30 Apr 1886
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1886
Page
1
A historical newspaper fragment notes mail and express services with times listed as morning and afternoon intervals and mentions Lieven in effect dated Sunday January 3rd 1886. The legible portion hints at a timetable style notice for railroad or mail operations in that era.
Doctors said nothing could help Mrs. Henry Ellis of Milwaukee after long illness. Three months on Peruna and Manalin left her fully well. Other testimonials from Ohio and Pennsylvania praise Peruna for catarrh and paralysis relief. Medicine sold by druggists at 1.00 per bottle, six for 5.00, with mail orders available from S. B. Hartman & Co. Columbus Ohio.
The item compiles diverse notes on holidays, railways, a long-married couple, and family strife affecting Guiteau’s circle, plus executions of Stephen L. Grover and Boling, community welcomes for newcomers, May features in The American Agriculturist and May Century, and commentary on postal law and advertising strategy, all reflecting small-town concerns and cultural notices.
Reports from Sidney to Ottawa describe gas at 426 feet, a first and second Carey well at 1,400 feet, and bass catches at Celina reservoir. Notices note Lima Presbytery in Columbus Grove, and various local happenings from roads grants to fires, courts, libel trials, and public order. Memorial day plans unfold as Delphos celebrates, with G A R address by R B Brown in St Marys.
The enterprising pictorial weekly begins May with a brighter issue featuring a colored spring overcoat cover frontispiece. It highlights the Apache entry into Fort Marion as prisoners, circus season opening, Minnesota eyelone destruction, Montgomery Alabama monument dedication, Charleston capital view, Denver capital buildings, and portraits of the Chinese minister and Ex-Congressman Whitthorn. May 8 will bring a grand double colored supplement. Henry Schanha’s plant uses Dr Thomas Electric Oil for sprains and cuts.
Rev F D Hargreaves presents a study of Jesus at Jacob's well near Sychar. The narrative portrays Jesus crossing social boundaries to offer living water, speaking to a Samaritan woman, and revealing Himself as the Messiah. It emphasizes overcoming prejudice, spreading grace, and personal faith.
Travel by sea and land causes discomfort and nausea but Simmons Liver Regulator offers a pleasant, vegetable remedy with gentle liver action. Hardin county commissioners have awarded a contract for a new two story residence and jail with tower, 96 by 48 feet, for 20 298 dollars.
A Richmond Va mother praises Brown's Iron Bitters for children and claims swift, satisfactory results. The ad also promotes Salvation Oil as a universal pain killer, instantly relieving cuts burns bruises frostbite and other wounds at twenty five cents a bottle.
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