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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1886
Page
2
A wide array of community items fills the Express column from Hicksville, including Republican calls to vote early, church and school news, farm updates, obituaries, and local incidents. Reports cover elections caucuses, weddings, deaths, a horse theft case wrap, and notes on real estate and business changes.
Local notices report Sunday gatherings and garden plans by early settlers. Brick cottage occupancy resumes on Main Street as school terms begin and end. Community chatter covers politics, illness, moving, and minor mischief including a church dynamite incident and social news from Georgetown Evansport and Sherwood.
N G Woodward asserts Acker's Blood Elixir will cure skin diseases and blood disorders including Scrofula Boils Syphilis and Rheumatism after a practical test. He states it is not a patent nostrum but a scientific preparation and guarantees results.
Pauding plans a new lumber yard while a series of misc incidents are reported. Thos McBride suffers a sore hand from a splinter. Charley Barnes returns home from Nebraska after three weeks away. Wm Twohy shows paralysis in limbs. A lightning strike damaged the residence of Wm Phillips near Antwerp with eight people inside unharmed. A heavy stone narrowly misses a Latty worker who is saved by nearby help. the man escape from danger is praised as providential.
The note urges exhausted farmers and families to take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to restore energy for spring and summer work and implies it pays back the cost in value.
Canton Bryan I O C F grows from eighteen to thirty members since February eighteenth. Rev Father G C Schoeneman moved to Cleveland after serving Bryan Stryker Archbald and Wauseon. Williams county old settlers in Bryan call for July third grand meeting with Martin Perky as president, C A Bowersox orator, Jacob Youse secretary. William Letcher of Bryan died at seventy after a paralysis stroke. he served in the 1879 legislature and was Garfield’s appointee to Mitchell Dakota, cousin to Garfield.
N G Wood ward highly commends Acker's English Remedy as the best medicine for asthma croup coughs whooping cough and all lung troubles. He guarantees it and invites inquiries about its effectiveness.
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