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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
7
A compact lyric card extols charming maids and coquettish jades with odes and ballads. The speaker vows to reserve his finest serenades for a sympathetic woman who eases sorrow with soothing presence, calling her Miss Ann Aesthetic.
In a strained household, Mrs Arbuthnot guards two heiresses and pushes Lilias toward Mexican suitor Mariscal while Frank Carroll is secretly favored. A misaddressed postal card reveals shifting affections, a rushed marriage, and Minnie’s clockwork mischief that reshapes the fate of all.
The author extols the love of home as a natural instinct and divine gift. He describes homes as sources of warmth, comfort, and identity for people, animals, and even birds. The piece invokes familiar scenes and imagery from pine to hearth, ending with a nod to the Atlanta Constitution.
A Yankees trip to Europe ends at a petty prince’s frontier where the customs chief orders trunk searches. The traveler refuses, declaring he came from the United States to stay free of coercion, calls the locality “a spot,” and drives away rather than surrendering his trunks.
The article argues fall manureing is superior to winter top dressing, warning against exposed heaps wasting nitrogen and potash. It stresses plowing manure in during fall, fine soil through tillage, and even distribution via harrowing to boost root access, soil oxidation, and crop yield.
A V. Y. Herald thought urges balanced views, arguing that newspapers crave dramatic misfortune while readers desire hopeful notes. It cautions against dwelling on finance fears and societal ills, urging people to highlight the positive and encourage a constructive outlook.
The piece denounces leaving a broad weed row along meadow fences as wasteful and unsightly. It praises neat borders of grass used for plowing routes, hay, and manure, noting it keeps land productive and weeds down. Quotations from the New York Times and New Haven News are cited.
Prof. E. G. Morrow argues that many cows can be developed for both meat and milk within one breed. He cites short-horns and other breeds as examples, noting many cows excel in either or both traits. He warns against excessive focus on a single purpose and urges balanced breeding to fit widespread farm needs.
A Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station study evaluates milk costs from bran shorts corn meal gluten hay dry fodder and ensilage. Feeding hay and grain yields the most expensive milk at about 2.23 cents per quart while ensilage plus corn meal lowers cost to about 0.83 cents per quart. Milk quality showed no major composition changes across feeds.
In Germany quack remedies flourish as royal patronage and aristocratic ads sustain dubious “herb-doctors.” An uneducated healer staffs two regular doctors, while Becker faces murder-linked blood poisoning charges, a pardon, then bail, and flight to America amid investigations. Medical News.
An item from the Ltumpkin Ga Independent notes convicts amuse themselves by a three or four mile run at dawn to train bloodhounds. A trusty volunteers for the task and is paid by the bosses, highlighting the harsh prison culture of the time.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts Confederate Sal a volatile Tennessee camp figure in the Civil War era. Soldiers describe her drunken schemes, disguise as the General s wife, and a river death after a harsh removal from camp. The narrative blends brutal memory with lurid anecdotes of wartime life.
General Marmaduke was taken prisoner during the Osage battle in October in a two engagement morning and afternoon. An eyewitness describes the prairie terrain and the crossing of the Osage river as the Federal and Confederate forces clashed with Captain of Company H, Tenth Missouri Cavalry under Colonel Bentine and General Pleasanton leading.
The piece traces the 1862 beginnings with Bosworth Post in Portland Maine, leading to the Maine and Massachusetts auxiliaries, the Denver 1883 national formation, and Kate B Sherwood of Toledo driving expansion. By 1885 the corps boasted 25 departments, 20 226 members, 472 auxiliaries, operating under a ritual with signs, pass-words, and a Maltese cross badge.
A critical look at the Chancellorsville campaign argues both sides failed to reach aims while noting equal strengths and faults in strategy and tactics. It contrasts Hooker and Lee with historic French and European commanders to claim great victory requires great leadership, as quoted from Century.
A Bedlow estate trustee urges spelling the island Bedlow not Bedloe citing a Magazine of American History article. The article notes the misnaming persisted due to lack of attention, tracing the island to its first owner Isaac Bedlow who died in 1693.
A collage of curious notes: a white swallow shot near North Haven Connecticut. an Andover Massachusetts hen laid four soft shell eggs. St Thomas Ontario boys harass a hornet nest then a cat. Peterboro Ontario youngsters form a Salvation Army parody. Benjamin and Susanna Campbell of Versailles Missouri celebrate 63 years of marriage. A Chesapeake Bay Spanish mackerel measured two and a half feet, a man in Waldo Maine moved a crop in two hours and twenty minutes, a Silver Creek Oregon gold rush rumor begins. a St Johns River Maryland man loses his hat, suffers leg amputation after a train accident. A Nebrasksa ex-inmate sues his former lawyer. A Liberty Missouri clock doubles as a barometer after forty years. A Niagara Falls mill mishap sends six tons of grain into a car. San Francisco reporters attend a seance. a spirit is identified as a mother in a silk gown. A clever dog in Morden Manitoba slips his collar and is later found chained, tail wagging. Product notes mention Red Star Cough Cure, St Jacobs Oil, Lenni soap, and various dyes and remedies. A jest about chestnuts asks for meaning. a Frazer Axle Grease ad appears amid jokes and ageless wisdom. A cottage to let with eight rooms and an acre is advertised.
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