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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
3
A vintage ad touts The Safety Razor with easy self shave and high quality English steel blades. It also promotes The Imperial Gas Lamp claiming economical light, one cent per evening, 66 hours per gallon of gasoline, and urges purchase from the seller.
Jones and Tudor report in the Manila Times on Philippine timber regulations imposed by the United States. The piece criticizes high bureaucratic restrictions, licensing limits, reporting requires, and stiff penalties as counterproductive to developing an island timber industry. It contrasts Spanish permissive costs with American tariffs and argues policies deter American investors and local workers.
The Bostonians, America’s light opera company, will perform Victor Herbert’s The Serenade at Faurot Opera House in Lima Ohio on Tuesday December 4. The cast includes Henry Clay Barnabee W H McDonald Hilda Clark Adele Rafter Josephine Bartlett George Frothingham Albert Parr John Dunmore W H Fitzgerald and a 60 voice chorus. An augmented orchestra under Sarmuch L Studley, lavish costumes and scenic effects heighten the show. Tickets via H G Ayde Faurot Opera House Lima Ohio.
The Farmers Institute at Delphos will run December 10 and 11 at Sheeter Opera House. The program includes morning and afternoon sessions with prayers, lectures on crop improvement, dairy topics, feeding, weather service methods, and home and farm life discussions. Music and general business with officer elections are planned. program subject to change.
Mrs J K Wood and Miss Mary Woods hosted afternoon parties on Tuesday and Wednesday at their South Washington street home. About seventy guests attended each day with Cecile Gleason Lulu Arnold Myrtle Olney and Lelia Clark assisting in pink and green decor. A novel feature saw bottles of vegetable essences hidden under pink tissue with green ribbon. prizes went to Miss Mame Foster and Miss Olney for correctly naming the scents. The Fin De Sircle met Tuesday with Gertrude Jones leading a program of Washington Irving quotes Fern Smith paper St Petersbu Gertrude Jones paper Husain Music Florence Tucker Horn Limited Clara Pope Beeson Recitations from Riley.
The United States Fish Commission bulletin notes hardy lobsters lingering in a basin at the commission wharf from fall 1889 into March 1900 and cod broods left in a Grampus well after 1899. When released at Gloucester harbor in April 1900 the fish remained lively though emaciated, with darkened backs and sides.
Messrs Frank McCoy and John Fretzner visited Defiance and Delphos while others traveled to Harrod Lima Piqua Columbus and Jackson Ohio City Convoy and Mansfield. Many residents spent Thanksgiving with relatives and friends across Indiana Kentucky Michigan and Ohio in late November.
Notice from the county board of school examination details a meeting in Room 11 Central Building Van Wert at 8 30 am for teacher examinations on the first Saturday. It mentions applicants for higher credentials must provide one week notice and outlines exam topics and materials. By order of the Board. ns D DK Clerk.
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