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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
4
Experiments at the Ohio state capitol explore crude oil as a potential general fuel. The report notes progress toward broader adoption, while a cryptic line references the kingdom of God approaching President Baer.
The St. Louis circuit attorney is praised for aiming to expose bribing officers of large corporations, following the city’s legislators who have learned a similar lesson about corruption.
Most of the corn, even in the southern part of Ohio, is so nearly ready for cutting that it may be hoped the recent heavy frosts have done no serious damage. Some other crops in an immature state have undoubtedly been damaged.
The piece notes President Roosevelt growing accustomed to cameras and even sermons praising him. It recalls John Sobieski saving Vienna and the sermon on the text about a man sent from God whose name was John, linking past heroism to present elevation.
Cleveland mayor Thomas L. Johnson, a wealthy streetcar magnate, campaigns nationwide in a circus said to draw crowds. He arrived with eighty teams and backs the Democratic party, though The Express disclaims political agreement.
A short line appears to reference a branding promise described as You Have Always Bought in trade practices. The note is fragmentary and provides limited context about its usage or date. No clear individuals or organizations are identified in the readable text.
In a Henry George Jr interview, Johnson links his political aims to the single tax theory. He says all government revenue should come from landowners, abolish tariffs and corporate taxes, and confiscate land rent to the state, describing property as theft.
The Defiance Home Saving and Loan Association will receive money on deposit for a time, with certificates issued drawing interest from date payable semiannually on January first and July first. Loans on farm security at six percent per annum. No commission small expense. Ditwit C B Squire Secretary.
On Sept 5 a white English setter with a black head and ears disappeared. Any information leading to his whereabouts or return to Geo H. Roberts at 717 Francis Street will be rewarded.
The Wabash R R offers a small book titled Railroad in Education with chapters on fast runs and St. Louis Union Station. Free distribution by request. 6 cents postage to 8 Crane Gen's Pass r and Tkt Agt Wabash R R St. Louis.
Campaign of low fares advertised for September and October from Chicago via the Chicago and North Western Railway to Colorado Utah Montana Nevada Idaho Oregon Washington California and other points. Also special round trip Home seekers tickets on first and third Tuesdays in August September and October.
Mrs. F S Dischinger of East Hopkins Street died Monday evening at 6:30 from a severe hemorrhage due to dropsy. Born February 17, 1850 in Baden Germany, she was 52. Survived by husband F S Dischinger and four children Albin Hermann William Buffalo N Y and Marie. A devout Catholic and model mother, funeral arrangements not yet made.
A yearling steer about 650 pounds and light red strayed from D. A. Overly’s Defiance Ohio property on August 11. Anyone with information should contact D. A. Overly in Defiance or N. W. at phone 20n 911.
Brookville residents report social calls and visits throughout the week. Couples from Glenburg Evansport Adams township and Defiance travel to see relatives while Bainbridge area families share news and milestones. Herman Meyer remains ill. A son was born to Mr and Mrs John Weiland on Friday September 12.
Mrs E L Carpenter and wife hosted by Dr B J Emery in Defiance. Mr Harvey Reynolds and wife spent Sunday with her parents M D Fauver. Miss Maude Rowe visited Napoleon friends. Mattie Emma Groll and Marie Lindau visited. Ashcraft family of Kansas visiting locally. Durgee wife and daughter with Mrs Lehman at J J Fauver. Ckee Palmer from Napoleon called. Pearl Beckham spent Saturday in Toledo. Locals attended Forepaugh and Sells circus in Defiance Tuesday.
Ayersville resident O W Waters from Traverse City visits his uncle Wm B Morse. Defiance friends join Rev W S Culp and family for a village gathering. Grandma Thacker of Defiance visited W B Morse recently. J Anderson Piano Co. of Van Wert hosted Rev WS Culp Tuesday. Miss Lillie Clank plans a Michigan trip with her brother Elba. Rev J H Bethards met the ME church official board.
Thursday evening. Mrs Eva Wellman stays with her brother J K Myers. By Harriet E Myers will, grandchildren John B Myers and wife inherit her late home to care for husband J K Myree, age 81. Rev J W Hill and wife visit daughter Mrs WS Culp. Dr Hill to attend ME conference at Defiance. He will preach in Ayersville next Sunday at 10 30 am. The pastor preaches last sermon for year at 7 30 pm. Smith and wife buy a fine piano this week. Summer school ends Friday with an evening entertainment for all.
Mr and Mrs Wm Goller started for New York City last week and expect to be away four weeks. John Tshannon of Gratiot county Michigan arrived Saturday evening to visit his daughter. Scarlet fever affects Albert Motter's household with his daughter a teacher leaving boarding to care for the ill. Several will attend the ME conference at Defiance next week.
Manilla Pfau, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Pfau, died Sept 12 1902 in New Bavaria at 11 months old from brain fever. Funeral at German Reformed church officiated by Rev Schaad, burial in New Bavaria cemetery. The family mourns the loss as verses recall a father and mother’s sorrow.
Mrs R B Cameron and Blanche visited last week at Sistas Jas. Kimberly and C W Palmer are each building dwellings. Tom Flory did business in Toledo Saturday. Frank Houk shipped several carloads of hay from Jewell recently. Miss Rosa Frank attends Notre Dame academy in Cleveland. E M Shoup, Mark Harader and A E Truby families attended the Montpelier Sains. O E Parker and wife visit D Parker at Indiana state fair. C Dabney and wife of Detroit have returned after two weeks with Mr Dabney's parents. A show was well attended. Mark Harader and his brother now at Mark Center will farm polis and attend the Trowbridge farm next year.
