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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1886
Page
4
A jumble of vintage patent medicine pitches parades through the page. Gackenheimer and Walking Skeleton brand remedies promise cures for dyspepsia, coughs, liver and kidney troubles, and skin issues while endorsing electric tonics and glycerine salve. Skeptical notes aside, notices tout aspirin, nostrums, and free bottles, with testimonials from local residents and merchants.
The piece extols American frankness and national pride while presenting a biographical sketch of Columbus. It notes the historian’s effort to compile data and the editor’s role in compiling amusing anecdotes, business with a hospital visit and a shop girl encounter, shaping a local column of social scenes.
An order of sale issued by the Court of Common Pleas in Van Wert County Ohio directs sheriff to offer for sale at the courthouse door in Van Wert the property involved in the case Daring Margeson versus Emma McC et al. The notice specifies sale procedures and directs the sheriff to conduct the sale accordingly.
A tale set in a farm and mining venture describes Jim selling out after a wagon accident uncovered a buried coal seam, boosting his profit and inspiring a neighbor to form a company. A later anecdote recalls a mysterious buyer in New York and an inquiry about a season for growth.
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