Fourth of July notes and cantata mark local bulletin
Pan Wert Bulletin notes busy harvests and visitors from Lima Columbus Cincinnati and Van Wert. Fourth of July passed quietly with a Queen Esther cantata led by Professor Owen, and new Clover Leaf time card with fourteen trains daily. A letter defends local business closing during Evans funeral as respectful and Christian.
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Professor Owen
Lizzie Evans
Columbus
Jennet Richards
T. J. Jones
Horeb
D. Jewett Davies
Thomas Roberts
Maggie
van Wert
Dave Davies
Arthur Jones
Lima
Kansas Railroads Outpace Many States in Growth
The article notes Kansas has 8,754 miles of railroad, more than New York and several large states, with 4,535 miles built from 1886 to 1888, surpassing many peers. It compares Kansas to Illinois Iowa Pennsylvania Texas and cites Columbus and Chicago as rising rivals in population and rail distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
Kansas
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Texas
Illinois
Fourth of July in Scott Draws Big Crowd in First Celebration
The town held its first Scott Fourth of July with an early morning anvil salute and a 30 a.m. Mohawks versus Grass Cutters ball game won by the Mohawks. A parade featuring the G A R Sunday school Patrons of Industry and Capitol City band led to a grove program with speech by Hon. John Darnell and greased pig races. Evening fireworks closed a large, orderly crowd with two arrests for drunkenness.
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Scott
Capitol City Band
John Darnell
Dixon Social Salutes Mary Webster Before Bloomington Move
In Dixon Ohio a garden party honored Miss Mary Webster on a lay event night. Over seventy relatives gathered at Mr and Mrs John Webster’s home to celebrate Mary as she leaves for Bloomington Illinois to teach and work for the coming year. She is praised as a capable educator with ten years of county teaching experience and leaders in church and Sabbath school.
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Henry Grady
Rome
Rounsaville Brothers
J. W. Rounsaville
Grady
Rounsaville Bros
Rounsaville
Floyd County
Dixon
van Wert
John Webster
Mary
Mary Webster
Bloomington
Illinois
Union School
Convoy
Fis
For Sale Van Wert Property and Water Street Lot
For sale twelve acres in the east part of the corporation of Van Wert with a house and outbuildings. Also a house and lot on Water street, one square from the courthouse. For price details contact J. Frey M.D. on or after May 27. Gw
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Corporation of van Wert
Water Street
Court House
J. Frey
M.D
Grant and Lee monument clash in Mt. Vernon Republican crush
The Mt. Vernon Republican attacks the Commercial Gazette over plans to erect a colossal Grant and Lee memorial. It argues Grant’s life was spent saving the Union and criticizes proposing any earthly honor for him and the Confederate generals.
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State Journal
Mt. Vernon Republican
Commercial Gazette
Grant
Lee
Monument mentions stir debate on Confederate legacies and capital site
The text critiques Confederate monuments and the idea of equal honor for Grant and Lee in one memorial, notes debates over the Cumberland Gap movements, and comments on Washington as the capital. It also cites a concise Louisiana history and promotes English Spavin liniment with a Van Wert druggist advertisement from 1889.
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Grant
Lee
Cumberland Gap
Harvest notes and local life in a Van Wert column
Wheat harvest nears completion as J. W. Davis travels to Paulding to cut wheat. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Chas Pearson are on the sick list. A playful note reflects on the era and apple crop prospects pale with wormy fruit. corn growth rushes ahead of last year. Merchants and manufacturers parade impresses in Van Wert with humorous sights noted.
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Pearson
Chas. Pearson
J. . McCoy
van Wert
Castoria Advert Script Reflecting Generations
A vintage ad rhythm highlights Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to motherhood. It traces use from baby illness through childhood and adulthood, noting mothers give Castoria to their children.
How to Cure All Skin Diseases with Swayne's Ointment
An advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a universal cure for skin ailments. It claims to heal tetter eczema and various eruptions on the face hands and elsewhere without internal medicine and urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swayne
Kemp's Balsam Cough Remedy Ad
A salesman touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughs and colds. The ad promises pure ingredients, a light clear bottle when held to the light, and urges customers to compare with other remedies. Large bottles 50 cents and 1. Sample bottle free.
