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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
9
Partial transit schedule item lists Fast Mall No 1 and Express services with times around 8:10 PM and morning departures. Mentions Pacific Express and Limited Express but text is garbled. No clear routes or dates, singular fragmentary timetable data.
The notice highlights the new Excelsior Folding Binder at J. J. Kahlo & Brother's agricultural ware-rooms and mentions A. F. Harley's Lion Store being attractively papered by Colby & Scott. It also records a social call to S. F. Shelley and wife at their new residence, and shipping of steel rails by the Wabash to improve eastern track.
The article urges Defiance Normal College to inspire pride and patronage among Defiance citizens. It argues local students should consider home instruction as affordable and equivalent to distant institutions, noting ten Defiance students attend colleges elsewhere and urging enrollment at home. It also discusses the Ohio canal abandonment debate and a proposed state commission to study canal impacts, plus local political speculation about W. D. Hill’s possible gubernatorial nomination.
Fremont and Defiance readers recall Johnnie Stork, longtime post office assistant, praised for loyalty and service as political shifts loom. Other notes review early settler cider lore and Ernest DalperrF’s bid to become county treasurer, highlighting local figures and party loyalties.
A former wheat thief linked to B. and O. cars was tracked to a mansion near Mum mer’s home where a cache of shoes, liquor, silverware, plush sets and odd items were found. Jacob Mummer fled but was captured, his son Peter claimed the loot came from a flood at Toledo. The grand jury will hear the case as Jacob remains under guard. A $100 reward is noted. Also: Hall’s Catarrh Cure touts cures with testimonials and a Toledo company advertises a $100 claim. In Malden Ridge a bridge collapse sent Frank Currier and his team into a creek with only minor damage, the bridge lost.
A fair oil well was struck at Wauseon and the Fulton Wood county well yields 1,200 barrels daily. Ohio is hailed as the future oil field as Wood Allen and Hancock counties produce 11,500 barrels daily. Findlay gas expert notes gas near sulphur springs. Upper Sandusky to drill three wells with a town bond of 10,000. Northwestern Company contracts for 25 more wells at Findlay, already owning ten. A dry well near Bowling Green will be repurposed for fence posts. The Napoleon natural gas company pays a 9 percent dividend, while Judge Meekison pushes for another company and a 5000 capital stock with 2400 subscribed.
The State Board of Health records the week ending Feb 29 with bronchitis as the prevailing illness. Increases noted include bronchitis, tonsillitis, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and diphtheria while pneumonia rheumatism typhoid fever and scarlet fever show declines. Measles reported in many districts with 185 cases and three deaths in Cincinnati. one smallpox case in Cincinnati imported from Newark. A note mentions local saloon consolidation and various advertisements.
We seek a few good men to canvass for sale of choice nursery stock varieties. Earn good salaries or commission with permanent employment. We offer new specialties in fruit and ornamental plants. Address MAY BROTHERS, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. References required. 49-12w
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