Railroad Election Promises Major Community Change
The township vote Tuesday will decide on issuing 40 000 dollars in bonds to aid the Nar row Gauge Railroad. The piece notes constitutional objections and argues that indebtedness worsens taxes while delaying needed town improvements. It also covers local crime, accidents, a Carey murder mystery six years old, and a Lookout Mountain gunner story.
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Upper
Sandusky
Carey
Albert Hunter
James Nye
Norris
Sandusky County Infirmary
Wyandot County
Sandusky County
Gault House
Allen Smalley
Toledo
D. Straw & Co’s
Adrian
Smalley
Gideon Close
Mr. Walborn
Resolutions echo Republican platform on schools rights and currency
A compilation of Republican positions affirming national public school extension funded by taxation, civil rights protection, election integrity, sound currency under a gold standard, and praise for John Sherman and President Hayes. It calls for nomination support at Chicago and unity of Ohio Republicans.
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United States
Congress
Democratic Party
John Sherman
Republican Party of
Ohio
South
Chicago
Joan Sherman
Hayes
Republican Party
Republicans of
National Republican Convention
Judge McCauley Cites Grand Jury Defects in KenTon
Judge McCauley ruled in KenTon that all indictments returned by a recent Grand Jury were defective because the foreman failed to write his full first name on the documents. The foreman had signed with initials only.
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A & Climax
Judge Cooper K. Watson Dies at Sandusky City
Judge Cooper K. Watson died last Thursday in Sandusky City. He served as a former member of Congress and was serving as judge for the District of Huron Seneca and Erie counties at his death.
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Cooper K. Watson
Sandusky City
Congress
District of Huron
Seneca
Erie
Charleston laborers risked lives in fire well tragedy
Two colored workers Tel fair and Stewart descended a Charleston fire well to rescue others. They perished along with William Robertson and James Seymour who tried to help. Stewart survived. The article extols their courage, framing them as heroes and martyrs advancing racial pride and the spirit of freedom.
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Charleston
S. C
Telfair
Stewart
William Robertson
James Seymour
Robertson
Seymour
Chinamen on their Muscle at a New York Laundry
In Hop Woh’s Broadway laundry three assistants cornered customer John Powell after he offered a trade dollar as payment. Hop Woh refused the trade dollar saying it was bad, forcing Powell to hand over a regular currency note to settle his account and escape harm.
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Dayton Journal
Dayton
John Marshall
Shiloh
Washington
Lookout Mountain
Messrs. Sechler & CO
Cincinnati
Sechler & Co
Sechler
Chicago Times
Hop Woh
Broadway
New York
John Powell
Powell
Melica
Hop
Mr. Powell
Uncle Sam
Chicago Wholesaler Builds Luxury Rail Car for Salesmen
A Chicago wholesale house plans a sixty foot rail car to carry two salesmen and a stock of goods across Western railways. The design includes sleeping apartments and a kitchen so the drummers can travel in comfort away from hotels and their horrors.
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Chicago
Patent medicines ad for Moffat's Phenix Bitters and Page's Climax Salve
An advertisement touts Moffat's Phenix Bitters as a universal cure for malarial diseases and various ailments, claiming secretions improve and declaring numerous certificates of success. Also promotes Page's Climax Salve, Wooffat's Life Pills, and Wooffat's Phenix Bitters with prices and sole proprietor J. P. Mills of 85 Liberty Street, New York.
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Moffat
North
South America
Page
Wooffat
Woffat
J. P. Mills
Liberty Street
New York
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Ie Bay
Nar
Constitutional Railroad
Findlay
Bucyrus
Kenton
Clifton Barone
Upper Sandusky
Sleepy Jack
Bowes
Johnny Snyder
Marshall
Hooker
Signal Corps
Bragg
Tennessee
Moccasin Point
Brannan
Army of the Cumberland
Barnet
Mendenhall
Chattanooga
General Whittad
General Whittaker
Eighteenth Ohio
Ifa
Whittaker
Guilmette
Eagle Stave Company
Geo. H. Marsh
Bucklen
Arnica
Hull & Wilson, van Wert, O
S. B. Austin
Golden Rule Aid
van Wert
Compatny
Parasuls
Lester Patterson
C. D. Swartout
Fred Billman
W. H. Pennell
L. H. Hopkins
Main Street
Talies and Children
Prichs
Berlin
T. S. Weim & Son
W. A. Germann
Sycamore Street
W.A. Germann
Way Alert Bulletin
J. H. Foster
Charles Townsend
Supreme Court
George W. McIlvaine
Dwight Crowell
Board of Public Works
S. R. Hosmer
D. F. Dewolf
Colored
Leibig
Messrs. Evans & Evans
Delphos
Hill & Wilson
Martin Shinner
John Lutz
W. H. Beall
J. P
Wiltshire Township
Root & Company
Calhoun Street
Fort Wayne
Van
South Taahmentan Sateant
J.p.malick, van Wert, O
Convoy
Hoaglin Township
van Wert County
Tully Township
Benton Township
Paulding County
Latty Township
Union Township
Jackson
C. B. Stomen
Mtria
Emerson Priddy
Saltzgaber & Glenn
B.stemarc
Tyotice
Board of Education
C. L. Wallis
Michigan
Mississippi River
Ind Sr
Grand Rapids
John R. McDaniel
Susanah McDaniel
Rudolph Wurlitzer & Bro
M. Knabe & Co
J. F. Miller
Standard and Wood’s
Thomas Zimerman
Aaranaecd
B. F. Leslie
Phebe Fletcher
Peres M. Dix
Robert M. Fowler
Wm. H. Morgan
Anna B. Davis
Edward B. Davis
Henry Bovington
John Bev
O. D. Swartout
Jacob H. Thomas
J. P. Underwood
Elizabeth Underwood
Guardians
Joseph Baltzell
Wm. H. Williman
Milla Harnley
Clara M. Harnley
Wm. B. Hard
Abram L. Clifton
Daniel Snyder
Elizabeth Heese
Mary E. Reese
Catharine Reese
George H. Reese
Wm. E. Keese
W. H. Mozier
York Township
L. W. Bethards
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