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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
8
In New Jersey a burglar alarmed Mr Homer Choate and his wife. Mrs Choate watched, advised, and directed aimed fire as the burglar leaped the grape arbor. The man fell dead, and the couple praised revolver justice and urged city congratulations for saving authorities expense.
A twelve year old errand boy trudges with three heavy dry goods packages in front of the Press office. He describes long daily routes from seven until six with two dollars a week pay plus a “sticker” trip home. He once worked at a dry goods store and earlier at the District Telegraph, and he lacks a father.
A New York Sun interview with a fencing professor describes women using three foot sticks with basket-hilts for parrying drills rather than real foil. He notes nine female students locally plus two visiting families, calls the practice gentle and healthful, and says a few women in the city are reasonably expert but that women cannot compete with men in full fencing due to build and endurance.
The piece surveys palmistry and thumb history from antiquity to modern times. It cites legends of thumb licking as pledges among Goths and Moors, Scottish thumb bargains, and thumbing as a challenge in Romeo and Juliet. It notes emperors, tradesmen, gladiators, and criminals and links pollex to the promise verb polliceri.
The Chicago Herald notes a prominent Salt Lake City grocery known as The Lord's Store. The piece highlights its significance in the local market and its distinctive branding tied to religious imagery.
The article outlines methods a wife might use to retain a husband, proposing tactics in diet flattery appearance and wit. It advises studying a husband's weaknesses and adapting to his tastes, from meals to conversation, while warning against overdoing. A second segment from Hong Kong notes medical care and crude hospital conditions with vegetarian medicines and shaky anatomy knowledge.
A traveling Chinese quack peddles nostrums with diagrams claiming cure-alls while locals listen in awe. He touts Menthol as a new cure for nervous diseases, priced high, and demonstrates dubious techniques like needle puncture and skin plasters at a native hospital observed by Dr. Eutler.
Trained dresses feature wide bouffant trains of velvet or satin with multiple breadths and ornate plaits. Front breadths remain flat and satin with lace and chenille details. bow, beads, and embroidery contrast on velvet or satin bases. Gray satin dinners and striped satins reappear with high basques and vertugadin puff accents.
The text discusses dairy practices such as feeding a fixed grain mix thrice daily, the impact of milking speed on yield, and the risk of oleomargarine misrepresentation. It favors sunlit winter stables, proper drainage floors, and describes Dutch cheeses imported for preservation, suggesting domestic production for profit.
A couple demands a perfect likeness from a photo studio. They compare a cabinet portrait of Mary Anderson, push for a guaranteed improvement, and threaten to pay only if the result matches their ideal, ultimately leaving with the insistence that the photo is “me.”
A Y Times article argues dairying enriches soil and farmer alike. It credits dairymen for choosing and managing the business, studying markets, and sharing methods through meetings and research to achieve prosperity and better farm results.
The article argues that creameries and dairies improve efficiency by mechanization, cutting labor by about ninety percent and freeing workers for other tasks. It notes educational influence on patrons, continuous improvement, and that private dairies with capital and skill will still outperform creameries in quality. A wind powered sawmill operates in Cape May County, New Jersey.
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