Grand Jury Reports After Four Day Session
After a four day session the grand jury reported to Judge Cameron and was discharged. Seventy plus witnesses were examined in nineteen cases, five indictments against Mark Center saloon keepers for Sunday law violations and slot machine use. three petit larcenies. one for abandoning children. one for rape overturned on grounds of insufficient facts. two for assault and battery. Two Mark Center defendants named Charles Eisabeth and Loren Kitterman. Some indictments not made public due to custody or bond status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Mark Center
Charles Gonkle
Charles Eisabeth
Loren Kitterman
Funeral of Mrs. A. Pessefal at St Marys Church
The funeral for Mrs. A. Pessefal was held Saturday at 9:30 at St. Marys Catholic Church. Rev. J. F. Collins conducted services and interment followed in Riverside cemetery. Pallbearers were John Nolan, E. A. Baker, A. Maag, J. J. Singer, Charles Barnhart, and Jacob Garver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Pessefal
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
North Ridge
J. F. Collins
Riverside Cemetery
John Nolan
E. A. Baker
A. Maag
J. J. Singer
Charles Barnhart
Jacob Garver
See Dr Huffman for eye nose or throat trouble
See Dr Huffman for eye nose or throat trouble and glasses. Local patients are advised to consult the physician for vision or nasal concerns or throat ailments and to inquire about eyewear fittings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Huffman
Farm for Sale Near Timely Timber and Low Land
Farm on 108 acres nearly all cultivable except five acres of timber and about ten acres of low land suitable for potatoes and onions. Contains two houses two barns shop chicken coop pig pen corn crib granary wagon shed machine shed orchard water wind mill elevated tank and irrigation pipes to barn shop garden lawn kitchen and cellar ready for tile drainage work nearly six car loads installed.
White in City as Kansas City Exchange Manager
C R White formerly Northwestern Telephone Co manager and now head of a large Kansas City exchange visits the city and shakes hands with friends. A new furnace is being installed on the second floor under the Masonic Blue lodge room to solve long standing heating problems. The Ingenook weekly magazine begins Alphabet of American Authors with Audubon Bryant Cooper and others in alphabetical order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorosis
Henry Seither
Holgate Avenue
Canton
Misa Helen Phelps
Josephine Woodward
D’ Nelle Wilhelm
Lillian Chenevert
Helen Phelps
Federation
Germany
Clara Pope
Celina
Sutphen
Carey
C. R. White
Northwestern Telephone Co
Kansas City
Masonic Blue Lodge
Ingenook
Elgin
Lil
AG. Figley
Washington Township
Audubon
Bryant
Cooper
Quiet Halloween With Few Incidents Reported
Hallowe en this year passed quietly with no serious police reports. More masked revelers than usual roamed streets but caused no major damage. A Woodward residence fence on Jefferson street was damaged, Dan Mc Knight's delivery wagon was moved, and porch furniture was taken in some districts. Police remained vigilant and made no arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallowe’en
Clinton Street
Woodward
Jefferson Street
Dan McKnight
Our Debt to Samoa Reflects Delayed Arbitration Award
Advices from Samoa report a strong resentment toward America and Great Britain over unpaid damages from a 1809 bombardment. The King Oscar arbitration in 1902 ordered payments by the United States and Britain, but the award remains unsettled and the claims unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samoa
America
Great Britain
Oscar
United States
Britain Cuba treaty drops most favored nation clause
The treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Cuba expunges the most favored nation clause as President Palma resists granting Britain trade advantages like those given to the United States. The excerpt includes a casual medical dialogue about a boy’s recovery and the cost of the constitution’s benefits.
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Great Britain
Cuba
Palma
United States
Tyte-Phist
Thermometer stock tips spark heat of humor
A stockbroker jokes that buying thermometers now will yield profit in hot weather. The other asks why, and the reply is that prices are bound to rise, illustrating a playful exchange about timing the market.
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Stock Exchange
Climb Toward the Radiant Peak Quote
A terse exhortation urges climbing the steep path to reach the radiant peak, framing effort as the path to achievement and illumination.
Citizens Opera House Reopens With Upgrades
The Citizens Opera House reopens Monday November 11 with Hi Henry's minstrels leading the event. Upgrades include a larger furnace, new radiators, and heavy Brussels carpets replacing old aisles and foyer coverings. Sidewalks repaired for winter, a cement walk planned for spring on Clinton and Fifth streets. The new owners promise a first class theatre and top winter attractions.
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Citizens Opera House
Hi Henry
Clinton
Fifth Streets
Defiance
Paulding Seeks Electric Railway To Ft Wayne Line
Paulding plans an electric railway from Defiance to Ft Wayne via the Wabasha canal bed with a canal branch to Paulding and a south extension. Promoters K V Haymaker and Dr C E Bennett met with Paulding citizens asking landowners along the route to grant right of way from town to the canal, some already tendering.
