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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1887
Page
7
A compendium of historical anecdotes tracing impeachment debates around Andrew Johnson and the Pickering case, Mosbys exploits in the Civil War, duels of oratory in the House, and the 1818 adoption of the U S flag design. Includes notes on railroad whistles, anecdotes of public figures, and an Australian arid landscape observation.
Visitors to New York City are urged to save baggage expressage and $3 carriage hire when stopping at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel boasts 613 rooms fitted at a million dollar cost with European Elevator and restaurant. Horse cars stages and elevated rail connect to all depots, and families are told they can live better for less money here than at any other first class hotel in the city.
The piece contrasts English upper classes with French noblesse, noting English nobles’ cautious leadership and closeness to electors, while French aristocrats retain a purer aristocratic sentiment in some points. It cites Napoleon’s era and social hierarchies, then shifts to medical ads featuring Potent bitters, tonics, and remedies.
A fragment from a Sovarusen paper asks who girls should marry. The reply suggests "sweet men" as the answer, framed within a dreamy, lyrical lament about sleep, inexpressible longing, and confessed love. The text blends poetry and a curious quip about marriage choice.
Dr Morsh of Marine Hospital Baltimore endorses Red Star Lough Cure as a harmless effective cough remedy, especially for irritable children, pleasant to take and prompt in effect. Price twenty five cents. Politicians are excusable for being on the fence they wish to keep posted. St Jacobs Oil hailed as miraculous rheumatism remedy by Hon James Harlan ex Vice Chancellor Louisville KY.
John R. McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer, walking with a friend on Twenty ninth Street in New York, surprised an old Hibernian by handing him a quarter. The man misread the gesture, asking if it was a half year owed, then received two halves in addition to the quarter, amid laughter.
All is new, capital not needed, write to Hallett & be, Portland Maine, for fur information about work you can do from home. Earn from $5 to $25 and upwards daily from the first start, with some making over $50 in a day. The best chance ever known by working people, now is the time.
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