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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1886
Page
3
A poetic meditation on the passage of seasons and the fleeting nature of life. The speaker laments time’s swift drift from summer to winter, asks what fate these veiled hours lead to, and seeks clearer sight and hope beyond sorrow as All the Year Round contemplates life, death, and the search for meaning.
A sensitive tale of sarcasm and learning centers on Professor Brandon, nicknamed Baroko, and Molly Drummond in a girls’ academy. Molly, bright yet flawed in maths, earns Baroko’s guarded mentorship, winning his respect and a subtle change in his demeanor as she grows through trials, rivalries, and a tender friendship with Arcturus.
A Harper's Bazaar style note details prevailing millinery fashions. High straw hats with velvet bindings and rosettes of color dominate. Veiling with tulle and corseting brim styles are described, alongside bridal pokes with tulle and bouquets of lilies and colorfully trimmed hats for bridemaids and weddings.
The piece notes a feminine craze for tissue paper flower making with tulips roses and violets shaped from colored paper and wire. It mentions boxes sold with instructions and the rising trend of tissue-paper parties where dresses and home décor are crafted, praising the variety of colors and the impressively natural effects attainable.
A collage of lighthearted quips and social bits from the era. Jokes about editors poets and house guests mix with a sad note on a painter husband and a joking misprint. Thin, humorous vignettes capture newspaper era tone and suburban chatter.
Two city workers joke over a Detroit Free Press baseball column. They misread terms like box, corker, grounder, and fly, debating their meanings and lampooning the article. The scene ends with one asking for a light, admitting base ball is beyond them.
Travelers at a backwoods station overhear warnings to a young woman bound for another state. Relatives urge Mary to be careful, guard money, stay on the right train, and mind baggage while conductors shout all aboard and danger looms.
A nostalgic verse by Linnlg Huntington Miller published in St Nicholas imagines a magical place country of Somewhere where adventures unfold. It contrasts carefree fantasy with daily schooling and growing knowledge, inviting readers to dream of noble quests and treasures beyond ordinary life.
The cat Snooks lived beside the church and earned the title The Church Cat for his grave church attendance. He played with a knitted ball, teased children, and tolerated Robin yet guarded his dignity with the minister. He learned to open doors, teased a dog named Scoot, hunted mice and birds, endured a chicken scare, and faced a final fate after a long, playful life at the parsonage.
A maid places a poison dish on a table and a cat named Snooks drinks by mistake. He flees to the barn and dies in the garden, prompting a mournful burial with floral offerings in the door-yard. The note from Lillian I Roberts appears in Congregationalist.
Kate W. Hamilton urges children to avoid complaint and cultivate cheerfulness. A narrator contrasts a chronic grumbler with the brave, hopeful spirit, urging youths to endure hardships cheerfully, do work wholeheartedly, and keep a sunny life.
A successful experiment on England’s south coast introduced an electric railway on Ryde marine pier. A gas engine drives a Siemens dynamo turning about one thousand rpm. current travels by cable to a channel iron positive conductor beside the tramway. Steel rails form the return path, and a sliding contact supplies power to a motor under each carriage. Each train, carrying about thirteen tons, runs on ordinary passenger cars up to twelve miles per hour.
Across Europe North America and Brazil up to 726 patients received Pasteur's treatment for dog and wolf bites. Of 638 dog bite cases most recovered with only Pell etier in danger while wolves showed higher fatalities among Russians. Nature notes wolves deemed fatal and praises low death rates given delays before treatment. Australian wheat crop set for failure with only 36 000 tons exportable after domestic use and last year's 29 000 tons exported.
A brief linguistic note traces the origin of the term gumyption from the old verb to gawm meaning to understand. It cites Northern usage as in I dinna gawm ye and explains how the expression entered broader speech through historical forms. The passage highlights regional vocabulary’s influence on modern comprehension.
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