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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1886
Page
3
The verse extols a happy home built on peace gentleness and love where daily life is filled with gladness and content though sorrow and cares are banished. It describes a home with a returning loved one honest earnings and bright teaching of truth and faith.
The piece recalls children staging miniature funerals for pets and imagining adult rituals. It notes a pet rabbit burial in Southport, a soap box catafalque, and a sang of Oh Bring Back My Bunnie to Me, reflecting on childish imitation and imagination across cultures and eras.
A nostalgic essay recalls how children imitate adults in play from pirate ships to doctors, and how imagination thrives even in hospitals. It notes examples from Brontes and Dickens, Twain’s river scene, and urban street games, before offering practical notes on household crafts and old-fashioned home remedies.
Mejor Johnstone, fellow with a keen eye for spelling, scolds a Dallas hotel clerk over his bill for omitting a T in Johnstone. The clerk jokes the correction costs an extra ten and fifty cents more for good measure, in a light Texas Siftings anecdote.
An invasive elm leaf beetle, named Galerucella xanthomelaena, arrived about six years ago. It is related to the potato bug and completes four generations each season, with a two week active life.
A corny Ohio Farmer letter argues against the widespread use of red on farm machinery. It cites red’s poor durability and glare, noting pigments fade, turn black, or weather badly, and urges color choices that endure and suit practical, tasteful design. The piece compares red with green in nature and urges thoughtful color selection for lasting, attractive equipment.
A correspondent reports Geronimo as a young, handsome Chiricahua Apache chief under thirty, uninjured and capable of longer guerrilla fighting if supplies held. The description matches Captain Bourke’s Hieronymo portrait in An Apache Campaign. Also noted, a Maplewood boy’s lantern kite stunt drew townsfolk to view a supposed meteor display.
A religious reflection poem expresses doubt and struggle when grief and isolation disturb faith, then returning belief that God orders all for good. The speaker asks for strength to trust Providence, finding calm in the idea that pain serves a higher purpose and leads to peace.
The essay outlines Frederic Harrison and Herbert Spencer disputing whether religion can rest on the unknowable. It contrasts Spencer’s ghostly worship with agnostic critique, arguing that true religion needs a concrete human-centered purpose beyond phantom concepts. It notes science and evolution as counterpoints to pure agnosticism and urges against anarchic despair from atheistic philosophy.
A meditation by S. S. Limes argues reverence is a universal, essential duty beyond superstition or servility. Reverence toward God or man is intelligent awe, combining respect, affection, and honor while recognizing rightful superiority without subjection. It remains a duty independent of personal inclination or pride.
The article argues that the divine origin of Christianity is proven by personal experience. It asserts true religion reconciles to God, with grace in the heart and prayer as undeniable proofs, beyond mere forms or self-excitation, citing Baptist Weekly.
A parable about a rat gnawing a file and the struggle between truth and distortion. It argues that truth remains intact after efforts to erase it. Biblical truth survives generations despite misrepresentation and organized opposition, outlasting those who oppose it.
A compilation of short maxims and reflections from Henry Dr Johnson Good Housekeeping Carlyle Standard United Presbyterian Thought Etchings and others. It highlights penitence hope perseverance and the moral impact of kind deeds in daily life.
A jumble of short notes includes a Arkansas City quarrel where Gussie Srixg struck M V Jones with a rawhide whip after a pistol hold up, then paid fines. Also listed are Monon Route’s home amusements book offer, humorous quips about poets wearing long hair, and assorted health ads for Dr. Pierce, Buckingham's, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Piso's Remedy. Fire, earthquakes, and onion crop rumors close the column with witty quips.
Fragmentary OCR note on markets and quotes with unclear figures. Indicates a "THE MARKETS" heading and stray numbers, lacking readable details or complete items to summarize.
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