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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1880
Page
5
In a rural 19th century tale Emily tends a wounded stranger who bears a bruise and a fortune, revealed as Joe Ashton. Amid gossip and jealousy, Emily nurses him back to health while confronting past love, debt, foreclosures, and a Thanksgiving reunion.
A detective in Paris famed for his strength and frequent arrests, while intoxicated, ordered eight passersby to follow him. Five resisted, overpowering him as he fired a pistol and left for dead in the street. He was later carried to a hospital by officers.
A New York Times excerpt reflects on aging and the urge to live versus the burden of legacy. It argues many endure beyond their prime, misjudge their decline, and regret delayed exits, urging timely, dignified departures rather than prolonged obscurity.
The Wisconsin lumber industry, long a major supplier to Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and beyond, anticipates a strong season after a winter of losses. Camp life centers on pine-rich forests along the Wisconsin Central line with crews of 30 to 100 workers, sturdy shanties, stables, and busy mills near rail lines. The piece details preparations, camp routines, weather readiness, food, and the disciplined pace of lumber crews awaiting snowfall and harvest.
Camphor ointment recipe and paint drying tips are cited alongside advice on chestnut cultivation and horse care. A piece on dry rot in footwear urges tar and coal oil treatment, while shoeing frequency is advised. A New York World note warns about blind teeth in horses and mules. A furniture polish recipe uses shellac gum lac and gum sandarac. The piece closes with a farmer’s tale of harvesting barnyard liquids to nourish meadows, boosting color in days.
A heavily garbled OCR extract shows scattered month labels such as MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY and DECEMBER along with numeric sequences and stray letters. No coherent event or person is identifiable. the text resembles a fragmented calendar or index snippet.
The passage notes seawracks in tropical climates supporting vast weed beds with many animal forms and mosses, and describes uses in Scotland as cattle feed and knife handles. It mentions rose-tangles producing beauty, dulse as food and tobacco substitute, Caen moss jelly, and Chinese use as varnish with Canton importing twenty seven thousand pounds annually at six to eighteen pice per pound.
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