Defiance College Commencement Highlights Defiance College
Defiance College concluded its year with graduation on Wednesday June 7 as diplomas were awarded to graduates. The event featured a keynote by Dr Edwin Morell of Piqua with a lighthouse parable about life and opportunity, plus musical performances and an alumni banquet. Honorary degrees were conferred and Dr Dempster presided at the alumni toast.
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Defiance College
Defiance
Jénnie Gilliam
EM Harris
Flossie Whitney
S. T. Sutphen
Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets for Constipation and Ailments
Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets in tablet form sold for 85 cents a box. Marketed as a health tonic for digestion, kidney trouble, eczema, breath, headaches, backache, and sluggish bowels. Genuine product by Houuistsr Cave Company, Madison Wisconsin.
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Hollisters
Rocky Mountain
Houuistsr Cave Company
Madison
Wis
Better and Larger in 1905 Than The Sufiner
The Defiance College prospectus promotes expanded courses and pedagogy with broader laboratory work. Students receive a free Maumee Valley Chautauqua ticket and access to a free agency for teachers. Eight weeks for eight dollars outlines affordable professional training leading to good positions.
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Maumee Valley
Defiance College
Secret May 8 Marriage Tied To Indiana University Pair
The Indianapolis Morning Star reports the secret marriage of Miss Clara Fleece and Samuel Buskirk Olds, both connected to Indianapolis. They wed in the city May 8 by Rev. W D Wheeler and kept it quiet from friends. The couple met as Indiana University students in Bloomington. The story recalls Walter Smith’s February suit in Justice Smock’s court over a diamond ring and gifts. Fleece offered to return them, but Smith refused. Justice Smock ruled Smith not entitled to recover.
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Indianapolis
Samuel B Olds
Samuel Olds
Olds
Emery
Mr. Olds
Clara Fleece
Samuel Buskirk Olds
W D Wheeler
Miss Fleece
Indiana University
Bloomington
Walter Smith
Irvington
Smith
Justice Smock
Died in Toledo Mrs Waterman Mother of Mrs Kettenring
Mrs George W Waterman died Friday at 3 30 pm at her Toledo home aged 75 Two children survive Mrs W A Kettenring and Miss Nellie Waterman The family history notes Mr Waterman’s business in this city and moves to Toledo with winters at Sea Breeze The Kettenrings were in New York when telegram arrived and left for Toledo after learning of her illness
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George W. Waterman
W A Kettenring
Toledo
Defiance High School Graduates Stage Final Exercises
Nineteen Defiance high school seniors performed at the Citizens Opera House in a red and white clad procession. Orations by Luella Goldenetz John Deatrick Myrtle Ruff Elizabeth Carter and others featured broad topics from literature to the Great Northwest with musical interludes and a fitting benediction by Rev. A B Murphy.
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Defiance High School
Citizens Opera House
Clayton A Smucker
Methodist Church
Canfield
Tigris
Euphrates Valley
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Europe
Luella Goldenetz
John F Deatrick
Great
Northwest
Oregon
Washington
Eda Weigerding
Elizabeth Carter
June Tillman
Tennyson
Gladstone
Livingston
Arnolds
A B Murphy
Gertrude Behne
Agnes Ensign
Helen Harley
Bessie Betts
Robert Rout
Glenn Small
Clifford Beardsley
Tour of Inspection on Cincinnati Toledo and Detroit Route
A inspecting party led by A Burger of Toledo and including J Morgan T Ryan Smith J H Gardner J A Stewart W F Seagrave and Major W A Calhoun visited Defiance Napoleon Paulding and Van Wert to evaluate the proposed line. They toured power facilities and parks sites praising Cincinnati area advantages as a power source and summer resort while Kalhoun weighs financial viability for eastern investors. Electrical engineers Herbert and Armstrong will assess route power needs within ten days ahead of construction.
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Cincinnati, Toledo
Detroit
A. Burger
Toledo
J. Morgan
T. Ryan Smith
New York
J. H. Gardner
J. A. Stewart
Cincinnati
W. F. Seagrave
W. A. Calhoun
Buffalo
Calhoun
Napoleon
Burger
Paulding
van Wert
Mas. Calhoun
Defiance
Maj
United States Steel Corporation
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Dr. Morrell
Piqua
Newhouse
D. D
Lima
Ohio
G W Curtis
Monticello
Jones County
Iowa
City
H. P. Miller Co
R. W. Wortman
H. Marcus & Sons
Baltimore
George Pickart
Evansville
Ind
Pickart
George Schinn
German Methodist Church
Margaret Hulstede
George Hulstede
East Hopkins Street
Rev
Bunge
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Neapolis
of Defiance College
P. W. McReynolds
Geo W Waterman
Will
Kettenring
Christ
Myrtle Ruff
Lillie Lind
Abraham Lincoln
Margaret Wilhelm
America
Panama Canal
Coy Jones
Lillian Lind
John Deatrick
John Gutenberg
Ralph Brady
Mildred Corbett
Rubinstein
Tiffin
Donald Wilhelm
Wilhelm
R W Mitchell
George Wilaberg
George
Garrett
Mrs . Hammond
Florida
Alta King
John Young
Nellie Byrne
John Schoeninger
J . Hoeffel
Miss Loamy Heater
Stryker
Clarence Pitts
Celina
Erma Heller
O Sherwood
Canton
Henry Willeman
E J Webb
I B Maddix
A R Dingley
L Spangler
C Haskell
O F Connelly
L Smith
F A Goddard
William Whitmore
McGushin
Hubbard
James West
Mane—field
James Simms
Goshen
Ray Miller
Hudson Woods
Lucy Cheney
Letha Mae Engel
Amy Whitaker
Marguerite Kegel
Ruth Rout
Lydia Coy
Miriam Mitchell
Erna Geiger
Rena Weigerding
Leefe Morse
Belle Whitney
Carrie Watkins
Carrie Betts
Laura Ferguson
Masters Richard Martin
James Hudson
Russi Chapman
Joe Boyer
Harry Craven
Rollin Gleason
Leslie Hay
Herman Shultz
THE
United States Treasury
United States Courts
Defiance County
Defiance City
Western Depository
Balt & Ohio Railroad
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