29 Jul 1886
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1886
Page
1
I II III Collegia and Teacher’s Courses plus Business Course grant two diplomas upon completion. Subjects include music elocution French and German offered with any course or separately. Students may enter at any time. S. F. Hogue and A. M. M. D. present.
Local items report new buggies from C M Overholt and C M Overhall, and a Wiley sale by G K Otis. Returns from West by L E Griffin and Mrs Eliza Martin. Births at F House and Alex Moore residence. A gas well spectator shed, call for a Law and Order League, and Burt Brown selling Indiana books. Steelsmith bankruptcy cited with assets of 9500 and liabilities 1500. Wheat yield 272 bushels from 8 5 acres. new church bell at Farmer. Family visits from Wisconsin and Illinois. a runaway team incident. two burglaries with stolen cash rings and a watch. Hill hurt chopping wood. temperance convention in Defiance County.
Randolf is employed by Dentist Tunnehill. The Pleasant Ridge school house has been repainted. Will Shamo spent the first of the week at Buffalo.
Sunday visits at Fountain chapel and Crestline guests frame a share of county news. Farm conditions grow dire amid drought with oats and hay yields, water shortages, and lower markets while crops vary locally.
A promotional pitch extols Dr. Biggers' Tickleberry Cordial as essential for family health in avoiding cramps colic diarrhea and dysentery. It likens protection from sudden bowels to fending off a robber and urges every household to keep the remedy on hand.
The Burg saw a major fire damaging Koch building on Monday night July 19 and several residents and travelers visited from nearby townships. Encounters included Rev Orth from Defiance and Mr Wheat with wife, plus a Michigander who entertained locals with fits of yarns and oaths.
A plant known as the little purple berry is praised for its strong bowel effects. Dr Biggers Huck leberry Cordial is touted as a great southern remedy for teething infants and for diarrhea dysentery and cramp colic. Sold by druggists for 50 cents.
An old medicinal ad touts Mrs Winston's SootHina Syrup as a trusted teething remedy from a top US nurse and physician. Cited claims include relief from teething pain, dysentery, diarrhoea, and griping, with wind and cold symptoms. The tonic is priced at 25 cents per bottle.
N G Woodward asserts Acker's English Remedy is best for asthma croup coughs and all lung troubles. He guarantees it and urges others to ask him for details about the remedy.
Old Indian rain signs fail to bring moisture and honey crops suffer while wheat looks poor though granaries remain fat. L F Blanchard burns swamp to control snakes. Martin Bennett starts a new threshing machine. Grasshoppers damage oats. Mrs Loist Kerr from Fort Wayne visits sister Mrs John Smith as Mr and Mrs Wm Shupp attend Evangelical meeting. Frank Klienden injures shin after a horse incident. Local youths hunt rattlesnakes and Defiance Normal closing exercises yield praise. Thomas Drake shows trilobite Calymine and Rhynchopolla fossils from Paleozoic era.
Frank Myers suffers a lung ailment while threshing season ends soon with machines busy. H D Stones house nears completion and apple trees bend with fruit. Ayersville Sabbath school to picnic near Sharon Chapel. Mt Calvary welcomes a new recruit. Geo Clark patents Eureka churn hailed as good. Wheat yield surpasses recent years with H J Hill threshing 142 dozen and 140 bushels.
Mrs. Rothenberger plans Dayton move. Miss Retta Johnson assists Bill Longsmith of West Noble. Matt Boughers of Defiance owned 75 bushels wheat with a three mile haul. Cora Longsmith visits Miamisburg Ohio to see Uncle Charles Boughers. Prairie Creek quarterly meeting drew many from Mack's class. Elder Lilly preached. A river road incident reports a man abusing his housekeeper over a school marm.
The New York Tribune reports an extension of the 1842 extradition treaty between the United States and Britain, adding manslaughter burglary embezzlement or larceny over 50 dollars and malicious injury to property endangering life. It covers accused and convicted, excludes political offenses, and awaits senate ratification with potential future enlargements. Minister Phelps explains the move to avoid disputes from broader lists.
N G Woodward tests Acker's Blood Elixir and asserts it will cure scrofula boils and other blood disorders along with syphilis and rheumatism. He calls it a scientific preparation and guarantees results, noting it is not a patent medicine.
Over one million boxes of Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets sold in the past year. N G Woodward offers relief for constipation dyspepsia sour stomach and other ailments with a guaranteed cure. Grigg's Glycerine Salve touted as a safe speedy cure for cuts bruises burns wounds and skin eruptions with satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Only 25 cents.
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