Political notices and local taunts amid 1886 campaign
A long civic page notes Democratic state and judicial tickets, local county fairs, and a wave of Republican criticisms. It rails at GOP figures and presses for tax and reform issues while reporting on a deadly earthquake in the Southeast and a Tennessee gubernatorial split between brothers. It highlights William D. Hill's congressional bid and a Toledo Blade monument tribute in Defiance Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timms
Rot
Tres
Manship
Republican Central Committee
Foraker
Ohio
van Wert County
Ring
van Wert
Tennessee
Robert L. Taylor
Alfred A. Taylor
W. D. Hill
Toledo Blade
Defiance Democrat
Eorrors Times
Convoy
E. Baxter
E. P. McNeal
M. E. Church
Kohn
Court House
Jimmy
James Spridgeon
Democratic railing over Foraker and Ohio politics erupts in criticism
Fragmented editorial attacks Governor Foraker and Hamilton county Republicans over public works control, party favoritism, and alleged abuses. The piece denounces arrests of Democrats, calls for reform, and critiques the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Ohio politics amid a Cleveland presidency and national fiscal debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Union
Commercial Gazette
Ohio
Cincinnati Telegram
T. C. Campbell
van Wert
M. Halstead
Grant
Stanton
Lincoln
Halstead
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Democratic Party
Hamilton County
Foraker
Cincinnati
Lincoln Club
Cincinnati Enquirer
Columbus
State Central Committee
Eshelby
Poet Laureate Dreams and Mud Mill Jabs
A reader hails a poem with praise and envy, urging a leap to fame with grand words and Latin flair. The exchange turns into a political jab about campaigns, debts, and local figures, ending with a satirical nod to Defiance Dem and a note on mudslinging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sim
England
Tennyson
Democratic Aid Society
County Teachers Institute Highlights At Van Wert High School
The County Teachers Institute met at Van Wert High School Hall from Monday August 23 through the week. Prof. J W Knott and D R Boyd led instruction with Dr White and Mr Butterfield among speakers. enrollment reached ninety two with sixty six attendees and many visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Teachers’ Institute
J. W. Knott
Tiffin
D. R. Boyd
van Wert
White
New York
Butterfield
Washington, D. C
Hatford
Middlepoint
Knott
Young
Ada Blosser
Ohio
Wuerras
Eee van Wert
Friends of Education
Uoene
Institute
Iist
Arran
Ae Pence
E.R
D. R. Born
Rosa Evers
Comprehensive Furniture Stock Now Open for Examination
Large establishment offers parlor and chamber suits rockers dining chairs beds and mattresses pillows lounges desks secretaries side boards cupboards safes extension tables and more in a fully stocked furniture store lineup.
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the van Wert Printing Company
van Wert, Ohio
John McBride
Stark
M D. Follett
Washington
Supreme Court
J. W. Cruikshank
Miami
L. D. Brown
Butler
Board of Public Works
W. F. Ludwig
Cuyahoga
Thomas Beer
Crawford
Congressional
Congress
William D. Hill
Defiance
William W. Wilson
Albert J. Roller
Abraham Alspaugh
van Wert County Fair
United States
Europe
Blaine
Maine
John A. Logan
Bill Hill
Republican
The
Don Pistt
Bill Mungen
Bill
Niagara
Pratt
Urban H. Hester
Thomas B. Barrick
Barrick
Isma H. Malick
Sherman
Richmond
Charleston
S.C
Squire Wes. Allen
Union Township
Louisville Courier-Journal
Kennedy
Francis Murphy
Dudemon
Republican State Central Committee
Murphy
Murphy and Son
Boothman
van Werth
Istmasi
W. D
Treasury
Grover
National Treasury
Bob Kennedy
Marion
Democratic Mirror
J. R. Crooks
F. L. Dustman
F. T. Gilliland
A. A. Giffin
Wm. Walters
Rufus Duprey
Tully
Wm. Freck
Harrison
Joseph Larue
Wiltshire
Benjamin Jones
Liberty—V. Wagner
Pleasant
Geo. Lewis
Farout
C. Carlo
Ie Stuckey- York
D. Thomas
Jennings
Elijah Arnold
Bre
Sean Jacko van Wert
First Ward
L. Meredith
Second Ward
McGav
An Wert
D. A. Johns, Fe
Davis John
State Board of Agriculture
Daniel Snyder
Cavett
Hiestand
Snyder
Dan
R. J. Fisher
Race and
Crawford Streets
Crawford Street
A. J. White
Frrenn
Bright
Matthews
Albany
Recorder of Deeds
Senate
Ingalls
Mr. Hill
Brethern
Naapoleon
A. Jacobs & Sons, Barcain Clothiers
Ireland
Embly
Conroy
Epirok Times
C. & G. Cooper
James V. Clark
Kelly & Shook
W. N. Clymer & Son
W. H
A. L Clymer
Hi. Clymer
A. J. Clymer
R. J. Cavett
Pro
E. Roehm
Uae
Iscounts
da Aares Resaux Fate Banks and Bank
Ption Fund
U. S
Opus Fund
Vanwebt
John A. Conn
Ori A. Conn
Richie
M. H. Tuttle
Meredith
Sean Owland
Jewelry
Sesenyerer
W. H. Lyne
Notary Public
G. Jotary
A. P. Heconabhay
Main St
HACK
Blank
Christopher Kleinhans
de Kleinhans
B. J. Broraeeron
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