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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1887
Page
7
A poetic fragment in Youth by I. FE Diekenga reflects on children playing at twilight. The speaker notes their rapid patter, laughter, and fleeting joy, contrasting daylong vitality with night’s hush. A whispered truth proclaims the little ones shall live forever in the speaker’s care.
In Upper Evseln near the Russian border a December wedding unfolds amid fears that Christopher Tagies was dead. While hunting a bear in a snow hut he fights off the animal in a brutal struggle. Michael, believing Christopher dead or missing, confesses a troubling thought but ultimately aids his brother in saving him. The brothers reunite, the father blesses them, and a Te Deum closes the night.
A brief credit noting L. Ripley translated a solemn quiet night for the Springfield Massachusetts Republican newspaper.
A one year old boy writes a humorous list of grievances about childhood rules and adult meddling. He objects to being forced into foster care, to the milk industry, to churning, to kisses, to being asked his age, to boring company, to bare necks, to sun and cold, to rides, to bedtimes, to rubber tubes, to strangers, to being an only child, to names, to dresses, to women’s rule, to baby talk, and to over familiar tales. Boston Transcript.
An editorial from Punkin Holler Weekly Bulge mourns the loss of its local baseball team the Punkin Holler Nine. The piece humorously laments vanished players and departed glory, likening the team to a fading Flower and noting vanished crowds. It closes with a brief note about a drought in Great Britain and dying fish.
Rev James Freeman Clarke argues true society starts at home with marriage. He asserts shared possessions, trust, and devotion strengthen family bonds and childrearing, forming the moral center of society. He warns that divorce weakens permanence of marriage and dissolves social order, calling homes the first units of organic life.
A New Orleans Picayune editorial argues against American girls studying in Europe. It cites family separations, cultural differences, and high costs, warning that brides abroad and solo journeys end poorly. The piece condemns European fashion and education as impractical for poor or striving Americans.
A collage of epigrams and light anecdotes drawn from various papers. Populist quips, marriage humor, and social musings roll by, touching on work, love, anger, and daily life with a playful tone and familiar voices.
A Philadelphia Call report warns buyers about toilet soaps containing excessive water. Manufacturers allegedly dilute soap up to seventy percent using chemicals like Glauber’s salts, leading to ruined value and rapid dissolution. Cited anecdotes from Boston and Lowell papers highlight deceptive tactics and overpricing.
The article notes that of fourteen Confederate Cabinet members under Jefferson Davis, only three survive: Reagin of Texas, Watts of Alabama, and Davis of North Carolina. Reagan, now a U.S. Senator from Palestine, Texas, is the lone survivor among the original cabinet. The piece remarks on Davis’s longevity at age around eighty, born June 3, 1808, and lists the eleven deceased cabinet members: Bragg, Breckinridge, Hunter, Mallory, Memminger, Randolph, Sedden, Toombs, Trenholm, and Walker.
A Sioux Falls woman dismisses a doctor’s claim that her husband says she was injured. She reports spraining her ankle from falling with a pail of water and tells the doctor to leave, promising to call when her husband returns home. Meanwhile the New York Times notes Thomas Cress, once Bellevue hospital surgeon, is now in Bellevue’s insane pavilion due to opium use, with his wife similarly affected but less severely. A Lowell jeweler showcases electricity theft to power light machinery.
In a playful verse from Our Little Men and Women Jenny Wallis recalls a girl named Mary who declares she will make a cloak for a small frog. The frog croaks, Mary laughs, and the scene shifts from lamb to frog with whimsy and gentle humor.
Archie and Fred meet a kind old man who appears to be a peddler during a day at Uncle Ben's. He earns their trust with shared stories and helps build a swing, later revealed as their grandfather in disguise. The boys learn to welcome strangers who resemble loved ones and reflect on hospitality.
A childhood tale from Tacoma and nearby, recounting how the lazy dog Toby was teased into a fake funeral by boys. The dog yawns alive at the mock grave, sparking humor and remorse as the narrator recalls the mischief and the animal’s enduring affection. Nearby notes mention a Tacoma jury deadlock and a Lexington yarn from the revolutionary era.
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