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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1887
Page
8
Rail notice lists Wabash St Louis and Pacific freight service and local accommodations with brief mention of St Louis Express and local freight options amid sparse OCR remnants.
The Steedman monument unveiling in Toledo drew over twenty thousand attendees with a De fiance delegation of about six hundred. A seven-car chartered train carried many visitors. the event ran smoothly. The $30,000 monument honors General and brave soldiers, with generous gifts from Mr. W. J. Findlay. The Toledo Press Club hosted guests, and elaborate decor pleased many reporters and officials.
A first-person reminiscence traces Defiance area settlement from 1834, describing rivers, roads, and early routes. It notes few settlers, extensive river travel, and the shift from old wagon roads to a Columbus Lima Defiance line, plus canal land speculation and early land sales affecting settlement pace. A brief bakery advertisement closes the piece.
Two horses were killed at the east approach to the B and O railroad bridge over the Auglaize on Saturday evening at 6 o clock. One horse belonged to Joe Moore the other to Kesselmayer. They had been grazing on Wing's Woodlawn when they wandered onto the tracks and were instantly killed by the locomotive. Their bodies were dragged about one third of the way across the bridge before being dropped onto the structure, badly mangled.
Officers elected at Loudonville Firemens’ Convention include President W H Williams Urbana Ohio and Secretary T W McClure Carey Ohio. Canton to host tournament Ashland to hold next year’s convention last Wednesday in May. Delegates paraded led by Octet band. opera house decorated by Loudonville women and firemen. crowd praised. Quite a number paused in Tiffin on the return home.
Beautiful world and nature frame a health patent claim about Green's August Flower. It asserts the remedy cures dyspepsia and liver complaints causing many ailments and promises dramatic relief after three doses, with sample bottles offered at ten cents and an ice cream note tied to Brown's Baltimore Bakery.
Advertising copy claims Dr Haynes Golden Specific can cure liquor habit without patient knowledge by mixing in coffee or tea. It asserts thousands of drinkers became temperate and guarantees cure with no harm. Offers circulars and guarantees from Golden Specific Co at 185 Race St Cincinnati Ohio.
Diverse classified items include patent medicines Acker's English Remedy and Dyspepsia Tablets with medical claims, tobacco ads, real estate and loan offers, livery and stables schedules, a stallion season announcement for 1887, home goods from Rogers & Boom, stove servicing, breakfast bakery notes, and warnings about stone throwing at the M E church.
Abuscess of Lungs cases labeled incurable consumptive recover after using Dr King’s New Discovery. Newark Arkansas resident Morris reports third bottle aiding farm work. Decatur Ohio resident Middlewart credits health after doctors gave up. Free sample bottles at Colby Scott’s Drug Store. Also local oddities critique astronomers strikes and city laundries.
The notice promotes Syngita Block remedies for diarrheal and bowel complaints as well as cough, worm, kidney, and nervous disorders. Each dose costs one cent and packaging is pocket sized. Bechel offers a full drug line and related goods, with money refunds if the products fail.
An old advertisement roundup touts Mrs Winston’s Soothing Syrup for teething as a long used, trusted remedy by millions. It claims to ease teething, cure dysentery and diarrhea, with a 25 cent bottle available through Brown’s Baltimore Bakery, while cautioning against mercury-containing remedies and promoting Hall’s Catarrh Cure from Toledo. It also promotes Baltimore home made biscuits and Acker’s Baby Soother as safe, non opium options.
A brief ad urges readers to contact C I Morse for cigars by the box or thousand while noting Abe the Steam Laundry pays out $4250 weekly to employees, all spent locally. An ironic remark about wages of sin and fixed hours closes the item.
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