Local and Personal Notes From the Week
Dr Scott travels to Antwerp on the 16th. Pleuro-pneumonia rages in Indiana. Curtis Holgate visited Kentucky on business. Prohibitionist vote statewide about 20 000. City fire engine delayed to the 20th. Schubert Quartette at the Opera House next Tuesday. Skating rink being prepared for winter. F A B Lowe on a week trip to Chicago and Kansas City. Mrs J Webber heads to St Paul. Fire loss at Kuhn Bros planing mill settled at 547. If you miss the Schubert Quartette you miss a winter musical treat. Y M C A winter entertainments open with Schubert Quartette. Chicago B & O excursion guests include Sutphen Booth Myers Harman Shelley Holgate Carroll Bechel. B&O freight at Defiance October up 700 tons from Oct 85 and 1100 tons from September. A gas offer in Philadelphia at 25 cents per 1000 ft. electricity may follow. Miss Mary Woods G H Bayliss A J Figley return from Valparaiso. Bayliss to teach in Paulding county, Figley to Valparaiso. Council excursion to Mansfield for corner stone of intermediate penitentiary. traveled free via B&O R R and inspected new fire engine. Four Bayliss brothers and Garver family among winter teachers. Joseph Ralston trips and slips at Mrs C P Tittle’s. prior paralytic shock noted. Presbyterian church social and supper on election eve raises over fifty dollars in receipts.
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Antwerp
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Curtis Holgate
Kentucky
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F. A.B Lowe
Chicago
Kansas City
J. Webber
St. Paul
Kuhn Bros
Mesdames Sutphen
Booth
Myers
Harman
Shelley
Holgate
Carroll
Bechel
Defiance
Philadelphia
Mary Woods
G. H. Bayliss
A.J. Figley
Valparaiso
Ind
Bayliss
Paulding County
Figley
Mansfield
Delaware Township
Garver
Washington Township
Joseph Ralston
C. P. Tittle
Local College Notes and Market Prices Report
The column lists wallpaper prices, college staff changes, class enrollments, and recent activities. It notes Mrs Hogue joining the faculty, Nettie Hooker to teach instrumental music, a regraded college yard, and a December lecture by Col Copeland. It covers open rooms, a spelling contest won by Samuel Neiderhauser, a new night school, and a growing student body. It also includes grain and meat prices from Defiance and Erie Mills and a local flour and feed price list.
Prohibitionist rift and Boothman reply spark party row
In a Defiance Democrat report a Prohibitionist split pitted Roseborough against Boothman as the Elmira candidate faced a rocky convention. Boothman responded denying ties to Roseborough, calling the article false and the campaign mud.
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Congress
Roseborough
Elmira
Boothman
Hill
M. M. Boothman
Athlophoros touted as cure all with testimonials
A sworn promotional block extols Athlophoros and Athlophoros Pills as cures for rheumatism neuralgia and related complaints. It quotes J M Atchison and T J Houston praising rapid relief and urges druggists to stock the remedies with mail orders from New York. A relic wagon axle is also noted.
Consumption Cure Recipe Offered Free by Rochester Doctor
An elderly physician retired from practice reveals a vegetable remedy said to cure Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and nervous complaints. He offers to mail the recipe with directions in German, French or English to anyone requesting it, sending the information free upon receipt of a stamped request to W. A. Noyes, 149 Power's Block, Rochester, New York.
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East India
W. A. Noyes
Power
Rochester
N.Y
Acker's Blood Elixir Claimed to Cure Blood and Skin Diseases
N G Woodward testifies that Acker's Blood Elixir will cure blood disorders and skin diseases such as Scrofula Boils. He claims the preparation is scientific not a patent nostrum and guarantees its effectiveness including Syphilis Rheumatism.
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N. G. Woodward
Acker
Advertised Letters Uncalled For at De fiance Post Office
Letters remain uncalled for in the De fiance Post Office for the week ending Tuesday Nov 9. Names include Mrs Melissa Balmer Phoebe Ball J B Bowman Adam Donnelly John Evans Mrs J Hopkins F B Howood Mrs Frank Heinlein Emery Hayes Jean Pierre N Kugel John Marman Tom McIntosh W J Miller J B Read Mrs Josephine Rose David M Smith Charles Shniber Barbara Seiple George Scott C C Scott Mrs Zernia C Truby Mrs Pearl Welch Elizabeth Zinsmeister W F Young.
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Defiance
Melissa Balmer
Phoebe Ball
J. B Bowman
Adam Donnelly
John Evans
J. Hopkins
F. B. Howood
Frank Heinlein
Emery Hayes
Jean Pierre N. Kugel
John Marman
Tom McIntosh
W. J. Miller
J. B. Read
Josephine Rose
David M. Smith
Charles Shniber
Barbara Seiple
George Scott
C. C. Scott
Zernia C. Truby
Pearl Welch
Elizabeth Zinsmeister
W. F. Young
Crash Leaves Four In Road. No Serious Injuries Reported
Miss Stine and Mrs. Gilbert with two young boys from Williams Center were driving into Bryan Friday forenoon when the horse balked and spilled the party into the road. No serious results.
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Miss Stine
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