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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1887
Page
2
A fragmentary column reports visitors, school events, literary meetings, church activities, and local incidents in the Burg and Defiance region. It mentions Mrs Clemmons sick list, a log and sleighing scene, residents from Defiance and Hicksville, a gas explosion in Kokomo, and a near miss with a gun injury among youths.
I provide a historical catalog fragment listing three course names. The entry reads I Collegiate Course II Teacher s Course III Business Course. The text offers no additional context or dates.
Emma Pettitt visits Hicksville as residents share news from town and surrounding areas. Frigid weather, visits to Ada Mansfield Chicago and Park Center, and local social events including dances, church services, and a birthday gathering at F M Thompson’s home. G A R funeral, office chair gift, and a cancer treatment note plus a discussion on steam engine benefits.
Brief notes record an early telegraph discussion with affirmative and negative names, a Kerr Brothers accident injuring fireman Al Harris, and a virulent editorial denouncing Northern democrats in Logan’s death era. It condemns treachery toward Union leaders and defends wartime resolve.
There is more catarrh in this region than other diseases and it is called constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio is advertised as the only constitutional remedy taken internally. They offer 100 dollars to any case it fails to cure and urge sending for circulars and testimonials. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents.
Advertises Dr Haynes Golden Specific as a cure for drunkenness that can be added to coffee or tea without the drinker’s knowledge. Claim claims a five year permanent cure for moderate drinkers or alcoholics, with thousands already made temperate. No harm said, guarantees, asks reader to send for circular from Golden Specific Co. Cincinnati Ohio.
Advertising copy claims Mrs Wixstow’s Soothing Syrup is a forty year medicine used by millions of mothers to ease teething, relieve griping, dysentery, diarrhoea, and wind, with a 25 cent bottle price.
An elderly physician, retired, offers a vegetable remedy for consumption bronchitis and nervous complaints. He will mail the recipe free in German French or English with directions, via W. A. Noyes Rochester New York. Also advertised Salvation Oil claiming cures for rheumatism sore throat swellings burns and frost-bites at 245 cents per bottle.
A revival will begin soon at Bethel chapel led by Elder Laptey. Emma Corbin of Defiance has been visiting for four weeks. A successful revival closed at Lighthill church Tuesday with 24 converts. Mrs. Ida Hagerman finished a two month term of school in Gray district Tuesday. Mrs. Rose Mansfield to teach two months in Gray district starting January. E A Budd of the Paulding Democrat spent last week visiting locals. Bethel school taught by Mr. Schaffer of Van Wert and Mrs. Anna Morris of Arthur. Mrs. J Bell and family visiting in Henry County. Perkins brothers of Hancock County visiting their sister Mrs. Storer of Beaver Dam. Killman Wibel teaching in Link district and L J Christie to attend Normal College next summer term. Centenary chapel revival ongoing with Elders Davis Fitzwater Bates and L Pekins of Trumbull county. Mrs J B Wible returned from Trumbull county after funeral of her mother. Melrose district faces seat-contract trouble for school building. Hop Porous Plaster ad offers 25 cents for back pains.
Business men grow tired of snide ad schemes promising cheap exposure. The piece argues real advertising works through regular, paid newspapers with steady readership, not gimmicks or free inserts. It stresses newspapers reach a loyal audience at lower cost than flashy, unreliable posters or handbills.
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