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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1886
Page
7
A Chicago Journal poem by Eulen W. Carey depicts a maiden on a shore hearing oars while a boatman arrives from the stream. The scene brightens and a transforming moment ends with the lovers rowing away together, the thrush still singing on the bank.
Elsie Mills clings to Luciny’s cinnamon roses and a blue front door after her sister’s death and a foreclosure. William Havers buys the house, offers marriage, and a tense night leads to a loving, shared future as Elsie accepts a new life with him.
The piece argues dress should be treated as art and part of a woman’s education. It notes outer appearance shapes first impressions and advocates harmony of color, suitable fabrics by age and figure, and restrained, simple styles for young women, with refined options for taller, slimmer, or older wearers.
The Rambler crew reports an Italian cast ashore on Bougainville after twenty years among savage tribes in New Britain. Sold as a slave, later mistaken for a native, he lived in isolation, barely speaking to whites. Other Europeans suffered similar fates in Timor Laut and the New Guinea region. Sun.
A humorous Puck column lampoons a fatherly view of a troublesome infant. The piece catalogues bizarre antics from fearsome teething to matches, scoffing at teeth theories and wondering about the child’s motives while noting the mother’s own doubts.
A Quiver piece urges teachers to avoid guessing when unsure and to admit ignorance honestly. The author recalls a class moment when a student asked the highest mountain, admitting ignorance at first, then confirming Mount Everest later to preserve trust. The lesson stresses preparedness and learning from errors.
A rural New Yorker reader shares practical wheat sowing tips from twenty years of farming. He notes plowing oat stubble soon after harvest, using a light complete fertilizer before sowing, and avoiding double rolling. Seed rate varies by soil type, with a settled 1.5 bushels per acre for Clawson Silver Chain or Fultz.
A Reeral Home correspondent notes the striped bug tracks food by scent and that odor disguising treatments protect plants if timed well. He recommends applying gypsum by sifting over the plants before sunrise to mask the odor and deter the pest.
A collage of jokes and light satire from comic snippets and quips. Items reference editorials, teachers and pupils, romantic musings, corns and tongues, and social banter. The cuts mix newspaper gags with bright one liners and social observations across several periodical tones.
An article explains cinnabar or quicksilver found in e'nnabar rock, its extraction by heating to vapor then liquefying for pure metal. It notes major sources California Peru Austria and Almaden, historic use by Romans, and its dual value as productive metal and deadly poison. It describes mining dangers, refining to separate gold and silver, and accidents from mercury leaks in ships and storage.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote shows a boy praising his new sister by saying she looks like mamma and shares her hair color. A woman on a streetcar asks about the baby and the boy responds with charming, simple truth reflecting maternal ideals.
A school poem about boys imagining future careers. Each child proposes a path from sailor doctor farmer teacher storekeeper architect lawyer to ensure they will work hard toward success. The piece emphasizes planning, effort, and perseverance as boys declare their chosen trades.
A孤? Tom, confined by a broken leg in a mountain cottage, signals with a lamp to warn an engine abroad. His father, the train engineer, reads the message just in time, stopping the train before a tree on the bridge derails it. Tom later becomes telegraph operator and buys a cottage near the station.
A historical note on the daddy long legs spider from the pedi palpi tribe. Prof Lockwood recalls a book-dwelling visitor with an egg shaped body and long legs that could be manipulated with a pen. The creature tapped, cracked a whip like its leg through a hook, prompting a Dickens reference to Captain Cuttle.
A Berlin correspondent describes a strange outing by a private lunatic asylum director who escorted twenty five patients in a wagon to a tavern for cake and coffee. They danced, viewed deer and rabbits, cheered a keg tap, and toasted the director while wearing colored paper caps with evident pleasure.
At the Delaford fish-culture plant, efforts to isolate Salmonide species show some fish end up in distant ponds. Theories include burrowing through rat or mole-made holes or leaping between waters, but bird transport is unlikely. The piece also notes editor interactions and a Washington banquet among the Growlers.
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