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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
7
Reports from Defiance county include social visits, engagements, and marriages. industry notes on woolen mills and a new steamer test, plus plans for residences and Island Park enterprise. A town-wide look at court, crime, weather, and civic developments throughThursday.
The Defiance Machine Works reports strong domestic and foreign orders continuing to arrive. The firm kept its plant running during hard times and did not cut wages, with Kettering brothers expanding trade to all civilized countries and seeing no threat to three years of prosperity under President McKinley. The plant operates at full capacity and expects conditions to persist.
The fragment lists census queries on names, birthplaces, dates, race, marriage, children, citizenship, occupation, schooling, and home ownership. It also reports local notices: Geo Townsley convalescent, visits by Prof. W J Henry, and community items about buses, stock yards, and a Band of Hope meeting with a spelling contest.
Pallbearers named for Mrs Houghton funeral include Elmer Clark and J Sherwood with Rev Adam Detzer officiating. Ed Kiessner reports a pleasant trip and Europe-bound plans.GAR encampment visit from Findlay noted. potato crop yields quoted as 15 per bushel. State officials examined Independence dam. bids for timber and concrete to repair dam to be issued.
The article profiles Oom Peter Caressel defending his bid for re election as county commissioner. He accuses rival partners of owning many scandals attributed to his term, and vows to expose witnesses to defend himself. The tone signals a tough, partisan campaign with high stakes.
The Board of Examiners for Defiance City district will conduct a teachers examination starting at 8:00 a m on Saturday May 19. Clerk of the Board invites qualified applicants to attend at the designated location.
The spring timetable adds dining and sleeping cars to Peerless Trio Express trains between Chicago and the east. All trains feature drawing room sleeping cars and up-to-date dining cars with no fare increase. Tickets available via agents or Nickel Plate general passenger agent in Cleveland Ohio. May 30.
The advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a universal remedy from headaches to cancer claiming it cures by purging the bowels with easy natural movements. It notes a starter cost of 10 cents and warns against imitations.
An old advertisement-style piece features Mr Major of New York promoting Major's Cement. It claims superior materials and high profits for competitors with inferior glues. The repeated figures cite $3.75 per pound and $2.65 per gallon costs for materials. It notes aggressive advertising spending and markets Major's Rubber Cement and Major's Leath products. Established 1976.
Defiance Commandery No 30 Knights Templar was inspected Friday by F L Geddes of Toledo Grand Warder and Rev JM Mille Grand Prelate. Frank H Righard Fulton county surveyor received knighthood after Red Cross and Temple orders. Out‑of‑town guests included CJ King CE Brigham CH Nachtreive FJ Spencer H Gingrich from Wauseon FJ Beck Napoleon EE Gardner Hamlet Chas Zuber MP Jacobs Antwerp.
The Democrat party will place Peter Coresse on the ballot for nomination to a second term as commissioner. The piece cites longstanding party practice of rewarding faithful and efficient officers with a renomination and urges supporters to back the incumbent.
The notice outlines minor schedule shifts for No. 4 from Chicago at 3 30 pm with delays at intermediate stops, plus through sleeping cars east and west. Dining and club meals extend from Chicago to Bellevue and Buffalo, with services on Nos 1 2 and 8 daily. Contact C Asterlin for details and June 5 notice date. One excursion to Niagara Falls via CH and DR on August 9 at last year rates, details from CH & D agents.
The Overland Limited departs 6:30 pm and the Pacific Express at 10:30 pm from Chicago with Pullman sleeping cars tourist cars free reclining chair cars and dining cars. Tickets via Chicago & North Western or 234 Superior street Cleveland Ohio. Also special low fare to Findlay Ohio for GAR encampment May 7–9 return by May 11. Lead and Zinc Fields Arkansas reached via Frisco Line with daily stage connections and home seeker excursions from C H D Ry agents. Bryan Snyder, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis.
An advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a universal cure for constipation. It claims a full refund from druggists if the remedy fails to work, listing prices of 10c or 25c and referencing 41C. C. C. as the brand.
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