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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
1
Advertisement notes subscription options at No 6 East Main Street including one year one copy and six months in advance with the expiry printed on each wrapper. Renewals should reach the office before expiry and specimen copies will be sent to applicants. Advertisements must be handed in by Thursday noon for same-week insertion. Prices listed: 82 60 150 75 40.
Harper's Magazine announces the December issue launching the seventy second volume. Miss Jolson's East Angels and Howells' India Summer lead serial fiction with upcoming works by Blackmore and Craik. An editorial department by Howells begins January, and Warner writes a major American society papers series illustrated by Reinhart. The issue prioritizes American subjects and artwork.
Harper & Brothers advertises Harper's Magazine and related titles with per year rates, bound volumes, cloth binding cases, and an alphabetical index. Orders require money orders or drafts, and ad copy warns newspapers not to reproduce without authorization.
ISKG Harper's Weekly continues its twenty year leadership as the illustrated weekly in America. The volume will offer two illustrated serial stories by Thomas Hardy and Walter Besant, plus illustrated short tales by top writers, and papers by authorities on major topics. Subscribe for a trustworthy political guide and family journal free of objectionable material.
Harper & Brothers advertise subscription options including Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazar with postpaid mail delivery in the United States and Canada. They offer bound volumes for three years at 700 dollars per volume, cloth bindings, and mail or express shipment postpaid within specified freight limits. Subscriptions and orders should be sent to Franklin Square, New York.
Harpers Bazaar is presented as the world’s premier paper uniting refined literature with the finest art illustrations and the latest fashions and household adornment methods. It offers weekly Paris and New York style notices, pattern sheet supplements, and cut patterns enabling ladies to sew at home, saving on subscriptions. It covers cooking, servant management, housekeeping, etiquette, and superior needlework illustrations, earning praise as humorous and literary.
Classified notice from Harper & Brothers New York offering subscriptions to Harper's Bazaar Harper's Magazine and Harper Young People plus bound volumes. Lists prices terms postage travel time and binding options with payment by money order or draft and mail delivery details.
An advertisement extols Harper's Young People as a leading weekly for youths. It highlights strong stories, informative natural history and science content, athletic puzzles, and attractive illustrations. The piece notes quality, not sensationalism, with a price of five cents per issue and two dollars per year.
Auditor’s office in Van Wert County Ohio announces petitions by Joseph C Palmer and others for location and construction of multiple ditches. Descriptions detail routes through townships two and three south of range one east, including Twenty-seven Mile Prairie Ditch and several side ditches. Public notices warn owners and corporations affected by the proposed improvements and outline terminus points and sections involved.
A collage of notes on politics and society recounts a pension bill for Mrs. Grant, parole releases from Ohio prisons, gas prospects in Northwestern Ohio, a Preble county post office named Corwin, and numerous historical vignettes from 19th century life including prisoner escapes, Indian legends, leap year quirks, veterans reunions, dog owners and sheep, and timber industry concerns with rail ties.
The Christmas season brings church services and charity while Washington D C grows quiet. Congress returns January fifth as Democratic rifts over silver and patronage widen debates. Senators Beck Voorhees Harris and West become focal points amid nominations scrutiny and a notable resignation from a Treasury post due to inexperience.
Chicago publisher J H Sanders & Co promotes a leading livestock weekly praised by national breeders for its moral journalism and high quality. The ad outlines $3 annual subscriptions with discounts for clubs and offers a free specimen copy. A later note touts a new snow burnisher and improved tools from a photographer.
A long list of geography arithmetic grammar and history questions used at the December 26 1885 teacher examination. It includes tasks on Ararat Baikal Gulf Stream and Gettysburg plus problems in decimals fractions and division and sample questions on grammar and history. The Fisher trial reports a not guilty verdict for William N Fisher in Hardin county after a shooting in 1884.
An advertisement extols cash or exchange value for wool and woolen goods, touts the household paper The Housekeeper as essential, and offers a premium program with monthly floral premiums and bulbs for postage. Buckeye Publishing Co. of Minneapolis handles distribution.
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