This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1884
Page
7
A poetic fragment discusses death as the Angel Sleep easing earthly care and pain. The stanza voices night imagery and imagery of the mystic deep, with lines attributed to Arthur Wentworth Haton in Youth's Companion.
The piece surveys Anglo-Saxon reverence for rank and Atlantic society's taste for noble matches. It cites Mary Esther Lee's royal alliance, multiple Miss Binghams’ high connections, and prominent colonial unions from Philadelphia to Boston, noting mixed outcomes and social effects of these marriages.
The article recounts intercontinental marriages involving American women and English dignitaries, with notable tales of Agnes Surriage, Lady Frankland, and Glorianna Folsom. It notes a mix of romance, scandal, and devotion, including a dramatic Lisbon earthquake rescue and a large blended family in Stratford. It concludes that Americans seeking marriage partners often fared better close to home.
An affluent stranger spun gifts and a betrothal in Eureka Springs, but a forged will collapsed the romance. The old man’s wealth dream soured as the man died soon after, leaving a tale of deception and ruined hopes for the widow and father.
A collection of agricultural home and garden notes with practical hints. Topics include vegetable benefits, cleaning stalls with sawdust to absorb liquids, a lemon cheese cake recipe, marble cleaning with soda and chalk, growing cabbage stumps for early greens, a mashed potato pyramid dish, and ammonia as a kitchen grease cleaner for quick maid-of-all-work hints.
Harper's Bazar describes long cloaks shifting to more fitted backs with gathers, passementerie bands, and minimal trimming. Fabrics include rough brocades and tricote. colors span tan to maroon. Styles feature two scarfs, velvet bindings, velvet cuffs, and short capes, with refined linings in changeable silks.
Connecticut cor respondent reports on using house slops and urine as garden and field fertilizer. Debates whether to compost or apply directly, noting ammonia loss and nutrient leaching in plowed soils. Observes benefits for onions and general gardens with seasonal, surface application and winter resting of land.
Health officers in New Britain Connecticut report on the prevalence of malaria and its relation to causes. Malaria requires the malarial germ high temperature dry air and soil conditions. Moisture promotes the disease while grass and vegetation can counter it. Drying swamps and clearing muck reduces cases. sewer improvements also help.
A Brooklyn reader in Europe criticizes European cathedrals as dark and ill suited for large Sunday morning audiences. He contrasts vast European churches with bright American chapels, praising Brooklyn meeting houses for seating comfort, warmth, and visibility during sermons or lectures.
Beyer ford in Carbon County forms a cooperative to provide twenty five watches. Members pay one dollar weekly for a year and every two weeks a watch is drawn by lot. Mauch Chunk jeweler will supply all twenty five watches at fifty dollars each.
An English traveler in Japan notes that everyone in a household bathes daily in one caldron of hot water. The rich bathe before dinner and at bedtime, with all house members sharing the same tub. Elders bathe first when no visitors, followed by the young and then the maidservants. a bath is an immersion unless at a thermal spring.
A young Indiana woman was frightened into convulsions after entering a dimly lit room she believed unoccupied and witnessing a young man of the family flailing about as he attempted to put on his overcoat, per the Chicago Herald report.
North Buffalo Pennsylvania postmaster M J Green says St Jacobs Oil cured his head pains and frostbitten feet, calling it the great pain conqueror. The remark echoes a testimonial from a local official praising the remedy's effectiveness for chronic aches and cold extremities.
A husband and wife prepare a shared resolution over meal choices, selecting a rib of beef for dinner as part of a Poston Budget consideration.
A collection of notices touts several medicines and endorsements. John Cessna praises Durang's Rheumatic Remedy for rapid relief. Dr Rob ert Newton cites Wal Hall's Base for health benefits. Kidney-Wort is promoted for kidney and liver health. The notices also feature a quip about loafing in bars and a line about poetic verse.
The best butter color is the Wells Richardson improved color from Burlington Vermont. Dairymen of high reputation show unanimous favor for its use in taste tests and color, proving imitation colors are baseless and that no other color can compete.
A garbled collage of sensational quotes promotes patent medicines and tonics. Phrases tout Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup for hoarseness, Samaritan Nervine for fits, and Dr Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water with “No cure no pay” claims.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.