Zoa Phora Promises Relief For Women Readers
An advertisement urges women to maintain their health with Zoa Phora a nerve food and strength builder claiming to restore congested or displaced organs and promising a free full size bottle and a booklet on women’s health. It cites testimonials and notes availability through F P Weisenburger & Brother in Defiance.
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Zoa Phora
Zoa Phora Company
Kalamazoo
Mich
Dr. Pengelly
Zoa
F. P. Weisenburger & Brother
Auto collision injures four women and a man in Chicago
An automobile struck a coupe in Chicago Friday evening injuring four women and a man. Two of the women were critically hurt.
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Chicago
Morton Steps Down as Secretary of Navy
Paul Morton resigned from the secretary of the navy post yesterday and Charles J Bonaparte took the title and office this morning in a formal transition of leadership.
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Paul Morton
Secretary of the Navy
Charles J Bonaparte
Drowning Fatality of 16 Yearold Clement Barkdull
Clement Barkdull age 16 son of S E Barkdull of Wauseon drowned Friday while swimming. He was noted as a bright young musician.
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Clement Barkdull
S E Barkdull
Wauseon
Rockefeller Pledges 10 Million Endowment to New York Board
John D Rockefeller notifies the General Education Board of New York that on October 1 he will provide an endowment of 10 million dollars. The gift aims to support educational initiatives and long term funding for the board's programs.
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John D Rockefeller
General Education Board of New York
Fire at Cleveland home harms Whitman mother and daughter
Mrs. Sarah Whitman and her daughter suffered severe burns at their Cleveland residence when their clothes ignited from flames in a rubbish pile they were burning.
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Sarah Whitman
Cleveland
Taft Leads Party to Philippine Islands Departure
Secretary Taft with a distinguished party including members of both houses, army officers, Miss Alice Roosevelt, and others left Washington for the Philippine Islands on Friday evening.
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Secrretary Taft
Houses
Congress
Alice Roosevelt
Washington
Philippine Islands
Delphos Pioneer Joseph Ostendorf Buried
Joseph Ostendorf a pioneer of Delphos was buried Thursday. He helped organize the railroad later known as the Toledo St. Louis & Western and served as its president for many years.
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Joseph Ostendorf
Delphos
The
Toledo, St. Louis & Western
Grace Wright Delphos Girl Marries In Newport Ky
Miss Grace Wright of Delphos attended a baptism at the Auglaize river Sunday and met Lima street car conductor Cochran. The next day she told her mother she would marry in Lima and the couple went to Newport Kentucky to wed.
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Grace Wright
Delphos
Auglaize River
Lima
Cochran
Newport
Ottoville Man Wounded by Gunfire Near Post Office
Late Wednesday residents heard two shots and found Arthur Redman at the rear of the post office with a shoulder wound. He says he had been drinking and slept on a shed roof. The shooter is not known.
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Ottoville
Arthur Redman
Redman
Pioneer Elias W Dimock Dies at 74 in Dupont
Elias W Dimock of Dupont died aged about 74. An early Putnam and Paulding county settler, he moved there in 1848 with his physician father. He taught thirty years in the counties, later becoming a surveyor who laid out the Clover Leaf railroad then called The Wilderness. He served two terms as county surveyor and as mayor of Dupont.
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Elias W Dimock
Dupont
Putnam
Paulding
Putnam County
Putnam and
Clover Leaf
Black Swamp
Death under weird attire 40-year-old man dies at supper
Epmonp Borster a Tiffincar penter aged 40 died of heart trouble while eating his supper Friday.
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Epmonp Borster
Prominent Fremont Attorney George Wittatty Dies by Suicide
George Wittatty a 45 year old Fremont attorney and former Sandusky County prosecuting attorney shot himself at Bellevue on Thursday. A note said he took his life due to ill health.
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George WitTatty
Fremont
Sandusky County
Bellevue
Tragic Joliet elopement ends in murder at Cleveland
Albert Darwin 36, a widower and father of two, shot and killed Mrs Anna Gray 50, wife of a Joliet tailor, in Cleveland Friday and then attempted suicide. The couple had eloped from Joliet, Illinois.
