Scott items of the Bunnerang
Local notes from Scott precinct including visits from Rev Samuel Scott of Dupont Ohio and J T Scott’s sister, school start next week, balloon seen, travels to Niagara and Bradford, new grocery Sells Mounts and Masser meat market, Milt Kidd moving to Venedocia, Willing Workers entertainment, council plans town wells, I C F hall near completion, and various social calls and farm moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Scott
M. E
Dupont
Ohio
J. T. Scott
Frank Gamble
Wilbur Frank
A. A. Shafer
Paulding
B. J. Smith
Pete Mounts
Niagara
Sells & Mounts
Milt Kidd
Venedocia Monday
Success
Milt
Local notices from Ohio town report visits and mishaps
Miss Louisa Tracy stays with sister in Lima while Albert Goodwin lies ill. Richard Thomas proclaims a boy with a tossed hat. Mrs. Ron Gregg visits from Lima. Walter Roller teaches in Dist 5 York Twp. Jos Roller and family guests of friends. Nellie Longsworth visited Allen county last week. Grandmother Carson returns to Lima after visiting daughter Mrs Henry Weller. Andrew Taylor and wife from Highland county visit A R Simmons. Taylor hails Ohio as grandest county. Jennings Twp held a grand entertainment. Mrs Babcock and Mrs Hogal of Lima visit. Trade a buggy for a colt suggested by Jesse Coil. Ezra Burnett's buggy collision injures no one. J M Jones wagon wreck injures Mrs Jones. Near wreck at Elgin due to operator John Hilford and wife’s bouncing boy. Republicans urged to attend convention and nominate good men without money. Newton Tracy visits near Conway over Sunday. C F Clantz repairs roof. Moses Jones barn nearing completion and house raised. Wheat sowing and corn cutting active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos
Roller
Nellie Longsworth
Allen County
Carson
Lima
Henry Weller
Andrew Taylor
Highland County
A. R. Simmons
Taylor
Ohio
Jesse Coil
Ezra Burnett
J. M. Jones
Newton Tracy
Convoy
C. F. Clantz
Van Wert County Fair Reflections and Local Hatchings
The note praises wheat sowing and corn cutting as spring tasks, mentions Van Wert convention on Sept 25 1490 with J G Ringwold, and highlights Venedocia improvements such as Pollock tile kilns and a wind pump. Milton Kidd buys Evans dry goods stock. locals urge continued progress, farmer-driven fairs, and greater German participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.R. Pollock
Pollock Bro
Milton Kidd
David E. Evans
Venedocia
Mr. Kidd
Local notes from Alaska and area happenings
Birth announced a boy to Mr and Mrs Nullinger. Cora Brown of Paulding county visits vicinity. W Edwards goes to teach another term in Jackson township. Myrtle Archer baptized at St Marys river. Straley visits W C Edwards. Susie Morgan improving after illness in Enterprise. Mary Davis of Centerville visits Griffiths family. L P Jackson returns from Middlepoint Normal, then goes back. Mamie Jackson at Sam Simpson's, home this week. District No 3 school resumes led by Ella R Walton. No 5 teacher John Roller. No 8 teacher Lizzie Morgan. Cough remedy ad by J W Evans & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Jackson
Middlepoint Normal
Mamie Jackson
Sam Simpson
Ella R. Walton
John Roller
Lizzie Morgan
Wetsel News Roundup From Elida And Nearby
Wetsel notes visiting friends from Elida Irvin Brenneman Stephen Brenneman Cloyd Sawmiller James Hoffer. Vesta Baxter returned home from Delphos. C F Koch began school at Elm Grove. Peter Shock seeks patent for a two row potato digger. Rev Roush of Van Wert preached at Wetsel last Saturday and will return September 20. Harmony church holds tomorrow evening service. M Baxter sold his farm to Ezekiel Parson Putnam county. will stay until spring. Picnic near Christian Union postponed. W Edwards began new six month term in district 4. Elmer Stemen of Allen county in the area for farm matters. Will Stemen and Art Reed visited Paulding county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Baxter
David Roselle
Messrs
Irvin
Stephen Brenneman
Cloyd Sawmiller
James Hoffer
Elida
C. F. Koch
Ohio City
Elm Grove
Peter Shock
Roush
van Wert
Wetsel
M. Baxter
Ezekiel Parson
Putman County
Mr. Baxter
W. ©. Edwards
Elmer Stemen
Allen County
Early 1900s English Cough Remedy Offered for Consumption
In the morning rapid breathing chest tightness and phlegm signal early consumption symptoms. Dr Acker's English Cough Remedy is advertised as a cure with a positive guarantee by J W Evans & Son and is sold to customers seeking relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acker
J. W. Evans & Son
Low Rates to Points West and Northwest by C H V T Ry
Travel offers from the C H V T Railway promoting reduced rates to western southwest and northwest destinations with through car service, elegant equipment, and reliable connections. G P A H J Farxennaen signs as agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Farxennaen
