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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1886
Page
3
A lyric speaker sits with a young daughter Mary gazing up as the world feels cold. The child’s loving gaze shields the speaker from age and time though lines reveal aging. The verse ends with a playful question about God as a Quaker and the use of thee and thou.
The Hall family faces strife as Mrs. Hall wants to bind the children out. Ebenezer resists and sends them to Cornelia Crashaw. When the absence grows heavy, Mrs. Hall regrets her harshness, retrieves the children, and the family reconciles. Grandmother Mary wins their love with kindness, and happiness returns to the farmhouse.
The article cites Grattan Geary’s Through Asiatic Turkey noting manna in Kerkook near petroleum springs and near Bagdad. It describes the substance as granular yellowish white, melting in sun to a cheese-like form with honey sweetness. It suggests biblical manna may be a natural product periodically falling in the Arabian region.
A Boston artist recalls a visit from a rough, quiet man who insisted that “paintin’ is paintin’.” The stranger appeared uninterested in art yet wanted to discuss painting, claiming he merely sought to have his house painted this spring and to see the artist’s colors.
An excerpt reflects on the virtue of making children feel at home and treats the home as a precious gift from a parent. The quote credits Washington Irving and emphasizes the warmth of family life as a valued blessing.
The issue surveys the ecylindrograph for surveying photos, rock salt lenses for dark photography, and Abney plates sensitive to red-heat rays. It also reports on a sheep horn horseshoe, armor tests at Spezzia defeating a 100 ton gun, and a Japanese lacquer contrast with modern lac. A new industrial light using creosote and oil provides night work illumination. An anecdote features Col. Ingersoll and a damaged man with crutches in a street incident.
A St Louis Republic clipping recounts Col Ingersoll and Henry Ward Beecher in a polished debate avoiding religion while Beecher listens, and Horace Greeley is humorously described by Col Nicholas Smith. It notes Dr White of Cornell reporting Greely's temperance stance and a water faucet anecdote about lead pipe chewing.
In Way land a kindly but frugal old gentleman Adams is teased by Gus Somerby about farming on barren soil. Adams explains he does not own the land and later crawls home on all fours after tending hay, quipping the soil is so thin it won’t bear a man endways. Boston Record.
The Doric shaft with its characteristic diminution and channelings existed in Egypt over a thousand years before its appearance in Greece, as shown by Beni- Hassan monuments. Longstanding commercial ties between Egypt and Greece suggest Greeks observed Egyptian architecture and did not independently invent the same design.
The statement compares the steady, durable profits of oak cultivation from a mushroom bed to the quick gains from small, hasty efforts, implying higher long term value in patient cultivation.
A London Lancet article extols South American hammocks over beds for health and comfort. It praises their washable, elastic Ita palm fiber construction, easy entry, secure sleep, and potential as sanitary hospital furnishings, citing Essequibo Indians workers and benefits for bed-ridden patients.
A wealthy New York gentleman orders a Turkish lounging room to be built behind his house opening into the art gallery. The room will cost thousands and feature rare woods inlaid with silver arabesques a silk divan silk cushions a mosaic floor Turkish rugs and lattice windows. A movable roof allows a tentlike canopy in summer and several niches hold bricabrac and a Moorish art collection. An American architect designs this luxurious retreat described as out of reach for most people.
A collie named Jack from the Sierra Madre Mountains climbs angled trees to chase squirrels. The dog scales forty five degree trunks with rough bark, barks at the quarry perched on high limbs, then carefully descends to the ground.
In a vivid London style exchange, Mrs Klinks defends a popular corn based confectionery as wholesome, while Mr Klinks warns of health risks. The dialogue shifts to scrutiny of glucose content and labeling.
The article surveys the anarchist movement across the United States led by Chicago based groups with strong links to New York and Milwaukee. It notes plans to use dynamite and daggers to attack capitalists and authorities and describes sensational trial revelations from the Pinkerton era detective agency about the organization’s reach and membership in the thousands.
Police and officials warn of growing anarchist networks after the Haymarket events. Supt Cornsh calls for decisive action to crush these groups and prevent future emergence, urging stronger enforcement in Chicago as a warning to the nation.
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