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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1893
Page
4
A personal reminiscence describes a heated local election in New Nicopolis. Vanderson’s farm and town hall events illustrate mobilization, rival rallies, and a dramatic last moment vote by Vanderson that shifts the outcome in a close race during a tense political season.
An arranged gravel spreading wagon box that can discharge load without shoveling is described. The device features a long box with hinged drop panels, a center plank base, bolted supports, a sanded chain stop, and a crank brake to control spillage. It can be transferred to sleds for winter use and includes leather collars on the axles to keep grit out of the wheel thimbles.
The passage argues western farmers increasingly adopt intensive tillage to raise high yields per acre. It stresses skill, planning, and knowledge to push thirty bushels per acre, linking yield to soil concentration and investment efficiency. It emphasizes concentrating resources and farm practices as the future of agriculture.
A collage of home cooking instructions includes cake and pastry methods with sour cream, cream of tartar, and soda, plus a bean soup and rice dish. Also described are a meat stock tomato sauce, cheese toppings, and a humorous note on turning a music stand into a storage rack.
Veiling opinions shift as fashion favors veils worn below the chin and light fish net designs. Advice warns buyers to try on before purchase and notes blue veils suit only high status wearers, with long veils returning for formal wear and nuanced critiques of texture and border details.
An old newspaper feature extols Royal Baking Powder as superior, pure, and reliable and warns that rival powders with alum are health risks. It quotes officials and physicians praising Royal and warns readers away from substitutes while listing various health claims and ads.
A damaged clipping describes a volatile market scene with mentions of Raen Sileaeae and Batel verrisamens, notes temperaments, a collar, and a reference to Dulin. Sparse readable phrases imply a local market or weathered trade snippet with uncertain context and names.
An 19th century warning warns against opiate tainted remedies for croup and promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as non opioid. Readers are urged to contact Sylvan Remedy Co. for a mail order trial by writing with paper name.
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