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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1889
Page
7
A long ago king in Italy hangs a bell of justice for wronged subjects but it goes unused until a grape vine rings it to expose cruelty. A starving horse prompts royal mercy, with a plea for animal justice and mercy toward all creatures.
Jeremiah Onthank arrives in Boston posing as a rustic. He hides a Vermont education and charms Miss Vancouver at a New York society party. Alice learns not all country folk are fools as Jeremiah reveals his secret bond with Miss Vancouver and wins her hand.
The article argues city readers should respect country life and learn from farmers. It notes modern farming demands educated, skilled, and current knowledge, not mere muscle, and that many American farmers increasingly meet this standard each year.
A New York boarding-house dweller and his wife stage a lavish two month display in a Queen Anne villa near Thirty-second Street. They burn through about $1,750 of a $2,090 windfall, then return to their old life with practiced calm. The piece contrasts bluff with restraint and notes the stylish farce ends quietly back at the city house.
A note states wood pavement lasts about seven years in streets with heavy traffic, indicating wear under demanding conditions.
A poem narrates Young farmer Brown drawn to grand talk of personal liberty while courting Hulda Lee. As years pass she pleads for fidelity and family, but his oath to liberty erodes their home and hopes. Refrains show she adopts liberty values to save their lives and children.
In the Chicago Inter Ocean, Miss Mary H Krout argues women will share in the political future. She cites public outcry over sewerage, streets, and lighting, and says women’s insight improves sanitation, schooling, and reform efforts. The Indiana Woman’s Reformatory is praised as well managed under women.
Across departments women have shown faithful public duty with few corruption or incompetence reports. Based on actual results, their responsibilities should rise as their services remain needed. The passage commends their thoroughness and sense of justice as a reserve power for the future.
The Union Signal prints Susan B. Anthony's letter urging women to achieve universal suffrage as the foundation of a just republic. She argues women lack influence without the ballot and must unite to secure constitutional guarantees for political participation and broader social reform.
The Glen Rock Graphic argues for a constitutional clause preserving woman suffrage upon statehood. It cites twenty years of suffrage in Wyoming as beneficial to good government, calls for delegates favoring suffrage, and notes a Cheyenne mass meeting with resolutions urging a suffrage clause. If forced to choose, the paper prefers Wyoming remain a Territory with clean governance.
E C Morgan of Washington Territory salutes his mother Mrs. M A Morgan of Melrose Mass. He laments that she cannot vote, praising her unwavering love while noting the constraint of being a woman. He honors her sacrifice and advocates for women's political rights.
A report notes four of ninety graduates at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery were women with top ranks. It cites editors and readers roles for women and records 1750 self supporting girls meeting at Cooper Union for Working Girl's Societies. Irene Adams emphasizes mothers wives and daughters as moral balance in future protection decisions.
A veteran letter recounts June 1864 near Memphis detailing Corporal Robert A Long of Company G 45th Iowa. He predicted his death, and while boarding a moving train at Collierville he was fatally crushed by cars, and buried under an oak as comrades awaited the roll call. O. J. Lyon invites responses from other 45th Iowa members.
Dr. J Emmet O'Brien recounts Civil War telegraph life including Butler's advance on the Petersburg and Richmond railroad and a Whitworth round near Drewry's Bluff in May. He recalls a Norfolk siege in April 1863 when he stayed on duty three days and nights, waking to repeated messages and later discovering his own writing on a page in a case of somnambulism.
Alexandria Special notes Virginia farmers profit from Civil War relics unearthed by children near battlefields. A junk dealer displays a 150 pound box of bullets musket balls brass epaulets sword hilts and buttons from Manassas Culpeper Fredericksburg and Virginia Valley. Relics sell for lead and brass value though shells cause city concern. mayor once ordered their removal.
Assistant Secretary Bussey overrules prior rulings and rescinds Rule No. 135 in Kaufman’s pension case. He declares a dishonorable discharge is a military penalty for a specific offense and cannot bar disability pension claims, avoiding double punishment for the same conduct. Washington Special.
A collage of maxims and quotes on knowledge, practice, reformers, aging, compliments, handling danger, perfection, worry, manners, genius versus talent, discretion, and charity. Includes notes on hypocrisy, learning, and human folly from multiple sources.
The Grand Army ledger shows 361 194 members in good standing on June 30 1888 Gains include reinstatement (amounts obscured) and delinquent reports 18 389. Losses include honorable and dishonorable discharges suspensions and delinquent reports totaling 0 20 012. By June 30 1889 members in good standing reached 382 598 with 22 633 suspended and 5 455 delinquent reports.
The Battle of Altoona report tells how Corse was struck with a severe head wound. General Sherman, upon seeing the wound, urged the removal of bandages and found only a slight cheek scratch and a small ear hole. Sherman quipped that the near-miss was close.
The report lists state G A R memberships including Pennsylvania 43035 and Ohio 41486 with New York 37286 Illinois 80293 Indiana 23533 Michigan 21420 and Massachusetts 20687. Wisconsin had four war governors and Colonel I W Hicarson to write Bay State Civil War history. Wisconsin sent multiple cavalry artillery batteries and infantry regiments exceeding 90 000 men, with over 12 000 deaths. Mrs Livermore remarks on soldiers in hospitals showing patience and gratitude amid illness.
A Denver Republican tale recounts a miner from the East who falls in a shaft and discovers letters from a Jennie to Jimmie. He misreads the letters and travels west to reveal a fake mine plan, but Jennie had already married after Jimmie’s supposed death. The yarn ends with the miner planning to go east again.
Tucker reports seeing Parker’s son in the country with a camera. Parker confirms he went out to take views and was progressing well, though dust and a pursuing Red Bull are mentioned in the exchange.
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