Swayne's Ointment Promises Tumor Relief
Describes moisture driven itching and stinging worsening at night with scratching. Claims continued use prevents tumor formation, stops itching and bleeding, heals ulcers, and removes tumors. Offered by Dr Swayne & Son Philadelphia for 50 cents at druggists or by mail. ldeck .
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swayne
Dr. Swayne & Son
Philadelphia
Ldeck
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Offered for Teething Pain
A late 19th century advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething remedy from a renowned nurse and physician. It claims forty years of use with universal maternal approval, promising relief from teething pain, dysentery, diarrhoea, griping and wind colic, with a 25 cent bottle price.
Japanese Buckwheat Variety Yields High
Japanese Buckwheat is the best variety to grow it yields double the quantity of other kinds it stands hot dry weather and fully equals any other kind for flour Price two dollars per bushel H 8 Hayes Van Wert.
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Hayes
van Wert
Wanted three good men for sales career Rochester NY
May 30 ad seeks three men to sell a liver stomach bowel nerve based remedy on salary or commission. Independent territories. address May Broughtons Nurserymen Rochester NY. An important discovery speeds biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles constipation. Suitable for men women and children. 30 doses 25c samples free at Ohio Drug Store.
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Rochester
N. Y
Ohio Drug Store
Horse Trainer Mr Ham Proost Takes Charge at Fair Ground
Proost, a professional horse trainer, has located here and will oversee the Fair Ground to break, handle and train trotting pacing and running horses. Those needing work in this line may call at the Fair Ground. References cited: Thos Noble, W H Pennell and W Brooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ham Proost
Fair Ground
Thos. Noble
W. H. Pennell
W. ©. Brooks
Reduced Rates and Through Service Ahead for Westward Travel
The C H V T Ry advertises lowered rates to points west, southwest and northwest with through car service and enhanced equipment. Agents invite inquiries for best connections and inducements. G. P. A. H. J. Farkenpaon signs as local agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Farkenpaon
A Sensible Man Uses Kemp's Balsam for Throat and Lungs
Advertises Kemp's Balsam as a cure all for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and lung troubles claiming superiority. Proprietor offers free sample bottles to druggists to prove Mer it's promoted with a large bottle priced 50 cents and one dollar.
Typewriter debates on literary craft and advice
A discussion compares dictation and typing for literary work. A writer notes typing harms some styles but helps editors handle manuscripts, while suggesting typewritten submissions may ease postage and deciphering. The piece cites examples from a prolific editor and a public speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Pasteboard camera yields quick fair photos from box device
A reader explains a simple DIY pin hole camera using a cigar box a carbon paper sheet and a 4 by 5 dry plate to capture a picture from a window then develop it after half an hour with a lens to enlarge the aperture and speed exposure.
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New York Evening Sun
William Woodson Headree Honored Posthumously
A brief elegy depicts William Woodson Headree as a solitary genius scorned in life but celebrated after death. He walked his solitary path, endured unappreciated, then the world acclaimed his intellect and crowned him with deathless bays.
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William Woodson
Real Estate Fakirs and a Cunning Young Builder
A Chicago Post report outlines how fakirs target real estate offices with grand schemes. It tells of a $100 start, a $15 000 lot, a $60 000 loan, and a $70 000 building that turned into a profitable venture, while noting many wild schemes and cranks in the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Ives
Ives
Gould
Chicago Post
Shamoy leather and its chamois origin explained
Shamoy or chamois leather, once from chamois goats of the Alps and Pyrenees, now mainly from deer, goats, and sheep. It is dressed with oil without salt alum or tan, and the grain is removed. liming and washing prepare the pelt and gamboge gives the buff color.
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Alps
Pyrenees
New York Telegram
Lead Poisoning In Swiss Jacquard Weaves Traced
The Philadelphia Ledger reports cases of lead poisoning among Jacquard weavers in a Swiss factory. Lead dust from weights used to carry warp thread contaminates floor dust, with lead content sometimes exceeding half the dust and often 9 to 10 percent even with precautions.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Calloboy and Flossie Spar Over Chin Music Reference
Calloboy dismisses Flossie’s impression that he is a piano chord player while she notes his chin resembles the music box cylinder. Flossie asks if he is one of the gentlemen her papa says can play chin music.
