Various 1887 Ohio items include crops and fairs
A wide mix of notes reports and anecdotes from Ohio and nearby regions. Topics include a farmer swindle in Auglaize county a Putnam County teachers institute in Ottawa an act on Mexican pensions a Mansfield prison project a Lima engine a Put-in-Bay peach forecast and a Chancellorsville battle reference along with scientific and literary items from Scribner's Century and notes on camps fairs and fashion in Lima and Sandusky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Journal
Lima
Bay
W. F. Hurroxn
Washington Letter on Blaine Sherman ticket and Civil Service woes
Regular Washington correspondent reports on Blaine and Sherman as potential ticket leaders and Ohio Sen. Sherman’s party decision. Notes Cleveland’s travel, Treasury cash counts at 95.5 million, suspected $20 shortage, Civil Service reform debates, and calls for investigation into the Patent and Pension Offices. Mentions decayed White House timbers and Alex Shepherd’s return from Mexico after mining ventures and health recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Blaine
Sherman
Maine Statesman
Ohio
Toledo
Cleveland
New York
Grant
Hayes
Arthur
Treasury
Treasury Department
Patent Office
Gen. Black
Pension Office
White House
Mexico
Alex. R. Shepherd
District of Columbia
Shepherd
Examination questions on geometry and reading basics
A long list of exam prompts covers geometry and trigonometry concepts, spherical and plane geometry, optics, and reading skills. It includes questions on triangle inequality, cyclic quadrilaterals, plane perpendicularity, sphere segments, spherical triangles, and trig identities, plus Latin grammar, Latin declensions, and astronomy topics. The piece ends with advertisements for health products and a Detroit excursion notice.
District No 3 School Closing Honors Miss Reed
Letters from the people describe the July 16 1887 district school closing in Washington township praising teacher Lillie Reed for four months of capable instruction. The community shares dinner in the woods, notes declamations and music, and cites the visitors Rev Rauch and W F Hafford among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buterty
Washington Township
Misa Lillie Reed
Wm. Davis
R. Rauch
M. E. Church
W. F. Hafford
Prof
Hufford
Rauch
Mowery
Huston
Poling
Ohio Citizens Recall Patents Aimed at Everyday Goods
A listing headed by Bullerin notices various Ohio residents and inventors including A. E. Brown in Cleveland and W. C. Darey in Chillicothe with devices from a gripping implement to a door alarm and a gas stove. The paragraph ends with the line about Robinson Crusoe seeking his Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
C. A. Snow & Co
U. S. Patent Office
Washington
D.C
Troy
A. Horning
Sandusky
J. F. Kieswetter
Toledo
F. E. Kohler
Canton
J. S. Lowe
Geneva
T. Mabbey
Forest
J. M. McClare
Springfield
ER. E. McCormick
New London
ER. R. Michaelis
Sycamore
A. Miller
Newark
W. C. North
Cleveland
W. A. Shuler
New Dover
A. A. Simonds
Dayton
A. Tschner
Wapakoneta
P. G. VanWie
F. M. Ware
North Bend
Seal Lock
Real Estate Transfers include many Van Wert parcels
A long list shows transfers of land and lots in Van Wert and nearby townships. Buyers include C M Gill, William Dalrymple, Joseph Stalker, John Parent, Isaac Fuller, Pearson Miller, John H Koch Jr, and many others. Prices range from 10 to 7000 dollars for acres, lots, and portions of blocks. settlements occur in Ridge, Harrison, Delphos, Liberty, Union, Van Wert, Tully, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Gill
C. Young
Conroy
William B. Dalrymple
