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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1889
Page
1
A New York Star essay describes vast unclaimed valuables kept by banks and safe deposit companies, noting records and unknown contents, and explores why hoarding persists through motives from misers to heirs and dishonest appropriators. It reflects on legal time limits, search habits, and the fate of forgotten parcels.
A broad roundup reports crime, politics, and society notes across Ohio and Illinois. It notes Chicago’s growth, electoral changes in Michigan, and Lima butts heads with local option, while Delphos and Van Wert report tragedies and civic events. It closes with the death of Samuel B K Jones, praising his life and faith.
By M. P. is meant Miles' nerve and liver pills which regulate the liver stomach bowels etc through their nerves. Smallest and mildest. A new principle. A revolu tionizer. Samples free at Gackenheimer's.
The traveling secretary reports attractions at a Northern Indiana summer resort. Rome City hosts an Assembly from July 31 to August 12 featuring speakers including Joseph Cook Sam Small L A Belt M M Parkhurst Gen W H Gibson and Francis Murphy.
Mr M C Tomlinson reports a 15 foot black and red striped snake at large on L E Fox's Mercer County farm. Sighted twice with tracks noted by neighbors, the reptile roams the countryside with its head about two feet high. Authorities warn residents this is a genuine sighting not a hoax.
Last Friday evening Deshler’s brick Methodist church burned to the ground after a lightning strike. With engineers away and no water in reach, a bucket brigade failed to save the structure, inflicting a heavy loss on the congregation.
An 19th century advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as the remedy for teething pain, claiming it quiets crying, aids sleep, soothes gums, relieves wind and diarrhoea, priced at twenty five cents a bottle with a July 20 date.
The 12th Sunday School Association convention of Van Wert county met in Middlepoint on June 22 and 23, 1889. Delegates and many locals attended as speakers were absent, adopting resolutions urging broader county representation and ministerial attendance, and setting a $1 credential fee per school. Officers elected for the next year include President W. W. Terry, Secretary-Treasurer Jacob Wyandt, and Secretary C. F. Troup with an executive committee of Dr. W. N. Longsworth J. Y. Todd and C. L. Wallis.
The Toledo St. Louis and Kansas City railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Nashville from July 1 to 15 at one fare. Return travel valid July 16 to September 10. Half fare from Nashville to all points. Contact T S L K C agents or General Passenger Agent Jenkins in Toledo Ohio for details.
Dickinson's Barm or Lirr inhaled into the head throat and lungs cures catarrh asthma sore threat bronchitis and consumption. A thorough trial will convince you of its intrinsic value. This discovery strips consumption of its terrors. It will cause a complete revolution in the treatment of chronic diseases of the throat and lungs. Ask your druggist for it. For sale by L. F. Gackenheimer Van Wert Ohio.
A Van Wert resident praised Kemp's Balsam as a superior cough remedy saying it stopped her cough instantly when others failed. To prove its merit the ad offers free sample bottles to any druggist with large sizes selling for 20 cents or one dollar.
Advertisement for Sinproms Moisture claims intense itching from piles. It promises tumor reduction, healing of ulcers, and stopping bleeding with Swayne's Ointment. Sold by druggists or mail order for 50 cents from Dr. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia.
The Hometiestian in Van Wert and others are invited to call on any druggist for a free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for throat and lungs. It claims to relieve chronic and acute coughs, asthma, bronchitis, and consumption, with large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar. For bowel troubles, Rinehart's Blackberry Syrup is offered as safe and opium free at 25 cents, at Hines & Son.
A dentist reassures an elderly colored woman seeking several tooth extractions with gas. She refuses, insisting she read the newspapers and will not be put to sleep, declaring she would rather walk home than endure the pain.
William Hutchinson was arrested for the murder of Thomas Bean following a late night confrontation with Bean and Minnie Ray at Green and Randolph streets. Bean died from a severed artery after being stabbed in the left shoulder during a scuffle with Hutchinson and two accomplices.
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