Republican State Convention to Meet in Toledo in July 1887
The Republican State Convention of 1887 will be held in Toledo on July 27 and 28. Delegates from each Congressional District meet July 27 to select a Vice President and committee members, with convention business starting July 28 for permanent organization and nominations for statewide offices. Auten T. Brinsmade chairs the state committee. Joshua K. Browy is secretary. Defiance county allocated 4 delegates. total delegates set at 723.
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Toledo
Supreme Court
Board of Public Works
J. B. Foraker
Defiance County
President Cleveland Marches Up and Down the Hill
President Cleveland is reported marching up the hill and then marching down again in a brief public display observed by onlookers. The event appears ceremonial with no announced policy or speech accompanying the march.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, Geyer Nominated. Hicksville Convention Planned
Democratic leaders prepare for a county convention with Hicksville hosting on August 4 and Paulding re nominating Geyer. President Cleveland cancels his St Louis trip amid a flag episode affecting Grand Army vote efforts. The party shows internal unhappiness as two months remain before the county gathering.
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Hicksville
Paulding
Geyer
Cleveland
St. Louis
Grand Army
Apjutant General Drum at 70 after thirty years service
Drum, Cleveland scapegoat candidate for the rebel flag blunder, is seventy years old and has served in the department for more than thirty years. He attained his present post by long tenure.
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Drum
Cleveland
Boodle Case Jury Convicts Mc Garigle and McDonald
The Chicago jury in the boodle cases finds Mc Garigle and McDonald guilty and fixes a sentence of three years at hard labor. The report calls for similar justice for Cincinnati boodlers to follow.
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Chicago
McGarigle
McDonald
Cincinnati
Foraker Faces Cleveland In Flag Order Clash
The poem praises Governor Foraker as a stronger figure than Cleveland and claims he defeated him on the flag issue. It admires Joseph as crafty and loyal to Ohio's G A R veterans, presenting him as a steady ally when needed.
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Guv. Foraker
Cleveland
Joseph
Ohio
General Drum Defends Flags After Union Capture Debate
In a New York Evening Post interview General Drum claims flags fallen into federal hands will be forwarded to each state. Critics call his stance insensible and unpatriotic, noting flags were gallantly captured in battle. The president recalled the order, easing soldierly anger.
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Drum
New York Evening Post
Union
Turbulent Wheat Pit Crash Ends a Market Corner attempt
A Chicago Board of Trade tremor toppled a wealthy Cincinnati and Chicago clique attempt to corner wheat. Prices plunged about 25 cents in a day as supplies exceed last year and foreign demand weakens, eliminating the few months of peg trading and causing heavy losses across many firms.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Cincinnati
Chicago
Foraker Says No Flags Should Be Returned
The piece protests President Cleveland order to return rebel flags captured by Ohio troops. Governor Foraker vows no surrender of the flags while in office, urging resistance and invoking veteran sentiment and Union loyalty. Comrades from the G A R join in demanding preservation of the trophies.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Foraker
D. C
Grover Cleveland
Union
Tragedy Claimed Mrs Jackson Henderson at Independence
Mrs Jackson Henderson was found dead in her bed in Independence on Monday morning by her father. She had suffered heart disease for years. Her husband and one son, employed by Fred LeSeuer, were away at the time. The father called to her and found her body cold in death.
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Jackson Henderson
Independence
Fred LeSeuer
Defiance County Fair Association notes gains and costs
The Defiance County Fair Association held at the courthouse approved premium lists and audited books. Receipts last year were 3044.14 with expenditures 3084.20 leaving a 40.06 surplus. The executive committee plans to hire bill posters countywide while skipping Fulton county. They aim to limit outside attractions and require advance payment for stands. Two thirds of premiums stay with local makers. Treasurer Sauer reports most premium orders paid and past two years’ debts adjusted. mortgaged debt down about 700. Meeting adjourned to the secretary’s office on the second day of the fair.
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Defiance County Fair Association
Court House
J. B. Elliott
Fulton County
Wauseon
Defiance
Sauer
Butter milk praised as healthful drink and digestive aid
A physician extols buttermilk as a healthful daily drink especially in warm weather, comparing the body to a stove that needs cleansing. He claims it aids digestion, calms nerves, aids sleep, and should replace tea coffee and water when possible. Hall's Journal of Health notes a pleasant Children's meeting at the Baptist church with an excellent program.
