Night Journey Endangers My Anxiety for Home
The speaker hurries home with rapid pace hoping to see his wife yet fears a nameless dread. A nameless misgiving grows that his darling may be dead or afflicted, casting a pall over the homeward path.
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1890
Page
7
The speaker hurries home with rapid pace hoping to see his wife yet fears a nameless dread. A nameless misgiving grows that his darling may be dead or afflicted, casting a pall over the homeward path.
In a stormy night tale a nurse Dell flees Pine Hill grange to evade her cruel employer Charles Saulsbury. Steven Clyde finds her, nurses her to his mother’s home, and she accepts his proposal, choosing him over her former enthraller and securing a hopeful future.
The column surveys quirky reports from around the world. It notes Queen Marguerita of Italy receiving unusual letters, a Japanese mine owner gifting coats to workers, the Eiffel Tower lightning tale, a Tiflis health project, a moonlight steeplechase in Melton Mowbray, and French marriage trends under the republic with talks of unmarried taxation.
A tale recalls Empress Victoria disciplining maids and a young Prince Henry refusing baths until a sentinel jokes that they do not salute an unwashed prince. The story ends with Henry obediently bathing. Also notes ex king Milan of Servia receiving a pension to avoid writing memoirs and a Cassell’s Saturday Journal piece praising Lancashire pit women for strength, attire, and grit.
Stanley reports to the British Government on a vast tropical forest east and north of the Congo. He says thirteen months of travel through dense undergrowth and tangled vegetation left many followers dead. The forest is described as impervious and deeply shaded, with monumental trees and tangled vines hindering progress.
Washington correspondence from the New York Tribune reports Representative Allen of Mississippi recounting a Florida incident about a coon hunt using an alligator and a Black handler. The tale ends with all participants missing and Ochiltree buying drinks.
The Country Gentleman explains an improved cleft grafting technique once described years ago. An unusual grafting tool, not mass produced, limits adoption. Useful for stock grafting in nurseries, especially cherry, with high success on two year stocks when done early in spring before buds swell.
An illustrated manual describes grafting shears with a draw-cut blade and concave bed to cut square stock and smooth clefts. It explains blade angle, pivot position, and thin sharp steel point as a wedge, enabling grafts to be set rapidly and with better union for regrafting fruit trees.
A public park statue honors Joseph Brotherton, with the inscription about contentment. Dr Fraser recalls a tale of a wealthy mill owner who built a costly church yet lived simply in a cottage, saying he did his duty by his people.
A Detroit Tribune column offers practical housekeeping tips on cleaning glassware and linens with simple methods, then shifts to social humor with a brief exchange about age and appearance between Mrs B and her husband, ending with a joke about matching youth.
The piece suggests farming as a steady living and offers practical advice. It mentions using buttermilk to kill hog lice, preparing and cultivating ground, and notes on plant care with alternating freezing and thawing. It also advocates giving farm credit for home rent-free support and other city-like luxuries.
A discontented neighbor envies a cheerful woman and learns her happiness comes from health. The woman credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with cure for functional derangements and notes a money back guarantee. An aside mentions Dr. Prence's Pellets and a local doctor who spoke of cauterize.
One hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Copney & Co Toledo Ohio. West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo Druggists endorse F J Cheney. Cure taken internally on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. When a barrel is full it is banged up. same goes for a man.
A letter claims a cure for consumption with a promise to send free bottles to readers who mail their express and post office addresses. The sender identifies as T A Stockm M C at 131 Pearl Street New York.
The Binghamton Leader notes circles where access is limited to men with income. This observed practice highlights economic gatekeeping shaping community participation and social interaction opportunities.
A collage of brief quotes and product pitches encouraging health remedies, tonics, dental aids, laxatives, and patent medicines. Mentions Syrup of Figs, Brown’s Bronchial Traches, Shallenberger’s Antidote for Malaria, Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar, Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and more. Includes proverbs and humorous lines.
An article explaining how proper cellar drainage requires artificial drains and a bottom shape that promotes flow. It argues against flat bottoms that spread water and for a sharply narrow channel to collect and move water away, ensuring air remains pure.
Modes of drainage and ventilation for cellars are discussed with emphasis on inverted horseshoe tile, tubular pipe tile, and angular bottoms to better confine water. Pure air may enter via hinged windows and a small stove above can drive constant ventilation through connected pipe.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe all-vegetable tonic for women. It claims to aid nerves, vitality, and uterine wellness, suits overworked workers, and offers a money-back guarantee with a 1 dollar price. A 160-page book on female diseases is available by sending ten cents.
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