07 Sep 1883
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1883
Page
1
In the Van Wert Weekly Bulletin the page satirizes politics and finance. It notes Democratic costs, references Judge Hoadly and Bookwalter, and lampoons politicians and fund usage while mixing international curiosities and oddities from 1883.
A broken violin in a street triggers a boy’s grief and a girl Miss Selma who lends aid. Years later a renowned violinist Carl Seiberg reveals the debt of kindness linked to a magical instrument and a wager of love with Miss Laurence. Fairfax Farley seeks to wed her but Seiberg’s vow and a recovered coin redefine fate.
A brief poetic note by Sherwood Bonner written shortly before her death contemplates release from anguish and the ache of unfulfilled duties. A famished guest in the poem mocks the sought peace and hints at the return to remorse and pain beyond this life.
Poem fragment by Richard H. Stodbard urges readers to seek wisdom in simple nature. It compares roses and the Burning Bush to reveal God speaking softly to the observer, challenging reliance on scholastic definitions.
A wholesale merchant recounts a cross country trip with scams in Detroit Chicago Milwaukee Indianapolis Mackinaw Cleveland and Toledo. He dodges bogus deals and embezzlement while noting a low bid coffin plot and a $5000 value land offer on Lake Erie's bottom land. He returns charmed but minus his gold watch.
J M Price of Buffalo Grove Iowa offers a home remedy for hog cholera claiming 75 to 90 percent saved over 13 years. The recipe lists tincture aconite root nux vomica and other poisons with directions to dose hogs daily and fatal outcomes possible. warns to label bottles deadly poison and keep away from children.
Iowa Republicans debated women’s rights and named a male candidate for Superintendent of Education. Democrats offered no public stance but nominated the man’s wife for the same post.
The Detroit Free press notes Southern politicians praise peace while Southern memory of the Civil War remains strong. It cites a Macon Telegraph piece urging Georgia Confederates to ostracize Senator Mahone of Virginia for opposing Bourbon rule, implying lingering sectional hostility and warning that national unity is not yet secure.
A new musical wonder features twelve dogs seated in a long box with wired keys on an outer board. Wires touch each dog’s head as the ivory is struck, triggering whines yelps barks or bass sounds from the animals. The harmony is elective and the training yields a moderate, tuneful facility.
Christoph Ertel aged seventy five killed his wife with a spade at their South Belleville Missouri home. He then stabbed himself in the left breast, and finally hanged himself in the orchard after a quarrel. A fragment mentions money remaining from Germany.
The Anaheim ostrich farm has proved a success with about five hundred dollars worth of feathers already picked. Dr. Prothero has gone to Africa to bring back one hundred twenty five more birds.
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