06 May 1886
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1886
Page
1
Local items reportDecoration day preparations sidewalks repairs and fieldwork. Community updates include church ordination news band reorganization, farming goods sales, schooling notes, a post mistress death, and a warning to parents about late night youth activity.
A compilation of community happenings from Logan and nearby towns includes remarks on Henry Cover’s illness, new residences, school plans, baptisms, teachers starting sessions, local trades, and a May lawn fete. Society news covers births, marriages, crimes, markets, weather, farming notices, and periodic church services.
Henry Brant begins a barn project while West Ridge school lacks a teacher. Miss Alice Cline teaches District 2 pupils. Districts 1 and 9 plan summer repairs for school houses. Defiance hosts students William Costello and Anna Frank. Farmers plow corn land as local road work starts and young men are called to work a couple days. Married May 29 Henry Myers and Miss Sophronia Behrens at the bride’s home.
The household cure for sudden pains stitch cramps and soreness is the Hop Plaster sold for 25 cents.
A warning advises careful eating to avoid dangerous bowel disorders from fruit during the season. It promotes Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial as a remedy for the bowels and teething children, urging immediate use.
An ad touts Mrs Winston’s SportHine Syrup as the teething aid of a leading nurse and physician in the United States. It claims forty years of use by millions of mothers, relieving pain and curing dysentery diarrhoea griping wind colic in children, priced 25 cents a bottle.
Advert shows Dr. Frazier's Throat and Lung Balsam as the only sure cure for colds coughs hoarseness and throat and lung diseases. Warns not to neglect a cough as it may prove fatal and claims hundreds owe their lives to the remedy. Sold in large family bottles at 50 cents by Wixham Mr'G Co. Prop's Cleveland Ohio.
Martin Gurwell reports the loss of a valuable mare last week. Michael Rath expresses elation over Uncle Sam's pension. There are crop prospects, school openings, and local visits as farm life and community events continue, with promotional health remedies featured in the column.
An advertisement promotes Sxitons Catarrh Remedy claimed to cure catarrh diphtheria and canker mouth. Sold by Geo W Beckel in local storefronts.
Judge a medicine by its results declares the ad for Dr Bigelow’s Positive Cure a cough remedy. It promises safe speedy relief for coughs colds and lung troubles. Sold by G W Beckel in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with claims of lung healing and child friendly use.
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