Local society notes from Defiance and surrounding areas
Residents visit relatives in Defiance and nearby towns as families attend church events and social gatherings. A marriage license is issued to Henry Randle and Cleo Schindler, while Charles Dove is jailed awaiting trial for mailing an obscene letter. A bank sues John Greenler to foreclose a mortgage on land in Defiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Randle
Mark Center
Cleo Schindler
Delaware Township
Defiance County
Charles Dove
Battson, Paulding Co
U. S
Marshall B. J. Wagner
Yoledo
Dove
Lucas County
Gaines
City National Bank
O ‘Piffin
John Greenler
Mast Defiance
Defiance
Keenler
Local Game Warden Arrests Young Man Over Net Fishing
Deputy State Game Warden J H Bogert arrived in Napoleon and arrested George Foster of East Defiance after investigations into illegal fishing with a dip net. Foster pled guilty before Justice Costello, paying a $25 fine and costs. Bogert vows more enforcement, noting critics say the punishment targets a capable offender while others escape penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Bogert
Napoleon
George Foster
East Defiance
Costello
The
Rivera
Marshall Bogert
Bogert
Footsore farmers wander from Mio to Siuday school meeting
Four Archbold Ohio farmers Joseph Yodder Samuel Pierre Henry and James Nofsiyver were found starved and footsore after 60 hours wandering in a freezing pine barrens north of Bay City Michigan. Yodder may lose both feet. They left Mio Friday to reach Rose City, but lost the road, and after nights without food reached 20 miles from Rose City where one died beside a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay City
Mich
Pine Barrens
Joseph Yodder
Samuel Pierre
Henry
James Nofsiyver
Archbold
Onio
Yodder
Mio
Rose City
Rose
City
Cure for Sunday Sickness and Local Notes
A humorous note on a so called prescription for Sunday sickness includes a list of virtues to mix as a dose. The page also covers social events at Mrs Harry Weisenburger's home for Miss Fosh's eighteenth birthday and local booster rhetoric urging Defiance to grow as a manufacturing town. It reports the Dayton to Lima factory move offer rejection and Senator Arthur Brown's shooting in Washington by Mrs Anna M Bradley after a marriage refusal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.izzie Ofler
Mra
Harry Weisenburger
Hopkins Street
Albert Long
Otto Breess
Alva Weisenburger
Herman Winkler
Edward Palm
Chas
Lester
Harry Foster
Arthur Brown
U.S
Utah
Washington, D. C
Anna M. Bradley
Salt Lake City
Gasoline Engine Locomotes Marion School Pupils
Teachers report a gasoline engine in the basement of Marion School caused the room to shake making about 200 pupils seasick and dizzy with nausea during use in class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trachers
Marion
Adjustment of Insurance Policy in Wilhelm Estate
Mia Agnes Wilhelm of Pula plaintiffs seek court confirmation of her right to an endowment life policy on Frank Wilhelm, matured August. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance and Frank J Wilhelm named as defendants. policy originally $2500 issued to Frank Wilhelm then assigned to his brother John Wilhelm. premiums paid by John and later by wife. Insurance company awaits court decision on rightful recipient. Winn and Ilay represent plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia Agnes Wilhelm
Pula
Phoenix Mutual Life Sorcurance Co
Frank J. Wilhelm
John Wihelm
Frank Wilhelm
John Wilhelm
the Insurance Co
Winn and
Ilay
GiLiATTE Sentenced to Electrocution in Grace Brown Case
Crister GiLiATTE, convicted of Grace Brown's murder in Herkimer New York, was sentenced on Monday to be electrocuted during the week beginning January 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crister Giliatte
Grace Brown
Herkimer
N. Y
Wanted a good boy to learn the printer's trade
A newspaper ad seeks a reliable boy to start in the printing trade, with inquiries directed to the current office. The notice implies entry level training and a chance to learn typography and press work within the shop environment.
Eyes of Famous Men
Descriptive note on notable figures and their eye colors including Bismarck Stevenson Von Moltke Darwin Rossetti Lamb Caesar Pitt Cowper Mahomet Milton and Michael Angelo. The passage links eye color to personality traits and drawings from historical figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Robert Louis Stevenson
von Moltke
Darwin
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Charles Lamb
Julius Caesar
Pitt
Cowper
Mahomet
Milton
Michael Angelo
Chinese head tax sparks labour shortages in Victoria
The $500 Canadian head tax on Chinese immigrants has caused a shortage of unskilled labor at Victoria. British Columbia salmon canners petition for a reduced head tax to allow Chinese workers into the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
British Columbia
Defining the Russian Government Through Satirical Descriptions
The Marquis de Custine labeled Russia an absolute monarchy tempted by assassination. Constantin Waliszewski described it as anarchy tempered by a state of siege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis de Custine
Constantin Waliszewski
Eleanor Duse Declines Jubilee Celebration Plan
The Italian actress Eleanor Duse has declined a proposed jubilee celebration, noting her thanks to friends but refusing the event, a plan similar to tributes given to Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt in England and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleantor Duse
Eleanor Duse
England
France
Ellen Terry
Bernhardt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Webb Wood
el Paso, Terce
John Boats
Russell Pope
McCluse
William Himes
Morris, Mich
Mies
Mannie Kehnant
Toledo
Mies Cora Aldrich
Edmund A. Graham
W. P.agel
Holgate Avenue
St Joseph
Michigan
Art Study Club
Graea Morse
Wayne Street
Mesdames Doenitz
J. F. Deatrick
H.C. Chappel
Mrs. Harris
Dunkards
South Poplar Ridge
Richland Township
G. A. Snyder
Fostoria
Wabash
I*remont
Continential Sugar Co
Fremont
Continental Co
Siuday Schools
Ofen
Sherwood
Dec
Drar
St. John’s Reform
N. E. Vitz
Sherwood M. E
Sherwood Zion Reform
M. Haver
Treas
Avim
State of
Ohio
Tur Businessmen
Lima
National Cash Register Co
Dayton
A. X. Weisenburger & Company Jewelers and Opticans
Maz
Latakia Arcadia
Lowney’s
Hickok’s
Dollie Varden’s
Heit, Miller, Lau & Co
Pytupin
Court House
Sir Clinton
St. Defiance, Ohio
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