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Albert Darwin
Anna Gray
Joliet
Cleveland
Ill
Hay Field Death Near Tontogany Claims 55-Year-Old Worker
Tuomas Samira, 55, died in a hay field near Tontogany on Friday. He started work, then grew faint after about an hour and lay down in the shade. He weakened quickly and died while companions helped him toward home.
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Tuomas Samira
Tontogany
Vick President and Mrs Fairbanks Visit Marysville
President Vick and Mrs Fairbanks tour his birthplace in Marysville where his mother resides. They plan a stop in Urbana on Monday for the Fourth of July ovation at Champaign county centennial events. A press smoker will follow in the evening.
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Vick
Mrs Fairbanks
Marysville
Urbana
Fairbanks
Champaign County
Airship Pilot Roy Knabenshue Guides Flight Over Toledo
Roy Knabenshue completed a high altitude ascent in Toledo on Friday. He sailed from the fair grounds against a hard wind, landed on the Spitzer building after three miles in 25 minutes, then returned to the fair grounds in 24 minutes. He maintained perfect control throughout and reached about one mile in height.
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Roy Knabenshue
Toledo
Fair Grounds
Spitzer
Plump cow ad joins a shotgun deal and a farewell to Jose
A Buckland seller offers an eight year old plush raspberry cow named Jose not afraid of death and a double barrel shotgun, with May calving and a stay chain attachment. He prefers a non resident buyer and notes the cow is short horn hyena. May absence for a week or two ends with a small calf. The obituary follows, detailing Mrs. Maria Louise Hilton Kingsbury wife of Mayor Edgar L Kingsbury of Perrysburg, born 1846 near Defiance and active in ME church life.
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Buckland
Maria Louise Hilton
Edgar L Kingsbury
Perrysburg
Kingsbury
Defiance
E L Kingsbury
Toledo
Gen. McMahen
George W Matthews
Bowling Green
Yale Receives $2 Million Gift from John D Rockefeller
President Hapsey of Yale announces a gift of 2 million dollars from John D Rockefeller to the university. The donation coincidences with the university’s expansion plans and underscores support from major benefactors.
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Hapsey
Yale
John D Rockefeller
University
Ropenbaugh Dies at 72 After Long Atlantic & Great Western Service
Mitton J Ropenbaugh aged 72 died Thursday at the railroad Men's Home in Highland Park Illinois. He helped to build the Atlantic and Great Western shops at Kent forty years ago and had remained with the company since.
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Mitton J Ropenbaugh
Railroad Men’s
Highland Park
Ill
Atlantic & Great Western
Kent
Leases Sought for Grand Reservoir Land Drilling Dries Up
Months ago a rush for leases of state land near the Grand Reservoir led to a dry well on the lease held by ex Attorney General John M Sheets and associates. The dry result ends active drilling in that area and shifts focus away from that territory.
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Grand Reservoir
John M Sheets
Former Speaker Henderson Confined by Stroke in Dubuque Hotel
D B Henderson once speaker of the national house remains in his hotel apartments in Dubuque Iowa after a slight stroke of paralysis affecting the right side. Doctors and family express cautious optimism that he may leave the apartments within a few days.
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D B Henderson
National House of Representatives
Dubuque
Iowa
Findlay tailor arraigned for drunkenness and family abuse
A Findlay tailor faced police court on charges of being drunk and abusing his family. The judge fined him 14 dollars 60 cents and ordered 90 days in the workhouse, with a suspended sentence if he turns over a week’s wages to his wife each Saturday for three months and provides a receipt from her confirming payment.
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Findlay
Graeme Stewart Former Republican Leader Dies in Chicago
Graeme Stewart prominent Chicago figure in business politics and society died at his home after a month's illness. He was 52 years old and previously a mayoral candidate on the Republican ticket and an executive committee member of the Republican National Committee from 1900 to 1904. Clotting of blood upon the brain caused his death.
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Graeme Stewart
Chicago
Republican National Committee
How Olive Oil Is Made On a Tuscan Farm
From Life on a Tuscan Farm by T. R. Sullivan in Scribner's. The olives are crushed in a stone mill powered by oxen, then pressed in an oak torchio to extract oil that flows into earthen jars. The process requires constant operation, with several squeezings, then a week’s rest in the chiaratoio before market.
