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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1887
Page
9
A list of train services including the Thicago Fast Line Chicago Express Chicago Mai and New York Express appears under the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. The items name routes or service designations without further detail.
Spring began Sunday with equal day and night length. Hicksville residents S W Fish and B F Casebeer visited the city Friday. Maple sugar is plentiful. J ohn Joust bought a 2 30 trotting horse. Asa W Hagert retired from his firm. W H Noble and C E Bronson with wife traveled between Hicksville and Cincinnati. P M Ketting laid a new Third street sidewalk. Mrs Albert of Fostoria was summoned by illness of Mrs Dr Brown. A light hearted note suggests a Corn Festival as an alternative to the oyster festival. Early southern vegetables reach market despite health concerns. A wire fence swindle targets farmers. Michael Kane, centenarian, dies at Napoleon. born 1787 in Ireland, long resident near Adrian and Colton.
Eight visitors attend Friday morning classes at the Normal College. New student Miss Gertie Barr joins Monday. Penmanship and elocution are the largest classes. Professors Shilt Elliott and Hootman lead special drills and lectures. The Excelisor literary society forms with officers named. The institute schedule and prizes for oratory are announced.
Wednesday March 30 schedule lists 9:00 opening exercises and 4:15 theory of teaching defined by Prof. Hogue. Miss Johnston handles arithmetic and geography, Prof. Butler orthography, physiology, and school management. Evening session features "Orders and Counter Orders" with Miss Adam.
The page lists a full day timetable with opening exercises and various subjects including Orthography Arithmetical Physiology Language and School Management. Professors Butler Hogue Johnston lead sessions with intermissions and a discussion on Life topics in the evening.
An Exchange quote extols Humphreys Homeopathic Specifics Nos One and Seven for coughing colds and sore throats, claiming widespread triumph and health protection. L. Trowbridge buys 506 acres in Pleasant Township near the Henry and Defiance line from Chas Whitock of Richmond Va for 11 629 80, considering a local factory but citing high Henry county taxes.
The author traces natural gas from ancient uses in China Persia and France to modern gas wells. He explains gas origin as decomposition of ancient life in rock, stored in porous caverns, with supply variable by geology. Pittsburg leads in use, pipes and wells, and future Poised competition for Findlay Defiance. Gas composition, burning quality, and economy are outlined with domestic advantages and long term availability.
A bill introduced in the legislature would empower municipal corporations to pass ordinances requiring guard gates and watchmen at all railroad street crossings. Railroads would face a penalty of 100 dollars for each day after 30 days from the ordinance enactment.
Deed transfers listed with grantees, grantors, locations, and prices including 10 acres Adams township Frank Rowe to Philip Rowe 40 acres Mark township Elijah Bidlack to Hattie Miller 20 acres Noble township Brice Hilton to Johnn C Hilton Vincentia? 80? lot East Defiance etc. Amounts range from imate $100 to $5,000 across Defiance area parcels and auditor plat transfers Hicksville Defiance town plots and quit claim actions in Farmer and Tiffin townships.
The State Board of Health reports acute bronchitis and measles as prevailing. New diphtheria cases appear in Monroe, Muskingum, Columbia, Crawford, Ashtabula, Adams, Hamilton, Licking, Putnam, Franklin, Ross, Tuscarawas, and Union. Scarlet fever in Van Wert, Ottawa, Hamilton and Ashland. Measles in Welby, Adams, Perry, Allen and Union. Also promotes Dr Haynes Golden Specific as a cure via coffee or tea without patient knowledge.
Advertisement notes corn feed on hand at C I Morse and C J Morse stores. It promotes thirty cent tine cut tobacco, plug tobacco assortment, dairy salt, iron, prairie mange and Woodford's Sanitary Lotion curing scratches in 30 minutes. Mentions druggists Colby & Scott and real estate agent F L Hay in Alice in court house.
George Miller advertises tickets to all points at the Merchants National Bank office. Also promotes new agricultural ware rooms of J. J. Kahn & Brother and describes a folding binder. Properties include three houses and lots in the Third Ward and 18 vacant lots with easy payments.
An 80 acre farm within 45 miles of Defiance, well improved and under drained, valued at 50 dollars per acre, is offered for sale if taken within 10 days at 25 dollars per acre. Call on Chanves E. Bronson.
Growers and dealers in general nursery stock advertise excellent assortments of Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Dewberries, Gooseberries, Currants, Fruit Trees, Vines with special attention to individual orders. Enclose stamp for descriptive catalogue. Mohler’s Hurl Evergreen and other seeds available. Write for prices, Lock Box 354, New Carlisle O.
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