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Take your produce to Weller and Bruner’s for top cash price. Fresh oysters offered by dish or can at the Baltimore Bakery. Before buying a wagon, inspect the many good points of the Turnbull wagon.
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1879
Page
5
Take your produce to Weller and Bruner’s for top cash price. Fresh oysters offered by dish or can at the Baltimore Bakery. Before buying a wagon, inspect the many good points of the Turnbull wagon.
Local items from Defiance and area recount county sessions, street improvements, social events, and public concerns. Entries include mayor and church updates, marriages, express services, temperance efforts, and community anecdotes collected around Defiance, Hicksville, and nearby towns.
From Our Own Correspondent reports muddy roads hinder farm work while hogs fetch 3.35 per M. Wheat looks promising. George Wilson of DeKalb county is visiting. Andrew Ridenour plans a new house after a fire. Residents travel to Crawford county and Toledo for work and stock sheep. William Yeagly yields 1954 bushels from 11 acres.
Charles Chester, a Kuhn Ulrichs tobacco box worker, was struck in the abdomen by a board kicked back from a buzz saw while edging covers. He survived into Monday morning amid delirium, but died after painful injuries. He had recently moved from Valparaiso Indiana and was held in high esteem by acquaintances. His body was claimed by friends from Valparaiso after the funeral arrangements. The notice also praises Colby and Scott's drug store window displays, urging locals to view their holiday goods before sales begin.
Rough roads prevail as merchants report good trade and church meetings at the U B church continue. D Fridley has added bolting chests and a new burr to his mill improving capacity. schools in generation township rely on strong teachers and parental support to ensure a productive winter.
Local notes report poor weather for husking corn but storms bring a big boom for Dry Creek. The community records school starts, new teachers, Thanksgiving gatherings, an oyster supper, a cider factory plan, and the cheese factory closing with Michigan cheese maker Wilcox returning home.
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