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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1883
Page
2
A brief author note presents Charles Gibbon as novelist of Robin Gray and other works. The piece identifies him as writer of For Lack of Gold In Honor Bound Queen of the Meadow and The King.
Maurice returns to Cathorpe House to find his father hosting a warm gathering that includes Colonel Cuthbert. The eccentric welcome and renewed family ties reveal underlying tensions about Maurice's future and the possibility of reconciliation with Lucy.
The Modjeska Camille performance in New York featured a live canary in a window cage to heighten realism. When the bird’s shrill song disrupted a key scene, Camille dropped the cage onto the stage and continued. The next day the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals demanded an explanation, but officials confirmed the bird survived unharmed.
A compilation of brief society items and notices including Mrs. A. T. Stewart’s charitable giving, births and confirmations, forecasts of doomsday 1956, reformers and evangelists, marriages, millionaire women in Philadelphia, Belle Cook’s death, and reminiscences of Emmet family history with a Crawfordville memory.
A four day London fog leaves residents adrift with gas and torchlight. A man walking home loses his torch and wanders by Dempster’s railings opposite his shop, meeting another traveler also guided by railing contact before a wagon light helps them find home.
Two pranksters in Nashville ordered large amounts of perishable produce from a dealer claiming it was for a third party who would pay. The third party repudiated the bill and both jokers are jailed. A judge found their act amounted to obtaining goods by false pretenses.
A Georgia woman attempted to sever her tongue, succeeding only in removing it from root to tip. No effort to reattach was made, and the act will almost surely increase her loquacity. The husband may be forgiven if he dies by his own hand.
A Nevada boy believed he could see the light of a match near a pistol’s percussion tube and thought the gun was unloaded. If he recovers he will wear false teeth, have a split tongue, and assume all firearms are loaded.
A summary notes that the combined wealth of thirty New Yorkers is estimated at more than one billion dollars. This figure highlights the concentration of fortunes among a small group in the city.
Fragmentary line from Malherbe hints at a moral theme about women’s sovereignty and male ownership. The garbled OCR suggests a literary quotation on desire and possession without coherent context or source details.
A selection of teases and quips from newspapers including Boston Post Progress Chicago Herald Philadelphia News and Detroit Free Press. Observers joke about hair strength lions ladders fools and thieves with light satire on crime and justice through playful anecdotes.
Samuel Wakefild of Millbridge Maine reports his sixteen year old son who has never spoken to anyone beyond his parents. Peers have teased and tried to provoke a reaction, but he remains mute. He says when he reaches his mother’s words will follow his own pace and he will converse as others do.
An excerpt from Our Young Folks narrates Dick attempting to catch a shy colt, his failed chase ending in resolve to quit shortcuts. Interwoven scenes from Marian Douglas’s Our Little Ones show children Auntie Susie Dolly and Rose at tea and mischief, ending with a mom’s call.
In a strained social visit at Dollie Waite’s home Susie Hall plays host to the neglected Rose Annabel a wax doll’s aging companion amid a tea party scene. Susie’s mother the preacher’s wife navigates class and care while Dolly and Mrs Norris clash over Rose’s fragile health and the dolls’ fates.
The Boston Globe recounts the 1708 Partridge almanac fraud exposed by the satire of Isaac Bickerstaff. It notes how Partridge predicted events with accuracy, including his own death, which led to the collapse of his weather prophecy business and inspired ridicule used to curb humbug.
A Western lad of sixteen or seventeen buys forty acres to help his mother and siblings. He plans a log house, move them to the land, and hopes his drinking father will reform. The tale ends as the recipient grants the deed and the boy proclaims, At last I have a home for my mother. Canada Presbyterian
Willard Barnes of Greensboro Georgia aged about forty three is described as having a perfectly white patch of hair in the center of his head surrounded by black. His father lived to one hundred fifteen and also had a similar patch. The item also notes a white man with a white lock of hair amid a general red covering.
A Cecil County Maryland couple unhappy for years piled household goods on three wagons and drove to Texas. At a crossroads the wife steered two wagons and the husband controlled the third, then each headed a different direction seeking a divorce.
The act of Congress cutting postage will not take effect until October to allow use of remaining three cent stamps. This postponement gives time to exhaust current stock before the new rates apply.
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