Biliousness, sour taste, and jaundice yield to these “little giants.” At the Japanese village a quip about rents and earthquakes appears in the Texas Siflings column.
A collection of medical and advertising snippets discussing consumption as liver disease and the dangers of neglecting liver health. Mentions Dr. Pierce remedies Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription, Ayer's preparations, Gleemns soaps, Hivi hair products, Piso's Cure, and Dr Isaac Thompson Eye Water. Also notes a yarn mill in Fall River and a quip about a goblet and a hat poet.
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