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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1877
Page
4
A condensed time card listing Fittsbargh and F Wayne with the Chicago Railway. The fragment indicates a schedule snapshot or payroll shorthand. Specific times, stations, or duties are not clearly readable in the OCR snippet.
Mr H Heymann moves his barber shop to Brumback Block on Thursday next. Casto and Eyler open a farm machinery office in Swineford's block. Thanks extended to J E Morrison H G Green and Will Crooks for telegraph news and a Hayes banner. Buckeye Hook and Ladder and Van Wert Fire Company announce meetings on upcoming Monday and Tuesday evenings.
A. W. Fritz offers paper hanging of all kinds in the best style. Orders may be left at Wenger and Pennypacker's book store.
G. G. Rupert & Co seek belt choppers with applicants to Mr. Rupert or Miss Palmer. Messrs. H. Butler & Co report a burglary at their stave factory office Sunday stealing an overcoat and a watch valued at 95 dollars. A revival at Zion Church four miles north led by Rev. S. S. Albert draws converts and a crowded altar each evening.
The celebrated South Bend Plow will be sold in the county this year by Messrs. Clark and Neal as agents. Their headquarters are at O P Clark and Son's store on South Washington street.
Mr. J Sion Smith of Fort Wayne has bought City Mills from Mahan and Clark. Smith has taken possession and offers goods in his line at bottom prices for the town's citizens.
The firm moves stock of hardware to new quarters two doors south of the Bulletin office. They invite customers to visit the commodious rooms and view new Ladies Spring Hats at Z A. Smith's.
J. L. Price returns from Philadelphia while S Neal is confined by erysipelas. George H Marsh returns from Eagle Stave Company trip. Day recovers from rheumatism. Georgia Glenn visits Charlotte Michigan. Ella Hertz in town. Wm Saltzgaber travels east for health. Jane Deniston improves after cancer surgery by Dr Myers. Ed Shepherd and Chas Wenglaw visit town. Tilden defeated. Public notices include a council meeting and railroad talk.
Times reports burglars entered the Wise bakery at Crawford and Walnut street near Buckeye Woolen Mills by breaking a side window. They stole bread and cakes and, from the saloon section, gallons of whisky and other liquors. A team was suspected to have helped haul the loot. The loss is not yet known. Also noted is the death of Fielding Welker at age about thirty five from a blind hernia with an autopsy performed. His funeral cortege passed to Ridge Cemetery yesterday.
J H Wilmore and Peter Cross offer at public sale on the Wilmore farm four miles south of Wiltshire along the Recovery road Friday March 9 1877 at 10 am items include two work horses two two year old colts one cow ten head of fine sheep hay in stack and mow corn oats in bin plows harrows and more sale terms credit seven months on sums five dollars or more with note and two securities.
J S Brumback and Co announces a fresh stock of domestic textiles including sheeting shirting brown and bleached tickings cheviot gingham and prints. Buyers urged to act now before prices rise, as goods likely to advance soon.
A large stock of Hamburg Embroidery just opened at J. S. Brumback & Co in town, offered at prices lower than any this year. The new line promises value for customers seeking quality fabric and thread supplies in the local market.
All parties indebted to the firm of Casto and Eyler are requested to settle as the old business must be closed up. Casto and Eyler.
Four pounds of good Tea for one dollar and a free carrying basket offered by SHOLL and RUPERT to bring home the purchase.
A Galary for March notes a shift from garroting to barbarous whipping as a deterrent for street crime in London. It argues the death penalty was excessive and critiques public sentiment while warning Delaware’s approach to flogging could mirror earlier debates on punishment and social control.
A Wheeling minister visiting from a neighboring town is robbed at pistol point but responds with a full sermon and pleas for repentance. The thief, moved by the preacher’s appeal, kneels to seek forgiveness, then is kicked in the stomach as the cleric fled up the street.
In the London Standard a companion picture recalls John Wesley through the words of the Dean of Westminster Stanley. An elderly witness aged over eighty recalls Wesley as a small man with long white hair who refreshed a feverish cottage by airing the rooms and cleaning up. The Dean's father, while Vicar in Cheshire, handed out gingerbread to children with clean hands and faces.
Five of Vanderbilt's heirs object to probating the will amid expected squabbling and litigation as the estate moves through court.
Mr. Palmer Gardner of Burlington Wisconsin finally receives a long misplaced 1835 letter containing a $360 certificate of deposit from Onondaga Bank Syracuse New York. Sent by Wm M Gardner to Detroit Territory, unclaimed in Detroit, returned through the dead letter office, found at the Centennial Exhibition after decades. Postage then was twenty five cents.
A medical Journal notes fruit harms arise from improper timing and amounts or unripe fruit. A physician says eating two good oranges before breakfast from February to June would end his practice, highlighting that the main issue is too little fruit and overprocessing with sugar or cream, and stressing the cooling acid action of fruit.
A notary in Alencon France faced ten visiting hunchbacks who arrived as scheduled for a supposed important communication. The group exploded with anger when their letters proved a prank, while the notary swore to dismiss the prankster once found. Gambling rooms in Galveston described with tense betting crowds and whispered losses.
Chicago reels after the McArthur defalcation a Postmaster and iron works magnate with government funds missing up to 40 thousand tied to debts and bankruptcy. The case follows two prior official losses as the Times frames a pattern of public misfortune and political links. McArthur once valued near a million owned property on West Monroe and iron works on Erie street faced losses after Cook County National Bank failure and legal deposits. Details show government funds deposited with the bank misused amid an evolving settlement.
Mr. Scattergood travels by Erie line to a rural village hoping for arcadian simplicity. He faces sly comments about his city manners from locals and hotel staff, and leaves early after being mocked and teased by youths at the depot.
Poem urging resilience through sorrow with a hopeful note that dawn follows night. Written in a 1877 tone by Degraff O. and referencing enduring faithfulness, memory, and recompense beyond hardship.
A Willshire Township reader reports thefts in Van Wert county including two lamps from Fairview Church and a missing cross cut saw. A hog and tobacco are stolen, a tool chest is broken into, and residents warn more acts will be pursued if repeated. Names are withheld for now.
A letter to the editor from AMATEUR PROB. predicts March weather with a warm start and rain until the 8th, followed by cooler north or northeast winds to the 15th. From the 15th to the 25th expect snow and rain, then warmer, clearing conditions.
A readable OCR fragment lists assorted foods and prices including cherries two pounds, raspberries, beans, strawberries, dried peaches, apples, lemons, oranges per dozen, sauerkraut, apple butter, white fish, herring, pickerel, and No 1 mackerel. Includes stray letters and unclear terms from an old market notice.
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