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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1887
Page
4
A Georgia hunter recalls an 1878 summer near a river bend where a moccasin nearly froze him with fear. He used a bottle of gin to break the spell, saving himself. The tale shifts to a Long Island night with drowned sailors and a grave dug for scavengers. Ducks and fashion notes conclude the page.
The piece urges women to wear durable cotton cheviots for working dress during sickness or scarce domestic help. It favors plain trim-waisted designs, full skirts, deep hems, and light embroidery. Emphasizes neatness, thrift, and modest attire to avoid promoting poor habits, with a cautionary tale of a former wealthy woman clinging to a jet gown as fortunes faded.
The article recounts dramatic salvages of ancient works. Poggio found Quintilian in a damp dungeon at St Gall. Tacitus survived in Westphalia. Propertius poems hidden under wine casks. Homer fragments in a mummy’s hand. Heliodorus Ethiopics saved by a soldier in Hungary. Luther Table Talk uncovered from old foundations and secret chests. Milton prose Doctrines of Christianity unearthed among dispatches in 1823.
Mrs. Arp clings to signs as hope for her scattered sons while she keeps busy with chores and sweetly sings. The narrator shares sympathy for her and other mothers, noting how letters from abroad ease but never erase the ache of waiting.
Stiggins passes a watchmaker shop and eyes a pretty counter clerk. He enters to request a key, gazes at the girl while the father assists, and the watchmaker declares his stemwinder watch. He recalls only escaping with the girl’s laughter echoing in memory.
United States government oyster culture trials focus on preserving juveniles. Wire baskets three feet square, six inches deep collect spat, preventing mud buildup by regular agitation. Each oyster is expected to yield about ten million offspring. The only daily medical journal cited is El Diario Medico-Farmaceutico of Madrid.
A collage of wits and excerpts from 19th century miscellanys touch on fashion humor science and society. It ranges from satire in Boston papers and St Louis Magazine to musings on piano tunes and vesper jokes, ending with a brief history of America’s first newspapers and Boston News Letter lineage.
A collage of era notices discusses the Grand Union Motel near Grand Central Depot with 613 rooms and daily rates, gas and water gas processes, and a push for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a malarial remedy. It also contains poems and short quips about pills, tonics, a Concord man and his railway claim, and a mechanic's wife bonnet.
Ohio congressman Hon M A Foran reports that St Jacobs Oil relieved him of acute bodily pains. The advertisement claims the product whitens clothing and cleans everything from delicate fabrics to heavy blankets without rot or yellowing and is sold at 5 and 10 cents.
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