22 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1886
Page
1
The notice proposes raising Bulletin copies from fifteen hundred to two thousand and offers premouions to subscribers covering collector costs. It warns the offer is time limited and not the publisher’s fault if not accepted, including all new subscribers.
A digest of 1885 era notes covers the Grant monument fund at year end, weather deaths in Sherman county Kansas, Brooklyn Bridge passenger totals, wage raises at Cleveland rolling mills, and a witty funeral ad pledge. It also reports court rulings on dissolution notices, juror verdict rules, a tiny baby in Trumbull, a timepiece in Green Cove, and state education standards. plus cautionary farmer schemes, jail separation plans, gas strikes in Springfield, local police and road topics, Akron sleigh deaths, and various county events, fires, maps, and local lectures on oil and gas prospects in Findlay. The column blends civic issues, legal tidbits, and human interest notes in a brisk, anecdotal tone.
Regular correspondent from Washteton reports a livelier Senate debate on the silver question and persistent party friction in Forty-Ninth Congress. The House and Senate differ on tariffs and currency, with nominations amid suspensions and civil service pressure. Miss Bayard, daughter of the Secretary of State, dies suddenly on a White House afternoon.
Known patients long treated for consumption found unhelped by cough remedies. Symptoms like coughing and lung pain traced to a torpid liver. Thousands reportedly cured by Simmons Liver Regulator. Readers urged to quit Troches and switch to Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for relief.
Corporal Ben Barger of the Marine Barracks Pensacola Florida states he used several bottles of Brown's Iron Bitters and was greatly benefited. He notes comrades also use it and believe it to be the greatest tonic on earth. The testimonials come from many quarters supporting Brown's Iron Bitters as the best tonic.
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