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Dievole
T. R. Sullivan
Scribner's
Miss Lucy McClintock Hosts Davison Street Sewing Club
Society notes describe Miss Lucy McClintock entertaining her sewing club and guests on Davison street Friday afternoon. The Necana ladies enjoyed a gathering hosted by Mrs W B Daoust on Jackson street Friday afternoon.
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Lucy McClintock
Davison Street
the Necana
W B Daoust
Jackson Street
New List of Subscribers Adds Many Phones City and Country
A list shows strong growth in North Western Telephone Company usage with numerous new subscribers in the city and country. The compiled directory includes names, residences, occupations, and offices reflecting expanded service across the region.
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Northwestern Telephone Company
Captain's Table On Shipboard As Ocean Swell Rises
The Minneapolis Journal recounts a liner meal at sea where the captain salutes his twenty six tablemates. He jokes about the group size and his responsibility while addressing the passengers during rough Atlantic seas.
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Atlantic
Iere
Minneapolis Journal
Earthquake Belt Encircles the Earth
The zone of frequent earthquakes surrounds the globe and spans Mediterranean lands, Azores, West Indies, Central America, Hawaii, Japan, China, India, Persia, and Asia Minor. Many originate beneath the ocean where sea bed depth varies, making cables vulnerable in these danger zones.
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Mediterranean
Azores
West Indies
Central America
Hawaiian Islands
Japan
China
India
Persia
Asia Minor
Patriotic Fourth of July Decorations From Philadelphia Birthplace
The Philadelphia Record offers Fourth of July decoration ideas with lanterns or glass tin framing, balloons on piazza rails, and a luncheon table centerpiece of American flags, red white and blue garlands, gun candlesticks, and liberty themed desserts. Liberty bells and statues adorn favors and ice cream shapes.
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Philadelphia Record
George Washington
Goddess of
Liberty
An Interesting Tree the Shellbark Hickory
Frank French in Scribner's extols the shellbark hickory as a distinctly American tree. He notes its sturdy roots and trunk, bold branches, strong character, fruitfulness, and rough bark, citing large winter buds with inner scales of yellow orange and red silk as seasonally striking.
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Frank French
Scribner’s
German Text vs Roman Type in Print Lessons
Jerome Hart notes Germans cling to black letter despite its ugliness and poor readability. He argues Roman type aids comprehension and is used in advertising, stock pages, street signs, and scientific works, while Bismarck impeded reform by favoring German text.
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Jerome Hart
Bismarck
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Eloping Lovers Debating Rope Ladder Exit
A playful exchange between a courting couple centers on the rope ladder used for their elopement. The lover worries about leaving it hanging while the damsel assures no worry, noting her father will pull it up so she cannot return.
Not Reliable Daughter Promises Change for Jack
Daughter vows he will mend his ways if I accept him yet his mother scoffs and doubts a quick repair. The exchange hints at a hopeful but wary household stance on rehabilitation.
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Jack
The Cloudier Day Brings Bright Smiles
A lighthearted note explains that gloomy weather should not dim mood as people are urged to keep smiling and stay upbeat despite the cloudy skies.
Appointment of Assignee in Defiance County
Notice the undersigned has been duly appointed and qualified as assignee in trust for the creditors of Henry Wilson of Defiance County Ohio by the Probate Court. F. L. Hay Assignee. June 12 1905.
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Henry Wilson
Defiance County
Ohio
Said
F. L. Hay
New Terror For the Fourth Cannon Set to Sell Cheap
The Lehigh University physics head has invented a cheap cannon to be marketed on the Fourth of July. It could fire 5,000 times for five cents, implying widespread potential harm. The device’s design reportedly minimizes risk to the shooter, but dangers to nearby bystanders remain a concern.
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Republic
Lehigh University
Philadelphia Ledger
Minerva Grubb Sues Louis R Young in Defiance County
In Defiance County Ohio Minerva Grubb sues Louis R Young for 423.25 plus interest alleging boarding lodging and care of an infant under a verbal agreement. An attachment order exists against Young’s property and he must answer by August 19, 1905 or default judgment will be entered.
