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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1879
Page
4
The text reads as fragmented verses reflecting on patience, dreams, and rest. It references a patriarch at a tent door and angels passing by, with garbled remnants suggesting a Baldwin approximate voice. The piece blends religious imagery with a worn cadence and distant allusions to dawns and hours.
English officer Captain Guerdon loves Ida Koratine, sister of Count Koratine, amid a Russian nihilist plot. After the Count is executed for conspiracy, Ida vows to continue her clandestine work or seek a new life, while Guerdon offers support but the gulf between them remains.
An elderly agrarian-looking man in New Jersey fashion stands on a city street corner near Washington Market. He holds up three strings on three fingers and muses aloud on their meaning, hoping to recall reminders about cotton, calico, and avoiding drunkenness.
The United States hosts 10,705,000 dairy cows valued at 299 million dollars, data of interest to farmers and dairymen across the country.
Fragmentary line suggests a reflection on value of diamonds and pearls compared with spoken kindness. The readable text hints at precious tones metaphorically linking gemstones to words. No clear event or named entities present.
The article surveys eight main communistic bodies in thirteen states, detailing Shakers Rappists Harmonists Oneida and others. It notes celibacy rigidities moral standings and communal wealth strategies, contrasting austerity with lack of life amenities and documenting leadership, growth, and decline trends. The piece highlights Nordhoff's appraisal of material gains and social conditions within these communities.
The article cites Swabian and Vineland colonies as examples of cooperative living, noting the Swabian group in California and Vineland in New Jersey built land, offered small tracts, improved roads, reduced cattle straying, and limited liquor selling. It argues communal societies can aid workers if well led, though success varies.
A London Times correspondent recounts two hundred miles through Said to Luxor showing extreme poverty due to drought, taxation, and famine. He notes English policies funding distant wars, widespread hunger, children starving, and local charity amid reports that distress may be exaggerated by the Khedive’s officials.
At a French Geographical Society meeting M de Sonzac links a plague to earth emanations with rats as among first victims. The piece blends science and superstition as Chinese doctors are said to lack a remedy, while Uncle Gabe in Colorado shares hunting tales and mountain hardships.
A fragment notes a singular thought about whether any railroad man has ever applied for a patent at daybreak, leaving the context and specifics open to interpretation.
Last Friday Zebulon Martin and his son, six miles from Oil, found a mass that turned out to be a ball of fifty to sixty rattlesnakes, awakened by stirring. They armed themselves with clubs and fought the venomous reptiles, ultimately killing fifty six and keeping one large king snake as proof.
A frontier correspondent recalls goats leaping from a high cliff, one avoiding danger by clever footing, while recounting tales of goats surviving risky drops. The observer notes strangeness in tall tales and shares a vivid scene from the Sangre de Christo range before departing.
A speculative benefit performance at the National Theater featured a pie eating contest among four men John Kelley James Hines Daniel Lindsay and Peter Donnelly The winner Daniel Lindsay devoured a pie in the staged spectacle pocketing ten dollars The event drew strong reactions from the audience and included a second five dollar match that no one won.
A Western man in Chicago unveils a patent improved corset with a hinged clamp and graduated springs labeled from G3 to AA11. The device aims to simulate a lover’s hug, allowing women to summon an absent betrothed by adjusting the tension.
A St. Petersburg telegram reports police in Kiev found a secret printing press in a house, along with counterfeit seals of public departments, forged documents, revolutionary pamphlets, and a quantity of revolvers and poniards.
A column of practical recipes and farming guidance: Rice Pancakes Scalloped Potatoes Ramakins and Apple Tart recipes with steps and ingredients. plus potato planting tips, new fruit caution, and stock feeders tip about mixing salt with wood ashes for livestock relish and the need for sheltered troughs.
The Plymouth, fumigated and frozen in Boston, still broke out with yellow fever on March 23 while 200 miles at sea. Richard Sanders, the first patient, slept where the first Santa Cruz case appeared, suggesting the infectious matter resisted extreme cold and remained in one spot. The ship endured repeated disinfections and freezing, with crews removed for health. Washington Special to the New York Herald.
California manufacturers endorse petroleum as a cheaper fuel comparable to wood and coal in initial cost. They credit reduced handling and fuel waste, and note steam sprays oil into boilers to produce intense heat with no refuse. A single attendant controls the stop-cock. The Bulletin urges its use for iron smelting using regional ores and lime flux.
The Cincinnati Enquirer praises a belt worthy map of the United States where each state bears three animals a cow a hog and a sheep with figures marking state counts. It notes difficulty in small states and describes how tail curls horns and other cues identify each animal across regions including Arizona New Mexico Indian Territory Utah Wyoming Montana Idaho and Dakota.
The fragment lists state by state cattle, sheep and hog numbers with Texas highest in cattle at 4,003,300 and California leading in sheep at 6,660,000. It notes Iowa as leading hog counts, while Michigan has a low hog total. Also mentions bridesmaids at a royal event paying for gowns and a Victorian gold production decline in Australia.
The article urges careful housewives to purify blood and regulate digestion to ward off spring malaria and miasma, praising Hop Bitters as the purest and best medicine for cleansing and health.
An advertisement extols blood as the life source and claims impure blood causes disease. It urges cleansing with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as effective alteratives and tonics, noting special usefulness for scrofulous diseases.
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