Wool Cloth and Fancy Suitings Sale Prices
Fifteen pieces of 36 inch all wool cloth offered at 42 cents, previously 50 cents. Ten pieces of all-wool fancy suitings priced at 47 cents, a reduction from an expected 65 cents.
23 Sep 1887
Page 1
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
1
Fifteen pieces of 36 inch all wool cloth offered at 42 cents, previously 50 cents. Ten pieces of all-wool fancy suitings priced at 47 cents, a reduction from an expected 65 cents.
Long list of candidates including WM. T. SPEAR for Supreme Court, F. J. DICKMAN for Judge, E. W. POE for Auditor, J. C. BROWN for Treasurer, D. K. WATSON for Attorney General, A. FLICKINGER for Public Works, BE F. JOHNSON for Representative, JOEL W. HETRICK and YORKIE l R. TUDOR for Probate Judge, W. W. TERRY for Auditor, D. P. DONATHAN for Treasurer, N. SIMPSON for Commissioner, JOSHUA W. AGERS for Commissioner, EDWIN SMITH for Infirmary Director, TIMOTHY HANKINS for Coroner, with multiple county ties and towns listed.
The article traces the Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee, and Miami roles in the Ohio valley, noting migrations, alliances, and conflicts from 18th century origins through the Revolutionary era, highlighting leaders, treaties, and the region as a theater of peace and war, Christian missions, and Native sovereignty in early America.
The Miami and allied tribes were named by the French as Kasaskies Chokies Peorias Michi sans and Temoraris and called Miami. Pottawatomies settled near Lake Michigan and at Tippecanoe and Chippey in Indiana, resisting Five Nations incursions and aiding Tecumseh battles. Ottawas with Wyandots stood at Michilmackinac with the Chippewas led by Pontiac. East of the Mississippi remained Natchez Cherokees Catawbas Chickasaws Muscoghees Creeks and Choctaws driven north by settlers.
The text lists biliousness symptoms including poor breakfast appetite dull tongue digestive upset diarrhea or constipation hemorrhoids giddiness headaches acidity or flatulence. It promotes Green’s August Flower as a cheap remedy with widespread claimed efficacy and urges trying it to cure or help the condition.
Advertises Rand McNally map editions with railroad and national coverage and world engravings. Explains sales demand for salesmen to distribute the maps and accompanying engravings, charts, and statistical tables from Chicago publishers. Also urges relief from colds and danger of pneumonia with Boschee's German Syrup, touting widespread cures and a 75 cent bottle with druggist availability.
An 19th century note extols Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid as a specific preventive for malaria. It claims the solution purifies air and water and destroys miasmatic matter. Quoted endorsements come from J. C. Boors, U.S. Mint chemist in Philadelphia, and Dr Houmus of Savannah, Georgia.
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