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Court of Common Pleas
Defiance County
Ohio
Minerva Grubb
Louis R. Young
Louis R Young
Louis Young
Winn & Hay
Moving On Friday Superstition Slows Moves
A New York Press column quotes a professional mover who says Friday is avoided due to superstition. He notes many families delay relocations to escape perceived bad luck and that movers fear accidents and breakages on Fridays, preferring other days.
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New York Press
Notice to Land Owners Ditch Improvement No 2
Office notice from Mark Township Ohio dated June 26 1905 lists landowners affected by Ditch Improvement No 2 including Otto Porter John Porter William Schluesser James F McCrory Adam Rigel S P Culler ES Anthony Anna Graves John Culler John Leach Magda Crawford and M N Burd with petition origin by James Horn and practitioners Wm Schliesser and others
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Mark Township
Defiance County
Ohio
James Horn
Wm. Schluesser
Otto
John
Wm. Porter
Wm Schliesser
James F McCrory
Adam Rigel
S P Culler
ES Anthony
Anna
George Graves
John F Culler
William Schliesser
Wm. Schuesser
William Polter
Platter Creek
Paul Hagen
Said
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A. J. Mangas
Defiance, Ohio
Charles Uleh
Hazel Moll
Peter Kunz
AB Murphy
Mesdames Webb
Nickel and Orcutt
R W Webb
Helping Hand Society
the Methodist Church
Robert Holgate
Mesdames Bentley
Kelsey
Bridge
T T Ansberry
A H Wood
Linthicum
A F Wood
Eucire
First Street
William Kirtley
AH Wood
OP Dancing Club
Schultz Block
Myrtle Hickey
Amby Hamilton
Grace Beal
Jace Reid
Netta Richolt
Emma Schmaltz
Nettie Bisco
Fiora Antener
Mithel Sweyer
Carrie Binzley
Archbold
Miss McCann
Miss St. John
Adrian, Mich
Messrs
Logan Fiddler
Marl Telliga
J B Sieren
Scotty Fiddler
Ervin Huffman
Frank EF Rath
Earnest E Wagner
John F Sigler
Lake Corwin
Yoh
N A Wright
van Wert
S F Shelly
Bridge Whist Club
W A Kettenring
Kathryn Bentley
Walter Shelly
Robert Kelsey
New York
Ashton
Adams, Perry
Blue
Frank
Carroll
P H
Decker
Gherke & Masterson
Gibson
Harley
Christian
Hutchins &Cornwell
Floeffel
J I
Jennings
Henry
Klink
Gottleib
Kaley
Rev
Leiberthal
Long
Miller
Richard
McGuire
Claude
National Box Co
Newell
Peese
Edward
Popenhagen
Snider
A F
Spring
Squire
Ina
Star Mfg. Co
Tuttle
Neal
Tittle
James
United States Express
Viers. R W
Woods
Geo
Hoshock
Hornish
Hoshok
Geo. Jr
Kinsey
Wess
Liska
Myers
J W
Michael
Theo
Joseph
Markle
Eph
Nau
J K
Neissinger
Ort
Patton
Ramus
Rauth
Speaker
Sommers
Shock
Mike
Steffel
Wesley
Behne
Bisninger
Bohrer
C F
Goddard
Hammond
Hane
Harmon
Houck
Truby
Ambrose
Webb
Binder
W. A. Kehnast Co
Germany
Him
USA
Wesl
Crosby House
Napoleon
Wellington Hotel
Barnes House
Dr. Mahon
Rush Medical College
R. W. Wortman
Lewis Block
R. R. Parcher
Wayne Street
Chas. W. Butler
Nellie Krontz
Gladwin
Michigan
Frank Krontz
Laintiff
George W. Killey
Aram Viers
Jane
Peter Gilts
M. F. L. Hay
Aram Yiers
Sophia Whetstone
Elmer E Whetstone
Ada Hoy
Neneeng
Acco
Fort Wayne
Fred A. Shlosser
Bee
Mr. Walz
Mgr
C. Scherger & Sons
the Express
Standard Oil Company
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