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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1886
Page
5
Local items report turkey and cranberry meals at home and on the road. Pedestrians cross a new bridge as crowds fill streets and river levels rise after heavy rains. Kittner Bros advertises sales and holiday gifts while Defiance Mills keep buckwheat grinding Fridays.
A sack of Floar flour from Defiance Mills is offered for $1.10, a price described as cheaper than begging. The line suggests a local commerce note or ad indicating affordable flour availability.
Defiance county taxpayers are notified that the tax duplicate is in the possession of Treasurer Joan F. Dowe who urges early payment to avoid crowds.
A publisher offers three months free trial of The Home Journal as a holiday gift. Send address and three 2 cent stamps for postage, with the regular price listed as one dollar. Address The Home Journal Buffalo NY.
Advertises E N Lewis stock of wall paper at low prices and notes visitors daily at the store. Mentions Col Copeland's December 9 lecture What's to Hinder, plus Prof Hootman’s travel, elocution class at the college, and electric lights view at the college hall. Florida correspondent reports F W Knapp lecture on English language literature with history of the language and a Scott poem recital.
Henry County reports progress on lodge efforts in Holgate and Good Templars revival in McClure. town health updates, new church plans for Hamlet and Deshler, improvements to Vandyning’s livery barn, injuries and accidents in Harrison and Napoleon townships, a timber theft case against Ichabod Weaver, a White House fire near Murbach store, and a runaway team incident ending in Napoleon.
Miss Minnie Merifield visits relatives in Michigan as local families gather for holidays. Orson Merifield and Frank Rusman are out on a hunting expedition. About 360 bushels of wheat were ground at Anchor flouring mills last Saturday. A new house on Main and Edgerton streets nears completion. The west side prayer meeting is at Levi Henry's on Friday. Relatives from the eastern part of the state visit the farmer's family. A large radish weighing over 20 pounds is exhibited at Hicksville News museum. Albert Rodeghast, newly arrived from Bloomville, is dislodged for non payment of rent by Constable Hill.
Sidney Dodge's eight year old daughter is sick while Mrs Case of Bryan visits the Dodge family. Miss Ida Palm suffers from consumption. The S S concert was a success with the children performing well. Mrs Jimes attends her sister's funeral in Brimfield Indiana. School opens in Crary district with Miss Jennie Bonnell as teacher. Mr Huntley from Cleveland spends winter with Gilman Griffin. M E church services noted for Thanksgiving morning with evening prayer meeting and song service. Hop Porovs Plasters promoted for pain relief.
An elderly physician, retired, claims a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis and other lung ailments plus nervous debility. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with directions, to any reader who requests it by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY. 30eow26t
Drilling crews push through night and day until they reach 36 feet and strike rock. After 40 more feet a vein of cement sand and gravel complicates work but is seen as encouraging, with similar veins reported in good oil territory. The old well yields oil valued at five dollars per barrel.
How's Tuts. One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio claim internal action on blood and mucus surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle and sold by all druggists.
Mrs Wrystons SooTHine Syrup is a teething remedy praised by a leading nurse and physician. Used for forty years by millions of mothers it claims to relieve teething pain and cure dysentery diarrhoea griping wind and cold. Priced 25 cents per bottle. No 7 1 y.
Advertisement touts Dr Haynes Golden Specific as a covert cure for alcoholism that can be added to coffee or tea without the drinker’s knowledge. It claims thousands have been tempered into sobriety, with no harmful effects and a guaranteed cure. Circulars and details offered by Golden Specific Co at 185 Race St Cincinnati Ohio.
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