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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
3
The Chancellor and his wife fault guest selections while the Harrises debate attending a dinner. Both couples fret over social obligations, business ties, and the fear of offending or losing face, balancing honesty with etiquette amid mounting mutual reluctance.
N Y Independirt prints a dialogue scene where Mrs Harris and Mr Harris debate accepting a social invitation. They weigh honesty, propriety, and duty as they consider declining to avoid causing discomfort for their hosts. The pair joke about conventionality while plotting a discreet withdrawal if Providence permits.
A Georgia man named Hendricks, bent by rheumatism for ten years, reportedly stands, then dances after a shot from hunters near his tree. The shock from the gunfire, attributed to the tree, allegedly frees him from gout as he regains limb freedom and strength. Youth's Companion reports the observed improvement continues.
A collage of wry misprisions and anecdotes from multiple papers. Jokes range from charity and hotel life to embezzlement, love, church debts, and humorous exchanges. The excerpts mix domestic life, travel, and social behavior with light satire and social observation.
A Chicago Times portrait describes Ella Wheeler Wilcox as a lively writer who blends domestic life with creativity. It notes her focus on people over things, her patient process, and a distinctive gesture while composing, framed by a casual home setting and a well dressed habit during writing.
Ben Perley Poore recalls President Zachary Taylor with humor and warmth. The narrative highlights Taylor greeting crowds, his candid bluntness, and public moments from his candidacy to his presidency. The piece notes Mrs. Taylor’s reluctance for public life and the nation’s mourning at his death. It ends with a tavern anecdote about a tariff remark.
A Dallas mother teaches her daughter manners for securing a husband. She advises rising to greet a entering gentleman with a bright smile, then notes if no gentleman comes, she should remain in place.
The piece surveys the Rothschilds rise from a Frankfurt coins shop to a world power through banking and philanthropy. It recounts Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s early fortune and loans, Nathan Rothschild’s stock market tricks, Lionel’s leadership, and the baron’s parliamentary breakthrough, alongside notes on their public image and methods.
A collage of home and farm advice and recipes including ash spreading on new ground to improve soil, charcoal to deodorize clothes, kerosene for cleaning oil from machinery, and a Snow Drops cake recipe. It also covers animal feeding for better growth, a harness storage closet idea, lime to dry damp cellars, a salmon salad, methods to improve rancid butter, thumb sucking hypnosis for children, and a recipe for Keg Timbales with cheese and parsley.
An old article discusses commercial fertilizers and farmyard manure, noting the nitrogen and mineral content released through manure decay. It compares nitrate of soda with manure nitrogen, citing Belgians’ use of nitrate replacements and the value of minerals freed during nitrification.
A Philadelphia veterinary hospital hosts unusual exhibits including a pig’s easy chair a padded cell for a lunatic horse a Turkish bath and a swinging harness for a horse that could live or die without bearing weight on its legs.
The excerpt presents a martial ode praising soldiers and unity. It speaks of one oath one hope and one purpose for freedom, a shielded legend welded by hearts and souls under fire. It links a starry unity to manly mastery and a law of love sealed with battle scars as Maurice Thompson quotes in Amert it Magazine.
Miss Rhett Myron, South Carolina governess in Colonel W R Smith's family, reveals a Civil War tragedy. Her father Hayne Myron died in Virginia. a dying Confederate officer confesses shooting him and bequeaths a locket containing her portrait. The officer's heir then dies. Rhett learns truths from the man who killed her father and inherits a letter detailing the death.
In Petersburg Vin a hilltop reservoir at The Heights resembled a fort to onlookers. Federal troops, mistaking the waterworks for fortifications, asked What fort is that Water prompting a delayed attack. Citizens corroborate the tale.
Hugh Thompson of Van Wert County, once listed as killed in 1863, was found alive in Kansas after a wandering life. Identified by Fifteenth Ohio Infantry letters, he carries a Bible from his enlistment and has regained some memory. Crowds gather as the gray-haired veteran, once presumed dead, returns home to Ohio.
In a Griffith Semple & Mills gun store cellar at 512 West Main Street Louisville, a dusty old gun case revealed fourteen unusual weapons and an outfit for as many men. The case had traveled between stores for twenty-five years and was linked to Livingston, a Southern sympathizer and wife of a Confederate soldier. The guns feature a flat cylinder with ten shots and top hammer, fired by percussion paper, and were likely intended for the Confederacy, preserved as relics of the Tate unpleasantness.
Gryevat BF and Borer push a universal service pension for Union soldiers. Wealthy widows Mrs General U S Grant and A Garrieno draw about 3190 weekly. Private William J Suerrarn wins a twenty year pension claim with back pay over ten thousand dollars. Eviz Howand Powers, who served Union soldiers, dies in Washington at eighty five. U S Grant Post G A B Brooklyn presents a crayoon portrait to Commander in Chief Fairchild with a letter of esteem. Gettysburg regimental losses from Ohio troops listed with killed wounded and missing in official Adjutant General records.
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