09 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1883
Page
1
The Times reports widespread rot in autumn wheat sowing in England and predicts a pan European crop failure. The scramble includes sensational anecdotes from Forest City Pennsylvania death of George Coyle the oil regions terror and other varied items.
A widow recalls her fiancé on a battlefield romance tied to a ring. Set against Antietam and the Civil War, she gives back the ring as he goes to war, leaving a torn life between love and duty in a march of sacrifice.
The column argues drunkenness is mostly a vice to be reformed by moral measures rather than a disease to be cured. It cites Bucknill and various asylums, notes the pledge’s power, discusses temperance theology, and urges church science ties to health education and religious reform.
Dr. Percy Coulton of Samaritan Hospital in London studies child growth by repeated measurements of normal children. He notes annual height gain of two to three inches and a weight table linking height steps to weight. A weight shortfall or excess beyond seven pounds triggers a warning for possible poor diet or disease. Loss of weight often precedes consumption.
The article notes Senator Edmunds of Vermont serving as acting Vice President of the United States. It praises his unimpassioned statesmanship and energy, placing him at the front rank of the Senate since 1866, and states his current term ends with the presidential term. It mentions his age as 55 and that his immediate predecessor was President pro tempore of the Senate during portions of two Congresses.
A Boston editor dismissed the cook cuffed two children and left his wife in tears before rushing to the office to pen a message urging kindness starting at home and radiating outward. The quoted line stresses making the world brighter by first loving one's own family.
A newspaper note observes large numbers of Black residents leaving the Mississippi and Louisiana low lands due to floodwaters and crop losses. It adds that some white residents share the sense of restlessness, with people leaving without known destinations.
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