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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
8
A brief notice notes rail and postal services in Chicago with mention of the Chicago ress and a person named Les. The item reads as an in-page snippet linking transit and mail naming local entities.
Miss Raser Eddie Bronson and David Garmon join Defiance students. Teachers inventory the library while elocution classes plan Friday recitations. A portrait by Miss Geiger under Miss Blue’s direction is in progress. A Fayette normal college move is debated as potentially beneficial. A fall term class in elementary algebra starts with Mrs Hogue as teacher and a college hall social follows. Rev Howey marries A Baker to Miss Bixby amid college attendance.
The record lists several property transfers including H D Spohn to Wm Wolf two and a half acres for 600 dollars, Wm J Pierce to Ira W Poper thirty acres in Milford township for 1000, Amos C Garver quit claim to 32 acres in Tiffin, and other transfers to Isaac Edwards, Lettis Spohn, Harriett Myers, and more. Also noted is a patent notice for land in Defiance and a small Highland township parcel to Free Will Baptists for 50 dollars. An apparent medical advertisement for Acker's English Remedy targets asthma and lung troubles, offered by N G Woodward.
A Baltimore Chronicle anecdote portrays civil service commissioner Edgerton criticizing a young woman for makeup and urging natural skin. The piece shifts to local rail prospects, gas plans, and a missed Van Wert trip, urging a north south railroad and cautioning flood damage and regional tensions including Antwerp reservoir disputes.
A. J. Walter’s return to Tiffin with hacks and teams leads Russell House proprietor to launch bus service to trains. He plans two busses and a baggage wagon and even considers building a hotel barn behind the Russell House benefiting hotel guests and the general public.
An appeal urges every user to spread the word about Boschee's German Syrup for consumption coughs asthma and lung diseases. It claims rapid relief after three doses and notes 80 000 dozen bottles sold, no reported failures, with sample bottles at 10 cents and regular size 75 cents sold by druggists across the United States and Canada.
An elderly physician, retired, claims a vegetable remedy cures Consumption and lung ailments and nervous complaints. He will mail free of charge the recipe with directions in German, French, or English upon request, to W. A. Noyes in Rochester, New York.
The Wauseon Republican reports a removed pump and torn valves at the Wauseon gas well with operations to determine oil presence using a bailer. A salt water vein is found at Napoleon well around 1900 feet with no oil or gas signs. Perrysburg abandons gas search at 1600 feet. Bryan well yields a rich gas flow with stronger flame and better quality.
Price Hanging Lamps at C I Morse's promises best oysters and freshest crackers at C Morse's. Closing out sale of Hanging Lamps. The place to buy groceries cheap is at Irk Prairie Mange and Scratches cured in 30 minutes by Woodford's Sanitary Lotion. Sold by Colby & Scott druggists. On real estate security apply to F L Hay agent office in court house 481f.
Office in Merchants National Bank offers tickets to all points in the Union at the cheapest price in the city.
Seventy five Plymouth Rock fowls sold in trios pairs or singly by Florence G Holgate. Growers and dealers offer Strawberries Raspberries Blackberries Dewberries Gooseberries Currants Fruit Trees Vines and related stock. Special attention to individual orders. Enclose stamp for catalogue. Mohler s Hurl Evergreen Improved Chinese and Dwarf Brooncorn seed offered. Write Mohler Frantz Lock Box 354 New Carlisle Ohio.
A Rochester New York nursery seeks a few experienced salesmen to canvass for fruit and ornamental stock. Earn good salaries or commissions and permanent employment. New and choice specialties available. Apply to May Brothers Nurserymen with references.
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