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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1887
Page
2
Local notes recount visits by Mike Warner, John Perpening, Frank Farlow and Amelia Swilley, plus church preaching, temperance meetings, grave gatherings, and a series of local events, fires, thefts, and improvements. It mentions Otis, Moore, and Farlow family ties, fairs, weather, and community announcements.
The column lists numerous social visits and travels among residents of Defiance and surrounding areas. Highlights include Harmon Rohr's family visiting Mr. Walters and Lizzie Conn visiting Daniel Hurd, with several Sunday gatherings at various homes. A benefit ice cream festival at William Conn's for the U B Church raised 35.55.
H C Leaders is at home again this week finishes up harvesting and illness lists. Miss Dele Rohn MD visited on professional business. Jarvis creamery gathers cream in the area. Numerous locals visit and host relatives, including Mabel Hilton Perrysburg and Mrs Libbie Hilton Hubbell Nebraska. A white crane spooked residents amid heat. Sanitary conditions remain generally good.
An advertisement touts Acker's English Remedy as a preventive for throat and chest illnesses including coughs and whooping coughs. It guarantees results and is sold by N. G. Woodward at prices of 10 and 50.
Corn suffers for rain while threshing dominates farm news. Wheat per acre yields fall short of last year. David Hill begins road work one mile north. J. K. Myers builds kitchen and woodshed. Many young Americans plan to attend school this fall. The Free Baptist church dedication moved from August to September. date to be announced with invitations.
The item records several brief notices: Mrs. Rowell serves ice cream again Saturday night. a wedding soon. Mrs. Elsworth Scott of Bryan visiting her parents. deaths of Will Stinger aged 26 and Seth M. Young aged 66 with Masonic burial. travel to view a gas well. Mrs. Manon and daughter Belle returning from Syracuse and Millersburg. an illness leading to a funeral. and an advertisement for English Spavin Liniment sold by Colby & Scott in Defiance seeks buyers with a claim of savings.
An advertisement declares Blood Elixir as a universal remedy for ulcers eruptions or syphilitic poisoning. It claims to purify the whole system and banish rheumatic and neuralgic pains, with a guarantee.
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