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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1884
Page
1
A long OCR fragment lists German Lutheran and German Evangelical congregations with service times, Sunday school, and pastors. It also enumerates various fraternal organizations by name, meeting nights, and officers at Van Wert and nearby streets, reflecting a community notices page with church, religious, and lodge schedules.
An advertisement for Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly Harper's Bazar Harper's Young People and Harper's Franklin Square Library one year subscriptions with 52 issues, free postage within the United States and Canada. Details include commencement with June or December issues, options for current year, cloth binding, index volumes and remittance methods. The notice asks newspapers not to reprint this ad without Harper & Brothers authorization.
Harper's Weekly proclaims twenty years as America’s leading illustrated weekly. It promises increased literary and artistic resources for the coming volume, including W. E. Norris serials, West and South themed pieces, World Exposition at New Orleans coverage, illustrated stories, and authoritative political guide content for a family audience.
The notice explains how to begin Harper's Weekly and other Harper's publications, noting the first issue timing, and offers the last five annual Weekly volumes in cloth binding by mail for $7 per volume plus optional cloth cases at $1 each. Remittances should be money orders or drafts to Harper & Brothers.
An 1885 Harper's Bazar notice describes Harper's magazines and weekly illustrations, Paris and New York fashion coverage, pattern sheets, and household guidance. It details subscription value, cloth bindings, mail delivery costs, and ordering by money order or draft to Harper & Brothers.
Harper's Young People offers illustrated weekly juvenile stories and Pictorials on science travel and life facts praised by major papers. Terms $2 per year postage prepaid Vol VI begins November 4 1844 single numbers five cents remittances via post office money order or draft to Harper & Broo ters.
The Tin Van Wert Times boasts generous treatment of readers and promises valuable presents to paying subscribers. It notes past distributions on February 19, 1883 and August 4, 1884 and pledges a third year of gifts, with thirty days after a thousand years as a further incentive.
Regular correspondent reports from Washington on December 1, 1884, as both houses convene to a skeptical atmosphere. Republicans face ruin in money and prestige while Democrats anticipate a slow, deliberate cabinet selection under Governor Cleveland. Civil service removals spark debate and early budget moves aim to keep Congress busy with appropriations.
A historical note recounts how the rooster emblem arose after editorial taunts during the 1840 Indiana vote. It explains Chapman’s crowing and the taunting banner We Crow, leading to roosters symbolizing Democratic success since that episode. It also includes a brief comic interlude about a sermon and a dental motto joke.
A garbled OCR compilation cites various items: flour trade nearing 5 million annually in Atlanta. four new asteroids discovered raising minor planets to 235 in 1883. Bible printed in 226 languages. a giant grape vine in bhina eighteen years old, quarter mile long, 34 inches at base bearing five meg fruits. Liverpool leads world shipping with 2.647 million tons. London 2.331 million. Glasgow third. remarks on urban grinding economies. nautical mile length. emigration from Ireland rising in 1883. assorted wry anecdotes from Philadelphia and Chicago papers.
The tale centers on Gus De Smith and Kosciusko Murphy praised by Colonel Fizzletop as bright youngsters in Austin. Little Johnny questions their judgments after a donkey riddle about being “chips of the old block.” The humor hinges on wordplay and the family’s odd remarks.
Local notes report residents moving between Lima Elida and Van Wert with purchases and visits while a quarrel over a competing paper ends in a closing remark. The piece includes medical endorsements for Cleveland Baking Powder and a tongue in cheek crime-gossip anecdote about a publisher’s excuse.
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