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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1890
Page
3
Old-Time Square Planner and Homeward Songs Recalled
The speaker reflects on rural music and memories from a December night at a farmstead. A. T. Gorham in the Boston Post recalls Jerushy, Hepsy Tompkins, and family singalongs with old instruments, rustic sounds, and the clanging square planner used for bang.
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Jerushy
Tompkins
Hepsy
Jonathan
Counter
Eliakim
Carter
Fisher
Mar
Rumble Hill
Gran
Yaas
Allus
A. T. Gorham
Boston Post
The Self Made Man at Greenwood Springs
At the Greenwood Springs hotel a towering self made man, Professor Tubbs, courts attention with grand manners and a bloated appetite. He boasts of dyspepsia, limits on food, and a wife who governs the household with many relatives helping. A sudden death of Sister Annie unsettles his picture of success as the room fills with grief and a secret, fragile family life emerges.
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Springs
Tubbs
Olympus
Nam
Ma’am
Herma
Annie
Sister Annie
Ble
Mary
Ma’an
Sie
Miry
Grace King
Harper's
Wealth of the Nation Grows Beyond Land and Stock
The Nation gains wealth not in money or foreign claims but through expanding cultivated land, new farms, and better housing. Added improved land, rail and road construction, and growing manufacture lift real and nominal values, with patents like the telephone boosting productive power.
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Lake Superior
N. Y. Bulletin
Most Useful of Metals Aluminum Value and Uses
Aluminum, once costly, has decreased from high per ounce prices in the 1850s to about four dollars per pound last year. Its intrinsic value and wide range of uses could make it a dominant, affordable metal if prices continue to drop.
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Denille
Washington
History of the Ring as a Symbol of Authority
A historical survey traces the ring as a mark of dignity from ancient Egypt to Rome and Greece, noting seals for kings, noble lineages, and signets. It highlights Shakespeare and All the Year Round references to rings as tokens in courtship and betrothal.
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Joseph
Egypt
Israel
Cesar
Gaul
Britain
Sweden
Norway
Africa
Jack Falstaff
Arras
Old Dame
Cassimere Faces 400 Persona For Next Dance Request
Dialogue from the Dry Goods Chronicle features Young Cassimere posing as a member of the 400. He corrects Miss Haut Towne over a disputed invoice for the upcoming dance, highlighting social intrigue and witty repartee.
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Cassimere
400
Skillful Savages in the Congo Country
In the Congo region of Central Africa natives are described as skilled smiths and potters under grass-roof workshops. Ward notes their eye and hand craft, early guns and tools, cheerful youth, and cultural contracts. A railroad underway may curb slave-trading and cannibalism. Christian Union.
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Congo
Central Africa
Herbert Ward
Mr. Ward
Christian Union
Quotations On Conduct From Various Papers
A compilation of aphorisms and adages about speech restraint memory patience and emotion sourced from multiple newspapers including the Boston Post Somerville Journal Galveston News Detroit Free Press rural New Yorker United Presbyterian Christian Inquirer and The Old Homestead. The excerpts warn against rash speech, overconfidence, lingering feelings, and the dangers of building or destroying.
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Oil City
Boston Post
Somerville Journal
Galveston News
Atchison Globe
Detroit Free Press
New Yorker
United Presbyterian
Christian Inquirer
Relic Sword Returned After Civil War Misadventure
Lieutenant Mather buried a presentation sword amid a Civil War skirmish. A Southern officer restrained the strike, and Mather later recovered the weapon after years of searching. The scabbard bears a ball indentation, a relic now cherished by the former captain.
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New York Tribune
Macon
Charleston
Columbia
S. C
Georgia
L. Brewster
Alabama
Mather
National Tribune
Brewster
N. Y. Tribune
Indians Besieged Cabin Sparks a Candid Rancher Reply
A government survey party helps a rancher under siege by Indians near a Texas cabin. The settlers scold the rescuers for intervening, saying they enjoyed waiting for trouble, and blame the responders for spoiling their fun. The episode ends with the couple resuming farm chores, noting the danger may return.
