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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1880
Page
4
In a mining town a young bride longs for her absent husband. Fifty years pass as tragedy haunts her days. Miners uncover a young man's body and the bride appears, old and white haired, lying beside him as the community buries them together.
Aunt Prisca foresees she will die in the alms-house but uses her fortune to reform the institution. Her schemes help the Poor-house gain a daily physician, bathrooms, and a dedicated staff while family tensions unfold over Blanche and Margaret. In the end Prisca marries the superintendent and the group envisions dying in the Poorhouse together.
At a Philadelphia Academy meeting a member described dark chamber potatoes sprouting in a merchant’s safe. They formed new tubers without light, prompting questions on starch transfer from parent to offspring and noting similar underground bulb growth in other plants. The mechanism remains unknown.
Henry Townsend appearing in ragged clothes faced a charge of vagrancy. He argued by recalling famous figures and was allowed to go free as the judge suspended sentence. The piece also cites a note on hearing with closed eyes and a cat retriever anecdote from the London Standard.
Seventy different aphids with over 400 veins are in United States gardens. Farmers should make homes so attractive that children's affections bring them back often. A guide on turning a horn, onions cooking and storage, and plant air purification in living rooms versus sick rooms.
A comprehensive outline of 50 discussion prompts for farmers clubs covering orchard management pests seeds grains rotations weed control home culture fruit and vegetable production farm finances tools and equipment, public roads, dairy stock, beef and swine, poultry, and farm life.
A Western Rural column examines cattle deaths after turning into corn fields during husking season. It argues the harm comes from dry overripe stalks causing impaction of the third stomach, not from corn smut, and advises ample water and controlled feeding to prevent fatalities.
A devotional poem celebrates God's gifts from farm to harvest, praising abundance from corn fields to fruit trees. It thanks God for seasonal abundance, vitality of nature, and urges sharing blessings with the poor, ending with a Christian Union invocation.
A sermon argues that Christianity nourishes noble aging by entwining life with immortality. It contrasts atheism with faith, citing De Stael and Richter, and contends that belief in another world colors life with hope, mercy, and a second life.
A Scotch Presbyterian congregation planned to dismiss their learned pastor as prosy and uninteresting. Elders met him, he agreed to resign, and the church prepared an address with a purse. Moved by praise and gift, he chose to stay and continue serving the parish.
A fragmentary quote from a biblical text extols happiness for those corrected by God, those with the Lord as helper, and those who endure for righteousness. It highlights wisdom, mercy, and keeping the law, ending with a note on blessed endurance and obedience.
Carson Appeal recounts the rise and fall of Sandy Bowers, owner of a grand Washoe Lake mansion built for 100000, its lavish lifestyle, and eventual ruin. After his death a widow known as the Washoe Seeress inherits, and the mansion now lies deserted with gate tied, grounds overgrown, and a dry fountain.
A bright gray rats in a Fourth Street tobacco factory amuses workers by nightly forays into nicotine leaves and daytime hops onto tobacco piles. The creature, gentle and clever, freely roams the factory as a curiosity, tasting the prized imports. John Bright loves salmon fishing.
A Galveston poet seeks recognition. the editor says the poem was crowded in by waste. Ads note cures for rheumatism and inept winter bonnets, plus a testimonial from Gen John A Logan praising Durang’s Rheumatic Remedy.
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