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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1877
Page
3
The Wooster column reports progress with Public Square, new property sales, and growing business including a large Reaper shipment. It notes church activities, lectures, temperance events, a dramatic club production, police and railroad notices, and local residents' movements and appointments.
Quinby and Purdy report a lively spring trade at the Robison Corder building with new stock filling floors one through three. Customers flock to the carpet room and dress goods as calicoes attract frequent shoppers, and the store invites readers to view the advertised offerings.
J. S. Bissell & Bro announces a sales strategy focused on matching customer desires with goods. Crowds flock to the Old Corner Dry Goods Store where carpets by the roll calicoes by the belt dress goods by the pattern and other items are showcased. The ad highlights popular spring ladies wear and a featured advertisement Gould Gold Gold.
The Wooster Agricultural Works, formerly McDonald & Co, is now operated by Capt. J H Kauke as trustee. The ad urges farmers to advertise, notes all machines will be continued and improved, spares and repairs available, and the captain is often at home for business.
On April 15 the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the First M E Church held its sixth anniversary. Mrs Myers, a returned missionary from India, spoke vividly about the condition of women there and sang in Hindoo dialect while displaying Indian curios. The pastor Rev G A Hughes followed with a strong appeal for women to unite in spreading Christian and social life into homes of heathen dwellers.
Angus McDonald, longtime Wooster figure, assumes control of the Agricultural Works at Millersburg with his sons David Angus and Larper. He vows to start at the bottom and work upward, aided by local support and favorable prospects from a region rich in farms and coal. William stays in Wooster for now.
A general parade and inspection of the Fire Department will be held on May 10. Captains of the organizations are asked to meet at the Deluge Engine House on Thursday evening April 26 at 7 o'clock sharp for consultation.
The Cantata of Esther will be performed in full costume with orchestral accompaniment at Quinby Opera House on Thursday and Friday evenings in May. Under the direction of J L Smith rehearsals proceed as they arrange exquisite costumes from abroad. Proceeds benefit the Christian Temperance Association.
A regular meeting of Ebenezer Lodge No 88 Free and Accepted Masonry is scheduled for this Wednesday evening after seven. Members of sister lodges are cordially invited and the secretary notes the invitation by order of Worshipful Master Harp Tickler.
A newborn baby elephant in Adam Forepaughs menagerie captivates visitors as the first captive elephant to give birth in history. The mother cares for the calf with notable tenderness while spectators marvel at the feat and the show prepares a grand exhibition in Wooster.
Advertisements reveal Donfer promoting a fresh shipment of wallpaper at the White Front. The listing includes multiple names such as Archer, Bannig Brown, Will Chresline, Ja Conwell, Mateo Davis, Louise Danis, and others. Several entries note notices for letters requiring advertisement dates and a clerk’s warning to claim by a specified time.
A colonial medicine ad touts Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and lung ailments including coughs colds asthma and hoarseness. It claims wide physician clerical and press praise and offers trial bottles and regular sizes priced around one dollar. Rollers in Wooster and Dr Bertolett in Shreve sell it.
Fragmented OCR details several marriage notices. Mentions Rev Maxhimer Wooster officiating in Wayne County and Rev S A WP Cowick uniting couples, with references to Orinda and April Baker among others, plus a Methodist Parsonage event in Akron officiated by Rev Henry Lemon Barber and Miss Alice C Bath in Summit County.
In Wooster on April 25 1377 notices blend a memorial sermon for Emma C Downing wife of Robert M Downing with community ads. The page includes general groceries and farm goods lists such as eggs butter cheese lard hams dried fruit beans potatoes and various grains plus flour and wool trade items.
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