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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1887
Page
3
A compendium of religious reflections urges church leaders to trust the Spirit over literal Bible reading, value inspired guidance, and avoid dead formalism. It contrasts ecstatic faith with dour modern worship and promotes humor, cheer, and youthful vitality in Christian life.
The passage argues that moral health mirrors physical health, warning that contaminated air and immoral company erode virtue. It asserts strong individuals can fall when exposed to vice and urges associating with pure people to maintain purity of deed and thought.
The excerpt surveys Beecher’s views on religion, sectarian quarrels, and Sunday. It notes his belief religion is lean and misused by revivalism, praises Sunday as a day of rest, and presents his comforting, poetic thoughts on death and the afterlife with hopeful imagery of gates and flowers.
Narrative describes Los Gatos ascent into picturesque country with wild grapevines and the Mission grape, noting a bare spot on a peak where John Brown’s wife and daughter hid after Harper’s Ferry. It highlights public fundraising by the San Jose Mercury editor, aid from the New York Corbin e and Daily Times, land purchase, a cottage, a small income, and the daughter’s continued residence after her mother’s death.
A 1858 tale recounts Sallowed-Faced Dick, a mild pirate, riding from Red Gulch to Frisco to sell dust and gamble. He encounters a kindly minister in a hotel office who refuses liquor, prompting Dick to reveal his violent ambitions and tremble at the idea of harming a man on his first day in town.
A Boston Courier anecdote frames a tramp lecturing a kind woman on delaying self care and urges generosity before regret. He cites missing his annual bath due to procrastination, while a blade of scissors jokes about separation.
Seth Green recounts a trout fishing day on Pine Creek Pennsylvania below Smiths dam. A young woman on a crude foot bridge falls into a swift pool as he struggles to save her. They reach safety after a perilous retreat through boulders and current.
A 613 room Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers economical living with lower daily area costs and hotel services. European law and elevated rail access are noted, with baggage and carriage hire emphasized for travelers arriving or leaving New York City.
A discussion on mind as an ethereal essence versus the brain as the practical focus of education. It traces brain evolution from simple nerve convolutions to the human brain, guided by a supreme power, and notes education advancing mind while future brains may surpass today. A second item promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia and overall vitality.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution recounts the Tree of Death on the New Hope battlefield and Confederate sharpshooter crossfire. It shifts to commentary on temperance campaigns, Moxie Nerve Food, glassmaking innovations, and dubious tonics with promotional blurbs and job offers from Hallett & Co.
Fragmentary text notes a patent eye remedy Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water for eye afflictions, priced 250. It also includes a literary aside on beauty and burdens of time from Clarendon and Johnson, with disjointed quotations and commentary.
A leading physician claims six thousand yearly deaths in the country from morphia or opium in cough mixtures, urging safer remedies. Red Star Cough Cure is pitched as opium free and plant based. A Cockney punster jokes about furniture in a light aside. An Indian Missionary, Rev. L N St Onge, credits St Jacobs Oil with rheumatic relief in 1882 and 1886 letters.
A burglar on trial for breaking into a house argued that he lost three hours of his time and gained nothing. The judge retorted that the man would receive five years of free board and lodging, asserting Morat-Even a Burglar will get his dues before an Honest Court.
A collection of short notes promotes Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for bad breath and catarrh, advertising while praising horse training books from Prickly Pearers Co. and a system to improve horse handling. Claims about blood improvement credit Dr Harter’s Iron Tonic for better children and minds, with various product pitches.
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