Untitled Notice Fragment Reads Advertising Rates
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss per year advance, advertising rate cards, and printing receipts. Mentions advertising rate terms, square area, and miscellaneous terms.
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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss per year advance, advertising rate cards, and printing receipts. Mentions advertising rate terms, square area, and miscellaneous terms.
The Little Dutchman store led by J C Saur touts a booming business with fresh pure drugs, inexpensive medicines, and a vast wall paper stock. It advertises direct-from-manufacturer wall coverings, paints, oils, brushes, and a large book department, urging customers to visit for good values this spring.
A pennsylvanian clairvoyant foresees Ohio oil wealth and maps its future sites in Allen and Wood counties near Lima and Bowling Green. The paper notes oil and gas were found at those exact locations within ten years, validating the psychic prediction and suggesting Ohio’s gas and oil industry is just beginning.
The remains of President Lincoln and Mrs Lincoln were moved from secret graves to the north vault of the Lincoln monument at Oak cemetery. Guards of honor patrolled the site as a brick arch was erected and cement set over the caskets.
Remains of a mastodon were unearthed east of Tiro in Crawford County while ditching on the Walter Green farm. A large tooth measured six and three quarters inches long and four inches wide, weighing five pounds ten ounces. Earlier, in 1838, a full skeleton of a mastodon was found nearby, with skull and upper jaw weighing 160 pounds.
Fragmentary local items list events and people including homemade barns, visits to Florida, a fire on the Whitehead farm with loss around 200, and a mad dog incident. Mentions Maggie McCabe returning, Beavers and Ansa Brothers leaving for overseas billet, and a Literary Society meeting. Also notes a school reorganization and mentions ladies fine shoes.
Local notices from West Liberty April 18 1887 report court proceedings in Henry County Ohio with continued cases against Wabash St Louis and Pacific Railroad Co and judgments for plaintiffs. Education board of Napoleon Township organized with new officers and budget actions. A sermon on divorce condemned mercenary marriages and urged traditional values, urging community restraint and family virtue.
A severe tornado swept across a western Ohio town on April 16, leveling roofs and damaging homes. Rescue teams sift through rubble as residents search for valuables amid widespread ruin. Reports from nearby towns note downed telegraph lines, injured residents, and aid appeals issued by mayors to regional cities.
Mrs. Phoebe Chesley of Peterson in Clay county relates a remarkable tale vouched for by town residents. She says years of kidney trouble and lameness left her unable to dress unaided, but Electric Bitters renewed her strength and ended pain, enabling her to do housework again. Only 50 cents at D. J. Humphrey's Drug Store.
April 16 report from Ireland describes Skinner's tenants at Draperstown being evicted. A family barricaded doors and cut stairs to upper floors as officers forced entry. Ladders enabled removal of residents, with furniture left piled outside. damages sought by Mr Spees of Clasricarde agency in Galway run to 860 000.
In Harrisburg April 13 the Pennsylvania Senate passed the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage by a vote of 16 yeas to 0. The crowded gallery cheered the result as Speaker Harlan, a noted suffrage advocate, was congratulated. The body also adopted a resolution denouncing the coercion bill before Parliament and sent regards to Gladstone and Parnell for Ireland.
Jun ge Cooley reports cash totaling 711 000 turned over to a new receiver Cineage with final accounting to Judge Gresham. The period covers January 1 to April 4 with total receipts 1 701 045 87 and disbursements 1 080 067 47 leaving a balance of 471 283 50 on hand. Judge Gresham authorizes payment of 24 000 taxes on the Lines of Indiana. Henry Crawford seeks an examiner to review accounts of old receivers Humphreys and Tutt. court postpones ruling.
A fragmentary political notice argues against Senator Sherman in the Republican nomination race, praising southern initiative and contending surplus war taxes should be cut. It quotes Senator Colquitt and touts southern development as proof no charity or bounties are needed, while promoting a cheaper tax policy. The piece also includes an unrelated medical advertisement for a consumption cure from New York City.
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