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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1880
Page
4
A reflective piece contemplates memory and emotion as time and loss pull at joy and sorrow. The narrator questions whether happiness can return when memory reopens old scenes, then shifts to imagery of sunlight, fading smiles, and the inevitability of change. The passage ends with a cue to close the book and acknowledge unfinished verse.
A reflective verse bids farewell to the old year with warm clasp and firm grip. It laments what remains and what falls away yet acknowledges the blessing of the year just past as it ends.
A troubled Winterdale merchant Frank Severns vows to reform after bank threats. Bank directors doubt his pledge, while the president pledges support. Also noted is a Smithsonian donation of a preserved two headed baby from the South, thought alive at birth, likely removed from a county fair exhibit. The tale ends with the Army Medical Museum accepting the specimen.
Twenty years ago Frank Severns vowed to reform after wild years. Despite gossip and mockery, the bank president gave him a chance and Severns kept his pledge. Now a director, he remains popular, with his wife, the bank president’s daughter, by his side. Moral courage and pride revived his life and career.
Commodore Joseph de Stephenson, a Western figure now living in Antelope Creek, reports summer prospecting zeal and a diet of roasted bark for seventeen days with only two doves and a occasional rat snake for company. He claims to have slain rattlesnakes whose skins stretch to sixty yards, explains a method of killing, skinning, and preparing snake meat fried in hot lard to a brown finish, calling it unmatched culinary fare.
The riddle jokes that the North Pole resembles a secret still hidden in remote regions. It plays on the word secret and illicit to hint at hidden distillation. The piece relies on wordplay rather than reporting any event or facts.
A collage of quips and scraps from papers like New Haven Register Boston Globe and Detroit Free Press. Bits tease spending plans wills contests marriage jokes and a joke about a Galveston doctor suggesting election to the Legislature as a cure for overwork. Reads like a humor page column with lines about dogs coats horses and a ragged orphan.
Aunt Sally in the Detroit Free Press laments modern girls of today claiming they lack practical skills. She recalls patching as a norm, criticizes fashion over sustenance, and warns that tight lacing and skimpy meals ruin health. Her voice blends humor and admonition toward “old-fashioned” virtues.
Mrs Valeria G Stone of Boston has distributed more than a million dollars from her late husband’s estate to a range of educational and religious causes. Gifts include funds to Hallowell Classical School Fryebury Academy Dartmouth College Bowdoin College Amherst College Wellesley College Phillips Academy Harpoon College Chicago Theological Seminary Oberlin College Carleton College and the American Missionary Association among others. Additional grants total about 600000 to relatives and 100000 to churches and needy students with funds for mortgaged homes redemption.
London Echo reports a French patent by M. Paul Aube that blends iron to steel and produces illuminating gas in a single operation. Iron is carbonized in a retort with coke, fatty matter, and steam, yielding hydrogen and carbon vapor to create steel and a gas worth more than its cost. The process promises profit from iron steel gas value. Cider prices in New Jersey lower fines for drunks. St. Louis bridge handles twelve hundred cars daily.
Broad excerpts from a 19th century farm era spell out kitchen duties and fare. Recipes cover suet puddings, bread soak, cream and egg puddings, and a pork pie with lard crust. The piece also notes New England farm habits, oilcloth care, mince meat formula, and humane horse care including grooming and blanketing.
A veterinary note explains hooves corns in horses arise from bruises to the sensitive sole at the inner hoof, detailing causes from ill fitting shoes and pressure. It covers diagnosis by lameness, and treatment including careful paring, carbolic acid, shoe modification, and promoting hoof growth with coronet stimulation, from a Burlington Hawk-Eye surgeon.
An observer reflects on a tranquil night on Judah’s hills with the moon over Olivet and Sharon’s roses. The verse speaks of a blessed hour of peace, a family leaving home, and a chorus of heavenly praise preparing to join in a universal Amen.
The piece recounts a legend of an infidel knight who defies God and finds the truth in the parchment declaring God is love. It frames Christmas as a universal message of love proclaimed by angels, stars, and sages, urging readers to heed this truth and live under divine love.
A defender argues skeptics rarely read defenses of religious truth and the young are swayed by liberal generalities. True conviction requires hard work, not easy glitter. Replacing Christianity with science or philosophy fails. only toil can restore heritage of faith and morals. Interior.
The Ethical Alliance and Branch Alliance of the United States present a structured Week of Prayer for January 29. Themes cover Christ as the world’s hope, gratitude for past blessings, confession of sins, church unity and revival, Christian education and family life, justice and peace, missions, and the Holy Spirit’s administration.
A school in Paris teaches the blind to tune pianos and recently staged an exhibition at a piano factory attended by many of the city’s leading musicians. In Rhode Island the anti Masonic ticket received four votes, equal to the number of anti Vasoyic elector candidates.
The article argues for planting shade trees along city streets to vent debris, dampen winds, moderate heat, and reduce fire spread. It notes trees protect homes, beautify neighborhoods, and offer pedestrian shade, showing how urban tree planting pays for itself in multiple ways.
A rag gatherer tours Ninth street in a dusty wagon singing that he takes old stoves clothes and all kinds of rubbish while a boy cries for old rags and iron The scene draws thrifty housewives attention as the wagon proceeds past Walnut Street. Dr William G Eliot reports Washington University has 1100 students 75 faculty no debt and a policy to avoid debt. A new church cornerstone is planned in Washington D C with contributions nationwide aiming for March 1.
A St Louis newspaper piece cites the Emerson Piano Company in Boston as a leading maker of pianos praised worldwide. It quotes Jos Gramer praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism relief, and a Galveston News anecdote about a boy asking about his father’s eye plus a ward meeting remark.
An Illinois exchange credits St Jacobs Oil with ending rheumatic pain as it enters the field, while Turin physician Dr Mosso introduces a plethysmograph that allegedly measures thought but records zero for a New York man with a middle-part hairstyle.
A kansas paper notes Hop Bitters widely advertised and praised for its virtues. It cites a claim by Hon John Cessna that Durangs Rheumatic Remedy cured his rheumatism after three doses and mentions a Bedford, Pa. brother cured similarly. Also promotes Frazer Axle Grease as the best genuine product.
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