Excellent Musicale Brings Defiance Fans Together
A Defiance musicale at R. A. Houghton residence showcases the city’s best talent. Performers include Miss Vanda Enos, Mrs Clint Leither, Mrs Ferdinand Kittner, Mrs A. Wood, Miss Houghton, and Mrs H. Wheeler. Proceeds fund a Grace church pipe organ.
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R. A. Houghton
Holgate Avenue
Episcopal Church
Vanda Enos
Little Houghton Wells Taylor
Clint Leither
Ferdinand Kittner
A. Wood
Miss Houghton
Root All touted as 20th Century Saviour of Mankind
About Root All marketed as a universal remedy sold by agents at 60 cents per bottle. The anonymous claim frames it as mankind’s greatest pain enemy and a modern savior.
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Root
Root All Poultone
Great Poultry Food and Tonic
Church Notice St John’s Reformed Church Service Schedule
St Johns Reformed Church corner Fourth and Washington streets invites all to divine services next Sunday June 12 Sunday school at 9 am German sermon at 10 am children day exercises at 7 30 pm Sunday School at Sherwood at 2 pm German sermon at 2 30 pm Pastor Rev F E Lahr cordially invites everyone
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St. John’s Reformed
Fourth and
Washington Streets
F. E. Lahr
Sherwood
Ohio Sunday School convention opens with 800 delegates
Lima reports the Ohio State Sunday School association convention opening with 800 delegates from all eighty eight counties. President W A Eudaly presided as committees for nominating resolutions auditing and banner award were named. Tuesday focused on religious study and teacher standards with Rev KE D Allen urging Jesus as king and close Bible application. Evening addresses welcomed delegates from Lima Marion Lawrence Toledo and Chicago official W C Pierce and Rev H A Dowling.
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Lima
Ohio State Sunday School Association
W. A. Eudaly
Cincinnati
Paign
T. D. Danforth
Union
William M. Curry
Allen
John Ewart
Adams
J.H. Thome
Huron
J. H. Elder
Harding
Charles Bennett
Wyandot
J. M. Avann
H. C. Dean
Green
M. A. Jameson
Warren
H. A. Truesdale
Ashtabula
T. D. Bendure
Clark
Banner
KE. D. Allen
Toledo
Jesus
Tozja
Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea Promise
Advertisement claims Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea makes children strong and healthy with a money back guarantee. Sells tea and tablets for 35 cents, from Weis enburger and Emery.
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Hollister
Weisenburger & Emery
Beethoven Concert Showcases Defiance College Music Program
Defiance College displays strong music discipline with a Beethoven concert in the college chapel. The choruses, piano and vocal performances receive high praise for accuracy, expression, and technical skill. Tonight features class day exercises including piano duets and orations with student participants.
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Defiance College
Kiefer
Ensign
Cunningham
Iguana Worshippers Switch to Iguana Stew
A South American tribe along the Zabari river worships the iguana and monkey. When the iguana began eating their chickens the people decided to kill the iguana and eat it instead. They prefer iguana stew to chicken fricassee.
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Zabari River
No title present based on historical quote
The quoted reminiscence recalls Massachusetts families claiming Noah’s flood era lineage and a Boston social aspirant asking who belongs to old families, with grandmamma replying that mostly no one does. The remark reflects Boston social memory and lineage vanity.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Atlantic
Magical Sapphire Powers Across Ancient Lore
The sapphire is attributed with preventing wicked thoughts and countering poison by killing venomous creatures when dissolved in a glass. It was said to win favor with princes, pacify enemies, lift enchantments, and release captives. Known as sacred to Apollo, it aided oracle inquiries and served as a fever remedy.
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St. Jerome
Apollo
Magistrate Question Turns On Domestic Alliance
In the Butte Inter Mountain a magistrate addresses a man and woman about marrying. Miranda speaks in dialect refusing to obey or be dominated, offering to wash and iron for a man but not to be bossed. The exchange captures social tensions of domestic roles and race in a frontier era.
