Napoleon Ohio and surrounding trade routes noted
A Toledo Commercial correspondent describes Napoleon as a handsome county seat on the western Wabash area with a busy road crossing Mansfield and Coldwater. The piece highlights a new controlling company for the route, thriving canal and river shipments, diverse local manufacturing including soap, mills, foundries, and cigar works, and the potential for enhanced trade via steamboat lines between Napoleon and Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne.
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Toledo
Napaleon
Oto
Walesh F
Mansfield
Coldwater
Henry
Henry County
Napoleon
Ohio
Wabash, St. Louie and Pacific R
Here
Grand Rapids
Maumee River
Wabash and Erie Canal
Defiance
Cincinnati
Bt. Mary's Reservoir
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Old Field Tribute and Gettysburg Remembrance
On the Gettysburg battlefield a memorial day observance highlights veterans and monuments. The Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first regiments gather at the Bloody Angle with speeches by General Towne and General Wister. A Gifted sword is presented from Colonel Cowan to the Pickett division, while Mrs Pickett receives a floral cross. The Sharp trial notes that final sentencing will follow July 3 with possible penalties up to ten years.
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Springfield
Ill
State Register
Tay
Hayes
Returning Board
Cleveland
G. A. RB
Stat. Louis
Baltimore Street
Super
Crete
Eagle Hotel
Wittecar
Poe
Corpa
Northern
Virginia
Emmittsburg Road
Philadelphia
Hibernia Rifles
Blue Ridge
Pickett
Sur
Cemetery Ridge
Philadelphia Brigade
Sixtyninth
Seventy-first
sSixty-ninth
Col. O'Brien
A. W. Mcdermott
Sixty-ninth
Joshua Towen
Rma
Paddy Owens
Troglalura
Brown
Rand
Armistead
Alexander
Owens
Reilly
Battlefirlt Memorial Association
J. B. Batchelder
Col. Batchelder
Reilly Carose
Sixty-ninth Regiment
Mns. Pickett
Wister
Battlefield Memorial Association
el John M. Vanderlyce
R. Penn Smith
Cosbing’s Battery
Vanderslyve
Cowan's Battery
Andrew Cowan
James K. Dixson
E. Payne Twanty
Cen
Cowan
Wagener
Teutenant
William Sawyers
Col. Cowan
Fta
Pckett Division Association
J.C. Crocker
Baldy Smith
Hunt
Little Dutchman store promotes bargains and wall paper in Ohio
In a bustling sales pitch, J. O. Saur markets the Little Dutchman brand, touting pure medicines, low prices, and a vast stock of wall paper and paints. The ad emphasizes honesty, quality, and affordability, urging customers to repaper and repaint homes with Diamond White Lead and assorted paints. The message stresses storewide value and direct-from-manufacturer purchasing for savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Saur
Ohio
Saul
Saur’s
Howe
Pias
Doomed parental guidance for youth and thrift ideals
A fragmented 19th century column advises parents to avoid steering sons into false trades for status. It praises proper education, vocational skill, and moral cultivation, arguing these outweigh wealth. The piece references socialites, a Prince of Wales quip, Hood's Sarsaparilla ads, and a local receiver appointed for Allen County Grange assets.
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Allen County Grange
Gusher at Plan Lechnell well No 3 spurs oil boom
The Greatest Gusher Yer at 12:80 Tuesday near Hankey Sande & Company's No 3 well on the Plan Lechnell reached 1,187 feet with a 600 barrel tank filled in about three hours. Executives Hankey Sands Roath attended as pay dirt was struck and production surged. The well connected with the pipe One Tuesday evening and continued to flow, signaling another potential well.
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Bowling Gree
Hankey
Brother
Sande & Company
Lechnell
Trenton
Purpee
Jol Hankey
Toe Sands
Prank Roath
Comptroller Trenholm Talks on Fidelity Bank Debt
Comptroller Trenholm predicts Fidelity Bank’s officers will cover its $3.6 million debt, despite new enforcement. He cites a twelve cent loss per bushel on thirty million bushels of wheat. Several unnamed persons implicated. A Cleveland man finds a bird nest with a broken leg, hair removal by nestling, and eventual healing over weeks.
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Trenholm
Wasutxoton
Fidelity Bank
Cleveland
Iowa
Renewed Youth Prompts Kidney Complaint Relief Tale
A town resident testifies that after years of kidney trouble and lameness she is now free of pain and can do her own housework. She credits Electric Bitters, purchased at Humphrey's Drug Store, for restoring health and vigor.
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Pharlie Chesley
Peterson, Clay Co
Iowa
Electric Bitters
Humphrey’s
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Nomrawang - Masons
Nepreiece Oun
National Tribune
Washington
Grand Army Peate
Dauw
Bragg
National Republican Committee
Patriotic” Fund
Union
Bowling Green
Thie Place
Pfice
Ead
Union Labor Party
Columbir
Folloen
John Betts
Feneca
T. F. McDonald
Boringield
T. O. Connor
G. W. ‘Futile
Lake
O. J. Sutton
Somunity
M. Hunter
Wen. Baker
Licking
Harper
Hopper
Harper Allux Hoppeena
Democrata
Therm
United States
Mexico
Diaz
Custom House
Lieben J'alliot
Sherman
McKinley
Foraker
Albray Argus
Grand Army
Order of Knights of Labor
Tuttle
William Tecumach Sherman
Towa
Democratic National Administration
Napaloom
Daly
G. W. Snoe
Ben Haberia
Hise
P.M. Aioe
New Orleans
Mark T
la Hartford
L.orwig
Temmsef Sutestzten
Sharp
Prison Walle
Arreman Mn Mnang
Las
Indies
Prince of Wales
Harter
Upper
Saspvary
Hood
Red Shirt
Glad‘atone
Pinkham
Edwin Booth
New York
Edwina
Ignatius Grossman
Booth Wan
Atinghe
Lars
Saunders
Siongue Cote Pinana
J. Zailin
Li Sh de Ammane
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