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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
3
A poem in 19th century style depicts a marriage eroded by coldness yet unspoken truth. The speaker venerates past tenderness while acknowledging mutual entrapment and sorrow. The verse laments separation as a slow decay and expresses regret for chaining a beloved to sorrow.
Barnaby Munson drives a Vincennes to St Louis stage with eight passengers amid highwaymen terrorizing the route. In a night attack at Murdock's Gap Munson dies defending the coach, three desperadoes are killed, and a posse pursues the rest. The tale ends with Munson buried in St Louis beneath Barnaby's Cross monument.
A social card about Margaret Fuller and a friend on a suburban train lacking their pocketbooks. With a bouquet as collateral and a bold appeal, a gentleman pays their fares and keeps the flowers, sparking a remembered kindness and a chance meeting. The piece ends with a riddle about a teacher torn between travel options.
The piece laments scarce pure American humor, tracing a lineage from Artemus Ward to Mark Twain and Bret Harte, noting later humorists faded away. It argues for a fresh, truly original humorist beyond mere penny puns, in hopes of a brighter literary path.
A sermon-like meditation on an aging man unprepared for judgment, followed by a detailed Balkan Cor. note from London Times describing Bucharest and Romania’s modernization, language shift, army, and economic gaps. The piece contrasts spiritual neglect with secular progress and highlights Romania’s infrastructure and agricultural challenges.
Observations contrast English and American usage from lift to elevator and tramway to railroad. The writer notes Americans favor grand names for ordinary places and warns there is a middle ground between English reserve and American pretentiousness. The piece closes with a quotation about the first sign of a healthy mind being rest of heart at home.
Dr. Talmage preaches on The Ransomed from I Corinthians 6 20 detailing three installments of redemption Bethlehem Quarantine and Calvary He portrays Christ’s birth in a crowded Bethlehem scene Christ’s fasting temptation and exile in the wilderness and his sham trial and crucifixion as successive payments Then he urges reliance on Christ’s sympathy and concludes with the crucifixion’s dark day and the spreading of the gospel to awaken souls.
A humorous tale recounts Bobkin and his hound Hubert in New Jersey and New York as a rope mishap leads to Hubert’s wild dash through Greenwich Street. After canine antics, a steam cap injury and police intervention end with Hubert dead near Broadway, now resting in the Bobkin mansion.
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