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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1887
Page
4
Two friends recount a tale of old summers, a shipyard lure, and a hidden marriage pact. The narrator reveals a lost love named Mattie V and a life shaped by a coerced engagement to save a father from ruin. A sequel meeting unravels the mystery and fate.
The piece recounts a Maine prison term for embezzlement of a rival bookkeeper, a Portland wedding the next day, and then shifts to a Washington letter describing the construction of the U S Treasury vault. It details the vault’s size, weight, riveted lattice walls, and the immense safeguards to deter robbery, plus a profile of 95 year old Uncle Billy Legg with his long career and family.
Dr G W McCaskey opens the Fort Wayne Medical and Surgical Sanitarium at 24 West Berry Street. The facility, costing thousands, offers electric, Turkish, hot air, vapor baths and medicated baths, with massage featured. Nearly twenty five patients can be housed in tastefully furnished rooms and dedicated dietary plans are provided.
Readily available curtain materials offer varied patterns and prices from six to fifteen cents a yard. Use brass rods or ribbons for hanging, bulk savings on ribbons, rails, and rings. Also included is a shellac varnish method to renew old furniture and a plan for a homemade eight day clock frame covered in plush or velvet with a decorative design.
The Century describes plantation life where laborers own no land yet enjoy unwritten rights to homes and work. Managers rule gently, using praise and consultation with respected elder workers to maintain order, creating a paradox of mild authority among a largely Black workforce on American estates.
The article reports Edison’s claim that his pyromagnetic generator can produce electric power directly from coal with efficiency equal to or better than conventional dynamos. It explains the principle that magnetic metals lose magnetizability when heated, and that heating and cooling in a magnetic field induce current in a surrounding coil.
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