03 Sep 1886
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
1
Schedule shows trains departing Van Wert heading west including mail daily except Sunday express daily accommodation daily except Sunday and local daily except Sunday with times: 1145 am 1210 am 545 pm 1105 am departures 330 pm 451 pm 236 am 82 am 110 am.
The Salvation Army pitches tents in towns with fairs drawing hundreds daily. An elderly man Crotty celebrated his 103rd birthday at Prospect Ohio. Vernon lets voters decide on prohibition at the fall election. Boling in Licking county receives a ninety day reprieve. Revivalists mixing politics with sermons face scrutiny at camp meetings. The Ohio Eldership of the Church of God meets September 29 at Enterprise. The Ohio penitentiary reports 1500 convicts with 766 admitted last year and 94 life members. Washington Critic notes prohibitionists’ contempt for Republicans. Sycamore Crawford county votes 82 to 44 to abolish saloons. women voters back prohibition unanimously. Delaware county fair offers twenty dollars gold to the first couple married on grounds. local merchants add prizes. A traveling salesman in Oberlin Kansas aroused by singing on a hotel porch. New letter sheet envelopes with a two cent stamp and Grant portrait are shown.
Lesson 10 outlines Jesus as the true vine with disciples as branches. It emphasizes abiding in Christ for life and fruit, and the Father as vinedresser pruning for spiritual growth. Practical points urge living in Him through faith, love, deeds, and holiness to bear abundant fruit.
The piece warns of poison in cheap baking powders using lime and alum harming children's health with symptoms from headaches to Bright's disease. It endorses Royal Baking Powder as pure and urges housewives to check labels and prefer it over inferior brands.
Section 6,946 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio imposes fines from ten to one hundred dollars or up to thirty days in jail for selling intoxicating liquors within two miles of agricultural fairs. It also allows the court to shut down and abate the sale location as a nuisance upon conviction of the owner or keeper.
Mrs J Ellen Foster of the Womens Christian Temperance Union terms the Prohibition party a fraud and a snare hindering temperance work in Lakeside Ohio. She notes the third party did not secure prohibition in Georgia or Iowa and that locals achieved prohibition, while the party harms adherence to high license. Aman Greenville offers boots to the man or boy bringing the largest ear of corn by Christmas and boots to the woman or girl bringing the largest potato. A Chicago Belle Plaine Iowa dispatch reports an artesian well burst at 100 feet, blasting water 16 inches diameter into the air with streams forming two rivers carrying debris at 12 miles per hour threatening homes and lives.
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