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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1889
Page
7
The fragment portrays a speaker recalling a distant land and a home beyond human thought. The childlike narrator speaks of a timeless ocean memory, imagining a time long ago and an eternity before.
James Wallace, a dry goods clerk, inherits fifty thousand dollars but wastes it on extravagant living. His cousin John, prudent and diligent, earns an eventual steady income. A dramatic intervention by Anthony Wallace ends in repayment of debts and a modest future, leaving John the rightful heir and James back at small wages.
A Hartford Courant excerpt discusses the American crow as a scavenger with limited but entertaining vocal abilities. It highlights the crow as a nuisance when raiding, yet oddly skilled in mimicry with a distinctive sentinel cry and recurring calls to a mate. It contrasts the crow with the rook, noting greater mischief and cleverness.
General Lew Wallace recalls a near disaster near Paducah Kentucky when a German regiment misread his orders and nearly opened fire. He mistook the marching column for rebels and would have ordered a fatal volley if Captain Ross had not identified them as friend. The moment lingers in his memory.
Maine appropriated 60000 for 1889 and 65000 for 1890 pensions. There are about fifty Union Veteran League encampments nationwide. Guthrie Oklahoma saw the first homestead entry by a Kansas veteran named Johnson. Vermont ex soldiers may peddle without licenses. Guilford Court House battle anniversary drew thousands. Senator S B Vance spoke. Governor Buckner recalled Grant offering aid after Appomattox.
Over the last twenty years the United States issued 328716 divorces reflecting a sustained rise in separations. No individuals are named in the excerpt.
On April 2 1863 Mr Davis reached the Richmond riot scene amid a crowd in Main Street led by a bold woman with a white feather. Soldiers under Gen Gorgas arrived from the Confederate armory as Davis urged calm and offered his own money and watch to end the looting. He warned firing would follow in five minutes and the crowd dispersed, ending the bread riot.
The report notes 49 485 Union soldiers confined between March 1 and November 1, 1864 at Andersonville with a peak of 33 006. It records 12 926 deaths among the confined and presents end of month figures and per month death rates in a damaged OCR.
Cor. Philadelphia Press recounts two volunteers who manned a shallow boat under heavy fire to save wounded Union soldiers at Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861. One rescuer lost an oar but seized the mooring rope, swam, and towed the craft to safety amid rebels’ fire.
A humorous piece recounts a 1150 pound sturgeon capture with a diverging fisherman’s struggle and a smaller tale of a backwater sturgeon being tumbled into a boat. It includes a joke about Johnny the West and a New York schoolteacher. It ends noting American teeth care versus English practices.
A column stresses that great achievement requires comfort and practical dress. It argues no one prospers when confined by stiff coats and restrictive clothing, promoting an easy business suit as the smart choice. It also notes the physician as a quasi autocrat and warns against overreach, ending with a pun about being above board but not overboard.
Home and Farm offers practical agricultural guidance on pest control and efficient farming. It covers seed rust prevention, silo placement, thinning for profitable fruit, livestock feeds, and grafting techniques with remarks from Dairy World and American Agriculturist.
A practical guide by H Stratton in Farm and Home explains building a head gutter across the garden with side furrows to evenly water crops. It advises shallow between-row ditches, timed watering by judgment, shallow tilling after irrigation, and using a six foot wide lateral with manure-filled dam to irrigate with liquid manure for robust vegetables and melons.
The piece argues summer hoof care without shoes to allow expansion and new growth, stressing removal of old shoes and use of plowed ground or soft pastures. It notes the stomach is often ill used, recommending measured feeding, small water portions, cut feed, bran, and the value of well fitting harness and padded collars to prevent sores.
Two men walk along a road at the Rhode Island Connecticut border. One asks where Rhode Island is and the other replies that the man is standing on it, delivering a wry regional quip from Texas Sittings.
The text notes about 250000 Indians live in the United States excluding Alaska, with roughly 5000 residing in New York State on eight reservations set apart for tribal use.
A reader recounts neighbor James Newell’s method using a water filled jar topped with cotton seed beside a corn crib. After three days the servant found thirty-one drowned rats, sixteen days later ninety-two caught, with no corn damage reported. The tale, shared by Jas. M. Pearson in Dixie Farmer, urges others to try the jar trap by crib walls.
A survey notes more American cheese sold in London than domestically, Bordeaux wine shipments fell by over 4 million gallons, and novelty leather from rattlesnakes gains pockets and accessories. It cites declines in Chinese tea due to leaf prep, mild winter effects, and canned goods oversupply harming retail grocers. US potato crops reach 200 million bushels with 40 million sweet potatoes. Los Angeles ships 4,095 tons of fruit and imports 7,021 tons of beer. In 1898 the U S sent abroad 2 million dollars of sewing machines and 6 million dollars of steam engines.
The passage extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the cure and preventive for female diseases, claiming it preserves wives and mothers from lingering illness. It hails the product as essential for the health of homes and the nation, with Dr. Pierce's Pellets sold as Ami-Bilious Granules at 25 cents per vial.
United States Minister Strauss persuaded the Sultan of Turkey to permit University of Pennsylvania explorers to dig in ancient Babylon for two years, a concession long sought by European powers.
When the stomach lacks strength it uses up the body to digest. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strengthens the stomach and promotes healthy blood, aiding muscles bones and brain. This renewed vigor helps the bowels liver and even malaria are less effective on a reinforced system.
An advertisement highlights Glenn's Sulphur Soap for complexion freshness and purity, alongside Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye priced at 50 cents, promoting grooming products in a vintage retail notice.
A proverb from the Merchant Traveler notes men can recall a ball game score yet be unable to name their own tally at the corner grocery. The line comments on misplaced priorities and self awareness.
A fragment asserts a crick or partridge escapes its living prison while sab owlet struggles to place a foot. Dorriys Electric Soap claims years of sales with rising figures and uniform quality. Boston ladies crusade against docked horse tails. Carter's Little Liver Pills advertised. A superstition warns breaking a looking glass signals death by year end.
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