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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1890
Page
8
The passage argues skepticism has no governing center or doctrine to hold a system together. It denies Christian truth without providing positive guidance, offering only a negative influence that yields no reward, reform, or moral traction. The analogy to absence of heat or light frames skepticism as emptiness rather than a system.
The railroad advertises very low rates during April May September and October 1890 for western travel with wealth prospects. Prospective travelers are urged to contact ticket agents or Columbus Ohio agent J A Guancer at 2 Clinton Building for details.
An advertisement claims a new principle that acts on the liver stomach and bowels through the nerves. It promises quick cures for biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation and claims suitability for men women and children. It offers 50 doses for 250 samples free at Ohio Drug Store and S Horse Training. Mr Ham Proost a professional horse trainer will manage the Fair Ground to train horses and assist with any related needs at the Fair Ground References Thos Noble W H Pennell and W O Brooks
Claims state Swayne's Ointment cures tetter eczema and all eruptions on face hands and nose leaving skin clear white and healthy. The ad asserts great healing powers not matched by any other remedy and urges readers to ask their druggist for Swayne's Ointment.
Ohio preps a sweeping text book law with a School Book Board to fix prices at or below eighty percent of publisher prices. It requires publishers to submit proposals for five year terms and sets penalties for noncompliance. It repeals earlier section 4020 and takes effect on passage.
A reflective tale from the Christian Advocate about youth overconfidence and a dangerous ice boating mishap on the Hudson near Saugerties. The narrator recalls nearly drowning after a mistake with an iceboat. The moral: passengers should hold on and not steer.
Dr. W. G. Ebersole of Carrollton Ohio will visit Dr B A Rose Dental Parlors on May 19 and 20 to perform tooth extractions without pain using a new patented method. No anesthetics are used and patients with heart lung or nervous trouble can be operated on safely. He will deposit money in Van Wert National Bank and forfeit it if claims aren’t true.
An old universal remedy claims forty years of use by millions of mothers. It relieves teething pain and claims to cure dysentery diarrhea griping in the bowels and wind colic. Sold for 25 cents a bottle.
Advertises Longnecker Combination Wire and Picket Fencing for yards and fields. Provides wire, can fence with customer’s own pickets, and weaves pickets into existing fences. Located at Market and Water streets Van Wert Ohio and 221 W Mion Run Thave notes a weaving machine for existing fences.
Dickinson’s Balm or Life is advertised as a cure for catarrh asthma sore throat bronchitis and consumption. The ad claims a thorough trial will prove intrinsic value and that it will revolutionize chronic throat and lung disease treatment. Sold by L. F. Gackenheimer in Van Wert Ohio.
An enterprising Wapakoneta barber builds a sea bath in a large tub. He fills it with water and rock salt for a briny feel, paddling to create waves. Water lasts months. two or three batches suffice for the town. Suggested addition of crawfish and a snapping turtle.
A collage of tidbits notes government mail cost at 40 million dollars yearly. Local papers announce new prints Owl at New Madison and Defiance Crescent plans a spring boom. Reports cite protests against Russia, Georgia legislature bid by Sam Small, and Fort Wayne schools graduating twenty nine girls with Rome City excursion. Findlay gas buyer push, ex senator Jones committed to asylum, Ken tucky Senator Carlisle elected, silk worm facts, Castle Garden immigration testimony, Cincinnati carriage boom, harness production figures, and a hammock trade note from Fort Wayne Sentinel.
The Republican State Central Committee meets in Columbus this evening to set timing and venue for the next state convention. Columbus and Cleveland are contenders, with Cleveland the likely winner, as delegates debate permanent hosting to better represent all regions.
An old advertising line notes a mother’s use of Castoria for a child’s illness and how the product accompanies various life stages from infancy to motherhood. The phrasing reflects vintage marketing linking Castoria to family care across decades.
Tickets offered by the Cincinnati Jackson & Mackinaw R A for round trips to Manchester Indiana May 20 to 25 and return by June 25 1890 and to Pertle Springs Missouri May 19 to 27 return by June 26 1890. Information from local agent. Also notices on medical cure Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and G A R Memorial Services and Decoration Day events in Middlepoint and vicinity with times and speaker notes.
Symptom description notes symptoms of intense itching and nighttime smarting with scratching. It claims continued use prevents tumor growth that bleeds and ulcers. Patent remedy promises to stop itching and bleeding, heal ulcers, and remove tumors, offered by Dr Swayne & Son Philadelphia for 50 cents by mail.
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