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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1889
Page
7
The London Quarterly Review discusses shifting tastes in dress and social display. It critiques dense fog costs on railways, the slow Athenaeum Club admissions, and the public’s obsession with fashion over personal character, contrasting past vibrant attire with modern uniformity.
The essay attacks wasteful modern habits as vanity and poor sense. It argues time is misused by late work hours and night recreation, and distinguishes goods from furniture as true personal proofs of value versus ostentatious display bought by others. It condemns superficial upholstery choices and social aspiration devoid of real pleasure.
The article cites Sakya Muni’s list of games and notes that many to modern children are ancient. It links chess about four thousand years old to hop scotch ball and marbles as equally old, and observes boys’ games like archery and plowing matches persist in America and West as entertainments endure.
General William Tecumseh Sherman is portrayed as endlessly busy with social duties, letters and invitations. He rises by eight, greets guests at breakfast, reads through a flood of correspondence, and balances office work with afternoon reminiscences. He explains dining restraint at lengthy banquets and values meals for nourishment rather than indulgence.
A bat flew into a Scranton house and attacked a parrot. The parrot repelled the intruder, fatally injuring the bat with claws and beak. The owner notes the parrot’s value has doubled after the kill.
Chicago Inter Ocean details Grant's 1863 assault and siege of Vicksburg. Union force grew to 70,000 with gunboat support while Confederate defenses and shortages led to Pemberton's surrender on July 4. Federal losses numbered about 8,000. Confederate losses over 10,000.
WorKMEN uncover three skeletons likely soldiers from the war of 1812 during sewer work in Burlington Vermont. Excavation revealed six more skeletons along with two iron buttons marked U S, an old coin, a scarf pin and a small green glass bottle.
A Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania soldier challenged an officer in Spotsylvania camp after a saloon confrontation. The private seized the officer’s sword, parried thrusts, and snatched the blade toward the officer’s heart in a dramatic display before the revelry continued, the veteran declared as the “lion of the hour.”
A veteran recalls a Civil War ascent of Lookout Mountain with a friend. At the summit a small gatekeeper demanded twenty five cents, prompting the veteran to refuse until a deputy sheriff's badgeholder insisted. They paid the fee.
A Grand Army post forms in Ottawa with branches planned in other cities and about 3000 veterans in Canada. The Illinois Senate approves a 6000 dollar appropriation to build a Gettysburg battlefield monument for Illinois soldiers. Seaman William Fooger of the Vandalia earns praise from Secretary Tracy for saving shipmates at Apia on February 23 and March 9, including freeing a fouled propeller during peril.
A Kittanning shepherd dog developed a fixation on cow and calf tails from a local butcher. The dog gathered tails, hauled them home, and stacked them in a barn yard. When the tails vanished the dog howled for the missing items and later chewed tails from calves before being tied up.
An elderly woman attends a revival and joins the church each day at the invitation. The pastor reminds her she already joined yesterday, but she replies she will keep joining because she believes it is a good thing to find the church.
A child asks if talking is a sense since five senses are said to be enough. The mother replies that talking would be a sense if there were not so much nonsense about it. The Exchange records the humorous dialogue on definitions and perception.
A fragmentary dialogue centers on who said what. The speaker questions prior statements attributed to another, amid repeated reversals and accusations about saying or not saying particular phrases.
A blend of household guidance and agricultural advice covers cooking times for asparagus and rhubarb cream pie, egg white glazes, fish fritters, orange icing, and feeding young chicks. It also discusses moth damage, burlap pest control, and corn seeding density for fodder yield in drills three feet apart.
A household guide lists pantry planning, skincare, cough relief, sprain care, chalk paste for marble, stain removal, and spinach and shad preparations. It covers flour storage, elder flower water formula, allspice remedy for cough, poultice use, marble polishing with beeswax, fabric whitening, and cooking guidance for spinach and shad baked on oak.
The article argues on farm efficiency and fit of labor saving tools for different farm sizes. It weighs purchase versus hiring, focusing on self binders, mowers, seeders, cultivators, hay rakes and grinders. It advises thirty acres of grain as a break point for owning a binder and emphasizes mower usefulness for hay and fodder tasks.
A Troy Times editorial urges farmers to adopt modern implements to save time and reduce bodily strain. Despite upfront cost, new tools boost productivity with no extra labor. A San Francisco dentist, experimenting on himself with a new anesthetic for tooth transplants, went mad from the resulting nausea.
The article urges heavy mulching for fruit crops, notes deep cultivation harms small fruit roots, and advises frequent bed inspection. It discusses manure as the fertility driver and profitability of dairying sheep breeding and hog raising, plus seasonal cutting benefits. It also promotes the National Educational Association meeting travel via Evansville Route with excursion rates and train details.
A proposal suggests installing telephones in infectious wards at French hospitals to let patients contact friends without risking infection transmission.
A female reader recounts years of pain and suffering from headaches backache and illness. She credits Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring her health and urges others to consider advertised medicines with confidence citing a printed guarantee. She also endorses Dr Pierce's Pellets for liver stomach and bowel disorders.
Two Mormons faced trial in Salt Lake City for a murder committed thirty years ago. The prosecuting attorney was not yet active at the time, and many jurors were unborn when the crime occurred.
The tonic benefits of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are described as essential for physical health and digestion. It is claimed to strengthen the spinal column through improved digestion, aiding back weakness and kidney disorders. The text also notes the tonic, vegetable nature of the remedy. In Finland public schools manual training is universal with boys learning sewing and girls carpentry.
Readers are urged to request a catalogue from Chas Kaiser, maker at 62 and 6 Clybourn Ave Chicago, showcasing the Wests largest carriage assortment at low prices. Free carriage within 700 miles of Chicago. Lenawee County man boasts fifty two chicks from fifty eggs in one hatching hen record.
J. H McVicker’s Chicago theater will close the week of June 17 for extensive preparations toward a first performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest on Monday June 4. Reserved seats may be secured by mail.
The New York Academy of Sciences debated the question do foxes climb trees and concluded they do because woodchucks do. The discussion underscored surprising arboreal behavior among mammals.
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