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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1890
Page
8
Local notes depict drought stricken fields with wells dry and corn prospects poor. Meetings and visits mingle with reports of thrashing, sick lists, and a lengthy essay on farming progress and the Grange’s role in education, organization, and political influence.
T B Bell bought a new Lima cart. Bent hails it as a daisy. Frank Leist in Allen County with parents last week. Threshing fades in the area. Mrs. Jane Fridley of Snelby County visits here and Paulding. Miss Lillie Reed returns from Indiana. Grange picnic in Henry Saum’s grove on the 12th with speeches in the morning and singing in the afternoon. Battle Clark threshed 157 bushels wheat and 55 oats in 1 hour 5 minutes and dares others to beat it. T C Kensier visits Indiana. M J Kerns chosen to represent Washington Grange at the Columbus farmers convention on August 13. Boys return from a week of army life. Mrs. Medford dies suddenly in south Hoaglin on Wednesday afternoon July 30 leaving a large family and a newborn. Sympathy to the bereaved.
The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R A promotes an August 25 season tour aboard the Greyhound Alpena and Ossifrage. Tickets on train No. 2 to Detroit or Mackinaw include return trips with rates from 2 to 6 dollars. Children under 12 half fare. liberal return limit. Staterooms for Mackinaw fill up quickly. C C Jenkins General Passenger Agent Toledo Ohio.
A historic advert promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as the recommended teething remedy from a leading nurse and physician. It claims forty years of use with no failure, easing teething pain and curing dysentery and diarrhea, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
The Chicago and Atlantic offers excursion tickets to Boston August 8 through 10 for G A R Encampment attendees. Four routes include detours via Western Reserve, Lake Chautauqua, and various Pennsylvania New York and Connecticut cities with daylight crosses and a final Boston arrival for supper. Round trips run 19 to 23 dollars, with 3 day outbound and return by Sep 30, and through cars to Boston. For details contact F O Donald, G P A Chicago and Atlantic.
The Toledo St Louis Kansas City day express No 2 via Toledo and Lake Shore arrives Lakeside Ohio at 7 00 p m. Tickets available at principal Ohio and Indiana stations. C Jenkins G P A Toledo Ohio.
Secretary of State Ryan, in the city, is praised as a writer of note authoring a History of Ohio used in Columbus schools. He wrote it at night during his legislative service and has other works including a labor topic translated into French and German. He plans an active campaign this fall.
Dan Hannan learns of his fianc e Daisy Sprague’s death just before their wedding plans. He travels from West Virginia to Wapakoneta for the funeral and bitter final farewell. Also featured are notices about Kemp’s Balsam samples and next week’s Grand Army National Encampment events in Boston with President Harrison and numerous Civil War veterans and their families.
A 102 acre farm in Ridge township near Grange Hall Van Wert county offers cash rental. 88 acres highly cultivated underdrained with clear fields good buildings water and assorted fruit. For details contact Greenwood Summerseat Middlepoint Ohio. Also mentions various ads for tonics and travel agents and a note on reduced rail rates via C H V T Ry agents H J Franzennaen G P A.
Nostalgia driven ad messaging traces Castoria use from infancy to motherhood across generations. It emphasizes trust in the product for children and as they grow into mothers passing it to their own kids. The tone mirrors historical consumer promotion.
An advertorial pledge highlights Kemp's Balsam as a confidential cure for colds and coughs. It emphasizes pure ingredients and asks readers to hold the bottle to the light for a clear appearance, with large bottles at druggists for 50 cents and 1 dollar and a free sample bottle offered.
Piles Piles Piles Loose's Red Clover Pile Remedy is a positive specific for all forms of the disease including Blind Bleeding Itching Ulcerated and Protruding Piles. Price 500 For sale by Hines Son.
Money on call at 5 6 percent throughout the morning. Exchange steady with posted rates around 485 4891 and actuals 484 485 for sixty days. Stock quotations list closing figures for Atchison to West Union with numerous fractional cents. Agricultural prices follow for wheat, cattle, hogs, lambs, and regional futures including Chicago and New York values.
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