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Texas
Nance
Sam
N. Y
Exiles in Siberia and Civil War Memoirs Mixed in Detroit Letter
The letter from a London exile recounts grim Siberian exile stats from 1886 to 1889 with high death rates and brutal conditions, while a separate Detroit Free Press account recalls Civil War field experiences near Fredericksburg Antietam Gettysburg and Winchester, detailing wounds, burial scenes, and human reactions.
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Groveton
Phil Kearney
Jackson
Joe Hocker
Mayre’s Hill
Fredericksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
New York
Williamsburg
Winchester
Berryville Pike
Detroit Free Press
Ethalinda's Woes in Thackerayan Domestic Comedy
A humorous vignette from W. M. Thackeray’s Aunt presents Ethalinda sobbing after her wedding to Theophilus Skimgullet. Her mother Mrs Doverspike probes the cause as Ethalinda reveals hurt feelings over biscuits and a quip about life insurance, in a playful domestic scene.
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W. M. Thackeray
Ethalinda
Mrs. Doverspike
Ito
Theophilus
Wm. H. Siviter
Peter the Great in London and a vanished tavern
Peter the Great frequented a Tower Hill public house later named The Czar of Muscovy s Head. A 1808 sign swap marked change as the old site later hosted a new hotel bearing the same historic name. The czar disliked lawyers and reportedly joked about hanging one upon return home.
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Peter the Great
London
Great Tower
Tower Hill
Peter
Westminster Hall
Russian ideas inspire health club for 125 families
A St. Paul Globe report describes a local club of 125 families that hired a physician in the year. Each family pays 50 cents a month while the doctor visits, treats, and lectures on health and hygiene. The aim is public health over profit, with the physician acting as a constant sanitary inspector.
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Russia
St. Paul Globe
Lost wartime silver recovered from old Newnan home
A Newnan resident hid a box of silver during the war above the ceiling of his house. After searching for years, he found the box when repairing the interior. A silver coin dropped from a partition and led to the discovery of every dollar of the concealed money.
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Newman
Long-Lost Sword Restored to War Vet’s Heir
Frederick Mather, superintendent of the New York State Fishery Commission at Cold Spring Harbor, recalls a Civil War era tale as a long lost sword returns to its owner. The story recounts Mather’s World War I era unit histories and battlefield movements around Petersburg, Virginia, with references to the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery and related regimental actions.
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Frederick Mather
New York State
Cold Spring Harbor
One Hundred
New York Regiment
Washington
Seventh
New York Heavy Artillery
Mather
L Company
Regi 4
Hancock
Petersburg
Irish Legion
Hannibal Hamlin's Shot at Dollar Island
A Bangor gunsmiths firm built cannons used in a Civil War tests at Pushaw Pond near Dollar Island. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin arrived, aimed a cannon, and hit Dollar Island. The official blamed a prank, Hamlin’s intervention impressed observers, and the guns later served at the front.
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Pushaw Pond
Pashaw
Perch House
Dollar Island
Bangor
Hannibal Hamlin
Pushaw
Hamlin
Lewiston (Me
Capture of General Crook and General Kelly at Cumberland
The 1864 incident saw Brig. Gen. Crook and Brig. Gen. Kelly seized by McNeill’s Partisan Rangers during sleep in Cumberland Maryland. Despite 10,000 Union troops nearby the guerrillas slipped through the city at midnight, woke the generals, and led them away on horseback before the alarm spread. Crook later married a sister of one captor.
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Crook
Kelly
Cumberland
McNeill
Partisan Rangers
Potomac
Virginia
N. Y. Sun
Meade and Han cock monuments proposed at Gettysburg field
Department of Pennsylvania membership rose to 44 613 by year end with a 2783 gain. MerADE Post Philadelphia pushes monument project for Major Generals Meade and Hancock. Sioux campaign anecdote recalls Crook ordering break ranks and washing socks. Charles Ness of Searsmont Maine suffered lifelong blindness from war injuries and regains reading ability after a head impact restores sight.
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Tuer
Department of Pennsylvania
Merade Post
Philadelphia
Gettysburg
George Gordon Meade
Winfield Scott Hancock
Crook
Montana
Charles Ness
Searsmont
Maine
Ness
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Jerusha
Man
Siberia
Ivan Smirnoff
Countess Narvaiknow
Massinkoff
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