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Hall's Journal of Health
Defiance Booms With Public Works and Industry
Defiance shows a thriving profile with public buildings, eleven schools and churches, ample shade trees, a commodious opera house, two natural gas companies, extensive telephone service, a booming Normal College, and two tobacco box factories. The city boasts strong fire protection, river access, libraries, and transportation. It also notes a wide range of local manufacturing from flour to wagons and machinery, positioning Defiance as a desirable place to live and invest.
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Defiance
Gors
Maumee
Auglaize
Defiance Men Push Industrial Writeup and Rail Route Plans
Business leaders at city hall back a Cincinnati Gazette proposal to publish a 300 000 circulation writeup of Defiance resources with 150 000 pamphlets and a $250 cost. A five member committee will assess $3 per member of the Defiance Trade and Improvement Association and gather funds for oil or gas development. The meeting also urged securing a Columbus and Lima railroad right of way with an estimated $30 000 in cash and $50 000 for crossing streams, sending Holgate and Hill to Lima to present the plan.
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Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette
Commercial Gazette
Gazette
F. G. Brown
P. Kettenring
J. F. Deatrick
W. D. Hill
A. Sauer
W. C. Holgate
Defiance Trade & Improvement Association
J. C. Wood
W. C. Burke
J. F. Frost
Trade and Improvement Assembly
Defiance
Columbus & Lima
Holgate
Hooker
Hill
Carter
Deatrick
Lima
Continental
Inter-State Drill Louisville prompts excursion ticket sale
The B and O R R Co offers round trip excursion tickets for the Inter State Competitive Drill in Louisville Kentucky. Tickets are on sale June 20 and 21 and valid for return until June 26. Hammond's Slug Shot insecticide doubles as fertilizer and is sold by Switzer and Kehnast in Defiance Ohio. Local engine house ladder crew repaired church gutters on Tuesday as part of a community effort.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hammond
Switzer & Kehnast
Defiance
Ohio
Remarkable recovery tale from Parise Tex after Dr King’s Discovery
In Parise Texas, J I Corley, once bedridden and said to be dying of consumption, found relief with a trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery. He then used two bottles and two boxes of pills, gaining thirty six pounds. Free trial bottles offered at Colby and Scott’s. Large bottles priced at $1. Ma is identified as the tall ice man who exclaimed amen at warm weather prayer.
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Parise
Tex
J. I. Corley
Dr. King
Colby
Scott
Stout Roberts Wedding Quietly Celebrated at Defiance
The marriage of Rollen Stout and Martha Es ee e, both of Orida, was conducted Sunday June 19 1887 at the residence of A Viers in Defiance per Wm W Lance. Baltimore Bakery advertises the finest flavored soda water and ice cream for families.
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Baltimore Bakery
Advice to Mothers WrInslow's Soothing Syrup Teething
A historic advertisement touts Mrs WrInslow's Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething remedy from a leading nurse and physician. It claims forty years of use by millions of mothers, easing teething pain and curing dysentery diarrhoea griping wind and colic, priced at 25 cents per bottle No 52 1y.
Local business notices and classifieds roundup
A dense misc of 19th century ads and notices promoting services and goods. Includes ironing and washing at Defiance steam laundry rates, employment requests for educated youths, ice cream and biscuits at Brown’s Baltimore Bakery, tobacco and cigars from Morse and Rogers and Booru, farm property and real estate offers, and a loans/insurance line with H G Baker’s legal services.
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Defiance County Express
Clinton and
Third Sts
the Express Publishing CO
Defiance Post Office
Auten T. Brinsmade
Chamn
Cen
Josnua K. Browy
Burchard
Tuar
Sherman
Springfield
The
Baptist Church
People’s Business Meeting
Texas
Brown
Baltimore
Simonie Cphibiaury
Cei
Wacom, GA
Philadelphia
Simmons
Shonfield
Clinton Street
Russell House
Bolt Caetse “i
R. Brown
Brown's
Rogers & Booru
C. I. Morse’s
Roorers & Booru
C. I. Morse
F. L. Hay
Viexsa
H. G. Baker
Eco
U. I. Monse’s
Boston
Tory
Hydr
AaVitzwer
Eitzwer
Erros
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