Sunday School Work and County Convention Plans
Defiance county Sunday school leaders urge township conventions before the September 5 6 county meeting. Rev A A Thomas offers weekly talks on the normal work and organizing a clue. Juniors plan a missionary program at Ney ME church with ice cream for society members. They praise county papers for Sunday school coverage and encourage reading local news to boost community efforts.
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AA Thomas
Brother Thomas
A A Thomas
Hickeville
Defiance County
Ney ME
Advertised Letters at Defiance Post Office
Uncalled letters for week ending July 3 1900 include ladies Miss W D Conture and Mrs Ella Sand and men John Bandy Selvester King N J Cawley CA Ford C W Franklin J Peters Potash Co. If not claimed in 14 days letters go to Dead Letter Office per law. Postmaster C. J. Thompson notes to say Advertised when calling and provide list date.
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Defiance
Ohio
W D Conture
John Bandy
Selvester King
J Cawley
Ella Sand
CA Ford
W Franklin
Peters Potash Co
C. J. Thompson
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a candy cathartic cure for constipation. It promises lifetime relief and offers a money back guarantee if it fails, with the slogan We, 2c. If C C fail, druggists refund money.
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C.C. C
Population estimate by city school enumeration
The city reports 2407 children in school, with ward totals: 643 in first ward, 564 in second, 481 in third, and 689 in fourth. Extrapolating by four yields 9628 inhabitants, by three about 8424, prompting doubts about using school counts for population forecasts amid 1900 census rumors of a decline from 1890.
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W A Snider
Srd
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Promises Quick Bowels Cure
Best For The Bowes. No matter what ails you, headache to a can cer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS held nature, cure you without a grip or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 0 cents to start get ting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in motel boxes, every tablet has C. (. stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
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Defiance County
Sheepskin County
Squash Hollow
Village Destroyed by Tornado and Cloudburst
Reports from Marshalltown Iowa on July 7 describe a tornado and cloudburst at Steamboat Rock destroying the village. The Iowa River rising five feet in one hour confirms damage while a cloudburst between St. Anthony and Zearing washed out nearly a mile of Iowa Central railroad track and harmed crops.
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Marshalltown
Steamboat Rock
Iowa
St. Anthony
Zearing
Iowa Central Railroad
Failures in first half of 1900 rise amid industrial slump
R G Dun quarterly review shows 1900 first half failures total 5 362 liabilities 100 570 134 with 30 bank failures 25 822 682 and 5 332 commercial failures 74 747 457. Iron industry declines spark closures and price cuts. further drop expected before another active season and wage adjustments proceed.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Company
Weekly Review of Trade
Steyn In the Mountains Report From Pleisirfontein to Bethlehem
Lord Roberts telegraphed the war office that Paget engaged the enemy on July 3 near Pleisirfontein Orange State driving them from a strong position to Bronckfontein. He bivouacked, then moved to Blaauwkopje July 4, northwest of Bethlehem. Steyn's government officials except the treasurer-general are at Bethlehem, proclaimed capital, while Steyn has fled to the mountains.
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Steyn
London
Lord Roberts
War Office
Paget
Pleisirfontein
Orange State
Leeuwkop
Bronckfontein
Blaauwkopje
Bethlehem
Vrede
Wheel Plant Burned in Sandusky Fire
Sandusky July 7 The branch factory of the Standard Wheel company was totally destroyed by fire along with finisher wheels and raw material. The loss is estimated between 100000 and 125000 dollars and is thought to have been caused by spontaneous combustion.
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Sandusky, C
Standard Wheel Company
Stevenson Wins Vice Presidency Nomination At Nation Convention
Adlai E. Stevenson secures the Democratic vice presidential nomination on the first ballot amid amidships of Hill Towne and others. Tennessee shifts 24 votes to Stevenson sealing the unanimous nomination as crowds cheer at the Kansas City convention.