John H. Miller
Ridge
Joseph D. Stalker
Joseph Stalker
Harrison
William Hartman
Martha Elma Parent
East Addition
Y. W
John Parent
Mary M. Hartein
van Wert
Isaac Fuller
Amelia A. Bacon
Delphos
T. Appleman
C. Hard
Saltzgaber
T.S. Gilliland
Wetheral
John H. Grove
Alice S. Kern
Pleasant
Charlotte Zimmerman Et al
Manuel Balyeat
Michael Clouse
Wm. Harrison
Liberty
Sarah J. Adams
James Adams
Amy McClure
John Zimmerman
Edna A. Zimmerman
L. Patterson
H. Butler
John H. Koch Jr
Enterprise
John R. Evans
Wm. B. Jones
John P. Klinger
Wm. Krick
Tully
John Rath
James Heidegger
A. J. Hoeffel
Owen Konkle
James A. Konkle
Moses I
Mary Weible
Louisa Betty Et al
Adilena
C. W. Goss
Margaret Clipinger
Second South
F. J. Miller
W. E. May
Mary J. Hawkins
Ellis E. Melsheimer
J. H. Wilmore
J. J. Alspach
Union
William Maxon
David McDitts
Hoaglin
John M. Jones
David B. Jones
W. B. Jones
Hardy Grabb
John Reidenback
Frederick Boly
James Alexander
Casper Hummerich
Frederick
Rob’t. Rowland
M. H. Brown
Wa. Tester
Lydia A. Spillers
Amanda A. Brown
John F. Brown
Adam 8. Blank
Wiltshire
Jacob Wyandt
Wm. W. Walls
Convoy
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S‘ummersett & Arnold
East Main Street
Official Directory
Dixon
Leslie
Wolfcase
Koogle
Cavett
Samuel Fortney
R. F. Leslie
Cleary ferman.Jr
Aaron T. Pancake
Toshua Wagers
J. Shaffner
Fdear Eckhart
J. W. Huntzinger
C. P. Richey
Hough
Geo. W. Bowers
Wat
M. R. M.illand
Smnckey
H. Nicodemus
Tohn Masters Jennings
T. Hankinng
M.D
Christopher & Hankins
McKim & Co
South
Washington Street
Wm”. Smith
Hill & Co.'s
Main Street
G. W. McGavren
M. D. Paca
North
W. H. Cristopher
G. J. Eblen
Christopher & Eblen
Physicians and Surgeons
Kahn
Court Tlouse
Attorneys AT Law
Hathaway Kemper
Resee van
A. L. Sweet
H. W. Blachly
Sweet & Blachly
Ee van Wert
Court House
A. P. McConahay
J. 0
J.C. Allen
LAW and Notary Parent Lic
Barrick
van Wert, CO
Q. M. Saltzgaber
H. C. Glenn
Saltzgaber & Glenn
McCurdy’s Block
A. A. Bair
J. J. Ehresman
Bair & Ehresman
Washington St
Ft. W. & C. Depot
A. T. Nickles
Ream
West Main Street
W. M. Kear
RR Estate and Loan
Notaries Public
F. L. Houghtby
Nowere Public
Scott
van Wert County
D. W. Williams
Otary Public and Conveyancer
Venedocia
United Order OF Honor No. 30
Longe Apena
M. Estry
A. J. Murphy
AN Wert Lodge No
McCurdy Block
E. Young
N. G
F. O. Holden
Middlepoint
Prof. L. Brewer
South Washington Street
CAL Uwa
F. P. Hill & CO
Cas
Tansile & CO
State Street
Chicago
New
Philadelphia
Advyer- Watisin
Macy
Messrs. N.w.ayergson
Wm. B. Jonzs
Gipe
Gipe’s Model Boot and Shoe Store
E. Main St
van Wer County
Jones & Wilson
Gero
FE. Wilson
Alonzo Conant
John A. Conn
First National Bank
AN Wert, Ohio
L. Rank
North Washington Street
Avenue House
Auglaize County
Putnam County Teachers’ Institute
Ottawa
Mansfield
Pasteur
C. B. Stemen
Fort Wayne
Europe
Lima Machine Works
Pennsylvania
Adam Badeau
Chancellorsville
Stonewall Jackson
Keenan
Great Lakes
Sault St. Marie Canal
Lake Superior
St. Marie River
Burlington Hawkeye
N. S. Shaler
Harvard University
Scribner’s Magazine
Wheat Bulletin
The
Agricultural Department
Kansas
California
Jersey
Tile Club
Lancaster
Bishop Andrews
Sam Jones
Sam Small
Thoburn
India
McChesney
Blackburn
Trego
Caesar I
Cicero
Cataline
Virgil
Astronomy
Fraunhofer
Copernicus
Galileo
Kepler
Detroit
Michigan
Green
August Flower
Gilmore
L. F. Gackenheimer
Western Letter
Johnson City
Bullettn
West
Kansas City
Missouri
Syracuse
Kan
Kansas House
Bear Creek
Johnson
Stanton County
Colorado Line
Orris Riney
Teachers’ Institute
Bulletin
Teachers Institute
Robinson Crusoe
Ayer
Boschee
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