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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1880
Page
1
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The item surveys varied topics from Hudson River recoveries to New Orleans paper mills and Greek marble gifts. It notes New York City's rising commerce, a Georgia crime against a child, and a dramatic rescue of a boy by an unknown ally in a Missouri setting. It also covers Astor Library expansion and Merino sheep valuations in Pennsylvania.
A fragment mentions Crestline, Lima, Van Wert, Fort Wayne, Plymouth, Chicago and routes or connections among them indicating a regional transport or logging network. No clear event or action documented.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition closed Saturday with 300000 visitors and a net profit of $5000, of which $2500 was given to the art museum fund by the Commissioners. Colonel J K Dixon, West Point classmate of Custer, died at Peoria Texas after serving in the Confederate army. Census projections for the German Empire predict a 5 to 10 percent population rise by December 1, 1880 from 42,750,000 in 1875. The Treasury paid $16000 to ex President Zachary Taylor’s Virginia daughter as the remaining salary blocked by his early death.
At the Pennsylvania State Fair in Philadelphia a herd of Spanish Merino sheep stunned visitors with an exceptionally white and soft fleece. A Washington county grower explained the dark oily outer layer shows the fire’s strength, while lifting the fleece revealed wool finer than snow.
A Cleveland Leader report on Professor Benjamin C. Merrill of Milwaukee proposing perforated metal discs strapped to the eyes to flatten or round the eyeball and extend focal distance. He claims readers could see 20 rods away and even the moons of Jupiter, though cautions on eye injury and practicality remain. The Times reportedly hailed potential benefits.
Baptist missionaries report two settlements in Alabama with no school for three years. Farmers and families were illiterate but four agreed to subscribe to a religious paper read aloud. Separately, Isaiah Gifford of Providence bought the wreck of the Atlantic at Halifax to salvage iron. expected three years of work with 25 tons of pig copper and a missing $80,000 in valuables from the safe.
A drunken repair worker in Boston fell asleep atop a telegraph pole. He woke unharmed after sleep at the peak, with no one disturbing him during the long rest and he descended safely when he awoke.
The minister opened the Bible to Acts xx and read about the uproar that had ceased following a heavy musical selection by the Ithaca church choir. The moment marked a quiet close to the service.
A man designed a chair that adjusts to eight hundred different positions for a boy to sit in during church. The device aims to improve comfort and posture for young congregants.
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