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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1890
Page
3
Man Wert Bulletin edited by John A. Arnold and Co in Van Wert Ohio appears in this item. The brief notice references Prop's and Ohio, highlighting local press identity and place within the Van Wert area.
In Brittany, Countess Isoline defends Albret castle as John Lanceplaine and a band attempt to seize the holdings for gold. Girard Beaujeu and Hugh d Espaign ride to aid, slaying Lanceplaine and freeing the beleaguered nest. Poetic recounting credits English author Thomas P. Montfort to theLedger piece.
A collage of humorous quotes and sketches from periodicals, interspersed with a long narrative about Lindy Begley and Uncle Hiram planning to urge Widow Lee’s daughter Addie toward marriage. The scene unfolds with social pressure, family dynamics, and small town wit.
RS Gilley visits Joe Begley’s for sugar lard yeast and a few other items. He chats with Mrs Begley about garden soap making and neighborhood topics, remarking on his sister and their close family ties in the area.
Intricate accounts describe six brazen heads built by wizards and scholars across centuries. Gerbert later Sylvester I, Grosseteste, Albertus Magnus, Friar Bacon, the Marquis of Vilena, and a Polish Escotello disciple are credited with heads that allegedly spoke and foretold or repeated phrases.
A cabman asks a woman passenger if she will have a fit and suggests ringing for a patrol wagon. The woman, dismissing the remark, explains she is only searching for the pocket in her dress.
A brief humorous exchange shows Mrs. Small complimenting Mr. McWatty on soup. He replies that he drinks water to swallow a little and the line ends with an editor’s quip about punctuation. The snippet reflects light domestic humor and a self referential joke about writing style.
A medical breakthrough shows electrical endosmosis speeding lithium delivery for gout. Edison tested external lithium infusion on a 73 year old patient, yielding pain relief after one day and a fourteen day finger circumference reduction, with overall temporary improvement.
The Cleveland Plaindealer extols gun cotton engraving by leaf impressions on iron and notes a century of wonders. The Chicago Herald reports Swiss phthisis deaths at 2.51 per 1000, with higher mortality in Appenzell Basel and Geneva and in industrial districts, varying little with altitude.
A humorous exchange shows a wife asking her husband to buy scouring soap while their son Johnny jokes that a posse would work as soap, referencing a train robbery and a woods search for robbers as described in the paper.
A veteran recalls a July twenty six years past when Sergeant Stringfellow led twelve cavalrymen on a dawn raid from Dinwiddie woods into Union lines. They surprised the enemy, captured horses, and fled with trophies, later auctioned for substantial sums, a vivid camp memory shared as a birthday reminiscence.
A Civil War field report praises Captain Cox and the Tenth Indiana battery for a decisive flank shot at Stone River on December 28 1862. The unit linked to Warner's Brigade faced a shifting line near the railroad and Hazen monument with brutal efficiency as Confederate assaults pressed the left flank. The engagement culminated in a spectacular shot disrupting a charging Confederate column.
A Civil War reminiscence recounts a foraging episode near Holly Springs Mississippi. A small party found twelve hogs behind a shed and butchered them with improvised tools, sharing meat with comrades and locals before heavy rains forced loss of the pork and a hasty march back toward camp. The tale blends military hardship with frontier improvisation.
Washington veteran Cartan E Thomassen aged fifty tops the attendees as the oldest son of a veteran present at the St Joseph encampment. Others recount pension rejections and postmortem discoveries, a Cincinnati veteran’s defiant humor, and claims of a Civil War relic flag from Almond New York.
A rhythmic children poem by Hattie Whitney from Golden Days extols the virtue of early bedtime and early rising. It contrasts night’s calm with morning’s bloom and the gentle songs of birds, urging little folk to rest and wake with the day. The piece emphasizes the proverb as wise and soothing.
Dorothy faces a trunk full of dolls when her family takes her to the White Mountains. Unable to choose, she lets others borrow her dolls, and Uncle Charlie and family end up packing dolls in their trunks too. The journey unfolds as the ten dolls arrive in Bethlehem with Rose Evelyn Violet Blanche and others. Dorothy discovers the playfully clever ruse, while Mama goods-naturedly approves the plan.
The article surveys remarkable trees including the butter tree found in central Africa yielding butter from its kernels, the manna tree in Calabria and Sicily tapped in August for sap that evaporates into manna, the Malabar tallow tree producing firm tallow from seeds, and the Indies guava yielding rich jelly. It notes Livingstone references and catalogues varied regional trees and flavors.
The passage notes Fierro’s dry island ecology with a drought resistant tree whose leaves stay green year round and droplets from a condensed cloud keep a cistern full. It also mentions camphor trees in Japan and Pacific islands and a Jamaica life tree whose leaves persist after separation from the plant.
A Christian Union tale describes a little black headed plover that rides and cleans the vast crocodile by pecking away gnats and flies from inside the animal’s open jaws. The unlikely duo are portrayed as mutual helpers and devoted friends.
The Arkansas Traveler reports that a college that reformed its journalism curriculum by hiring an experienced newspaper man has proven journalism can be taught. A graduate class demonstrated practical lessons, showing clear standards for reporting people in law medicine politics and business, asserting the local newspaper’s true role.
Furriers display a wide range of late fashion in boas pel erines matinees and jackets with Astrakhan and seal blends predicted to stay fashionable. New forms replace the old shoulder cape while pelerines shorten to waist length and capes curve over the shoulders into pointed lower edges. High fur collars and sleeves receive cautious regard as fashion trims evolve, with examples such as a sealskin lower half pelerine and silver gray astrakhan upper section.
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