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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1886
Page
7
A telegraph message after a year of travel makes John joyful. The notice says his wife and baby are well, transforming his mood as merchants inquire about his son. The verse centers on a father's happiness upon learning home wellbeing during travel.
In a New England town a pious aunt recounts Faith Eldridge Converse, destined by visions to marry Earl Converse, a ship captain who vanishes at sea. Faith’s prophecies persist through shipwreck, slavery, and eventual return, yielding a stormy marriage before a final, united deathly sleep.
A Georgia man was fined 131 dollars for purchasing cotton after sundown and before sunrise. The item appears in a local note from the Lowell Citizen, which also questions social tea customs and the phrase What’s in a name.
Washington museum displays Shepherd money from Batopilas and Mexican pasteboard notes, Mormon gold pieces, and early U.S. banknotes. Also shown are coins, colonial bills, a Kossuth bond, and a tallies stick used in English accounting with a history from Norman times to 1755.
An 1850s account describes Annapolis Naval Academy separated by a tall brick wall, with parade grounds, officers homes, and chapel. It outlines the entry path via congressional recommendation, Navy Secretary appointment, May or September examinations, mental and physical tests, and the eight year service oath ending with a ten cent sworn-in fee.
A chemistry teacher in a large public school explains using chalk to neutralize acid spills. His own hand is burned when the acid strikes it, prompting laughter but also a clear demonstration of the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical action.
A Dublin surgeon once taught economy to a fashionably rich patient who offered a five pound note to remove a small mole on his cheek. The doctor declined the money, explaining he takes only what troubles patients, and left the room leaving the man astonished. Montre al Witness.
In a Washington Critic note, a West-end couple's Sunday night church outing ends with the suitor pledging a bold act of courage by asking for marriage. The tale frames the request as a dramatic, romantic test of devotion as the woman finally seeks commitment.
Incipient steps are reported to found a Hebrew University in New York focusing on Judaic law and Jewish heritage. Delegates from across the United States met at the Nineteenth Street Synagogue to assess feasibility and aim to counter rationalistic trends while anchoring education in Hebrew and Oriental learning.
A collection of farm and home hints on nail polish from tin oxide and carmine, fabric care avoiding fraying, safe poultry care avoiding lard mixtures, horse handling and medicine, whitewash recipes with lime and skim milk, coffee substitute from Baker's chocolate, ideas for growing and buying small fruits, and a simple wire fence gate method with stapled wires and a hinged design. The items cite sources like Cincinnati Times, Prairie Farmer, N Y Telegraph, Montreal Witness, Boston Globe, Boston Budget, and N Y Herald.
Detailed domestic guidance on combining cleansing with preservation of washed items. Advises warm water with soda for plain whites, spot treatment in cold water, careful handling to avoid setting dirt, and avoiding scalding. Recommends Belgian and Dutch thorax as alternative to soda, cold water for colored muslins, quick rinse, immediate drying, and ironing while damp avoided.
Lydia Hooper asks to study etymology but her father Hooper resists warning of new term studies. He jokes about bugs, botany and a York boarder, and insists she learn to spell before etymology. The Brooklyn Bugle cites regional humor in a father daughter exchange.
Indian witnesses before the United States Court at Yankton were paid recently. The Press and Dakotaian report they refused to deal with gold or paper money, clinging to silver and nickel theory. They demanded equal quantities of dollars, halves, quarters, dimes and nickels, then spent earnings on trunks valises umbrellas and apparel at local stores.
A farmer in Bumpville raises hawk eggs to harvest a bounty on young hawks. A Byron Me boy treed and captured a two and a half pound bear cub. A Marlborough man finds lamp chimney in a shad. Bibb County jailers discover inmates shaved with glass fragments. A Wolf Prairie hunter spots a pure white wild turkey among a flock. A Summerville Ga man bitten by a cotton mouth suffers long term hand sores. An Eagle Pond ind shot shows a swan with a long tongue slit by shot, and a jacksnipe gang bears old shot wounds. A Lyons Ind hunter shoots swans, killing two and crippling one, which a resident buys for five dollars.
A blind organ grinder on a Rochester street corner collects charity from passersby as two bootblacks recruit to help him. Rain starts while the boys escort him to shelter and return $1.05 to the blind man. A separate notice warns of a $5,000 charitable prize offer for a cure for Brights disease, citing Warner's safe cure and urging public testimonials.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report describes two eye operations at a county hospital. A fireman with internal strabismus had rabbit mucous membrane transplanted to restore eye movement and sight. In another case a healthy rabbit cornea was transplanted to restore light sensitivity. The procedures reportedly succeeded, marking a first in America with European precedents noted.
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