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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1886
Page
3
A humorous poem about a hole in a pocket causing mischief and real disaster. A mother warns this is disaster yet the baby remains fine, as the speaker remembers lost rings and a chain collar from Fido. The piece lampoons youthful mischief with a light, ironic tone.
A storyteller contrasts a Zulu mother in Africa with two English boys named Richard and Robert. It describes daily life, food, and childrearing in Africa, then follows Richard’s industrious farming success versus Robert’s neglect, culminating in a moral about effort, sharing, and the inner land of mind and soul. The piece urges kindness, learning, and generosity as paths to growth and fulfillment.
The passage contrasts cheerful animals and people with a saying that happiness comes only when missionaries arrive. It describes goats monkeys baboons and clay animals as playful and content while noting a distinct happiness the others lack until contact with missionaries.
In a Senate speech on the Oleomargarine Bill Senator Palmer described numerous ways to make artificial butter. He cited items on file with the Patent Office including acids, oils, fats, salts, and various extracts such as nitric acid sugar of lead benzoic acid castor oil sesame oil lard pepsin and other substances like churned dairy byproducts and plant oils.
A collage of quips and riddles from Boston Courier style humor featuring puns on marriage money slang and wordplay. Verses and letters showcase jokes about grammar beer pluralization and German caricatures in light tone.
The French inventor Henri Roget from Lyons patents an electric whip to substitute for the cat o nine tails. A restrained subject is connected to a battery and the wet wire whip delivers electric discharges. He claims milder or harsher punishment possible with power, aims to petition War Minister Boulang er for trial on a future soldier.
A terse quip from the National Weekly mocks baldness cures by implying tar and gravel roof repairs as a remedy. The exchange features Flipkins and Dallyway in a witty aside.
Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers 613 rooms with modernization financed at over a million dollars. The notice promises lower living costs than competing first class hotels and mentions connections to horse cars, stages, and elevated rail lines for city depots.
E K Warren invented Featherbone from turkey and goose quills at Three Oaks Michigan. In two years the factory employs 150 people, handles 300 jobbers daily, and consumes 30 000 quills and 125 miles of thread to produce a durable elastic tape used in dressmaking whips mattresses and fertilizer.
An 19th century advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal aid for brain clarity and nervous vigor. It claims to regulate digestion and bilious secretions, expel morbid humors, and provide steady, non irritating relief. It also touts benefits as an appetite stimulant, age infirmities relief, and gender related ailments mitigation.
A Treasury expert warns that counterfeit gold coins are hard to detect. He notes platinum fillings can ring true and edge joints eroded by remilling, with platinum worth about one third of gold by weight. He cites $20 coins altered to replace $16 of gold with platinum, creating a highly dangerous fake detectable only by skilled judges of gold.
An 19th century ad extols Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets as the most effective remedy to cleanse the bowels and aid nature in recuperation. The note claims the pills reach the seat of disease and promote health, distributed by druggists.
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