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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1893
Page
2
The advertisement promises a wide shoe stock and reasonable prices. It invites customers to visit James Clark Son to trade and propose making the shop their go to for shoes, emphasizing large selection and favorable pricing.
Channa based Clothiers Davies Jones reports James R Hancock buys Harvey Buttefield’s livery on Jefferson street and aims to serve pleasure or business. Buttefield may move south to timber trade. Allie Tucker dies at Toledo asylum. guardian W H Mowrey appointed. New furniture store and hardware stock move from Gleason Bros. to Sidla Co. Ridge township to bid for fourteen miles of pike construction. aim for year-round road improvements. Presbyterian Church notes week of prayer services culminating in sacramental service next Sunday. Rev Campbell assists.
A flood of short dispatches details youths sent to reform school after runaways from Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, a Newmarket fire that destroyed a home and notes of a bridge of misfortune. theft, marriages, and local business notices. The column records residents Bert and Frank Taylor two boys, Elsie Green and John Hywarden, a fire at Mrs Harriet Stewart’s home, a brick dwelling loss, and legal notices tied to county affairs.
Personal items from Wyandot county list residents visiting towns and states including Minne polia Chicago Marion and Richmond Ind. Names include S. W. Purmort Joan Opelt Geo L Bobilys Hattie Clark and Wm Henderson. The piece mentions local shopping at Fort Wayne and a new furniture store purchase and a toy ad for meat curing salt and canvassing agents for Acme Steam Washer Company Richmond Ind.
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