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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1880
Page
3
OHIO DRUG STORE announces a Memorial Day hymn from publisher W. W. Whitney Toledo O with words honoring fallen soldiers. The piece costs 25 cents, but special price offers include one copy for 20 cents and five copies for 85 cents post-paid.
Hon Joseph Cable died at his home in Paulding Ohio last Saturday morning at about eighty years of age. A lifelong newspaper editor with years in Steubenville Carrollton Sandusky and Van Wert he served two terms in Congress and led the American renamed the Bulletin before moving to Paulding. He was known as a vigorous thinker and uncompromising writer who died a poor man and held firmly to his beliefs until the end.
Confirmation will be held at the German Reformed Church next Sunday with twelve youths publicly confessing faith. Joseph Dunlap, Bowman's stables keeper, was kicked and badly hurt, breaking his hip bone. Schools debate scarlet fever myths as investigation finds only two real cases in town. L F Guckenheimer’s Horse Powders praised as best and cheapest by users. Seen Ceeeeeene.
At a May 30 citizens meeting in Van Wert Cemetery, D. L. Corbin was chosen president and J. F. Morrison secretary. A seven member Committee of Arrangements plus subcommittees on flowers, music, printing and finance were named. Invitations go to ex soldiers, veterans, bands, ministers, and officials for participation.
An advocate argues outsiders should vote 40000 yes as the corporation pays county road tax spent outside the town. The piece derides the move as a confidence game, noting outsiders would tax themselves for the benefit of a few speculators amid a 120000 monument to corporation management.
A Toledo Blade reader criticizes a circus for underwhelming acts while a St Marys Argus letter praises New Bremen amusements including Professor LaVeer high rope performances and a Minster troupe. A missing child alert near Tiffin notes a six year old last seen by the river.
The record notes a revenue or property assessment shift following the decennial 1870 census with total values around $78,920. It lists year by year figures 1873 through 1879 and associated codes resembling assessment or inventory totals. The text appears as fragmented OCR numbers and remarks indicating increases or adjustments.
A column reviews sheriff sale plans, arrests in Akron, drownings near Dayton, shipments of wheat from Fostoria, and Findlay fire trap bans. It reports a safe robbery in Sidney, Ohio, and political ticket details in Wyandot. Also covered are accidents in Mt. Vernon, prison interviews in Canton, a lad's reflections on reading boys’ literature, relocations in Delphos, school openings, and a family wedding and funeral notices in the region.
A timeless advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a speedy cure for consumption and related lung diseases. It claims endorsement by physicians clergy and press with trial bottles at ten cents and regular bottles at one dollar.
Green countryside signals brisk farming with oats sown and corn planned this week. Jacob Wilt sells his Convoy farm to Dr. B F Leslie and plans to move to Missouri by June. The Convoy tile factory projects advance as Beamer and Zimmermann Gunsett expand. Convoy schools close next Friday and teachers for next term are yet to be hired. Dr Brooks may teach a select school in Wiltshire this summer.
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