B O depot plans hinge on Defiance grade decision
The B and O Railroad seeks city consent to raise the Defiance grade for new depots costing about 50 000 dollars with work to follow the grade plan. Engineering plans will be shown to citizens for approval or rejection and construction depends on the grade being settled. The passenger station may mirror designs at Sandusky Mt. Vernon and Fostoria.
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B. & O. Railroad Co
I’. J. Lrazer
Ohio River
Fix
Engineering Department
Mr. Frazer
Baltimore
Mt. Vernon
Fostoria
Defiance
Clinton Street
Mark Center
Hamlet
Frazer
Negligence Suit Over Drowning at Auglaize River
Lyman Carpenter administrator sues county commissioners for $3000 damages after his son LeRoy and Albert Moore drowned March 25 1904 when floodwaters inundated a raised road to the English bridge. Plaintiffs claim failure to install guard rails on the embankment caused the tragedy. Harris Openlander for the commissioners Ansberry Farrell for the plaintiffs.
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Lyman Carpenter
LeRoy Carpenter
Common Pleas Court
Snook
Albert Moore
Auglaize
English Bridge
H. B. Harris
D. F. Openlander
Ansberry & Farrell
Defiance social notes cheer local gatherings
A busy sequence of home entertainments in Defiance features Miss Sicen McCullough hosting Dutch luncheon on Harrison street, Miss Mae McCullough assisting, and Miss Helen Moore’s seventh birthday luncheon on Deatrick street. Kappa Phi invites a Nov 30 dancing party at N Y hall chaperoned by local couples.
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Martha
Jose Winkler
Nast Defiance Iriday
Sicen McCullough
Harrison Street
Miss Mae McCullough
Helen Moore
Deatrick Street
Helen
Kappa’ Phi
N. Y. Hall
Edward M. Hubbard
Timothy T. Ansberry
Holgate Harley
Celia Greaser
Pearl Street
Young P’eoples’ Society of the United Brothern Church
Vernon Noffsinger
Seneca Street
Lillian Carpenter
Mesdanael
W. J. Bohannon
John W. Winn
Robert T. Whitaker
Nelle Harley
Violet Kittner
Clinton Leither
Jennie J.ieberthal
Grace Whitaker
Whitaker
Jennie Lieberthal
Williams Kidney Pills offered for kidney and bladder relief
Promotes Williams Kidney Pills to cure kidney and bladder trouble with nervous strain. Claims symptoms include back and loin pain, facial puffiness, and frequent urination. Sample free and sale price 50 cents by The Owl Drug Store Cleveland Ohio.
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William
Man
Owl Drug Store
Williams Me’g.co
Prop's
Cleveland
Grand jury indicts Williams Center arson suspect James Phillips
Williams county grand jury returns six indictments headed by James Phillips a Williams Center farmer former infirmary superintendent arraigned Friday with bond set at 1000 for alleged arson related to a residence fire in Williams Center on April 16 1897 resulting in insurance proceeds of 1200. The case links to a larger arson investigation involving Freeman Ury Jack Van Immons and others with Ury already indicted for arson in Findlay and Van Immons a penitentiary inmate. State fire marshal Creamer deputies say further sensational developments are expected as testimonies unfold. Fireman Ury pled guilty in Findlay receiving a year in prison in exchange for his testimony.
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Williams County
James Phillips
Mrr Phillips
Williams Center
Ife
Farmers’ Mutual Fire Protective Association
Freeman Ury
Jack van Immons
Ury
Trindlay
Ile
Findlay
George Ury
van Immons
Ohio Penitentiary
Johnson
Foster Game
van Aemong
Creamer
Fox
Rings
Bryan
Mayor seeks horse-shoe plant bid in Defiance quest
Mayor Crowe reveals a New York Industrial Bureau offer to locate a big horseshoe factory in Defiance employing 300 workers. Final site decision weeks away. Ohio cities offer large bonuses. Crowe will press for incentives or drop the project. Also notes on local visits, a marriage license, a fur theft, and jail lock-picking demonstration.
