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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1878
Page
3
A concise list of farm and grocery prices including Wheat at 1.10 per bushel Oats 23c Eggs 8c Potatoes 25c per bushel Lard 8c per pound Butter 20c per pound Dried beans 150c per bushel Apples 7c per lb Flour 5.00 to 7.00 per barrel Timothy seed 1.50 per bushel Dressed pork 3.50 per 100 pounds.
The Defiance area showcases a booming industrial landscape with Turnbull & Shelly and Defrance Cement Co leading, plus Jarvis Brothers and Defiance Manufacturing Co. detailing hubs and spokes, roads, canal power, rail links, and extensive employment. The piece highlights shipping routes via Wabash and B&O, cement beds, and growing business activity across carriage, sash and blind, cigar, and mill operations.
The Defiance area thrives on timber and ship-timber industries with firms led by E F Aldrich and Colvin & Breck shipping 300 000 to 500 000 feet yearly. Local plants employ 1 200 to 1 500 people with wages and external trade fueling growth despite hard times.
A passenger named Bernard Rahly from Fayette Ohio to Hoopeston Illinois was swindled of 25 by two confidence men aboard a Wabash train. Three suspects were arrested in Hicksville and brought for confinement. Rahly later identified two, the third was released, then the case unraveled as the witness disappeared and the suspects were discharged. Good roads advocacy urges petitioning the county commissioners to start paving projects with gravel locally.
Reading in the Temperance Banner a call to mothers about boy discipline and street mischief. The piece warns that unchecked boys lead to jail and ruin and urges mothers to guide their children early while they are small, before they become adults. It emphasizes restraint, moral teaching, and vigilance at home.
(From Our Own Correspondent) Mrs. Anna Adams endures a severe rheumatic attack. The wheat in this vicinity looks unusually healthy for this time of year, with crop prospects described as better than typical.
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