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Waso
Maryland
J. W Smith
Washington
Jesse Lewis
North Carolina
Julian Carr
Ohio
A. W Patrick
Alabama
Stevenson
Hill
Towne
Tennessee
Silver Republicans Refer Vice Presidency to National Committee
Kansas City July 7 The Silver Republican national convention adjourned without a vice presidential nomination after a lengthy debate. Charles A Towne was briefly seen as a possible nominee before the matter was referred to the national committee with power to act. W J Bryan was named president and Towne considered for the ticket as delegates reacted to Adlai E Stevenson’s nomination by the Democratic convention.
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Jones
Orther
Kansas City
National Committee
Democratic Party
Kansas City Club
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Senator Jones
Tillman
South Carolina
Johnson
Williams
Massachusetts
Osborne
Wyoming
Wilson
Idaho
District of Columbia
Indian
Oklahoma
Columbus
Lyceum Hall
Bryan
Stevenson
Silver Republican
Sioux Falls
Towne
Cincinnati
Intermountain
Lincoln
Teller
Shafroth
Colorado
Cheadle
The
Silver Republicans
D. C. Tillotson
Kansas
Charles A. Towne
Silver Republican Party
W. J. Bryan
Adlai E. Stevenson
Missing American at Paris Believed Murder Victim
Paris reports a young attache from the United States embassy has vanished for a week. Police pursue an active search and fear the case may be a murder.
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Paris
Aurore
United States
Fires Destroy 18 Businesses and a Residence at Prairie Depot
Fire at Prairie Depot Wood county Ohio consumed 18 business houses and a residence. Roof collapse at Union depot Pittsburg injured six severely. Admiral Cotton named commandant Norfolk navy yard replacing Barker. Sheriff Robinson and wife thwart jail escape by eight prisoners in Marysville. Jim Crow car law now operating in Virginia. US fire losses half 1900 show 103 million for six months vs 65 million prior year. Mexican cattlemen Sosa and Vasquez killed in San Pedro valley Texas after a quarrel over a cattle branch.
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Prairie Depot
Wood County
Union
Pittsburg
Cotton
Norfolk Navy Yard
Barker
Sheriff Robinson
Marysville
Virginia
United States
Canadian Troops Sail Home From South Africa
One thousand one hundred fifty Canadian soldiers aboard the Allan line steamer Parisian head home from the South Africa theater. Eight hundred were stricken with enteric fever, blamed on putrid Paarlburg water, amid complaints of field hospital treatment.
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London
South Africa
Allan Line
Paardeburg
Secret Labor Conference Rumored in Chicago
In Chicago on July 6 a secret meeting occurred between AFL President Samuel Gompers Chicago building trades council President Edwin Carroll and Secretary E A Davis. The discussions are believed to concern current labor troubles in the city.
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Chicago
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Edwin Carroll
Chicago Building Trades Council
E. A. Davis
Roosevelt Meets Hanna After Rough Riders Reunion
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York arrives in Cleveland from the Rough Riders reunion in the southwest and will confer with Senator Hanna. He delivered many speeches on his return trip.
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Roosevelt
Hanna
Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Rough Riders
Vice Presidential Prospects Stir Conference Debates
Kansas City July 6. Conference of Democrats Populists and Silver Republicans weighs Towne Towne is favored by many as a strong running mate but New York's delegates complicate Danforth Hill prospects. Towne's candidacy gains support while Stevenson is seen as a safe beat for Towne. Conference adjourned with plans for further talks.
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Kansas City
Alabama
Florida
R. D. McDonald
Elliott Danforth
New York
David B. Hill
Hill
Danforth
Croker
Stevenson
Towne
George Fred Williams
Tillman
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Emperor William's Offer in German Telegraph to Free Foreigners
Emperor William telegraphed to the German squadron commander in Chinese waters and to Shan Tung officials offering 1000 taels for the deliverance of any foreigner shut up in Peking and handed to a German magistrate. The offer includes payment of publication expenses in Peking.
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Berlin
Emperor William
Shan Tung
Peking
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