02 Nov 1883
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1883
Page
1
A colorful survey highlights diverse topics from a Kentucky dog mimicking a rooster to Georgia Ku Klux convictions, booming wealth in Boston, shifts in Ohio voting, and debates over prohibition. It notes civic projects, political maneuvering, and cultural critiques amid national headlines and a Dakota acoustics anecdote.
Lizzie Belle Stevens, a 13 year old from Livermore Maine, died after a snake fright in a box of shavings led to a ten week delirium and subsequent typhoid fever. A boy is said to have placed the snake to scare the girls. Elegant yellow pine furniture from Paris workshops attracts high prices for curled pine lumber.
In western Scotland the future reformer John Knox sought a wife among Protestant converts. A noblewoman suggested her daughter, who agreed to marry Knox on condition he vows to travel with wallet and Bible. The couple wed, and she accompanied him to Geneva proving her commitment.
The piece rails at the waste of steel pens, urges children to salvage metal, and mocks moonshiners who dodge excise law. It notes pen destruction through rolling and annealing, offers salt to kill Canada thistles, and critiques moonshine tax history with a harsh Atlanta Constitution tone.
A Syracuse Journal correspondent describes women turning to frogging with spears and lanterns as a new rural amusement, with frogs hunted by night using jacklights and red flannel bait. The piece notes a growing craze for water turtles carried in silk bags, as a young girl toys with diminutive turtles.
A man attempts an offensive approach to a passing young woman, feigning politeness with a greasy smile and hat tip. She rebukes him, calling him a fool, and proceeds while the surrounding crowd laughs at his expense.
The English artist Marian North, studying African flora, observed three of the world’s tallest aloes standing together about forty feet high. Their branches bear hundreds of heads and when in bloom they create a color mass visible thirty miles away.
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