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Miranda
Jedge
Butte Inter Mountain
Sleeping In a Cannon The giant gun siesta in India
The London Standard notes an immense cannon in India with an interior chamber used by officers for rest during heat. Cast about four centuries ago by a renowned Ahmednugger chief, the weapon remains among the oldest and largest, now part of English possession after the conquest of India.
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India
Ahhmednugger
London Standard
Gadsby and Raynor Courtroom Exchange Noted
In a courtroom exchange Judge notes Nosends as a regular fortune hunter. He calls the fellow a mighty poor shot in remarks suggesting a judgmental view of Nosends and his prospects.
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Gadsby
Nosends
Raynor
The Deeper the Sorrow the Less Tongue Hath It
A compact aphorism drawing on Talmudic sentiment about speech and grief. It suggests that deep sorrow reduces one’s ability or willingness to speak. The line reflects traditional rabbinic wisdom on restraint and inner response to suffering.
Rural Carriers Restricted on Outside Business and Mail Rules
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow outlines that rural free delivery carriers may not solicit or carry merchandise for hire beyond patrons on their routes and must prepay postage for mailable items. The notice also restricts handling county newspapers freely, requires hire payments from patrons only, and prohibits route deviations or delays. A separate anecdote from the Chicago Tribune discusses a prisoner confronted by seven wives as he faces legal consequences.
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Bristow
Post Office Department
Orf Corporation
The Precise Moment in Marriage Thoughts Dialogue
The quotation pits Bessie and Tom in a humorous exchange about when a young man considers marriage. Tom jokes that thoughts begin about two months after marriage, highlighting light domestic banter characteristic of the period.
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Bessie
Tom
Puck
Widow’s Insurance Leads to Grim Pun in Funeral Note
A minister questions a widow about the deceased’s readiness for death and she replies the departed was prepared, noting he held life insurance in three strong companies. The exchange frames the scene with mordant irony in a local paper item.
Vote Counts and Clerk Class Standings Revealed
The list shows leaders in each class with Miss Rourke first among clerks and Miss McCullough up two places. Carriers Hartman and Small also advance. A bargain notice promises a limited time vote for the next count.
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Miss Rourke
Miss McCullough
Hartman and
Small
City and Rural Mail Carriers Named in Roll Call
The list names Dora Deman Dot Ricker Lena Gleisburg Reba Heatley Minnie Cromley and others as city mail carriers, with Chas F Dittmer Frank M Myers Albert Anderson Isaac J Deveaux Theo Louys among rural carriers. Voters are instructed to send coupons to the Coupons Department Express Defiance Io.
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Dora Deman
Dot Ricker
Lena Gleisburg
Reba Heatley
Minnie Cromley
Chas F Dittmer
Frank M Myers
Albert Anderson, Isaac J Deveaux
Theo Louys
Local Notes and Visits From Defiance to Lima
Mrs B H Clemmons and Mary Goddard are on the sick list. Ida Peoples works for Mrs Gregg. T B Goddard is in Michigan this week. B H Clemmons works in Defiance this week. Miss Della Sitterly of Paulding visited Inez Sloppy. Nellie Goddard sews in Defiance this week. Goddard and daughter Stella attend the state SS convention in Lima. John Sohns little boy has diphtheria. Dr Reynolds attends him. Glen Speicer works in Defiance. O Durham has returned from Michigan and visits his parents. Pxenaede preaching next Sunday evening at 7:30 by Rev S L Roberts. I know a jolly old maiden lady a lady of high degree who never goes to bed without a drink of Rocky Mountain Tea. Sensible woman. Weisenburger & Smery.
