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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1887
Page
3
A Boston Courier feature playfully panels gender norms with satire and humor. A maiden offers hospitality to a caller and a youth asks for a kiss, highlighting social flirtation of the era.
A Chicago woman learns her fiancé George cannot wed yet because he has not divorced his wife. An Omaha woman confirms she is engaged but her own wedding is postponed as her partner delays.
The Wanderer spent a pleasant evening with a family near Boston. The gathering included young men and older guests, with varied entertaining conversation. A young man claimed a woman can make any man propose given enough chances, while a respected female relative scoffed at the idea, saying she does not believe it despite having tried the theory before.
Anne Jenness Miller argues in Dress that a silver spiral garter offers a comfortable, nonrestrictive stocking support. She contrasts it with prior elastic and attachment styles that caused pressure and injury, urging readers to choose a durable, bright silver garter for mobility and hygiene.
The article describes a Bohemian woman living frugally on about $5 to $8 a week. She cooks breakfast at home and eats a daily cheap lunch, with a single dinner at a low cost restaurant. It notes literature as a discipline learned from Grub Street and cites Henri Murger on Bohemia.
The New York Letter sketches Bohemian life with routes toward hospital or academy, risks of gastritis, and burial costs or ascent to a luxury life. It contrasts two housing modes, the hall-bedroom style and lodging-house parlor access, noting costly weekly living and a grim lodging-house dynamic.
A reflective essay contrasts women described as beautiful versus those who are both beautiful and good. It notes marital changes, cautionary cautions from a Jesuit predecessor about familiarity with women, and concludes with a plea to future young women for mercy toward men of the future.
The Indianapolis Journal argues women bear partial responsibility for oppressions they face. It notes widespread timidity and lack of self assertion hinder their wage earning progress, contrasting with self confident male success and the need for reform to boost women's advancement.
A quip from the Omaha World jokes about churchgoing habits. A New York youth switches from Episcopalian to Presbyterian, arguing Presbyterians pray standing up to keep Sunday trousers from bagging at the knees.
In a remote Irish bogland a starving Mary helps a dwarf caught in red bog. He pays with gold from his pockets, then leaves, warning that the heroes who lent it to him will never reclaim it. Mary’s family sells the loot to buy food, and the stump of bog wood remains as a reminder of a vanished gift and a myth.
Readers praise Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets claiming skin eruptions, pimples, and digestive issues improve. The advertisement extols the pills as gentle yet powerful, being vegetable and free of harm, restoring appetite and renewing health.
A Nile visiting quarry owner's survey argues ancient Egyptian builders surpassed modern methods. He notes pyramid stones weighing 880 tons and 30 foot lengths fitting so tightly a penknife fails to pass. No mortar and no perfected machinery. joints achieved by rubbing surfaces until they unite. London Times.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a low outlay with high returns, claiming it purifies blood and restores vigor. It targets readers with ailments like headache and backache, asserting the cure flows from better blood.
The late Duchess of St Albans bequeathed Miss Burdett Coutts about £1.8 million, roughly $9 million. If in gold at sixty sovereigns per pound, the weight would be 13 tons 7 cwt 3 qrs 12 lbs, needing 107 men each carrying 298 pounds.
A jumbled ad page notes Scott's Emulsion for coughs and wasting children praised by a hospital steward. It promotes Prickly Ash Bitters for digestion and circulation. The Wisconsin Central Line extols its rail service and routes. A cured clergy man via a mailed recipe offers catarrh relief. Eye Water and Lyon's Heel Stiffeners are advertised for common ailments and boot care.
To bequeath to your children in a pure constitution rather than wealth. Mothers will find in Dr Pierce's Favority Prescription a wonderful help correcting weaknesses and bringing systems into condition so children may rise up untainted and call them released. Drug stores stock it nationwide. It is notable that the more the cheek the less the bloom.
Real estate seekers are urged to visit Jackson Tennessee Aberdeen and Jackson Mississippi Hammond Crowley Jennings Welsh and Lake Charles Louisiana as the cheapest farming lands in America. Round trip tickets limited to June 1 1584 with stopovers south of Cairo Illinois are on sale to New Orleans Jennings and Lake Charles. Rates via Illinois Central Railroad from Chicago or St Louis. Pamphlet titled Southern Home Seeker's Guide and circulars available from Manchester Iowa agent J F Menny General West.
A reader advertises Swayne's Ointment as a universal cure for skin diseases and piles with quick relief from itching, bleeding, and ulceration. Dr Swayne & Son offer the remedy from Philadelphia, while a letter from T A Slocum promises two free bottles to readers who mail addresses.
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