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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1887
Page
10
A lighthearted excerpt shows a genial father urging hospitality to visitors. A maid blushes as a youth requests a kiss after accepted tea. In a separate vignette Omaha and Chicago girls joke about engagement and postponed weddings due to pending divorces, highlighting social wit and romantic delays.
The Wanderer spent an enjoyable evening with a Boston area family. Young and middle aged guests discussed a claim that a woman can make any man propose with enough social chances. A respected female reader disagreed, saying she did not believe it.
Four years after discarding spiral garters we recount failed attempts with various leg harnesses. Anne Jenness Miller endorses a sturdy silver spiral garter for comfortable, nonrestrictive use, noting durability and ease of movement without steady pressure on sensitive parts.
A description of a single woman's budget living on a hall bedroom, cooking on gas or oil, eating bakery lunches and a cheap dusk meal in a dingy eatery, with beefsteak and potatoes for fifteen cents and mince pie for five. The piece cites a $7 82 weekly baseline and a $5 minimum if dinners are skipped, and nods to Grub street era literary frugality.
A New York Leiter report sketches two life tracks for Bohemian women. Some risk death from gastritis and burial at public expense, others rise to a “square room” life with meals at a top restaurant costing 12 to 20 dollars weekly. The hall-bedroom Bohemian remains common, as lodging-house landlords deny parlor access.
The piece argues that men prefer beautiful women to marry though many devoted wives prove transformative after marriage. It cites Father general rules on avoiding familiarity with women and notes the enduring impact of female virtue. It closes urging young women to spare future husbands and urges mercy.
Indianapolis Journal argues that women bear partial responsibility for their oppression in wages due to timidity and lack of assertiveness. It contrasts female reluctance with male self confidence and insistence on rights, noting merit alone often fails to guarantee promotion.
A humor snippet from the Omaha World jokes about churchgoing habits. A speaker notes Episcopalians and Presbyterians, joking that Presbyterian prayers are said standing up, which supposedly prevents trousers from bagging at the knees. The quip contrasts church choices with a light mockery of religious customs.
A doctor recalls a boy named Jim who accepts a father’s package and stays to help. The father dies at home after praising Jim’s kindness, teaching that love and kindness outlast guilt and neglect. The tale urges simple acts of care within families.
A rural Irish story follows Mary at a bog edge where a dwarf in a bog wood stump offers gold ornaments from ancient times. Mary pockets the treasure after the dwarf insists the coins will fund rent, but the family loses the bounty when the dug bog stump remains and the gold vanishes from their view.
Advert says living witnesses endorse Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets claiming vanish pimples blotches eruptions and constipation relief restore appetite renew and purify the system. Claims they are harmless vegetable pellets with concentrated active ingredients that purge and purify to cure disease and urge purchase at druggists.
A quarry owner who toured the Nile concludes ancient Egyptians built far stronger walls than today’s builders. He notes pyramid blocks weighing 880 tons and stones 30 feet long that fit with no mortar or visible seams. The stones allegedly joined by rubbing surfaces until perfectly flush.
Reader, the way is clear no speculation, big returns. If you have headache or backache due to poor blood, a small outlay for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies blood and you become another being with renewed vitality.
The Duchess of St Albans bequeathed Miss Burdett Coutts 1.8 million pounds about 9 million dollars. The gold would weigh thirteen tons and would need 107 men to lift it 208 pounds each. At sixty sovereigns a minute for eight hours daily the task would take over ten weeks.
An assortment of historical ads tout health products and tonics for coughs debility and wasting scrofula and catarrh with testimonials and household remedies. It highlights Brown’s bronchia Scott’s Emulsion for consumption and debility and Lyon’s Heel stiffeners for boots.
An appeal touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a moral and practical asset for mothers. It claims the medicine strengthens women’s systems, ensuring healthier offspring and a bloom in the cheek as a sign of vitality. The ad asserts druggists nationwide stock the remedy and links physical vigor to parental virtue.
A letter to the editor from T A Slocum of 181 Pearl St New York claims a cure for consumption using his own remedy. He offers to send free bottles to readers who provide their express and postal addresses.
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