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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1880
Page
4
On the South Branch farm, Mrs. Taney endures poverty and toil while son William pursues a calculated path to buy meadow lots. Letty’s quiet courage confronts Mrs. Taney's fading strength as Sophy Crawford’s marriage tightens control, and a Virginia inheritance reshapes the family's fate. Mrs. Taney’s illness and Letty’s decisive move toward independence upend the farm’s fragile order.
Fragment from a Peterson's Magazine excerpt describes Letty recovering after a family hardship. Mr Burke returns to bid farewell as neighbors gather. Letty blushes, recalls roses and home, while Tod’s absence remains a quiet thread through the scene. The narration centers on quiet domestic emotion and impending reunion.
Richard Grant White laments English shooting obsession as a vocation more sacred than recreation. He contrasts modern practice with nature, describing sport as ritual, costly, and disconnected from the countryside, while praising the contemplative field sport experience and its daily rhythms.
A fire at the London Crystal Palace in 1866 67 left part of the menagerie burned and a chimpanzee thought to be on the roof. It turned out the “ape” was a torn canvas blind blown by wind, proving crowds can misperceive a scene. A separate case reports a woman convinced she saw a fountain inscription reading If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink, only to find stones at the spot.
A Boston Herald item notes that in Darfur monkeys are enticed by native beer to become disoriented and captured by locals, illustrating parallels to human vices. Another report from western Connecticut describes a large worm burrowing through corn ears from the bottom, destroying kernels along the cob.
A devotional verse by Ray Palmer in the 19th century style urging readers to approach God's temple with reverent hearts. The text invites all ages to join in prayer and song, with imagery of bells, incense, and the mercy-seat, emphasizing faith, blessing, and divine presence.
Aug 8 Abram and Lot Gen 13 1 18 Melchized Gen 14 12 4 Gen 2 1 4 lesson chosen by the School
A longReflection compares sturdy fabrics to a creed that endures daily trials. The author cites fictional parishioners Brother A B C and Sister D to contrast Sunday polish with steady daily faith, urging a robust, practical religion that withstands hardship and remains faithful through sorrow and toil.
Joan Go1s was buried in Rochester New York in a coffin he kept at home for eighteen years for daily contemplation. His family had threatened to remove the coffin, but his threat to haunt them after death deterred them.
In Cleveland the Fifth Ward councilman J Jackson Smith urged a prominent politician to try St Jacobs Oil for rheumatic pains. After using it, the individual was reportedly cured. The remark was noted in Dr Foote’s August Health Monthly quoted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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