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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1880
Page
1
A poem from American Cultivator portrays the eagle and the lion as rulers of air and land. The eagle dies after a reckless ascent toward the sun while the lion, king of beasts, turns aggression on humans and is brought down by human intellect and spear.
Uncle George explains why he never married after a tale of choice, loss, and duty. A young narrator recalls a factory drill, a doomed romance with a sister of a widow, and a legal suit for breach of promise before a deathbed reunion and forgiveness.
A stirring Ohio Republican speech urges party unity to secure a Republican President in 1880, defend Civil and political rights, and counter Democratic gains in the South. It extols GOP achievements, condemns disfranchisement, praises Federal law, and calls for relentless effort at the Chicago Convention.
The New Times notes Russia cannot compete with the United States in farming as wheat exports rise only due to reduced domestic consumption. It urges improved farming to prevent being overwhelmed by American produce and to resist foreign competition.
A Michigan hound owned by J. A. Ford of Battle Creek showed remarkable endurance by running six miles in thirty minutes to reach home after the train it pursued sped along at eighteen miles an hour. Ford, resting six miles away, did not notice the dog’s absence until it arrived back.
In Cheyenne two men bet five dollars each over who could hold a wasp longer. One used chloroform on his hand but the other knew male wasps do not sting. They swapped to a non stinging sex, then released the wasps and the crowd learned the roof shingles came loose as the chloroform wore off.
A young girl and her lover used a rarely frequented half mile race-course for private meetings. When asked why this spot, she blushed and explained that they were often interrupted and would part in opposite directions to meet again on the far side.
Dennis Kearney once labeled the working man is described as an inveterate loafer. After serving a week breaking stone for the State, he was habeas corpused by the California Supreme Court, ending a six month period of useful labor and resuming his prior idle and obscene conduct.
Detroit Free Press notes Leadville lacks schools as traveling teachers marry locals between the station and hotels and choose domestic life over teaching, leaving schoolhouses closed and communities without educators.
An editorial urges New York farmers to shift from dairy to sheep husbandry and combing wool to raise profits. It argues one third of cheese and butter producers should cull poor cows, while the rest convert to sheep to produce high value combing wool. The piece promotes factory cheese making, creameries, and rural women’s outdoor work in springtime, detailing wool quality and sheep breeds like Cotswold and Leicester.
A fragment notes that flowers possess inherent means to resist poisons, though it cites unpleasant substances like resin and etherial oil as examples of afflictions they withstand. The passage reflects early botanical remedies and chemical references without specifying plants or remedies.
A fragmentary note from a New York gathering records sly banter about a handsome guest. The speaker Miss makes a witty aside while Mr Batter of Yale and a Harvard reference appear in the exchange.
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