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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1887
Page
9
legible portions show a Pacific Express timetable with a 11:55 PM and 6:45 AM times. OCR garble obscures full names and routes but indicates mail and express service schedules.
Fragmentary timetable snippet shows routes GOING EAST and GOING WEST with multiple line names including Baltimore New York and Chicago Express. The readable portions indicate schedule times such as 10:15 AM and 1:10 AM with references to Jim7a and undefined conve.
A collection of hometown editorials urges immediate painting and whitewashing, spring plowing, and aligning with nature’s cycle. It laments swinders, warns February 1887's rain and snow, and promotes advertising, printer’s ink, and patronizing home merchants over traveling peddlers to boost local economy. It notes real estate activity in Findlay and stresses community self-reliance.
Edwin Phelps recalls early Defiance county settlers around 1817 to 1832 detailing families such as the Blairs from Detroit, Mullican, Woodcox, Barnabas Blue, Samuel Hughes, and the Travis brothers. He notes river transport routes, early pirogues, and the spread of homesteads along the Maumee and Auglaize rivers, with towns like Brunersburg and Bean Creek forming in the era.
The Paulding Gazette reports a dotterer case alleging Samuel Dotterer then Infirmary Director assaulted Ida Wolff, an orphan 20, who bore his child during visits after leaving the infirmary. Prosecution pursued, hearings delayed by local custom, case later dismissed, with plans to press charges anew.
The text recounts 19th century pioneer activity including building a grist mill at Branersburg circa 1828, settling at Sulphur Run mouth in Delaware township, and a millwright Hughes. It notes scarcity of surviving elders, relies on fifty year old memories, and mentions Thomas Carr the Frenchman and an 1887 date.
The Gazette hints at a scandal involving Miss Ida Wolff and Dotterer. It questions how Dotterer learned of Ida Wolff’s pregnancy and asserts that the law will decide innocence or guilt, warning seduction screeners to seek truth while avoiding sensationalism.
Grace Episcopal Church schedules a morning sermon at 10 30 on the Testimony of the witnesses to the resurrection of Christ followed by an evening service at 7 30. Ladies are asked to bring plants for dedication Saturday at 2 p m. Children’s Easter Sunday service is at 3 p m with missionary boxes to be opened.
On Monday evening J W Horn of Mark township started with his family for Deadwood Oregon by the Northern Pacific rail line. The journey will take eight days of steady travel as they head to the Pacific coast to take up farming duties.
Tickets for all pots are available at the Union through Merchants National Bank. The notice directs buyers to the bank office for purchasing, signaling a centralized sales point in the city.
J. J. Kahlo and Brother announce new agricultural ware rooms featuring the simplest lightest strongest Folding Binder. They offer lessons in French and German Embroidery needlework and Hammered Brass. Ladies urged to call soon for instruction at Russell House.
An eighty acre farm near De fiance, well improved and under drained, valued at $50 per acre. It will be sold if taken within ten days at $25 per acre. Interested buyers should call Cuarvis E. Bronson.
Increased passenger demand on the Trans Ohio Division prompts a new daily train to Chicago excluding Mondays. The service departs Wheeling at 2 25 PM with a sleeping car from Wheeling to Chicago, stopping at Barnesville Cambridge Zanesville Columbus Newark Mt Vernon Mansfield Shelby Junction Sandusky Tiffin Fostoria Deshler Defiance and arrives in Chicago at 5 30 AM.
Mrs Winslow's Learning Syrup for children teething touted as prescription of leading US nurse and physician. Claimed to ease teething pain, cure dysentery and diarrhoea, griping, and wind colic. Sold at 25 cents a bottle.
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