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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1889
Page
3
A dramatic Civil War style poem recounts the Lookout Mountain siege with Bragg and Grant forces, soldiers advancing amid smoke and fire, heroic riders Harker, Sheridan, and Opdycke, culminating in Bragg’s retreat. It ends with mourning for Union and Confederate dead and a prayer for the nation.
During the Civil War a Black orphan nicknamed Pick attaches to Parker and a cavalry squadron. Pick survives a frontline charge, travels with a company wagon, and travels north to Ohio after the war, finding a home, a wife, and two children in Cincinnati cuprous work.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a man who admits getting lost amidst a large family. He explains he wandered due to the rush and many children, noting no trace of his wife and mother. The piece hints at a humorous or rural voice in the report.
The Gettysburg Letter recalls Lieutenant William Caruthers of the Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteers, wounded at Winchester on June 14, 1863. Dr. C. E. Goldsborough carried him to safety, extracted the ball, and left him at a Martinsburg farmhouse. Captured later, the physician was believed dead, while Caruthers was thought buried. Recovered by Major Henry Gilmore of the Confederate army, Caruthers survived, returned to Union lines, and later became Norwich postmaster. He met Goldsborough again while visiting Gettysburg with Connecticut veterans.
A Massachusetts officer recounts northern army foraging during Shermans great march with blunt relish. Stories of shrubs yielding stock provisions and clothing, foragers striking rich from plowed fields, tin cups of syrup and peach butter, and even doughnuts fried in soft soap emerge as vivid anecdotes from the march.
Seventy six year old veteran Wailes orders a hand cart and aims to cross the continent on foot from San Francisco to New York via Ogden Omaha and Chicago then sail to Liverpool. He will lecture on California and US experiences, visit English cities, travel to Paris, and return to San Francisco in about two years aboard steamships and trains.
General Sherman plans no more soldiers reunions while Boston to unveil grand Grant Sheridan and Farragut statues. Woman’s Relief Corps over 75,000 members, $84,770.70 spent on relief this year. National GAR report shows $1,935,935.54 charity from 1871 to 1889, $237,486.69 this year. Ropinson of Belvidere owns South Carolina secession ordinance with signatures. Pennsylvania funds $5,000 for McClellan monument, private subs sought. Grant memorial at Riverside Park eyed for completion. A Reno memorial unveiled on South Mountain by Ninth Army Corps survivors.
Mrs. Knapp testifies in a New York assault and battery case, volubly digressing into personal matters. The scene shows a combative kitchen setting, with husbands, wives, and a justice trying to narrow the testimony to the case at hand.
A collage of household and farming guidance. Sage in lemon infusion eases early colds, October frost cautions protect crops, colt care suggests bran to maintain strength, and moral education is urged for youth. Grape preserves use pulp and skins. oyster omelet with cream and oysters. avoid overfeeding fowls. dry root crops properly. cabbage seed production under frost cover. and a long pig feet recipe with veal stock and vinegar.
A string of shipwrecks and calamities across 1664 to 1889 centers on Hugh Williams, with capsizes, wrecks, and a tragic Thames picnic. The Leeds Mercury piece on women’s health argues daily walks and sun, while a Collingwood marine servant’s oxalic acid lapse ends in near poisoning and coercion.
A discussion on humane horse handling argues that consistent calmness and patient, kind training build courage in colts. Abuse fosters fear and runaways, while confidence in the trainer and gradual exposure to stimuli produce a willing, high-spirited animal. The piece praises the Arabian for its exemplary courage and endurance.
A 19th century health piece warns mothers against kissing children to curb disease spread. It cites an English physician linking pulmonary consumption to indoor air quality, and advises temperate foods, mindful oral care, and daily mouth rinses to prevent diphtheria. It notes water in rooms absorbs respired gases, warning icy water holds more gases and becomes filthy.
A nostalgic quote recalls a writer’s regret over endorsing a friend’s note and paying the price. A Johnstown dog acts as flood watch during rains, retreating to a fourth story perch. A San Francisco arrest records a Chinese fight suspect under the name Cabbage Cow, a curious police file entry.
A collage of curiosities from across the United States. A California paper gells of a man feeding two horses and three cows with beer, a Cincinnati girl receives a seven foot eight inch long letter, and a Minnesota broom factory strike ends with married workers rewarded while singles face dismissal. Also notes a Wisconsin hunter shipping a deer corpse in a coffin labeled John Deer, a cow fostering a foal in Kirbymoorside, and Hezekiah SuetLen’s grave plot readiness. Reading cats hatch eggs and hunt with owners, Putnam County Fla. reports a fireball column in the sky with an earth shattering explosion heard over miles.
The latest Battenberg baby is to be made Colonel of a German regiment. Pisa is bankrupt, and ten other Italian towns have followed. A Japanese paper laments too few physicians and dentists in Japan. In China a Heavenly Foot Society movement targets foot binding. Mezoing Australia plans a city clock that plays popular tunes hourly except Sundays when sacred music plays. A 11 year old Cossack giantess weighs 280 pounds and stands nearly six feet in Paris. London will be fortified with a southern girdle of forts and untrenched camps for large forces. A torpedo depot ship Vulcan launches from Portsmouth to join gunboats. The Pope requires new audiences to sign a pledge to avoid asking or repeating papal words. A Westminster Review piece argues widows outnumber spinsters in Britain. Japan irrigates on a grand scale with massive reservoirs and ditches resembling double-track railways.
Readers are urged of a positive remedy for a disease with promises of curing thousands of hopeless cases. A free two bottle offer is extended to readers who send express and post office addresses. Also included are notes on Oregon immigration, washboard wear savings with Dobbins soap, a mud turtles shipment from Marcellus, an Irish trapper, Paris street goat milking, Tansill’s Punch cigars, and Lew Wallace’s $45,000 Ben Hur payment.
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