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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1887
Page
2
A cluttered page mixes a consumer goods advertisement with medical claims for a stomach and nerve disease as well as a railway incident near Bucyrus and Upper Sandusky. It mentions a Dr A W Erilofe and a planning schedule with locations and times, plus a derailment minor disruption later in the item.
Mayors Office removed. Mayor Browder vacated his office to the new city building on Monday. Also notes on new bridges, depot grounds, hotel openings, receptions, business dissolutions, gas works fuel change, and a village wedding.
M Michael Fogel of Cincinnati died suddenly aboard a Mackinaw Railroad passenger train en route to Paulding Ohio. The 50 year old jewelry firm traveler had lived at 26 Clinton Street and leaves a wife and five grown children. He had recent health issues and was known for benevolent work. Odd Fellows in Paulding arranged the burial.
A Lima Times report recounts two freight accidents on the Pittsburgh road near Fort Wayne. George Russell, a brakeman on No. 70, was run over while trimming a pin, suffering severe leg injuries with no bone breaks. William English, another brakeman, had his hand crushed and three fingers amputated after a glove froze to a bumper. Both were treated by company doctors and taken to Fort Wayne.
A jumble of notices and local items covers legal penalties for quail shooting, a Salvation Army event at the rink, a spring election tease after New Year, oil well incorporation talks, free lessons, wheelborrow return, post office half holiday petition, calendar promotion, gas works pole cat odor, Fort Wayne railway car plans, and assorted local business notices.
A long list of visitors and locals in town includes Miss Dode Lynch Belle vue Ohio Miss Rhoda Watts Decatur Indiana and many other names from Marion Defiance Columbus and Cleveland. It notes business trips political visits real estate dealings and upcoming moves and events among the community figures.
Amusements brief notes show Jules Verne classic Around the World in Eighty Days to be staged at Pavilion Opera House Wednesday evening January 19 with W. J. Fleming as producer and a full scenery set. Other items include Fisk Jubilee Singers at Gilliland’s Opera House January 27 and various church and community notices from Van Wert and surrounding areas.
Thomas McPherson a bright young boy from Ottawa county was placed with a family in poverty to be raised. A county judge investigated his history and learned his mother is deceased and his father is shiftless. Local ladies and Commissioner Coyle offered to cover expenses to move him to the Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans Home at Xenia Toledo Bee reports.
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