23 Apr 1886
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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows references to W. W. & M. RY. and locations Scott Cavell Van Wert and numbers 405 136 605 516 with unclear context. The readable bits suggest a yard ledger or timetable fragment mentioning routes or stations but lack complete actions or outcomes.
Property listings include No. 468 miles from Dixon with cash and balance terms, No. 457 with smokehouse and out-buildings, and No. 426 in Van Wert County with fenced farm. Multiple parcels describe houses, out-buildings, timber, fruit trees, and nearby church and school access, with cash and balance financing and waiting buyers.
In a wealthy English mansion Vanity Hardware contemplates a new life independent of Sister Catherine. She plans to sell possessions, head to London, and pursue a theatrical career while wrestling with longing for Willie Snow and the pull of respectable society.
In CENT TEMS and YORK TOWNSHIP ITEMS residents describe an election day swearing in of officeholders, a fire in a cooper shop causing about four hundred dollars of damage, and various local happenings. The towns report eggs and Easter color, travel plans, travel and illness notes, and farm activities.
Local items recount social visits, farming plans, church events, and life in Pleasant Township and surrounding districts. Dwellers discuss a coming grocery at the switch, school openings, seedling drives, tile work, deaths, travel to Miami county, and sermons at Olive Chapel and Brewer’s Church.
Assessor wary warnings. Wes Stull stays at DeGillett Hotel. Easter fruit hoarded by children. Oil debate intensifies. Cy Smith adds to town home. J Morrow plans Main Street building. James Harvey visits his ill mother in Monroeville. Carpenters work on Dr Moffatt’s office. Annie Snyder opens shop in Enterprise. W J Rule backs oil or gas drilling with others offering similar sums. Philip Yahn counts grasshoppers in an eight acre field. Grandpap Hirt proves a good shot in the garden. Fred Giezaler and Jacob Schaadt buy fruit trees at Manx nursery. Dogs shot seems common. Clark Glenn visits Feigert family. Peter Giessler and Anne Scaer settle on farm. Bird whip-poor-will singing heard. Bill Lion visits Sproul's. Glenn sells Walter A Wood binder to Glessler.
The column discusses Congress actions a year’s end, Hearst’s Senate entry and wealth, pension bills, Beck speeches on silver, and President Cleveland’s busy social scene. It relays marriage notices for Philip Adair and Miss Jeeva Snow, White House receptions, and a obituary for Mrs. Jane Burnett with details of her life and funeral.
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