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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1890
Page
2
A fragmentary advertisement extols Comer selling tobacco at low prices to attract customers. It mentions 5 pounds for $1.50, 20 ten cent plugs for a dollar, and promises savings with weekly quarter payments. The piece hints at a community meeting about tobacco and a possible related project like building a church.
Phil and Fred Anschutz will publish the Daily News starting next Sunday, taking over from H C Glenn. A mix of local items follows, including tax deadline extensions, auction plans, letters, a Grange organization, deaths, crime, marriages, court updates, and local business notes.
Van Wert readers report numerous visits and transfers. L J Germann and Mrs Higgins visit Cincinnati while A B McMillen of Paulding attends court. Attendees at Deshler firemen meet include Fronefield Evers Detter. Real estate transfers list lots and acres in Van Wert, Jackson, Union and Wiltshire townships. Transit update notes 10 hours 45 minutes Dayton run on C J M & M line with May 18 time card.
Notice announces a Board of Examiners meeting at Third Ward School in Van Wert on Tuesday June 10 at 9 am. It lists FP Manship as clerk and includes notices of appointment for administrators and executors of local estates, with dates in May 1890. It references James T Mann and Abram Sheley as deceased, names executors and administrators.
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