Local Notes on Visits Marriages and Legal Actions
Mrs Webb Wood and relatives visit in the city while Mr and Mrs Jobs Beaty from Napoleon travel here. William Himes travels to Morris Michigan due to his father illness. A marriage license is issued to Henry Randle and Cleo Schindler. U S Deputy Marshal arrests Coates Dove for mailing obscene letter. Dove to stand trial. City National Bank sues John Greenler to foreclose mortgage on Defiance county land. A Wa bash excursion to Fremont is planned by Continental Sugar Co to promote sugar beet culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance County
Coates Dove
Battson, Paulding Co
U. S
Marshall B. J. Wagner
Yoledo
Dove
Lucas County
Gaines
City National Bank
John Greenler
Defiance
Greenler
Wabash
Iremont
Continential Sugar Co
Fremont
Continental Co
Deputy Warden Bogert Investigates Defiance Fishing Case
Deputy State Game and Fish Warden J O Bogert arrived in Napoleon and led to the arrest of George Foster of East Defiance for fishing with a dip net. Foster pled guilty before Justice Costello and paid a $25 fine plus costs. Bogert says further arrests may follow to deter illegal netting along the river. Some critics say the case targets a poor or young offender, while repeat violators may escape penalties.
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J. O. Bogert
Napoleon
George Foster
East Defiance
Costello
The
Rivera
Marshall Bogert
Bogert
Four Men Endure Arctic Trek to Bay City Rescue
Bay City authorities aided Joseph Yodder Samuel Pierre Henry Noticyer and James Noticyer all Archbold Indiana farmers after 60 hours wandering in pine barrens 50 miles north. Yodder may lose both feet due to frostbite after traveling from Mio with a team that failed. They pressed on foot through 10 below zero without food, found 20 miles from Rose City by a lumberman near a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay City
Mich
Pine Barrena
Joseph Yodder
Samuel Pierre
Henry
James Noticyer
Archbold, Oni
Yodder
Mio
Rose City
Born Superintendent and Bright Future in Sunday School
The text urges self belief and growth for church leaders, stating many are born teachers or superintendents who must work to discover and refine their gifts. It encourages dedication, studying, and shining one’s light through effort, with notes on November Treasurer's report and local Sunday school efforts in Desistance, Sherwood.
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Sherwood
Dec
Drar
St. John’s Reform
Sherwood M. E
Sherwood Zion Reform
M. Haver
Treas
Cure for Sunday sickness prescription in a church school
A church school reports a humorous “Prescription de partment” remedy for Sunday lethargy. The mock dose lists will, energy, self regard, and respect for God’s day as ingredients, to be stirred and taken until Sunday school time, signed by Dr Never Fain and a worker, with a note to send news to H. Stock.
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Aix
Dr. Never Fain
P.S
Gasoline Engine Upsets Pupils at Tracers in Marion
Report from Tracers in Marion School states a basement gasoline engine caused the room to quiver making about 200 pupils dizzy and nauseous. The engine’s vibrations and fumes were blamed for seasick effects among students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracers
In & Marion
Defiance Urged to Grow as a Leading Ohio Manufacturing Town
A booster exhortation urges Defiance to strive for greater growth and livability. It argues the city could support 15 000 to 25 000 residents with superior facilities, and urges collective effort to showcase Defiance as a top Ohio manufacturing town.
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Defiance
Avim
State of
Ohio
Lima's Offer to National Cash Register Angers Dayton Firm
Lima businessmen offered NCR 100 acres of land and 100000 dollars to move its Dayton factory. NCR declined, saying they would not entertain a proposition from a city under 200000 dollars.
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Tur Businessmen
Lima
National Cash Register Co
Dayton
Arthur Brown shot in Washington hotel by Salt Lake City woman
Former U S senator Arthur Brown was shot and seriously wounded in a Washington D C hotel on Saturday by Anna M Bradley of Salt Lake City after he refused her marriage proposal.
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Arthur Brown
U.S
Utah
Washington, PD. C
Anna M. Bradley
Salt Lake City
Gillette Convicted in Grace Brown Murder Sentenced
Cursierk Gillette, convicted of Grace Brown's murder in Herkimer New York, was sentenced Monday to be electrocuted during the week beginning January 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cursierk Gililette
Grace Brown
Herkimer
N. Y
Wanted a good boy to learn the printer's trade
An employment notice seeks a diligent boy to train as a printer. Inquiries are to be made at the posting office, with prospects of apprenticeship and instruction in the trade.
Eyes of Famous Men Through History
The piece lists notable figures and describes their eye colors and appearances. Bismarck is noted for steely gray eyes, Stevenson for brown expressive eyes, Moltke for bright blue eyes, Darwin for gray eyes, Rossetti and Lamb for gray blue and glittering eyes, Caesar for black eyes, Pitt for brown eyes glowing like coals, Cowper for weak blue eyes, Mahomet for coal black eyes, Milton for gray blue eyes, and Michael Angelo for hazel eyes.
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Bismarck
Robert Louis Stevenson
von Moltke
Darwin
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Charles Lamb
Julius Caesar
Pitt
Cowper
Mahomet
Milton
Michael Angelo
Tax on Chinese Immigrants Impacts Victoria Labor
The $500 Canadian head tax on Chinese immigrants is causing a shortage of unskilled labor at Victoria as British Columbia salmon canners petition for a reduced head tax to permit Chinese workers to enter the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
British Columbia
Defining the Russian State Through Two Critics
The Marquis de Custine called Russia an absolute monarchy tempted by assassination. Constantin Waliszewski described it as anarchy tempered by a state of siege.
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Marquis de Custine
Constantin Waliszewski
Eleanor Duse Refuses Jubilee Celebration Plan
The famous Italian actress Eleanor Duse has declined a plan to celebrate her jubilee as done for Ellen Terry and Bernhardt in England and France. She thanked friends but rejected the proposed fête.
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Eleanor Duse
England
France
Ellen Terry
Bernhardt
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Toledo
Cora Aldrich
Henry Randle
Mark Center
Cleo Schindler
Delaware Township
Aire
Edmund A. Graham
W. I. Fagel
Holgate Avenue
St Joseph
Michigan
Art Study Club
Hore
Miss
Dunkards
South Poplar Ridge
Richland Township
G. A. Snyder
Fostoria
A.x.weisenburger & Company Jewelers and Opticans
Siupiony Schools
Agnes Wilhelm
Frank Wilhelm
Insurance Co
Winn and Hay
Jizzie Foster
Harry Weisenburger
Hopkins Street
Fosl R
Mre. Weisenburger
Mabel Baker
Lillian Felker
Isabelle Hoebel
Hulda Schultz
Annie Krull
Jizzie Tosler
Messie
Webster Kopp
Albert Long
Otto Breess
Alva Weisenburger
Herman Winkler
Edward Palm
Chas. Mosler
Harry Fosler
Christina
Lataria Arcadia
A.b.deray
Court House
A. W. King
Son
Clinton St. Defiance, Ohio
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