Santa Claus’s Mistake in a Christmas Tale
A Van Wert bulletin poem portrays Santa failing to find a child’s stocking while delivering gifts, tears on his fur coat, then the Christ child arriving to comfort a lonely family. The Christ child enters, stays through the night, and departs at dawn as bells toll, leaving waiting hearts to hope each year.
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Santa Claus
van Wert
State of
Ohio
Betsey A. Mullen
Thomas Mullen
Nasby Receives Letter From Deacon Pogram
The cartoonish Mr Nasby portrays a scene with his old friend Deacon Pogram as the frigh tful demoralization at the corners becomes a focal point. The illustration hints at social critique within a mid 19th century setting.
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Mr. Nasby
Deacon Pogram
Letter From Deekin Sparks Anger In 1869 Kentucky Ward
A long misdated letter from Conreprire Reaps, Kentucky, describes postwar chaos in a small town. Bascom, Pollock, and nativist tensions emerge with talk of abolitionists and economic decline as preachers and temperance advocates rise in a volatile community.
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Trowsers
Deckin Elkana Pogram
Petroleum VY
Reed
Kentucky
Deekin
Audience cheers for Grant then Lee at Grand Opera House
In a recent Grand Opera House program Lingard and Paul staged notable men figures. General Grant drew mixed reactions while General Lee was met with rousing applause, reflecting divided sentiment in New York concerns that Butler and Sumner would press for military rule.
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Grand Opera House
Lingard
Paul
Fisk
Greeley
Grant
Lee
General Lee
New York
Butler
Sumner
Washington
Cincinnati
Prosperity in Hard Times Urges Nation to Work and Retrench
The Chicago Advance urges workers to take any offered job to cover expenses, warns against idle unemployment, and calls for retrenchment in living standards. It argues tighter personal budgets, prompt debt payment, and vigilant legislative pressure while noting a national struggle toward steadier footing and prudent thinking.
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Chicago
Congress
Alaskas
Arctic
Completion of the Utah Central Railroad Celebration
The laying of the last rail on the Utah Central Railroad was celebrated with a holiday in Salt Lake City. Brigham Young drove the final spike amid cheers as speeches praised national unity and Utah’s future statehood.
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Laxg
Utah Central
Salt Lake
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Brigham Young
Church
Union and Central Pacific Railroad
Gen. Griffin
Camp Douglass
Elder Woodruff
Gov. Young
Utah
Great Republic
Mr. Jennings
The
Road
Jos. A. Young
Carr
F. B. Morris
Union Pacific Railroad
Apostle John Taylor
Union
Central Pacific
Salt Lake Tribune Appeals for Church Reform Platform
The Salt Lake weekly Tribune favors a broad reform of the Mormon Church including ending a dominant priesthood and missionary abroad, cutting tithes, ending central power and co operatives, abolishing Gentile terms, shifting church power to twelve apostles, and allowing plural marriages only by pure affection with better educated women. it claims over 6,000 members support the plan and its leading writers and speakers endorse it.
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Salt Lake Weekly Tribune
Harrison, Godbe, Tullidge & Sherman
Clever reply to a probing question by the Duke of Wellington
An interviewer pressed the Duke of Wellington with sly questions to extract a state secret. He replied, If I thought the hair of my head knew what was inside of it, I would have it shaved, and wear a wig. The man left without a further word.
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Joe Bigler
Pollock
Joe
Louisville
Bascom
Johnson
Issaker Gavitt
Bascoms
Jethro
Garrettstown
Garretstown
Litchfield
Ill
Monitor
Missouri & Man
Cavoll
Cavolt
Cavolts
Reuben Akers
Akers
Old Weller
Samuel
Reuben
Cayolt
Duke of Wellington
England
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Jie
Christ-child
Galilee
Angels
C. Is
Toledo Blade
Nasby
Crry
York
Elkananh Poogran
P. S
Ek. P
Illinois
van Wert County Bank
South Side Main St
WCU
the Co
Johns, Wat. ‘Johns, WM
Heath
Alex
Ander
Burt
F. Bonewitz
Samuel Miller
JAS, CO
Casto Cc
Richey
C. Y.lsheimer
D. W. RT
S Tocr
D. A. Johns, A. S. Burt
Cashier
Mite
New Jersey
Speers
Oporto
Speer
Alfred Speer
Passaic
N. J
Speer’s Vineyard
Broadway
Longsworth & Pennell
Delphos
Wogles Wells
Delphos, Ohio
Immelrpight & Conklin
KR. C. Gibbond
Demler
van Wert, Ohio
Cassimeres
Suspro
M Department
L. W. Moss
AceEnr
Wm. N
Annus Heirs
H. A. Mix
Dee
R.C. Gibson
Court of Common Pleas of
van Wert County
William N. Longsworth
County of
Court of Common Pleas
State of Ohio
W. Waterbury
Wm N. Longsworth
Jacob Behel
John M. Buel
Wm. N. Longsworth
Alexander & Saltzgaber
Thhir
Mie
National Life Ins. CO
United States of America
C. H. Clare
E. W. Peet
Y Jay Cooke
Old Country
U.S
Meat Cutters & Stuffers
County Bonds, Ie., &c., Ge
John W. Ellis & CO
Cincinnati, Ohio
Central and Southern
Philip Walsh
Delphes
Agents
D. A. Johns
A. B. McCurdy & CO
Alwayt
Himmelright & Sons
Delphos, O
Thos, Mullen
Probate Court
Frovw Salt Lane
Utah Central Railroad
Babylinen, &c
Sfost
Dr. Sage
R. VY. Pierce
M. D
Wabash County
Indiana
Eel River
Main Street
van Wer
W. W. De’puy
Fairfield County
Edwin Howard
William Hilyard
Dire Sd. Ce
Shatter
T.J. Richards
County
A. R. Strother
Pleasant Township
H. C. Glenn
C. P. Richey
Su Henier
Sheriff’s Sale
James M. Brown
Henry McMillen
Suerkre’s
Art
Boston
Big Brothers
J.J. Moon
Mercer County
John Chivington
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
I. N. Alexander Townt
A. B. Gleason
Stierler’s Office van Wert Co
Metropolitan Gift Company
Andrew J. Barns
Clara S. Walker
Baltimore
James M. Matthews
Detroit
John T. Andrews
Savannah
Agnes Simmons
Charleston
Weekly Tribune
Y. Herald
Daily News
Harper Wilson & CO
Bi Sobeenie Ak BN & CO
Amuel Leasure
Tacy Jane Leasure
A. D
Samuel Leasure
Jane Myers
Minnie A
Cora Bell
Charles Amos
Alexander & SattzcapeEr
Francis Houlette
Adam Exline
Culverwell
Chas. J. C. Kline & CO
Bowery
John Shipps
Sigoretta Gallaher
Joseph Gallaher
Hanna Furgeson
Joseph Furgeson
Elizabeth Furgeson
Stephen Furgeson
Joannaurgeson
Robert Furgeson
Robert Furges
Robert Forgeson
Potts, Price & Darnent
McGafty
Cierk
Harrison Township
McGavren
Seth Shirtleff
Ayer
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Lass
Greenwich St
Barclay St
Park Place
Meyer Brothers & CO
Ft. Wayne
Ind
St. Louis, Mo
MER
Charles E. Noble
Mich
Central R. R
N.Y
Higley Bros
Fairfield
Iowa
C. W. Dumont
Leominster
Mass
Solon Palmer
West Fourth Street
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