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Crowe
New York Industrial Bureau
Horseshoe
Ohio
Hicksville Defeats Defiance 5 to 0 in Gridiron Upset
The Hicksville High School football team upset Defiance 5 to 0 on Friday on the west end gridiron. After a prior 16 to 0 defeat, Hicksville added two strong players and used weight and speed to secure the win. Defiance drove into Hicksville territory in the second half but failed to score, with a last-ditch 75 yard run foiled by a Hicksville tackle.
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Hicksville
Defiance High
West End
Hicksvillians
Defiance
Weigerding
Thanksgiving Union Services Planned at Presbyterian Church
Union Thanksgiving services will be held at 10:30 on Thursday morning in the Presbyterian church. Rev. Schupp of the United Brethren church will deliver the sermon.
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Kings’ Heralds
St. Paul’s M. [O
Luella Smith
Catherine Stoll
Goldie McClary
Blanche Dunlap
Helen Garver
Marie
I. L. Canfield
Presbyterian Church
Schupp
United Brethren Church
Grand to Open Vaudeville House in Defiance
Defiance will get a new theatre named the Grand with H. H. Lamont as manager. The Front Street rink closes at week’s end as roller skating declines. Beginning the week of the 26th Lamont opens a vaudeville house in the building offering three shows daily at 3, 5, and 9 p.m., each lasting at least one hour.
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Front Street
H. H. Lamont
Grand Family
Findlay
Huch
Local Visitors Return Home From Out of Town
Miss Margaret Scott returns from a visit in Mt. Vernon. Charles Seymour comes back from Granville. Lena Gileisberg returns from Pittsburg. Margaret Condon of Elkhart Ind visits relatives in the city. Mr and Mrs William Weaver of Cecil stay with Mrs Elizabeth Brubaker. Mae Mullholland returns to Carey after visiting Prof Mullholand. George J Miller and Nellie C Kuhn, both 18 and 20, granted. Mich, visiting L Wilsberg, leaves Monday for Cincinnati.
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St. Paul’s
M. Sc
Cayton A. Smucker
Miller
Detroit
Pacific Xpress Co
Margaret Condon
Elkhart, Ind
George J. Miller
Nellie C. Kuhn
W. A. Hartell
Calumet, Mich
L. Wilsberg
Cincinnati
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Andrewe
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Doddsville
Lil
Wood County
Lafarree
Joe Freecorn
J. Freecorn
Clinton St
Defiance, Ohio
J. A. Sites
Lewis Block
Northwestern
Vocke
Napoleon
Watella Vocke
George Philip Hahn
Toledo
Nellie Kuhn
M. B. Stevens
Thirteen Club
Wayne Street
Parcher
W. A. Kehnast
Switzerland
J. J. Reynolds
Thirteen
W. J. Bryan
Anna Gould
J. D. Rockefeller
Emily Reynolds
Salmagundi
A. R. Preisendorfer
Patterson
Pittsburg
Cheney
Albany
Kagel
Saratoga
Haymaker
Tarrytown
Hudson
Lieberthal
Wilmington
Meyers
Princeton
Sites
Congress
Preisendorfer
Mildred Haymaker
Ora Squire
Frank Weisenburger
Charles Street
Clara A. Bostwick
Glen Gray
S. T. Morris
Dell Winegar
Lowell
Florence Dickenson
Grand Haven
Mrs. Gray
Holgate Avenue
Carrie Hine
Bostwick
Mr. Gray
Lina Bostwick
Alyce Hanna
Mary Lincoln
A. W. Hine
Auld Lange Syne Club
Bert Parks
Jank T. King
J. P. Coppens
Agnes Moulton
Miss Carpenter
Lillie Carpenter
John D. Muir
Lantern Club
Pedro
I. W. O’connor
Grand Rapids Press
Williams
Christian Varley
Dan Harmon
John A. Walter
Bertha Maxwell
Sussman & Co
Bowling Green
Martin Kirby
Kirby
Frank T. Donley
Parmer & Decker
Jones’ College of Auctioneering and Oratory
The
A. W. Thomas Auction Co of
Chicago
Margaret Scott
Charles Seymour
Granville
Lena Gileisberg
William Weaver
Cecil
Elizabeth Brubaker
Mae Mullholland
Carey
Prof
Mullholand
First National Bank
United States Treasury
United States Courts
Defiance County
Defiance City
Balt. & Ohio Railroad
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