The First Symptoms of Death and Blood Purification Claims
The notice lists tiredness dull head ache pain and fever false symptoms as evidence of poisoned blood and claims purification is needed to avoid death. It promotes Dr Acker's English Blood Elixir as never failing to remove scrofulous or syphilitic poisons with a positive guarantee from J W Evans Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Wheatcroft Nelson
London
Detroit Exposition and Fair Round Trip Rail Excursion
Detroit Exposition and Fair runs Aug 26 to Sep 5 with a single round trip fare via the Toledo St Louis and Kansas City Railway. Grand lake and rail excursion advertised for August 25 offering the above rates, about quarter fare. C Jenkins G P A Toledo Ohio. English Spavin Liniment for horses advertised with savings and warrant of efficacy by Hines Son druggists Van Wert. dated December 6 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, St. Louis
Kansas City R. R
Grand Lake
Detroit
Mackinac
Jenkins, G. P. A
Toledo, Ohio
Hines & Son
van Wert
Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City
J. A. Granama
Clinton
Columbia, C
Castoria Brand Jingle Recalled in Nostalgic Ad Copy
A nostalgic verse recalls Castoria as a remedy from infancy to motherhood. The concise brag line traces the product as a trusted pediatric tonic across generations, naming Castoria at each life stage from baby to grandmother.
Kemp's Balsam and Swayne's Ointment Cure Coughs and Skin Ailments
An advertisement extols Kemp's Balsam as a proven cough and cold remedy with a money back guarantee and samples, urging readers to ask friends who used it. It also promotes Swayne's Ointment for tetter eczema and skin eruptions, noting purity and effectiveness and listing price 50 cents and 1 dollar. It mentions a health claim and a separate blurb about Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City excursion fares and a subscription offer for The Bulletin and Commercial Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swayne
Errors in printing show how language trips up editors
A lengthy anthology of typographical misreads and bulls from newspapers and printers illustrates how misheard phrases produce comic or odd phrases. Examples include cradles and coffins, turnout read as turnout, Texas Pacific misread as wintry mules, and goa t read as government, with many more from telegraph and courtroom notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Fisk
Fisk
New York
Atlanta Constitution
Texas Pacific
Texarkana
Texas
Topeka
Schipka Pass
Napoleon
Telegraph
Antilles
Goa
Angora
R. E. Lee
Richmond
Horace Greeley
Georgia
Europe
Charing Cross
Mahmoud Jan
Mahmoud
PRESS POINTS CHARTS AND CURIOUS NOTES OF THE DAY
A collage of brief items from the General Press columns. Ohio pension totals top $10 million in the latest fiscal year, with county aid adding over $400,000. Marion Mirror reports Sidney seniors expelled, then reframe the class’s graduation with a Niagara Falls trip funded by student fees. Akron Beacon highlights a vast Lodi vegetable operation with 20,000 onion barrels and 1,000 daily celery shipments, plus ongoing payrolls. Philadelphia Press notes high wages and massive railroad and housing costs, while New York Tribune criticizes Sackville-West for meddling and Stratford on Avon allegory. The piece closes with a dig at a Breckinridge seating controversy linked to John A. Andrew’s son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron Beacon
Lodi
Ohio
Wean, Horr, Warner & Co
Harrisville
Express
Woman Drives Out Fish Wagon to Pay Husband’s Fine
In Belfast Maine a fish peddler was arrested and jailed. His wife found his team, drove the wagon into the country, sold the fish herself, returned with a full purse, and paid his fine. They resumed housekeeping afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Would Make a Careful Wife and Other Bellefonte Snippets
A Bellefonte piece notes an older woman with substantial property asked to pasture her cow on school grounds due to no children. The Bellefonte News quips she should have been born a lawyer. It also mentions Mary Anderson-Navarro posing for Felix Moscheles in a bridal robe and a Chicago study of a Galatea in apple green silk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellefonte
Bellefonte News
Mary Anderson-Navarro
Felix Moscheles
London
Chicago
An Old Remedy Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad
An old and well tried remedy used for teething by millions of mothers for over fifty years. It soothes the child softens the gums eases pain cures wind colic and diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide. Ask for Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup and take no other kind. Twenty five cents a bottle.
