07 Apr 1887
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1887
Page
1
Fragmented schedule lines show trains labeled Eastward and Westward services among New York Washington Baltimore Chicago routes with times like 22:55 10:35 PM and 5 PM 6 PM. Mentions of Express lines and local trains indicate a historical timetable segment with incomplete legible city names and times.
The piece urges spring work from painting to plowing and notes February 1887 as a rainy month. It warns swindlers opening new schemes, extols home merchants over traveling peddlers, and urges readers to advertise in the paper while promoting printer’s ink investments. It references real estate activity and seasonal mood in Findlay.
The piece recalls the hardships and journeys of Defiance County’s first settlers around 1817 to the 1830s. It names Gadda and Joseph Blair from Detroit, Benjamin Mullican, George Woodcox, Barnabs Blue, Samuel Hughes, and William Travis among others, noting river travel from Maumee to Fort Wayne, early pirogue use, and the growth of Delaware and Noble townships with Bean Creek’s first settlers near Brunersburg.
The Paulding Gazette reports a scandal in which Samuel Dotterer, elected Infirmary Director, allegedly fathered a child with Ida Wolff, a 20 year old former inmate. The article details visits from Dotterer to Wolff, the birth of a child, an arrest, and a hearing that was postponed and dismissed, with the paper urging prosecution and condemning a local Democratic paper’s defense of Dotterer.
The reminiscences describe bran ershburg area mills built c 1828 and a mouth of Sulphur Run mill in Delaware township, noting Hughes as a millwright. The author, relying on elders from fifty years past, recalls Thomas Carr the Frenchman and a first Maumee river day in a pirogue with two men and their early hardships. March 31, 1887.
The Gazette notes pressure on law and public opinion as Dotterer faces accusations tied to Ida Wolff. It cites three months prior knowledge of her pregnancy to Superintendent Gant, questions Dotterer’s sources, and warns readers to await legal resolution before passing judgment on innocence or guilt.
Grace Episcopal Church schedules a special day with a 10 30 morning sermon on the Testimony of the witnesses to the resurrection of Christ and an evening 7 30 continuation. Ladies are asked to bring plants and flowers for dedication on Saturday at 2 p m. A children's service will be held Easter Sunday at 3 p m with missionary boxes opened.
On Monday evening J. W. Horn and family left Mark township for Deadwood Oregon via the Northern Pacific railroad. The journey will take eight days of steady travel as Mr. Horn aims to farm on the Pacific coast. Local notices include medical testimonials and various advertisements from Morse and Coan, with items on tobacco, salt, and loans.
Tickets to Union points advertised at Merchants National Bank Office. The New Excelsior promotes folding binder from J. J. Kahlo & Brother and offers lessons in French and German embroidery, needlework, and hammered brass. Rooms at Russell House.
An eighty acre farm near De fiance is well improved and drained, valued at 50 dollars per acre. It will be sold within ten days at 25 dollars per acre. Call on Charles F. Bronson.
Due to rising passenger traffic on the Trans Ohio Division a new train now runs daily over the Ohio Division except Monday. The service includes a sleeping car Wheeling to Chicago and stops at Barnesville Cambridge Zanesville Columbus Newark Mt. Vernon Mansfield Shelby Junction Sandusky Tiffin Fostoria Deshler Defiance before reaching Chicago at 5 30 a m.
Mrs Winslow's SootHina Syrup, a teething remedy praised by a leading nurse and physician, claims forty years of use with universal mother approval. It is said to relieve pain and cure dysentery diarrhea griping bowels and wind colic, resting both child and mother. Price 25 cents per bottle.
An old advertisement claims Kaskine is almost a specific for malaria rheumatism nervous disorders and germ diseases and superior to quinine. It cites hospitals in New York North Carolina and Saint Joseph's Hospital praising its effectiveness and declaring patients cured or discharged.
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