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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1889
Page
3
Child requests his mother take his hand to a dreamland garden beyond the stars. He promises a world with moonlight, birds, and fragrance where cares vanish and wounds are soothed, away from toil and small troubles, in a private dream shared by mother and child.
A Clinton County observer recounts dramatic encounters between rattlesnakes copperheads and blacksnakes, noting fights, a lethal blacksnake victory, deer predation on rattlers, and alleged hypnotic effects of both live and dead snakes on geese, turkeys, chickens, a squirrel, and a dog.
Seed size affects plant vigor with large seed giving young plants a stronger start. Rules on keeping hens from sitting with red flannel tied around a leg. Provisions guidance suggests half a pound of butter and coffee per person weekly, plus 1¼ pounds of sugar. behavior remarks on farmers who seek town amusements. Old pastures can feed sheep to control weeds, oats should be clean and uniform, crab-apple shortcake recipe included.
A Hartford Courant opinion warns against lifting children by grasping their arms or using them as handles. It urges using both hands to support the child at the waist or hips, distributing weight or using two adults, to prevent strains, dislocations, and fractures and to spare the child from harm.
A Kansas City Times report recalls ecstatic tales from Sunflower State visitors about unprecedented crops in Southern Kansas. Charley Barrett exaggerates wheat, apples, sorghum, broom corn, and corn yields while noting dangers from climbing corn stalks and a novel solar corn harvester. The piece ends with cider abundance and a note on shifting fortunes, as Arkansas valley residents move from poverty to bread wagon abundance.
A compact, reflective line compares focus on trouble to the urge to touch a wobbly tooth, capturing a moment of discomfort and distraction without narrative detail. The metaphor conveys strain and tension in everyday life.
The sixteenth National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convention will meet in Chicago from November 8 to 12. The organization includes over 200,000 members with forty departments under preventive educational evangelical social legal and organizational heads.
Terrible forest fires rage west of Portland Oregon threatening the city. Washingon county towns Lacamas and Washonaga saved by efforts. Lents seven miles southeast of Portland suffers extensive farm damage as fires move toward the city. Forest City Nevada reports families moving furniture and mining companies moving powder to safety.
Nine men sailed from Lorain to Cleveland aboard the steam yacht Leo. Two corpses, L D Lawler and T P Ritter, were recovered at Rocky River while seven others are missing. The vessel used naphtha for fuel and may have exploded in heavy seas, say sailors.
Four jurors named John Culver Charles Dix James Pearson and Frank Hall were sworn in for the Cronin murder trial in Chicago. They will remain in Judge McConnell's private room under bailiff guard as more veniremen are called. The court reported rapid venire examination with the State using forty peremptories and the defense sixty.
Frank Hanssen of Avondale and an unnamed companion were killed when a northbound passenger train struck their sulky at the Belmont Avenue crossing in Gross Park. The horse and sulky were destroyed and the men were hurled from the scene.
The 23d to 6th festival dates mark this year's corn palace in Sioux City described as the finest yet. The $88,000 project, funded by subscriptions and a 25 cent palace admission, features a pine frame 282 by 120 feet with a 66 foot peak and a 48 square base tower, entirely clad in corn and grasses with decorative ears and grain tassels.
A dam breach at Hibernia near Coatesville releases a wall of water that swamps streets, washes away a bridge, and threatens nearby areas. No lives reported lost. regions along Brandywine and surrounding towns suffer extensive inundation and transport disruption. Additional damage reported in Wilmington Delaware and Plainfield New Jersey from upstream rains and washouts.
Heavy frost Tuesday morning injures vines in East Tawas Michigan while early snow touches Iron Mountain and a bitter cold wave follows. Reports from Dunverer Indiana note frost along the Illinois Central west line. Louisville Kentucky sees most crops safe though late tobacco and corn face some damage amid wet conditions.
London laborers at West India docks return to work with new men after police intervention. Albert docks saw renewed clashes injuring several substitutes who were hospitalized. attackers were discharged.
Review of the September 29 1889 International Sunday School lesson outlines the period from Samuel’s call to Saul’s death in 1134–1055 B C with places like Shiloh Nob Ramah and Gilboa and figures Eli Samuel Saul and David. It details the Golden Text from Isaiah 28 7 the teaching plan map events at Engedi Carmel and Maon and the Nabal story as a temperance allegory underscoring Nabal as Belial a fool and the nation’s salvation through David and a woman’s rescue of temperance efforts with warnings about drink and death from intemperance.
The article surveys evidence linking the malaria microbe to intermittent fever, discusses new lightning direction theories, explains volt and ohm units, notes ozone’s relation to epidemics, explains ozone in winters, and summarizes Harvard meteorite findings on iron masses as crystal cleavages and possible solar ejection from the sun.
The American National Baptist convention of colored ministers in Indianapolis adopted resolutions urging Southern colored people to emigrate to the West and take up lands. It asks President Harrison to urge Congress to appropriate 100 million dollars to aid their relocation, with a committee planned to present the resolutions to the President.
Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commissioner Thom and Minnesota Commissioner Ives call for a national meeting of dairy and food officials in Cleveland, Ohio, November 6 to 8 to form a permanent organization and promote department work.
Mrs Annie Gabe sat with her baby when a coal oil lamp exploded setting the table area and four persons ablaze. The mother and baby died and the two other children suffer severe burns with possible death. In New Jersey Mrs Robert Ray Hamilton pleaded not guilty by counsel to stabbing a nurse and her trial starts today.
A Jewish family of six in Sczatmar Hungary was attacked by unknown assailants who killed and severely harmed them in a burglary. Authorities report the motive as robbery and the incident shocked Vienna observers.
In Stillwater Minnesota on Tuesday Captain Bob Younger was embalmed and prepared for shipment to Lee's Summit Missouri his mother’s hometown in Jackson County about fifteen miles from Kansas City. He will be buried there beside his mother who has been deceased for several years.
A letter signed Jack the Mipper was received at a London news agency claiming that within about a week another murder will be added to the Whitechapel horrors. The note warns of a new atrocity to follow the recent killings.
A mosaic of 19th century notes covers arts fashion and transport from the Shah in Europe to Liberia rail charter. Prices for horses and flowers, a famed Japanese artist’s death, English spreading, Turkish schools, and shifting divorce rules frame a world in flux. Also noted are antiquarian purchases and medical cures pitched to readers.
The text describes early malaria symptoms such as drowsiness chills and heavy dull head and suggests an incipient attack. It then touts Hbstetter's Stomach bitters as a sovereign remedy not only for malaria but also for kidney complaint debility indigestion rheumatism and neuralgia.
Tre Eiffel tower in Paris has been offered to Prof Marey to enable him to study photography of birds in flight and very instructive results are anticipated.
A health resort advertisement promotes a hotel as the finest watering place in the West with waters that cure kidney liver and other ailments. It invites readers to request a pamphlet from F. Cuanpier of the Wabash Line in St. Louis. A Waterloo couple reportedly spent five dollars on a honeymoon ride on a merry go round.
Cheap Harvest Excursions will be run via Wabash Line to Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Dakota Colorado and other West points on September 24 and October 8 1889. Round trip fare one. For particulars apply to nearest Wabash Ticket Agent. Also includes assorted ad copy and light commentary on products and sayings.
A collage of old advertisements touts Carter’s Little Liver Pills and Piso’s Cure for Consumption with price 5c, plus slogans about wisdom and smartness and a note on Tansill’s Panch cigar. The text also uses a threadbare coat metaphor and hints at consumer goods popular in vintage markets.
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