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Dickinson
W. M. Kear van Wert
Kauke’s
Wm. Ayres & Sons
Philada
Scott
Fmullion
Colchester” Rubber CO
Colchester
F. C. Fowler
Moodus
Cony
Charlie Goodwin
Mr. Lankart
Samuel Hastinga
Gilberts Mills
F. E. Shafer
Bradford
Clarence
Iowa
Geo. Brelsford
Kenton
Link
I. C
Scott Precinct
J. H. Bixler
E. L. Aiken
Indiana
Chas, Correll
Shanes Crossing
R. E. Irvin
Mr. Irvin
Paulding County
Jacob I. Marks
Jennings
Louisa Tracy
Albert Goodwin
Richard Thomas
Ron Gregg
Walter Roller
Dist
York Township
Moses Jones
J. G. Ringwold
Aure
Alaska
Jackson Township
Myrtle Archer
St. Marys River
Mr. Straley
W. C. Edwards
Susie Morgan
Enterprise
Mary Davis
Centerville
David Griffith
Dr. Acker
Vesta Baxter
Delphos
Harmony Church
Christian Union Church
Will Stemen
Art. Reed
Castoria
Kemp
The
Bulletin and Commercial Gazette
Col. Jones
Maj. Peters
Tom McSnifter
Putnamii
Limus
Central America
St. Louis Republic
Agee
Ayer
Jesse M. ‘Oggs
Holman’s Mills
N.C
Avor
Tam
Charles H. Maloney
Riverst
Lowell, Mass
Dr. J
Ayer & Co
Ohio Pensions
Marion Mirror
Sidney Public School
Sidney
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia
Chicago News
Sackville-West
England
Washington
Stratford On Avon
George W. Childs
New York Tribune
John A. Andrew
Breckinridge
Toledo
Frankfort
Ind
ST. Louis
Toledo and
Union Depot
Delphos Pass
Casa
Toledo & Frankfort
Del
Jenkins
Gen
Sapolio
R Foods
Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne
Atlantic Express
Western Express
Pacific Express
W. M. Flaharty
Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw
van Wert A
C. W. Johnston
Carters
Carter
Darren
Odr
H.G. Root
M.C
Penn Sr., New York
W. W. Micra
Chicago & Atlantic
Ite
Popnen
North Judson
Route
Crown Point
Hammond Epgle
G. M. Beach
C. Donald
Ue Ru
Atlas Engine Works
Indianapolis, Ind
Central
Expanded Metal CO
Water St
Bradfield
Cit
Gradfield Riki Gilat van Hn
Mitia Tlanta Gi
J.W. Evans & Son
FTER
Swett
Page
Payne
H, Tuttle
W. M. Kear
Liberty
Nyone
Ice Township
Pleasant Township
Jean Wert County
Middlepoint
Hoaglin Township
van Wert County
Tully Township
Ridge Road
Sels Township
Soagres
Shanesville Road
Tully
Soares
Dacacres West
South
Hi. Y
N.W
N.E
Dickinson County
Kansas
Price
Third Ward
Timothy Meadow
Hoaglin Tp
van Ge Wert Co
Liberty Township
Paton
Union Tp
van Wert Co
Cayette
Mead County
Meade Center
O' Fowler
ACANT
Greenwood
Canans & Atlantic R. A
Obackes
Wallis Land
Ouse
J. M. C. Marble
Dixon
Chicago & Atlantic R. A
van Wert Go
Corporation of van Wert
Minnesota
KEA Real Estate
Kauke
Hnson
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