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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1887
Page
7
A fragmentary notice presents a wartime anthology titled Bullets and Bayonets by Irenf Hunt. It mixes battle imagery with sentimental verse about peace and mourning, ending with an odd Good Housekeeping attribution and floral lines. This reads as a period poetic advertisement or serialized extract rather than a straight news item.
A Missouri homefront episode tells how Polly McR- confronts a Confederate cavalry detachment at her yard. She calls for her husband, then employs a beehive ruse, flinging it at the leader’s horse as bees swarm. The rebels retreat in foul haste.
A chaplain visits isolated hill dwellers during the war and meets a dirted, uneducated girl who has never seen a school or church. She cannot read, asks questions about God, and hints at a lack of broader social contact in her rugged mountains.
A mother swears that the preacher would not have been safe coming near the troops. She bets her livers he is one of those who preach to the Yankey soldiers and implies danger in the war era.
A veteran recalls how newspapers sustained soldiers on long campaigns. He recounts a Chickamauga battle where Federals trapped a Confederate detachment behind Lee Gordon's mills, the dam blew, water rose, yet a fresh Louisville Journal kept to his pocket as men fought and prevailed. The piece then shifts through anecdotes about Polk, Easterner humor, and various 19th century notes on papers, medicine, and old city lore.
A physician reports a medical breakthrough from Louisiana honey locust leaves yielding an anesthetic twice as potent as cocaine. Prices for cocaine have fallen from 50 cents per grain in 1883 to 5 cents per grain, while the new anesthetic could likely be sold cheaper, pending further testing on any hidden drawbacks.
The passage dislikes boasting that no child porn will exist in the country and notes many readers fail to think. It reflects on readers who learn to read yet neglect self thinking. It warns against relying on cures from Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery without personal testing or lesson.
A fragmentary tale shows Potts despondent over life and gloom. His friend extols Pierce's Pellets as a quick remedy. Potts buys them and happiness returns while melancholy vanishes from his heart.
A dialogue compares Miss Horsey to an Amazon for athletic prowess and motherhood, while a humorous aside quips on widowhood. The Wisconsin Central Line earns praise for service quality, pulling fast trains with Pullman cars from Chicago to Minneapolis and through to Ashland and Duluth, with solid sleepers to mining regions.
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