18 Dec 1896
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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
1
Santa Claus promotes a wide array of holiday gifts from Pennell Bios including Lares pocket books card cases gentlemen's sets and skin goods. The ad boasts hundreds of items from Bible and album to music rolls and novelty boxes claiming unbeatable prices and appealing displays to entice customers to visit and browse the stock.
Local shop offers White Merino Starta and Drawers, tea garments, and hats. Men’s winter caps and overalls priced to move, with all wool pants and two pair specials. Note: confusing OCR yields scattered items across furnishings and apparel.
Word reports attorney C D Stepp settled a $4000 shortage with Columbian Balding Loan and Investment Company of Columbus. Relatives supplied about $2600 life policy, $500 collection agency interest, and household items. Mother and grandfather secured roughly $5000 in pay. Debtors await further settlements. potential prosecution hinges on remaining fraud issues. Office furniture sold at mortgage sale. observer notes resemblance to past events.
A Delphos area case details John Steible Sr a farmer four miles northwest of Delphos who forged notes on three banks between 1895 and 1896. He pleaded guilty before Mayor Baxter, was bound over to the Common Pleas Court of Van Wert County, and is held with Sheriff Coon. Also notes mention weddings and local notices.
A store claims to offer the largest assortment of jewelry watches clocks silver ware spectacles and novelty items for Christmas. It promises satisfaction with quantities and prices to suit all shoppers.
ALP McConahay the jeweler opposite the Guart House advertises free life size crayon portraits with every dozen of any style or finish. No price increase on cabinets, best work guaranteed, frames sold separately. See samples in the window.
Legal notice announces court action by IEEthiene Coulasd Onsen Company and others to foreclose and attach property in Van Wert County. It lists parties including Henry Wright and Roe T. Wright, cites December dates, and references a civil action in the Coil of Common. The filing details an order of attachment and the probable costs claimed.
The fragmentary text shows garbled OCR with unclear names and dates. It reads as a partial item from a local notice or brief, lacking coherent facts to identify an event, people, or place.
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