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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1892
Page
7
In Van Wert Ohio discussions name ex governors and party split hints for next election. February common pleas term reports divorces and equity cases, with several judgments and receivers named amid routine docket entries. Notices include a railway schedule and a local wagon shop offering grinding services.
A scathing editorial blasts the Republican organ for alleged inaccuracies about county jail bonds and treasury funds. It argues the county’s finances are sound, denies auditor kickback claims, and questions the town’s debt burden and political motives. It also touts Mr. Reed’s Hotel Dellone endorsement of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and lists travel and railway notices.
W. F. Duprey begins a Texas trip while Jos Hattery of Waterloo IA visits town. Miss Winnie Van Liew returns from South Bend. Several residents travel for business or vacation including F C Arnold C H Betts to Bryan and Mr Mrs Hal Moran to Cleveland. Funeral attendances mark a week as D W Burt and Mrs Evers families return, with many relatives traveling from Minneapolis Mansfield Dayton Delphos Kokomo.
A young couple, Frank Zane and 16 year old Rose Cook, wed after a license in Celina. Zane, later bound over on perjury charges, shot himself in Rockford after a warrant was issued. He survives a left chest wound. investigators note past escapades and a possible prior abandonment. Also reported a 90-year-old man J A Bennett died by suicide on East Second Street, leaving Swiss-based son and sparse property.
A jumble of items from a county paper: juries, a delinquent debt botched by duns on postal cards, saloon sales, staff changes, and a pending Lincoln birth day banquet. Reports include railway crews, a 106 year old death, a water works pipe break, a water works car pull, and court notices.
From the New York Sun, a Boston professor questions latitude parallels and old beliefs as science stirs doubt. The item blends commentary with regional notes on health, farming, people and local events, highlighting a mix of notices and advertorials.
Horn and Cook of Van Wert advertise improved Buckeye all steel binders and mowers, corn planters, ground plows, walking plows, riding pBi nas, cultivators, feed grinders, cutters, rollers, harrows, engines and separators. One price is the only fair way to buy, with coal-like low markups. Customers urged to compare quality and prices and return for more.
A local ad from E Wrenmos The Boot and Shoe Man proclaims a slashed prices sale on leather boots as a response to wartime demand. The message promises deep discounts to move stock and urges customers to visit the store for cheap boots amid the sellers’ financial squeeze.
Legal notice announces sale of Neem Farms and timberland along with town property. Harry Darnell listed as seller with details on parcel scope and bidding process. Property locations and sale date are indicated by public legal notice requirements.
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