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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1887
Page
7
A reflective verse recalling childhood days in a schoolyard. The poem links old time memories with the present, noting playful scenes, an umpire’s dignity, and fortunes that rise and fall. It ends by promising to sing again until school ends and home time comes.
In Jerseyville Vermont style notes a small town with Rev. Jones as pastor and justice, Walter Winter, Annie Rose, and a stranger Jerry Black spark romance and rivalries. A string of robberies ends with Miss Downs revealed as a New York detective and Jerry captured. Walter and Annie never wed.
An old sailor recalls a sea serpent turning away in fear as the St Patrick loomed ahead with a shamrock painted on its bow. The creature fled, leaving the crew puzzled at the creature’s apparent fright of the ship.
An Omaha father asks his son Bobby what present to bring from the East. The boy replies for a box of stones to throw at cats. Meanwhile a report from India notes 131 weather observatories study forests influence on climate and rainfall.
Alfred Sorensson relays a Wheeling Register account from John W. Nichols detailing two Lincoln era plots. An August 1862 rifle shot at the Soldiers' Home nearly killed Lincoln, whose hat bore a bullet hole. A later kidnapping scheme was thwarted by guards as a fire sparked at the White House stables.
In Popular Science Monthly a discussion questions the fate and routes of migratory birds including swallows and storks. It surveys historic beliefs about hibernation and moon migrations and asks how birds choose wintering grounds and travel paths, seeking details on timing routes and environmental influences.
A German scientist named Paulus Reinsch reports a new coal extract called pyrofuxin for industrial tanning and disinfection. It is obtained directly from coal, not coal tar, and is described as a powerful antiseptic used to speed tanning up to twenty eight times faster than bark with lower cost.
An eyewitness describes a two hundred foot temple with high peak, veranda, and post cap. Silk frond curtains, a polished palm wood floor, and skull pins surround fires and compartments where natives eat and rest. Six wicker gods with frog mouths house bats, while Kanibu idols are feared and consulted for battles sickness and death.
The San Francisco Argonaut argues that fat people carry less and poorer blood, with fat occupying space needed for circulation and hindering lung function. Excess exertion is advised against for those with large, fatty development to avoid impairing vital body functions.
At a club dinner several lawyers debated practice at the bar. Rushes claimed he would refuse to be cross examined, while a Blackstone sage advised that no intelligent barrister would test a witness this way, noting the risk of tangled testimony. Infancy is the preface of man, old age the errata.
Detroit Free Press recounts Edmond About's tale of Alexandre Dumas's swift productivity after a single theater visit. Dumas allegedly wrote three feuilletons by tomorrow, while astonishingly remaining fresh at 55 and sending envelopes to Patrie and other papers.
The Brooklyn Eagle recalls P T Barnum describing four pistol threats and other perils, crediting his survival to abstaining from alcohol. He notes past drinking but credits lifelong teetotaler conduct for avoiding ruin and degradation. A separate quip follows about a two foot rule for comfort and plain speaking.
Chicago correspondence notes the 1887 baseball season begins with both the National and American Associations launching pennant chases. The piece discusses anticipated fan interest, mixed opinion on the four strike rule, and how new rules may lengthen games while increasing action and base running across major clubs and players.
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