Local Advertisers Highlight Shops and Notables
A collage of town notices promotes John W. Penn’s furniture store opposite the Courthouse, H C Glenn’s law card, Geo Strother’s land sale ad, Fox and Slade seed potatoes, Gleason and Bros Spoke and bending factory, Detritus Wooten Mints wool goods, James Evans’s new barber shop, Joseph Long as town marshal, Van Wert Woolen Factory’s carding and weaving services, Chas Mahin’s dairy, centenarian Miss Mary Engle, H A Deniston’s England trip for the Jones estate, top-tier local schooling under Charles E Lane, and civic praise for town schools.
Elms and town protection in New Haven and Montpelier notes
The piece laments settlers clearing forests, praises surviving elms on the common near New Haven and urges authorities to guard them. It recalls the desecration of a cemetery and condemns such acts, urging preservation. The column also mocks local newspaper bidding and promotes Mayer and Cahn’s clothing store with a commodore lookalike likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Wert
New Haven
Elms
Hats and Furnishings Sale Under One Price System
A former shop owner promotes a massive stock of hats caps ready made clothing and mens furnishings inviting old customers to his Bonewitz Johns stand. He stresses one price policy new fashion forward stock and guaranteed low prices with a personal appeal to call and compare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonewitz & Johns
A. Jacons
The Sleeping Beauty of Mayer & Cahn’s Melodeon Hall
The narrator claims a tale of a sleeping beauty is true, learned from brother Dave who read it at Mayer & Cahn's Store. The piece plugs Mayer and Cahn's clothing shop as offering good and cheap goods with a boastful endorsement tied to a humorous anecdote.
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Dave
Mayer & Cahn
Melodeon Hall
Grant Named President At Soldiers Convention In Chicago
The Cincinnati Gazette reports the Soldiers and Sailors Convention in Chicago approving Gen. Grant for president with strong support. The piece notes no vice presidential candidate yet and criticizes past nominations while predicting Grant and Victory will be the rallying cry across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Grant
United States
Hamlin
Wade
Colfax
Fenton
Secon
Tyler
Filmore
Johnson
Lincoln and Tyler discuss Buell and Bragg in war talk
Don Piat recalls a Cincinnati Commercial piece recounting a meeting in the war Department with General Dan Tyler and President Lincoln. They debate Buell Bragg and army discipline, blaming organizational faults and congressional action while noting deserters and harsh wartime discipline. A separate Danvers Mass grave robbery report notes thieves stealing silver plates and bones for manure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Piat
Cincinnati
Buell Commission
War Department
Dan Tyler
Connecticut
Lincoln
Tyler
Buell
Bragg
Chattanooga
Ohio River
President
Congress
Old Burying Ground
Danvers Mass
Putnam
Van Wert Stores Promote Styles and Bargains
A Van Wert notice promotes B Decker New York Clothing stock with ready made garments European and American fabrics a large Hats and Caps department and a Gent's Furnishing line. It highlights direct-from-manufacturer bargains cash buying and a no undersell motto. Also mentions Wm Tolan as cutter and semi monthly fashion plates for country merchants. Also notes Fasmonanie Jewelry and Stave Bolts sales inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Decker
New York
van Wert
New York City
P. S
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Our Merchant Tailoring Department
Niclodeon Hall
Bilayer & Cahn
Melodeon Hall Store
Main Street
N. BR
M &C
A. Melelemmer
Ics
Butte
RAEN
Suto Fu
Wirroi
Brovuss & Co
Broadway
York
Express
Wright, Brothers & CO
Mortows
A. Morton
Maiden Lane
James Vick
Rochester, N
Fyick
James Vice
Rochester
N.Y
Philo Holmes
Hall
Otice
Margaret Oglesbee
Joseph Oglesbee
van Wert County
Ohio
Choice Family
J. H. Foster
Davis Johnson
Geo. Holt
Scrolt
Gleason
van Wert Zimes
Lizzie Hearn
Scott & Conn
Fie Rey. M
Melogeon Hall
Furxivers
John W. Penn
H. C. Glenn
Real Estate and General Agency
Geo. Strother
Fox & Slade
Messrs. J. A. Gleason & Bro
Wooten
James Evans
Mansnar
Joseph Long
Long
van Wert Woolen
Messrs. Wm. H. Gibson & Son
Chas
Mahin
Clark’s
Mary Engle
Wiltshire
Jouns
H. A. Deniston
England
Wales
Pennsylvania
Schoors
Board of Education
Chas. E. Lane
Pirow
J. A. Gleason & Bro
Public Schools of
An Werner
Mary
Norwood
M M Munger
Mary E Webster
Mary E Elcock
Saltzgaber Yap
Addie C
Mary E Holmes
Sadie Slade
Han’ah Robinson
Martha Robinson
Cras. E. Lane
The
van Wert Bulletin
Orry Anp Country Pargis
Montpelier Freeman
Tribune
Commodore Foot
Mayer & Calin
Mayer & Cahn’s
A. Jacobs
Peron
Sleeping Beauty
Springfield
Massachusetts
George Francis
Rome
New Hampshire
Farragut
Republican
Republican Party
Soldiers’ Convention
Cincinnati Gazette
Clark & Ricuey
Bendel’s
Clark & Richey
Melodeon Hall Clothing Store
Mayer & Cann
Chark & Richey
Beaver
Wm. Tolan
Decker Brovsers
van Wert, Ohio
A. P. McConahay
A. P. McConaway
Warren & Wells
Sadie
BrumBack
Down With
Atwise &Sons
H. J. Wise & Sons
Pickerel
Erie Railway
Boston
New England
Dunkirk
Buffalo
Salamanca
New
Willeave
Western
Union
Sunda
Hornellsville
Corning
Fale
Cincinnati Express
Falamanca
Jersey City
New Jersey Railroad
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Avon and
Elmira
Northern Central Railway
Harrisburg
Dornae
Weville
Susquehanna
Turner
Northern Centre Railway
Harrisburoh
Haltimore
Great Bend
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Scranton
Trenton
Chemung
Delaware
Rampo
Bagenge
HK. Riddle
WM. R. Barr
Ag’t
Ronchial
Brown
House OF Mercy
Howard Association
J.skillin Houghton
A. H. J. Wise & Sons
Brumback’s
Brummbaack’s
BroomBack’s
Brumpack’s
Clark & Son
Ware
C& Co
Hollinger House
Marcel
Clark
J. S. Brummback
Wix van Werr
C. A. Melsheimer
Mishler
Herb Bitters
Ss. B. Hartman & Co
Lancast&b
Cuicaco
Simpson I. Tobias
Tobias
Hiram Woodruff
Col
Philo P. Bush
Jerome
Fordham
N. Y
Cortlandt Street
Edward A. Wilson
Williamsburg, Kings Co
Christadoro
J. Christade RO
Astor House
2Th Street
6Th Avenue
Topias
Manhattan
Samuel F. Waters
Cnres
Tomias
Europe
Depot
Cortland Street
Remington
Vetera
Madame Gertrups
P. O
West Troy
Cedar Street
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