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B H Clemmons
Mary Goddard
Ida Peoples
Gregg
Reynolds
Glen Speicer
Defiance
O Durham
Michigan
S L Roberts
Weisenburger & Smery
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Woodwards
Minnie Kehnasi
Dayton
Dey Ayers
Geo. Bell
C. P. Harley
Minnie Ryan
Chicago
Mrs. Breckler
Arthur
Lela Brown
Bryan
Will Wright
Rob McBroom
Mrs. Chas. Lehman
Mrs. Krill
J. Frink
Juliet Egerton
Hicksville
C. E. Gilchrist
Homer, Mich
W M Himes
Summit Street
A. W. King & Son, Clothiers
Ohio
Bowlby
Corrigan
Clinton St
Elk Block
Paulding
St. Louis
Jennings’s
Clifford Beardsley
Wilbur Beardsley
Easton
Joe Grew
Emmett
Joe
Earl Rife
Western
Lake Front
Jackson Park
R A Houghton
Elsie
Byron Hanna
Tiffin Township
Clinton Street
Fire Department
Wapakoneta
Detroit Southern
S. C. Lessner
Chas. Baker
Mayour Hockman
Tie
Julia McMillen
South Clinton Street
K. of P.’s
Pedro
Harriet Blair
H. Guthrie
Yingling
Weisenberger & Emery
Mollencup’s
MISS
Rakestraw Bros
Ranestraw Brothers
The
Defiance City Bank
C. Kuhn
Chas. J. Daoust
Cashier
Geo. W., Watkins
Vice Press
E. Rhoads
Cash
John H. Best
Our County
John Marshall David G. Sharp
William E. Moll
John W. Lynde Dr. H. F. Roh
John A. Aspacher
Jacob Sharp
Chas
J. Thompson
Geo. H
Dicus
Napoleon
State Sunday School Convention
Robert Hadden
Lawrence County
Waldo D. Webster
Trumbull
W. A. Wiant
Preble
J. C. Clark
Wayne
W. H. Mitchell
Cham
Hattie Gordon
Bartlett
Lillian Deveaux
Adda Clevenger
Ford Bolton
Lucia de Lamamoor
Donnizetti
Mission of Culture
Isaac Cassel
Edward Geller
Blanche Pratt
DeKoven
Mabel McReynolds
Gienna Morris
Deeeeeee
Lucy Lee
Harley & Whitaker’s
John
Chicago Tribune
Ems
C. Winterich
South
Jefferson Street
Defiance, Ohio
Eran Bose Wien Semeenette Corse
Glenna Morris
Lora Higgins
Jesse Dunn
Genevieve Gorman
Nellie Richardson
Blanche Hall
Marjorie Lamb
Della C. Blue
Pearl Ashton Pearl Beason
Lillian Bailey
Bertha Smith LoAmy Heater
Sarah V. Prueser
Mame I. Gleason
Catherine Culkins
Myrtle Oakes
Florence Rowe
Alice Leaders
Jennie Fouke
Gertrude Brady
Catherine Feindel Nettie Bridenbaugh
Anna D. Wells
Maud Lacy Estella A. Goddard
Kate Sheridan
Grace O. Ensign
Catherine Carey
Charlotte Westhafer
Anna Rourke
Florence Schlegel
Bessie Oakes
Bertha Bailey
Clara Speiser Libbie Culkies
Anna Smith
Mary Bohn
Helen McCullough
Laura Schlosser
Edith Dicus Tillie Spring
Minnie Whetstone
Tena Hengstler
Nellie Harley
Laura Bohlman
Kate Mahony
Reba Lenhart
Elizabeth Krutsch
Hazel Todd
Anna Russet
Julia Houck
Alice Conrad
Helen Steinberger
Rose Antener
Ella Clement
Anna Riley
Tena Wilsburg
CITY
James Stoner
L Stonebraker
Mix
Geo M Hartman H
T May
Propts
Ed Shessler
Express Carriers
Herbert Anderson
Morris Small
Walter Miller
Peter Louys
Urbane Brubaker
Gerald Heatley
Riley Wortman
In Hopper
Gerald Louys
Arthur Grube
Arket
J.L. Allison
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