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Calloboy
Flossie
Papa
Determination Helps Live Longer With Disease
A writer in Hall's Journal of Health notes that earnestly desiring life can delay death from disease. A resolute will to survive is cited as life saving for wounded soldiers who might otherwise give in.
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Hall
Journal of Health
H.G. Root
M.C
Pean Sr
Disguises of Newlyweds Travel Tale from Cleveland
The Cleveland Plaindealer recounts ex Secretary of the Navy Whitney and Mrs Flora Payne on their wedding trip from Cleveland. They pretend to be seasoned married partners while a green Ashtabula couple exposes their fresh nuptials. A fellow traveler notes they are in the same boat.
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Uve
Whitney
Flora Payne
Cleveland
Wappena
Mr. Whitney
Ashtabula
Mrs. Whitney
Flora
Greenhorn
Man’s hair dye ruined memory and grasp of Beaver Street
A man recalls using a hair dye with dangerous ingredients for years from age nineteen. After serving as a commander and later running a plantation and business, memory faded and he nearly lost track of Beaver Street until a physician warned him the dye caused brain softening. He quit and reflects on his folly.
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New York
Broadway
Beaver Street
New York Press
Rooster Fends Off Owl In Rural Hen House Feat
A country youth recounts a dramatic clash where his game rooster battled an owl. The bird pinned the owl’s head with a spur while the owl clutched the rooster’s wing. the owl died, the rooster crowed after release, and the tale ends with a vivid triumphant note. The Paris flower centenary and a steam trombone anecdote follow.
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American Herald
Review of Prices and Markets July 9 With cattle and grain quotes
The notice lists money on call rates near 4 to 5 percent and firm exchange. It provides 1 p.m. quotes for stocks such as Atchinson 45 1 2 percent and G C St L 75 percent, plus extensive wheat, wool, and animal product quotations. It includes cattle prices from Chicago and Pittsburgh and futures for New York and Toledo wheat with assorted grades and months.
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Ayer
Melvin Aldrich
Canaan Centre
N.hl
J. B. Williams
Floresville
Aver
H. J. King
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
Draggiste and Perfumers
Scott's
Colchester” Rubber CO
Colchester
Aml
Dickinson
W. M. Kerr van Wert, C
Kanke’s
Henry M. Stanley
Africa
Stanley
Peushie Age Rts
Ley’s
Charles Schner’s Sons
Forshee & McMakin
Cincinnati
Rowell & Co
Ading Bureau
Spruce St
AEW
Pan, Wert Bulletin
Venedocia
Tom Evans
Misses Rice
Bessie Morris
Mary Thomas
Mrs. Paxton
Sieubenville
Mrs. Griffith
Cambrian Hall
Fred Jones
W. H. Williams
H. Howells
J. Jarvis Jones
J. M. Jones
George
M. B. Jones
Lakeside
Martha Jones
Maggie Roberts
J. B. Jones
Gomer
Higgins
Young Evans
Mr. Higgins
Brethren of the Exchanges
Toledo
Lake
Maumee
Platt
New York Times
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
Chicago
Fr. Wayne Gazette
Pension
New York Sun
Connell
Nebraska
Blair
New Hampshire
Grover Cleveland
Upper Sandusky Union
Delaware Herald
O. W. University
The
Herald
Link
Darnell
Baldwin
Capital City
Paulding
Chicago Journal
Washington
Potomac
Louisiana
Chicago Tribune
Spain
France
United States
Union
Louisiana Lottery Company
Hines & Son
Draggist
J. W. Davis
Castoria
Miles
Low
Typewriting
Boston Herald
Boston
Solomon
Detroit Free Press
Denver
Co.c
Colorado
New Mexico
Saratoga
Ballston
Iron Spring
Washington Irving
Shamoy Leather
Rad
Burgoona
Supolio
Arma
Chanticleer
Paris
Society of Horticulture
Cercle Floral of
Antwerp
Plara
Germany
Atchinson
Cen
N.Y. Central
Northwestern
del. & Hudson
Ohio & Miss
Pacific Mail
Brie
Rock Island
Lake Shore
St. Paul
West Union
Pittsburg
Carter L
Carter
Lhree
Carten
Cartre Medicine CO
Bowanee
Bowanieti Mtd. Co
Dayton
Ohio
Frakes
Bradfield
Ent
Atlas Engine Works
Indianapolis, Ind
F. C. Fowler
Moodus
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