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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1883
Page
6
Local items note a range of happenings from theatre and music to city repairs and notable visits. The Drummer Boy production tours Defiance with enhanced casting. public interest rises as crowds attend. Other notes include a new grocery opening, street lamps, depot plans, a June to July theater run, and various receipts of visitors from Michigan and Ohio towns.
A late war drama titled Drummer Boy will be presented at Myers Opera House on May 7 8 and 9. The cast features local actors including Farmer Howard K V Haymaker Martin Howard and S J Muscroft with sets and a Confederate theme. Reserved seats go on sale Saturday at 7 PM.
From Our Own Correspondent Sabbath School at Mt. Zion meets every Sabbath at 3 o clock. Sabbath School organized last Sabbath at Mt. Zion. Married last Saturday James Davis and Eufemia Moyer. Temperance prayer meeting at Sharon next Sabbath at 4 30 p m. George Sellinger and wife visited Ridgeville over Sunday. Elmira Wood of Dunkirk Ohio visiting Mrs. S O Mansfield. Karsner Bros. have rented 35 acres of ground from O Mansfield to plant corn this spring. A couple married on chicken alley despite earlier views. Farmers seek seed corn, old corn preferred for seed by most. Text tare.
Adams Ridge items report barn raising by Arby Tubbs and a lost mare belonging to Will Conn. A wedding, visits to Huntington and Defiance, school teaching, stolen harness, fruit-tree planting, and a double set of harness theft are noted. Local items include weather, house painting, Sabbath School plans, church meetings, and community notices. A marriage, multiple obituaries, and notices of residents’ movements in Adams Ridge and nearby townships are recorded with period-appropriate tone.
Market prices from Defiance Ohio list weekly figures for grains and provisions. Wheat 1.07 per bushel, oats 40 cents, rye 50c, corn 45c, flour 6.50 per barrel, oats chop 1.25 per cwt, corn meal 1.25, bran 0.85, oats, small wheat 0.07 per bushel. Provisions show butter 0.15 per lb, eggs per dozen, hides various, potatoes 0.70 per bushel, flaxseed 1.10, clover seed prime 5.00, no. 2 6.40, beans 3.50, onions 0.07, tallow 0.07, shoulders 1.20, dressed hogs 7.50, lard 0.12, apples 0.07, wool 0.203? scan.
A collection of 1911 era brief notices from Defiance Ohio advertising real estate for sale by Dr C M Kyte and partners, assorted local business promotions, job requests, grocery and bakery offers, clothing sale at cost, and musical goods. Highlights include a brick residence for sale in Sherwood, eight rooms with well cistern and barn, terms easy for a young physician, plus several shop openings and sales around Second and Perry streets and Clinton Street.
A miscellaneous advertisement page highlights Rock Candy Cough Cure with rock candy and herb extracts, priced at 25 cents for small bottles and $1 for large. Also promotes Mary Stuart Face Powder at 25 cents a box, Catarrh Cure at 75 cents, Browns Iron Bitters, Griggs Glycerine Salve at 25 cents, and Boots and Shoes from S., 8. S. & P. factories. Fresh oysters from Flager & Watkins. Spring medicine touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and spring remedy referenced by Dr. Hood & Co.
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