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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
4
The notice outlines mail matter classification second class, carrier delivery in the city at ten cents per week, and outside city rates of three dollars per year. It lists mail subscriptions with six months and three months options, indicating prices of $1.75 and $1.00 respectively, with annual prepayment emphasized.
Harriman says Roosevelt asked him in 1905 to raise 250000 for Republican victory in New York in 1904. Roosevelt calls the claim a deliberate untruth and says he never asked for funds for the presidential campaign. Harriman stands by his statements while Roosevelt notes other political figures attacked in the exchange.
A Kent hotel caught fire on Monday and, after the alarm sounded, bystanders treated it as an April Fool prank and did not respond. The house was totally destroyed.
Buckland residents voted Saturday in a local option election, the drys securing a majority of 18 votes. The town has had one balloon since the passage of the Aiken law.
A petition to change the town name of Upper Sandusky to Orban was heard and Judge Babet dismissed the action for want of evidence. The ruling found insufficient proof to support the name change.
The 91 year old farmer Joan Cneppins was found drowned in the Tiffin river five miles east of Bryan on Sunday. Authorities think illness caused despondency leading to the rash act.
Wa Waccowitch, imprisoned in the Toledo workhouse for beating his wife, collapsed and died on Monday after learning his wife had saved enough to pay his fine and secure his release.
Report says Kaiser Wilhelm will dispatch Prince August to Harvard. The prince and Theodore Jr. are expected to become friends quickly and engage in several boxing contests before they know each other well.
Joan Ellmore of Altoona Pennsylvania claims a new method to burn eshes using a mix of one third cost and two thirds treated sashes. A test this week showed the furnace emitted more heat and generated more steam than a coal only furnace and appeared to be more economical. Tests so far indicate Ellmore's discovery is successful.
The W C T U of Harrod Bluffton and Lafayette has secured resolutions at farmers institutes favoring county local option and suffrage for women at elections to decide the issue. This is the first county in the state to take up the matter, showing significant support for women to cast ballots.
Special to Express Chicago April 3 Busse Republican wins mayoral race over Dunne Democrat by about 13 000 votes. Final tally Busse 164 839 Dunne 151 718 Brubaker 5 875 Koop 13 459. Traeger elected city treasurer with large plurality. Campaign centered on traction system reform and municipal ownership versus city franchise approach.
A compiled list of real estate transfers in Defiance and surrounding towns detailing owners and lot descriptions. Entries include Ella Twitchell to Howard Twitchell for numerous parcels, Rebecca Pennell to Alice McCoy, Peter Goehring Jr. to Sarah Lutz, and many others with lot numbers and block designations.
New York April 3 The lunacy commission examining Harry K Thaw will finish its inquiry today and report to Justice Fitzgerald before the Thaw jury resumes Thursday morning A brief public session is planned to hear a final alienist witness followed by private mental and physical tests of Thaw Only commission members and the official stenographer will be present at the final proceedings with both sides barred from entry
J McDonough of Toledo adjusted H L Johnson’s sick benefits claim and arranged a payment for T D Hood. Florence Ross returned as a guest of Geo B Wilson. Various locals visited, entertained, or traveled, including Baker from Michigan and A Walten barger. The community hosted church programs, noted illness, family visits, farm moves, and measles cases among children.
The April 3 report notes Governor Harris named Charles H. Adkins Democrat to a Wilberforce College trustee post. Adkins, once a congressional candidate, has since moved from the state and now resides in Oklahoma City. Politicians here find the honor appointment belated and puzzling.
Mrs Kila Tharp and daughter visited relatives in Melrose last week Gilbert Welden and wife of Edgerton visited relatives here last week John Young moved to Farmer Allen Carlisle died Tuesday night March 26 at his home east of Farmer He was aged 87 years and leaves a wife one son three daughters and several grandchildren The fun-
Directors met in Toledo with promising signs for the interurban line. Mr Wakeman reported financing expertise and capital ready to push construction within days. A seasoned railway builder backed by strong financial interests has joined, though names are withheld.
Governor Harris announced appointments to state boards and hospitals across Ohio. John C. Rorick Rep from Wauseon is named to the penitentiary board, along with A W Kiler Rep Columbus and Harvey J Eckley Rep Carrolton to various hospital and university posts. Several trustees and home officials are named, with Foraker and Dick backing reappointment of Harry Griffiths to the penitentiary board. Rorick’s appointment is described as personal.
At a stockholders meeting of Defiance City Bank a 3 percent dividend was declared and new directors elected. Officers were reelected including President C C Kuhn and Vice Presidents J H Best Deffbaugh and G W Watkioe. Separately a saltmaking breakthrough in Saginaw featured brine crystallization in concrete grainers with high daily output surpassing 130 barrels, praised as unprecedented in efficiency.
Toledo April 3 Philip Hager sues C Rudolph Brand claiming mismanagement as administrator deprived him of about 400 shares of Graser & Brand brewery stock and nearly 50000 in his wife’s estate. Also notes Rev and Mrs Tuomas D Ingle’s Golden Wedding at their Napoleon home with a dinner for 48 relatives and friends.
Chicago April 3 The Railway Trainmen and the Order of Conductors agreed to restart negotiations with railroad managers over a shorter day. The first renewed conference is set for today, with mediators Knapp and Neill canceling travel plans to remain in session indefinitely. Reports say managers may offer a 12 percent wage increase, the full advance demanded, though official confirmation was not yet received.
Ordinary brandy is aged in small oak casks prior to bottling. During maturation it absorbs ethers and essential oils from the wood, which are necessary to its perfection.
Toledo markets report mixed cash prices for wheat corn oats and rye with several grain and seed items. Hog and cattle tiers show ranges from tops at 6.35 to 6.90 and steers 4.00 to 4.75 with calves veals 4.25 to 8.25. sheep lambs and hog receipts noted with varying values and steady to higher demand. City markets list Buffalo area cattle receipts and price bands for steers cows heifers stockers bulls veals and sheep categories with quantities recorded.
The London Globe notes Siberia yields immense stores of human food while European Russia crops fail. Despite surplus produce, transport limits hinder distribution. Virgin soil and a growing Russian population suggest a strong agricultural future for this expansive region.
Farmers value cedar for durability in fence posts. Egyptian cedar boats found buried near the Nile suggest usage around 4500 years ago, though the ships rested under desert dry sand, preserving them.
The first recorded barbers in Greece practiced in the fifth century B C. In medieval England the barber and physician merged roles with a king’s barber serving as chief medical adviser. During Henry VIII’s reign London barbers faced laws forbidding surgery or bloodletting beyond tooth drawing.
A young probationary member of the Five Points gang in Montmartre explains the club’s brutal code. The novice, eager to prove himself, shoots a woman and is caught while the gang laments that a knife would have sufficed.
Cock crowing contests are popular in Belgium. Competitions last about an hour and the owner whose bird crows the most wins the prize.
In Chekiang most large towns establish chambers of commerce under supervision of the local bureau of agriculture trade industry and mines.
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