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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1887
Page
3
Joel Benton in the Boston Globe recounts a playful, risqué poem about a New England hamlet visit to a cottage by the sea. The speaker describes meeting twelve sisters aged six to twenty two and struggles with appropriate salutations and propriety as he ascends a ladder of encounters.
In a Virginia style tale, sisters Aunt Nancy and Aunt Lavinia clash over decor and grudges. Rose Darragh longs for Ralph Hereford, whose absence and a serenade mystery strain the family. A plumbing screech and a Mail reveal forgiveness and a plan to finish the parlor in blue, ending years of petty quarrels and hinting at love’s renewal.
In Cassell's History of India a description contrasts Hindu cremation on the Ganges banks with Parsee disposal on Malabar Hill Bombay. Hindoo rites urge cremation and Ganges burial for immortality, while Parsees expose uncoffined bodies to vultures at the Tower of Silence, beside Muslim and Christian graves.
The London stock exchange admits sworn brokers after strict inquiry into their antecedents. Applicants require three recommending members with four years of knowledge, each vowing five hundred pounds to creditors if default occurs within four years. Entrance is 105 pounds, annual 22 pounds 1 shilling. Clerks with four years on the job pay 63 pounds entrance and 300 pounds in sureties. Brokers must obtain a separate city license. defaulters are expelled with public notice.
A Chambers Journal piece contrasts the Kamtschatdales and Koriaks, noting the decline of aboriginal groups after Russian occupation. It describes upper-class houses, vast brick stoves, and fish based diets among Russian admixture Kamtschatkans, while praising the pure Kamtschatdales as hospitable.
A collage of quotations and jests from periodicals such as Texas Siftings and Philadelphia Inquirer parodies, comments on weathering storms, drinking, tobacco, and manners. It features jokes about bank cashiers, actors, and a minister’s son, interwoven with wry moral observations and humorous dialogues.
Excerpt recounts rough scenes from Colorado mining camps. A narrator recalls saving a man on his first night, facing a gun, then aiding an accused man believed innocent. A later prank with a tin can leads to a taunting chase, captured by camp humor as other miners join in.
A compact discussion compares the Niagara Falls formation with the Mississippi canyons. It credits a Robert Bates theory of ancient cataracts causing long erosion and canyon recession, arguing St. Anthony Falls are remnants of a vast past waterfall. The piece mixes geological speculation with a brief Detroit anecdote on a debt case.
In the New Hampshire Legislature speech, Oliver E. Branch argues voting rights for women rest on equality not war service. He cites historical heroines and wartime roles of women, claims prejudice as the real objection, and urges support for woman suffrage in town and city elections. He warns against social orthodoxy and quotes noted figures to illustrate female leadership. The piece ends with a Newburg Special report on Jacob F Bloomer seeking custody of his children and his wife’s defense.
Western Evangelist editors in Wichita Kansas sent circulars to over one hundred towns seeking practical results of municipal suffrage. Forty two towns replied detailing women registered and voting, showing generally wise, enthusiastic conduct and beneficial community effects despite stormy weather. Lucy Stone In Women's Journal notes voter character influences outcomes.
Mrs. Sarah Louise Bloomer was jailed in Newburg by Supreme Court Justice Charles F Brown for contempt of court after separating from her husband and taking the children. She had found factory work locally and placed the children in care.
Miss Lucra T Ames writes of three Boston girls in the Women’s Journal while Mrs James G Blaine Jr and other women earn acclaim as photographic amateurs. Queen Corona of Saxony funds a free kindergarten for workers’ children. several studies on girls’ education, botany, and suffrage efforts are noted, including Miss Kate Free’s Alaska lecture and Mrs E L Saxon’s Kansas work.
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