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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1889
Page
7
A mother laments a child judged faulty and noisy yet reveals longing to accept her as she is. The poem contrasts a “different” child with imagined ideal others, ending with a plea to cherish the real child despite faults, as angels may understand.
In Carbondale, Alice McDowell, eight years old, vows to run the pump engine when her father John McDowell falls ill. She bravely descends the shaft ladders to stop saboteurs during a strike, averting disaster as three men are injured. The company later keeps her on to run the shift, honoring her courage.
A New Lumber Substitute reports terra-cotta lumber made from fire-clay and saw-dust, two-thirds clay and one-third dust, fired into timber like blocks or boards. It resists heat, cold, and sound, dries easily, nails hold well, and remains light yet strong. It reportedly costs less than many substitutes and is quarried in Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United States. Also noted is a remark on Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography describing fever cures with peacock meat, aided by a noiseless powder he invented.
Poem excerpt reflecting on soldiers buried abroad and the enduring bond of brothers in arms. The speaker honors fallen comrades, recalls the sounds of battle, and expresses a vow to honor their memory without reproach, across time and distance.
In the Donelson surrender period a Federal officer met Colonel John Brown of the Third Tennessee Infantry and introduced General Grant. Brown, calm and bold, disarmed a Confederate lieutenant aiming to shoot Grant, detaining him at Dover as Grant’s party passed toward the Confederate headquarters. The moment underscored Brown’s gallant bearing in the field.
In North Carolina near Bachelor's Creek, two soldiers from the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts on picket duty misread a thunderstorm as an enemy assault. While dining with Davis family at the Davis plantation, Sergeant Peck and Lieutenant Hunt rushed to their posts as thunder rolled, mistaken for gunfire. The episode, recalled by the regimental historian, became a famed wartime anecdote.
James D Moler notes John Brown shawl passed through Collin Anseld and Nancy Anseld into Mrs Foley near Bolivar Heights. Washington Post cites relic as preserved. Rev David H Moore elected editor of the Western Christian Advocate after a storied army career. Moore, born Athens Ohio, 51, Ohio University graduate 1860, joined the army soon after.
Colonel Ike Hill of Licking County recalls how he earned his nickname. He recounts a single night with the Potomac Army near Alexandria, winning and losing money in a poker game, enduring imprisonment, and receiving a loan from Mrs. Sunset Cox to escape. He says he could not face the Cumberland Army or win the giant stake.
Zachariah P. Hardigee of Company I Forty-first Georgia regt. stood guard and faced battles without firing a gun, driven by faith as a minister and Bible Christian preacher. He joined rounds at New Hope Church during Dalton’s retreat, took one cartridge, then was struck by a spent ball yet unharmed. A successful farmer, Hardigee is remembered in the Haralson Banner as a remarkable man who followed orders but chose restraint in combat.
A look at war statistics reveals how prepared veterans were to enlist. Initial calls sought 75,000 men but 93,000 joined. three-year calls aimed at 585,000 drew 714,000 plus 15,000 three-month enlistees. The July 1862 four-hundred thousand three-year call drew 452,000, and later enlistments fell as 1,250,000 had already skimmed the nation’s manhood, notes St. Paul Pioneer Press.
General Burnside, while in East Tennessee, dined with an elderly farmer. The farmer’s mother, lively yet appearing ancient, declares she is a little over a thousand years old, saying she has lived there all her life and does not know her exact age.
A range of Civil War notes include a Lincoln casket display at the Secretary of War, battles and losses of First Maine Heavy Artillery and Sixty-first Pennsylvania Infantry, Gettysburg casualties, a 740 acre Grant farm tract in Missouri, a long planned soldiers’ monument at Indianapolis, and a general note that the monument would be nearly the world’s tallest aside from Washington.
Berlin Letter recounts how Alexander III tutored the rich Jacob Nissim's nephew in Latin during the Russian Turkish war era. The prince, fond of music, spent evenings in the Nissim drawing room teaching Latin and sharing Russian bear stories. He promised to advance the boy to the first grade, and later provided medical books as a gift while Mme Nissim received a diamond bracelet.
An article urges women to use an overdress as a practical morning garment for winter. Wear an everyday dress under a wrapper that can be removed quickly for visitors or errands. The design features a back belt, buttoned wrists, and a neck band to protect the dress while enabling swift changes. Christian at Work.
A Societe da Biologie meeting reports observations by Dr Gello on telephone use causing nervous excitement and hypersensitivity in ears. A highly intelligent man in a telephony role suffered vertigo and ringing, relief after rest. A young female telephonist developed ear noises and hyperesthesia that eased with cessation of work. London Star
A London Telegraph review extols the Dress Album as a novelty for women collectors. It explains the book will hold fabric samples with dates, arranged chronologically, and predicts fashion leaders may require multiple volumes while modest collectors may fill a single tome. The piece existentially surveys human collecting across pets and birds, and traces the album’s evolution from scrapbooks to modern repositories of photos and ephemera.
A Chicago Times article discusses the telephone as a potential medical threat to hearing. It notes that left ears are predominantly used on calls and explains how repetitive or uncertain sound could injure ear membranes, comparing risks to telegraph operators and boiler makers.
The Ohio Farmer notes that applying bone meal to fix poor spots in wheat fields can be costly but worthwhile. It warns heavy manuring for wheat favors clover over timothy and suggests delaying fall timothy sowing to February to avoid wheat damage. A four hundred pound per acre application reportedly caused excessive timothy growth, harming wheat but yielding large hay next year.
A humorous package note from a New York Weekly cartoon shows a shoe dealer listing prices for the family: lady eight dollars, eldest girl five, boy three, other girl three, baby one dollar sixty, totaling twenty dollars fifty cents. The father declines to buy for himself and jokes about going barefoot.
A compilation of aphorisms from various papers and authors. Notable lines consider self restraint, honesty, usefulness, societal change, and personal responsibility. The notes echo about judgment, contentment, and fidelity in everyday conduct.
Sir Morell Mackenzie describes three essential elements of voice production the air blast the vibrating reed and the sounding board with each part varying among individuals. He notes the delicate anatomy of laryngeal muscles and resonance chambers and argues small differences alter vocal quality and expression.
The piece urges pursuing a noble objective to elevate motives and attain wisdom and goodness. It argues that steady self improvement refines the vision of one’s better self, strengthens commitment, and clarifies both purpose and means. The process elevates character, aligning life with a higher ideal as demand for discipline and usefulness grows.
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