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Paulding
Attempted Robbery at Pioneer Bank Fails. Suspects Nabbed
Cracksmen attempted to blow the Pioneer Banking Company safe Thursday morning but were frightened away before the inner strong box opened. They escaped. two men later arrested at Reading Michigan are suspected robbers. The safe held between $6,000 and $7,000 in cash.
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Pioneer
Pioneer Banking Company
Reading
Mich
Bold daylight jewelry store robbery shocks city
A noon hour break in at Joe Daller’s east side jewelry shop yielded rings watches and other jewelry missing. A horse and buggy tied to Myers’ rig vanished from the Public Square and a Sidney jewelry store reported a similar daytime robbery. Police consider possible connections among all three incidents.
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Sims
Joe Daller
Daller
Myers
Bacome
Sidney
East High Street
Local people travel and attend weddings across towns
Mrs. D. R. Harris returns to Toledo after a week with relatives in Defiance. Mrs. John Dobler of Girard Pa visits her parents in Defiance then returns home. Miss Jennie Welker and family leave Defiance for Sanford Florida after a summer visit. The Shellys head to South Bend Indiana for the wedding of Nina Lewis and Lee Charles Mason at the Oliver hotel on November second.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. W. Club
Milo Miller
Wayne Street
John Young
Carl Storck
Ernest Stoll
el Polson
Rudy Newton
C. J. Thompson
Salmaguodi
North Clinton Street
Emma Preisendorfer
Catherine Sites
A. B. Tenzar
Frances Webb
Mildred Haymaker
Thompson Orchestra
R K. McFarland
Harrison Street
Claude Groper
George Watkins
Clara Smith
Luella Smith
Olive Newton
Mable Adams
Lydia Moll
Roth Wilhelm
Frances Kirk
Fern Leever
Esther Spring
Arthur Wrede
Ronald Weller
Frank Deatrick
Howard Webb
R. K. McFarland
Virgil Deveaux
Gerald Heatley
Claude Graper
Richard Conrad
Willie Moll
Umzwee’s
Hallowe’en
Clara
Lillian Parent
Broadway
North Defiance
Fred Bohlman
George Young
Chicago
Erwin Weaver
Nettie
Helen Steinberger
Lillian Dupont
Eva Feigenbaum
Nelle Deveaux
Maple Biser
Lula Beck
Napoleon
Messers
Ed Weaver
Frank Kennedy
Ralph Brady
Csri Myers
George Wulff
Bernard Young
Carl Smith
Gary
Ind
Joe Lloyd
Josephine Woodward
Sigma Tau Beta
Jefferson Street
Sis Tompkins
Laura Ferguson
Hanaash Harry
Helen Deciadorfer
D. R. Harris
Toledo
City
John Dobler
Girard, Pa
O. Dbd. Loveridge
Washington Street
F. Shelly
Harry Shelly
South Band
Nina Lewis
Lee Charles Mason
Oliver Hotel
Miss Lewis
Defiance
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Qalbarkrell Society & Less
Fossett
Olive Smith
H. M. M. Club
Lilian Chenevert
Hallowe’en Sports
Raymond Terry
Allen Maxwell
National Union Hall
Marie Farrell
Fourth Ward
Ottawa Avenue
Frank Diemer
East Defiance
Ladies Aid of the Society
Brethren Church
Pearl Molilen Cup
Anna Riley
Richard Snyder
Garrett
St. Mary’s Church
Jackson Street
The
Thirteen Club
I. N. Savage
Hallowe
Goldie McClary
Russell Savage
Lucile Stonebreaker
Emily Reynolds
McClary
Stonebreaker
Abe Smith
C. L. Stonebreaker
Louis Steck
August Martin
William Ort
Everest
Will Shores
Fred Freneh
Orville Kubo
Reese
Harmon Wrede
William Gilson
Ed. King
George Roberts
John King
Harry Hoffman
L. Stock
S. A. Craven
Niel Tuttle
Parent’s
Railroad Depot
Ohio
William Green
Kirkland, Averionerr
van Wert
Waterloo, Ind
DeKalb County
L. L. Denison
Hallowe'en
Frank T. Donley
Parmer & Decker
James College of Auctioneering and Oratory
A. W. Thomas Auction Co
Chicego
New Road
Lima
Charley White
Columbuea Frescoing Up
Syracuse
N. Y
Omaha
Nebraska
J. A. Sites
Lewis Block
Northwestern
First National Bank
Defiance, Ohio
United States Government
United States Courts
State of Ohio
Defiance County
Western
Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co
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