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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1886
Page
7
A moral meditation titled If It Had Only Known asks why we delay inner growth and duty. It urges restraint and daily virtue as a living vine that bears fruit without seeking praise, citing Marcus Aurelius ideas through R. H. Sidderd.
Reflective meditation on friendship and mortality urges living fully for God and others. The speaker laments missed chances to be kind and supportive, warning that parting may arrive with unspoken deeds and unfulfilled duties. The piece calls for generosity, sympathy, and generosity now rather than later.
An essay asserts restraint as essential to temper anger and curb violence. It cites Prometheus, Chicago fires, and personal conduct, urging judges and humane groups to curb bloodshed by reason. It warns against unbridled temper and praises self knowledge and nothing in excess.
The passage contrasts youth neglecting study with enduring maxims like Nothing in excess. It notes how such laws shaped ancient Plates and Zenos and modern Kranklins and Lincolns. Rev. David Swing links these two forms of the narrow path to Jesus' imagery.
The piece argues about Falernian myths and Roman practices, noting treatments like boiling herbs gypsum and salt water. It asserts modern artificial wines imitate natural fermentation but fail to persuade buyers. Counterfeits from Paris London and New York are condemned for deception and medicinal aftereffects.
The Ponce de Leon Hotel in St Augustine Florida will measure 400 by 600 feet and be built of coquina stone in a Moorish style. H M Flagler of Standard Oil has placed 1,000,000 for initial construction, with a 100 by 100 foot courtyard garden and fountains. A roof garden and a 150 by 75 foot dining room form part of the plan, making the hotel a partial reproduction of Aladdin's palace.
The remark frames life as a ongoing campaign to shed personal prejudice and extinguish vices, urging persistent self reform and ethical striving.
A visiting boy is urged to seek hard work rather than easy positions. The speaker argues employment should demand effort, with employers rewarding diligence. The message: life’s easy places come later, and laziness leads to ruin. workers should prove themselves and earn advancement.
A dramatic 19th century sermon scene depicts Wellington atop his horse with staff surveying the battlefield. The charge rises as Napoleon’s veterans hold, then Prussian Blucher’s reserve appears and Waterloo is decided with Napoleon’s eagles doomed.
A paper before the Pharmaceutical Society explains lower quinine prices stem from harvesting practices. Previously trees were cut and stripped at ten years old, then moss-filled stumps. Now bark is scraped from around half the tree, twice yearly, preserving growth and allowing repeated harvests.
The notice touts the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 618 rooms at high daily rates and elevator service. It claims lower living costs for families and access to horse cars stages and elevated railroad to depots.
Advert says rheumatic and neuralgic pain linger, worsened by cold. claims Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters relieves soreness, aids sleep, improves appetite and digestion, and cleanses bowels and kidneys. Warns against health hazards of repeated dosing. Recommends using it before retiring.
A Burdette quote urges Laura that women can be good reporters though face social limits. It notes restrictions like smoking eyes of an observer, prodding officials, sitting on stands, and consuming beer, then playfully questions if those acts would disqualify her from reporting.
Dr Foote's Health Monthly cites a claim that half of American business and professional men over 30 are bald. It argues unventilated hats cause hair nutrition failure and notes beards do not shed because they receive ample light and scalp nutrition.
A column traces trotting horse records from 1824 to 1880 and mentions Maud S. with times as low as 2.05 while discussing Athlophoros and testimonial letters from American users in Indiana and Terre Haute. It includes brief medical notes on castor oil for potato bugs and a promotion for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with testimonials and price.
A historic notice lists remedies for skin conditions including itch, ring worm, tetter, salt rheum, oak itch, ivy poison and barber’s itch. No patient names or dates provided.
A claim for immediate relief from offensive odors with a complete cure of severe chronic cases. Also advertised as unequaled for diphtheria sore throat and foul breath.
An advertisement claims immediate relief for piles with Rough on Piles and promotes Dr William Hall's Balsam for the lungs as a valued remedy. It cites a Cincinnati physician endorsement noting a cancer patient improving after treatment and asserts success in treating coughs and colds.
The Chicago Ledger praises U. S. Senator Voorhees for eloquence and advertises St Jacobs Oil as an instant back pain remedy. A Brooklyn Health official endorses Red Star Cough Cure as opiate free, safe, and effective, priced at 25 cents.
A pasted collage of ad copy and riddling quips touts quack medicines and tonics. It promotes Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters Castoria style remedies and various tonics while lampooning ailments and mocking fake cures. Prominent names appear like Laughlin & Rushton Lebanon Indiana and Caswell Hazzard Co New York as sellers of questionable nostrums.
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