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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1880
Page
4
A rare South Asian vampire, described as a blood-sucker by natives, is exhibited at Davis' auction store 75 Summit Street Toledo. About 18 inches long with diamond eyes and a weasel like tooth set, it hangs in a cage and is kept at 70 degrees as work on a larger exercise cage proceeds. The creature recently arrived from Boston.
Jesse Lovely travels the western country seeking William Humphrey. A young woman directs him to Squire Roberts for information. The Squire, unclear and self important, says Humphrey lives forty miles away on Peter Creek and knows nothing more of his whereabouts.
A Providence Journal piece recalls a youth who pressed Mayor Doyle to stop workers from shoveling snow on his slide. The mayor explained city crews keep gutters clear for sewer drainage, while the boy lamented his summer slides were ruined.
The piece argues against labeling intelligent children as failures when they do not fit schooling norms. It cites Sir Walter Scott and other eminent figures once deemed foolish by teachers, noting that many great minds excel later or in fields not valued by traditional education.
Professor Pierce of Cambridge argues the new comet from Gould at Cordova Observatory in South America is the same as the Portland Missouri sighting of 1843. The Springfield Union recalls the 1843 Portland event where a head appeared without a tail then a brilliant tail formed, with a double tail observed for four nights as Earth crossed its orbit.
A San Francisco thief tried to pick a pocket he thought held a simple mark but was felled when the woman revealed as the famous American Female Sampson struck him aside, knocking him down. The piece ends with a Maine widow classification line noting widowers are grouped as neither married nor single.
Thomas Boyd a 23 year old man leaped from the Louisville Ohio River bridge into the falls about 100 feet below. He landed feet first in nine feet eight inches of water, survived unharmed, and was pulled to shore by boatmen. Boyd, born in Belfast, is married with two children and works as a repairer.
The Cleveland Leader rebukes a Washington correspondent for a false accusation that Charles Foster bought a Southern Democratic Congressman’s vote by securing his mistress a departmental clerkship. The paper calls the charge a deliberate lie and condemns both the author and any reputable Democratic papers that repeat it.
The World's reporter relays M. de Lesseps impressions of New York fires and firefighting. He praises discipline and rapid water deployment, notes fires are often inevitable, and questions building design that makes large blazes unsavable. He attributes success to trained fire crews and swift responses.
A plain granite shaft stands at Simston Georgia with cannon fragments atop. Erected for Hopkins Hubbard who died and was buried in New Orleans after losing an arm firing a Fourth of July salute from an old War of 1812 cannon whose pieces rest on the monument, placed by a sister and never disturbed.
Minneopolis mill owners face vast sawdust waste from summer log cuts. A law may ban dumping into the river, risking costs to remove 300 000 cords annually. Steam mills also seek markets for surplus sawdust and new uses as inventors are urged to devise practical, profitable applications.
Senator Windom of Minnesota introduces a bill to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to form savings institutions that accept deposits and pay 3 percent interest. Deposits are secured by 90 percent of value in U S bonds held in trust by the Treasury. The plan extends the existing National Bank system to include savings banks but bars issuing bank notes. The idea is praised as sound.
A reflective quip notes two pivotal moments: discovering hair on the upper lip signaling youth and recognizing hair loss on the top of the head signaling aging. It wryly contrasts vanity with time in a concise aphorism.
A veteran equestrian and clown Dan Rice abandoned years of stage work to lecture on religion and rain in St Louis after Moody’s visit, only to find empty benches. He returned to urban life, reportedly seeking to compensate for missed “tools” during his tour.
William H. Vanderbilt of New York has accumulated 26 million dollars in registered four per cent bonds and adds 5.5 million more in the same form. The bonds are issued in 50 thousand dollar units and fit in a coat pocket. He will receive 300 thousand dollars in interest every ninety days from these holdings.
A vintage advertisement touts Climax Salve as a universal healer for humans and animals. It claims twenty five years of use with no failures, cures a wide range of skin and inflammatory conditions, and features an Arnica-based compound sold by doctors and druggists.
The advertisement touts Moffat's Life Pills and Phenix Bitters as the most successful medicines worldwide. Established in 1835 by a noted physician, the remedies are claimed to be vegetable, liver regulating, and able to cure malarial diseases, torpid liver, impure blood, jaundice, bilious complaints, dyspepsia, indigestion, costiveness, nervous and sick headaches, colds, scurvy, general weakness, and fever and ague.
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