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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
5
Chas M Stumm and Cora G Hall licensed to wed. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised with medical claims. Local notices include a state rights sale by F T Betts to J F Matson and a steamer concert fund-raiser that netted about $60. Defiance college opens with forty pupils. Memorial and church events follow, plus daily town updates on residents, phones, and factory work.
The postmaster fitted mail boxes in the basement of St Pauls Methodist Episcopal church for Central Ohio conference divines in session. Louis G Neill of the post office oversees sales of stamps postal cards and envelopes. A mail box in the church lobby handles letters five times daily from 7 am to 5 20 pm with about a bushel collected so far today.
A series of calls and visits to the Children’s Home are recorded with guests from Defiance Chicago Na pierville Milwaukee Decatur Hamilton Mo and Buffalo. Names include Christ Winterich Houghtaling Roehrs L Wertheimer and family Ward Walter Walter Gock Ruess Pfeifly McFetters Dunlap among others during September visits.
The Central Ohio Conference begins its forty seventh annual session at St Pauls M E church with Rev Bishop Stephen Merrill presiding. Around 250 ministers travel by train for the event as examinations, addresses by Dr John Reid Shannon and Rev A B Leonard, and reports from church boards fill the agenda.
At the Grand Council of Ohio Royal and Select Master Majors session in Lima on the 23rd inst, officers were elected and installed led by M Ill Grand Master Jewett Palmer of Marietta and John F Lane of Conneaut as Dep Grand Master.
Corrected daily by WM. MARTIN Sone and others list prices for lard beans eggs corn oats rye and more. Entries show per pound or per bushel rates with ranges for farmers and merchants including Miller Co and G Barber notes.
Special to Express from Indianapolis Sept 24 President Roosevelt's western trip ends after a swelling in his left leg required surgery at St. Vincent's hospital. The operation occurred at 3 45 pm and the president was moved to a private room to rest. He was later carried to his car and the train departed for Washington a few minutes later. The injury traces to a trolley accident in Pittsfield Mass that caused bruising he ignored before pain forced medical attention.
A sequence of monetary amounts including 180655 22, 4487 26, 25000 00, 992 38, 11625 00, 2150 00, 8788 40, 3897 98, 9874 24, 1816 89, and 490 60 presented as standalone numbers likely representing line items or totals without context or labels.
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