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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1887
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR shows a train or express timetable noting Rogers Booths, a line labeled Three ago pane, with times 5 PM peak, 28 AM, 47 AM, 1 PM, and 1:10 AM. Details are unclear due to garbled text.
A sweep of campus life notes points to ten weeks remaining in the term. Professors Hogue Minckwitz Tucker lead classes and declamations while croquet and football games spark student activity. Misses Spangler Biede and Miss Rang plan future enrollments as a meningitis outbreak hits Valparaiso Normal, threatening closure.
Local items survey gas well depth contrasts between Findlay and Fredonia, noting Fredonia's long history with natural gas via a spring and new drilling in pursuit of fuel. Railroad tariff critique centers on long haul vs short haul rates, with Orton's gas geology zoned as a humorous note. Community updates include a clock chime at Crowe & Hooker’s mill, wheat crop concerns from drought, a Favored re‑nomination for Flickinger, local business gains from Bowling Green ventures, and recovery news for A. Fuckinser from a past accident.
Mrs Wixston's Sootuine Syrup is touted as the prescription of a leading nurse and physician in the United States. Used for forty years and claimed to relieve teething pain, cure dysentery and diarrhoea, griping, and wind, it is said to give health to the child and rest to the mother. Price 25c a bottle.
Dear Express I report from the wild west chasing the boom town craze. Ottawa intrigues with water works rail links coal and power while a steady conservative base underpins its growth. The Inter State Assembly meets June ninth at Chatauqua of the west with railroads offering special rates. I hope to meet neighbors there. Mack
National Live Stock Journal reports W C Holgate of Defiance Ohio offers over one hundred Short horns from the Defiance Herd for closeout after Curtis Holgate’s death. Cattle sold in lots of eighteen or twenty with long-time terms and trade for workable items. Catalogs available describing cattle superiority.
The list shows transfers in Adams, Richland, Delaware Bend and other townships. Mary Ann Burke and others sell 40 acres to John May for 625 dollars. David Osborn sells 38 acres to John Durham for 1900. Wm H Slough sells lot 6 in Delaware Bend for 300. Catherine Turritin sells lot 78 in Evansport for 400. Jacob Patten sells 40 acres in Richland to John Drexler for 2800. A E and W B Hufford sell lot 111 in south Defiance for 500. Jacob Goller sells 40 acres in Washington to John Goller for 1500. Martin Kuzmaul sells 40 acres in Delaware to Emory A Bayliss for 625. Henry Wonderly to Catherine Hyatt sheriff's deed to Brunersburg lots 87 88 89 90 for 130.
Chief Rourke of the Fire Department rode behind a new hose truck horse in M. B. Gorman's buggy on Friday in Third Street. The startled horse bolted at a corner, leapt over a passing wood wagon, and dumped a man named Mike from the wagon. He was unharmed. The horse then returned to its stable without injury.
Corn Feed on hand at C I Morse’s with Morse’s thirty cent per tin cut tobacco English Dairy Salt and Ming Tobacco largest assortment for Farmers. Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion cures mange and scratches in 30 minutes. Sold by Colpy Scott Druggists Defiance. Real estate notice by F L Hay, court house office. 48tf.
C. I. Morse advertises bulk cigar sales offering discounts for large orders. Potential buyers urged to call for savings on cigars by the box or in bulk quantities.
Advertisement shows financing terms for improved farms with folding binder offered by J J Kahlo & Brother. No life insurance required and long term loans available at low interest. Attorney H G Baker is listed for contact and legal assistance.
Frank J. Cheney & Co of Toledo state they will pay a hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by fall's Catarrh Cure. The sworn affidavit dated December 6 before notary A W Gleason notes the firm will send testimonials upon request. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
The Almont Stallion Alhambra Chief and the Belgian Stallion Luis will perform in Defiance this season, appearing Monday through Wednesday at Napoleon, and Thursday through Saturday at the old livery barn on Front street.
Parties sawing oak timber and getting out railroad ties can find a good market by communicating with M. M. Rodgers, Purchasing Agent, at the New York Central and St. Louis Railway in Cleveland Ohio.
The text touts a cleansing and purifying Fluid that relieves and prevents erysipelas gangrene and proud flesh. It asserts obstinate ulcers boils carbuncles and rupturing sores become pure and healthy and rapidly cured with this single application.
Dr. A. McKinney announces relocation of his office from Holgate Avenue to rooms over the Harman Swalley and Co. dry goods store. He will be available day and night unless professionally engaged.
A new daily train on the Trans Ohio Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway will run to Chicago with a sleeping car from Wheeling. It departs Wheeling at 2 25 P M and stops at Barnesville Cambridge Zanesville Columbus Newark Mt Vernon Mansfield Shelby Junction Sandusky Tiffin Fostoria Deshler before arriving in Chicago at 5 40 A M.
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