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Newspaper

Defiance County Express

Location

Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1887

Page

8

Uwan vee time fragment noted

Readable text shows a fragmented time reference with 110 AM and surrounding unclear details. No discernible event, entities, or context to anchor a full news item.

Uwan Vee

College Club Activities Highlight Campus Life

No games last week. The athletic and croquet clubs show activity with rooms in use and a north east ground. New students Miss Freida Shellman and Willie Jarvis join. Miss Anna Burgland and Taylor Cook sing in chapel. Elocution class meets Thursdays and Fridays. faculty includes Hogue and Minckwitz among others.

Freida Shellman Willie Jarvis Hogue Minckwitz Miss Gibson Tucker Miss Blue Doenitz Perkins Excelsior Literary Society College Hall

Burgland & Shead Raise Wages 10 to 15 Percent May 1

Burgland and Shead inform workers that starting May 1 their wages will rise by 10 to 15 percent. The raise is voluntary and driven by steady demand for their goods at satisfactory prices. The firm says it will share its prosperity with employees.

Messrs Burgland & Shead

Fluid claims to cure skin infections quickly

The advert asserts that its cleansing and purifying Fluid relieves erysipelas gangrene proud flesh boils carbuncles and running sores, rendering them pure and healthy and speedily cured with no other preparation needed.

Old physician offers free cure recipe for consumption remedy

An elderly physician, retired, claims to possess a vegetable remedy that cures consumption and nervous complaints. He plans to mail the recipe free of charge in German, French, or English to any reader who writes with a stamped return, naming the paper, to W. A. Noyes in Rochester, New York.

East India W. A. Noyes Power's Rochester N.Y

John Sherman as Presidential Candidate and Economic Pioneer

The American Magazine profile highlights John Sherman, longtime public servant, as a potential presidential candidate. It details his methodical, industrious approach to economics, his decisive leadership in tariff and revenue issues, and his resilient, fearless character shown in antebellum Congress.

American Brooklyn N.Y Roy Ohio

Duel of Wits and Fire at the Capitol

An 19th century incident unfolds as a Tennessee member throws wafers at Wright in the House. Sherman recalls drawing his pistol and prepares to shoot if assaulted, while both men ultimately avoid violence. The episode ends with Wright’s later downfall and a note on changing times at the Capitol.

John Sherman Senate House of Representatives Committee of Ways and Means Charles Columbus John Congress Treary House Tennessee Wright Sherman Congressional Globe Tennesean Mr. Sherman Ohio Capitol

College Notes libel denial from Valparaiso college

U G Fiaiey denies rumors of an epidemic at the Northern Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso. He asserts no meningitis cases exist, students are well, and the death cited did not involve the college, accusing the earlier report of malicious fabrication.

Valparaiso, Inc Eprron Derriance Express Valparaiso Northern Indiana Normal School Defiance County U. G. Fiaiey

Hall's Catarrh Cure Admitted to Pay for Uncured Cases

Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay $100 for each case of Catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. The notice, dated December 6, notes the internal remedy works on blood and mucus surfaces and offers testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.

Frank J. Cheney F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Hall Notary Public Osey

Blood Preparation Claim Pitches Cure for Diseases

An advertisement touts a piano as the best Blood Preparation claiming it will positively cure all Blood Diseases, purify the system, and build up the constitution with a guaranteed effect. It stresses the product’s unparalleled efficacy and consumer assurance.

Acker

Murder Shocks Folmer Neighbors in Paulding County

report from Van Wert Republican details a fatal conflict between two neighbors Andrews and McCoy near Folmer. McCoy struck Andrews with a club after a dispute over real estate remarks, killing him. McCoy was arrested and jailed pending coroner's inquest amid threatened lynching.

van Wert Folmer Paulding Andrews McCoy Parr

Morse's Corner Store Ad Highlights Pet Foods and Gear

Business locals advertise corn feed tobacco and dairy salt at Morse's with a range of farm supplies. The notice promotes Ping Tobacco, a three wheeled force feed grain drill, and peeks at J. J. Kanto & Bros on 2d street for viewing.

J. J. Kanto & Bros

Real Estate Security Case Involving F L Hay

Real estate security matter centers on agent F L Hay with office located in the courthouse area. Proceedings and actions touch on property dealings and intra-office safeguards in the court district.

F. L Hay Court House

C. I. Morse Promotes Cigar Deals Near the Sox

Advertises cheap cigars by C. I. Morse, touting savings for buyers near the Sox or a thousand. The note emphasizes value and location for customers seeking affordable tobacco products.

Sox Thousand C. I. Morse

Loan on improved farms at lowest rate of interest

To loan on long time on improved farms with privilege of prepayment and no life insurance required. Call attorney H. G. Baker for details.

H. G. Baker

Almont Stallions to Perform in Defiance Schedule

The Almont Stallion Alhambra Chief and the Belgian Stallion Luis will tour in 1887 starting Monday to Wednesday in Napoleon and Thursday to Saturday at the old livery barn on Front Street Defiance.

Alhambra Chief Luis Napoleon Front Stret Defiance

Timber and railroad ties market via M M Rodgers agent

Parties sawing oak timber and getting out railroad ties can find a good market by contacting M. M. Rodgers, Purchasing Agent, New York Central and St. Louis Railway, Cleveland, Ohio.

M. M. Rodgers St. L. Ry Cleveland

Mrs Winslow’s Leorning Syxop Teething Remedy

A historic advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Leorning Syxop as a premier teething remedy used for forty years by millions of mothers. It claims to ease teething pain and relieve dysentery diarrhoea griping and wind, promising health for the child and rest for the mother at 25 cents per bottle.

New Express Train on the B. and O. for Chicago

Due to increased passenger business on the Trans Ohio Division a new daily train is added to the Ohio Division schedule with a sleeping car from Wheeling to Chicago. It leaves Wheeling at 2 25 P M and reaches Chicago at 5 30 A M arriving at multiple stops along the route including Barnesville Cambridge Zanesville Columbus Newark Mt. Vernon Mansfield Shelby Junction Sandusky Tiflin Fostoria Deshler Defiance.

Chicago Wheeling Barnesville Cambridge Zanesville Columbus Newark Mt. Vernon Mansfield Shelby Junction Sandusky Tiflin Fostoria Deshler Defiance

Kaskine Promises Cure Claims Across Hospitals

An advertisement extols Kaskine as a universal remedy for malaria rheumatism nervous prostration and all germ diseases. It touts strong cold relief claims claiming superiority to quinine and lists hospital pedigrees including Bellevue St Francis and St Josephs noting patients cured.

Bellevue Hospital N. Y St. Francis Hospital N.C St. Joseph’s Hospital

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