Germany Tiffin Mr and Mrs John Higben of Domerville visited Sunday. Nora Linebrink returned to Toledo Monday from visiting her parents. Erva Linebrink does house work for Mrs Weller of Defiance. Fred Linebrink came back from Paulding county last Monday after visiting. Stringtown reports a large pumpkin crop highlighted by a single seed sprouting a large vine.
Twelve pumpkins grew with nine at about 35 pounds each, prompting curiosity. Blanche Ferris dined at W H Rodabaugh's on Sunday, followed by Hattie Alshouse dining with Flora Craine. Some citizens were surprised to receive telephones sooner than expected. Bertha Stever visited Dora Alshouse, J P Alshouse making molasses, and Charles Kellermeier bought hay. J O Christy and wife visited EK T Rethmel Sunday.
An old promotional line emphasizes preparation for accidents with a claim about Dr. Thomas Electric Oil as a monarch over pain. The terse phrasing echoes vintage health product advertising.
Hubert Myers and family visited Gottleib Wahl on Sunday. Henry Marshouse and wife called on his mother Mrs Lizzie Marshouse Sunday. Tilla March of Oak Grove visited her sister Mrs Gottleib Wahl Tuesday. Ray Peck called on Alva and Zola Hues Sunday. Lyn Tracy is cutting corn for A Baden this week. Miss Ethel Peck was in Ayersville Monday. A Baden returned home after a week of repairing on his farm. Mrs Monroe Peck and daughter Mabel are very sick. John Seigman and wife to Defiance Saturday. Henry Ward of Brunnersburg called on A Scott Sunday. Mrs A Peck visited Mrs Monroe Peck Sunday. Miss Lizzie Marshouse was guest of Mrs Rosa Marshouse Thursday. Bal Hightower and Marion Bell cutting corn for A Peck.
Hot Springs South Dakota promotes the sanitarium and health resort in the Black Hills with a round trip fare of 2430 dollars from Chicago on specific dates. Tickets for all ages are available, with write for information directed to A F Cleveland at 284 Superior Street Cleveland Ohio.
Announcement describes a single fare for round trips on the nickel plate line with tickets valid between any two stations the same day. Groups of five or more pay 1 each for a round trip within 100 miles, same day return. See Aster in Wayne, Indiana 149.
Travel to Washington at low fares offered by the Nickel Plate Road for the National Encampment of the G R. Tickets go on sale October 3 4 5 and 6 1902 with return validity until October 14 or by ticket deposit plus small fee until November 1 1902. See nearest agent C A Asterlin T A Ft Wayne Ind NO196.
Tickets offered by the Detroit Southern Railroad for a war veterans and national army meeting in Detroit. Rates are unusually low with sale days September 20 21 and 22 and a return limit of September 26. Contact Detroit Southern Railroad agents for full particulars.
A letter from F L Taylor of New Albany Bradford County Pa recounts using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to finish a bicycle trip after a diarrhoea attack and later to treat dysentery with one dose curing the illness. Sold by N G Woodward.
The funeral of the child of Mr and Mrs Frank Miller at Salem church was well attended. The incident reflects broad community sympathy as local figures note the support. Tiffin township sent a full slate of delegates to the Republican county convention and voiced strong approval of John J Crane for county clerk. Miss Alice Neaderhouser left for Naperville Illinois to resume studies at North Wesleyan college. Dan Kuhn’s crew builds a barn for Fred Kellermeier. Will Raser returns from Hamlet after months in the railroad office. Ed Partee keeps busy with his tile ditcher. Izza Clinker, now in Garrett Indiana, is ill with typhoid fever. Neaderhouser returns from six weeks in Switzerland. the voyage back took six days, versus forty nine by sailing ship fifty two years earlier.
An OCR fragment touts IGCMY MOUNTAIN TEA as a cure all for pimples liver marks constipation and numerous ailments. It promises to restore beauty and womanhood and to keep family members well and good natured, selling a broad patent medicine claim.
The best route to Columuus Lancaster Logan Athens Wellston Jackson Gallipolis Middleport and Pomeroy and all Central and Southern Ohio points is via Toledo for Fostoria then by the Hocking Valley Ry. The new palace parlor cars built by Pullman Co. and day coaches ensure a pleasant journey. ask Wabash or B&O agents to send you via the Hocking Valley.
Corrected daily by The Miller and Barber firms listing prices for potatoes lard eggs corn wheat oats and other staples. Items include Beef per lb live market 8 25 to 4 00 Hogs per hundred lb 7 50 to 6 40 Lambs per hundred lb and poultry rates for old and young chickens.
Financial notes show money on call at 12 15 percent and mercantile paper at 5 1/4 percent. Grain and livestock prices vary by city with figures for flour wheat corn oats hay and cattle hogs sheep and lambs in New York Cleveland Chicago Toledo East Liberty East Buffalo. Notable ranges include wheat No 2 red around 72 cents in multiple markets and hogs at about 7 75 to 8 15 in Chicago and other cities.
The Defiance Home Saving and Loan Association sues Cora Shook and Oscar H Shook to foreclose a mortgage on Lot 20 Mackinaw Addition Sherwood Defiance County Ohio. The petition seeks judgment for 257.13 with premiums and fines, 34.40 for ins premiums and taxes, determines lien priorities, and seeks equity relief including sale of the premises. George W Hutchinson and Etta Hutchinson were added as necessary parties.
A legal notice filed by the law firm Winn and Hay on behalf of the client is presented with no further readable details in the fragment. The text indicates attorney names but lacks actionable filing information or court identifiers.
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