15 Nov 1867
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1867
Page
1
A Civil War era narrator reflects on the cost of war and the sight of the empty sleeve, recalling a wounded sergeant and the home front's hardship. The poem contrasts battlefield glory with hunger and unemployment at home, while a correspondent's domestic vignette comments on married life and the quirks of a husband named Spangle.
A Louisville Courier correspondent recounts her courtship and twelve years of married life with Simon Spangle. She recalls a county fair meet cute, ardent letters, a quick honeymoon, and later strains as romance gives way to daily life, financial pressures, and cooled affection.
A New York letter recounts a Broadway car ride with Major-General Butler. A mob of boys taunted with mock charges and offered rewards for the instigators, while a Teutonic passenger praised the occasion as noble before noting the scene lacked a police presence. The tale shifts to China where the Ch’ich’lao festival honors cleverness with ritual threading and spider boxes as signs of divine favor.
Henry Ward Beecher argues that land ownership anchors a man and fosters thrift honesty and industriousness. He contends a community of laborers drives American industry and praises Philadelphia for its high home occupancy, linking prosperity at home to virtuous industry.
Farmers often burn wood the year it’s cut. Two cords of dry wood yield more heat than three cords of fresh wood. Moisture in wood consumes heat. dry wood loses less heat and radiates more of its warmth into the room. If wood is cut two years before use, it dries further and becomes more economical to burn.
A romance unfolds near New York between a wealthy heir and a poor carpenter. The father pardons the couple, funds schooling, and promises the daughter as wife once the young man earns a solid footing in the family business, sparking a hopeful fountain of happiness.
At a New ark Ohio Pioneers gathering a 102 year old woman, born in Culpeper Virginia in 1705, recalled traveling with her husband and six children to the West in 1799. She walked with an infant, passing only Wheeling and Winchester, and still well at two miles from Newark on a farm. Henry Ward Beecher quoted on church attendance and nourishment for the soul.
Poetic reflection on a father’s return, describing how “Papa's come” brightens the home, lightens burdens, and inspires love, unity, and gratitude. Children respond with joy, mothers find gaiety, and a quiet faith accompanies the familiar refrain.
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