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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1880
Page
4
A Baldwin's Monthly reflective verse noting mountain peaks shining afar and the silent stars above. It frames the mountain air and sea as living signs of identity and future hopes. The poem suggests a unity of nature and self in a contemplative tone.
Ivah, fifteen when her mother died, takes responsibility for her baby and helps her seventeen year old brother Tom regain a footing after their father’s death. Ivah secures a job for Tom, manages household economy, and starts a boarding business to support them. Tom’s wage grows, Ivah expands their venture, and she becomes the backbone keeping the family afloat through debt, housing moves, and care for baby. Ivah vows never to desert Tom or baby as they navigate hardship together.
Ivah trains Marie in cake baking while balancing her own duties and a call to marriage. Ivah helps Marie amid family care and attends lectures, as Ivah herself contemplates a settled home. Baby Ivah remains central as she supports two strong sons and follows a sacred path.
A roundup covers imports of window glass and glassware, and cites inventions using blast furnace slag for bricks and white cement. It notes paper pulp from common grasses, grass-based paper strength, and economic yields. Also includes domestic tips on cooking stove use and water for sheep, and a Madison Georgia arrest of immigrant agents under tax law.
In 1774 the Friendship Fire Company organized by mutual friendship carried two leathern buckets and one linen bag. Washington was an honorary member and bought a small engine in 1775, sending it to the company. He once leaped from his horse to urge idle firefighters to lead in the matter. A later note recalls his dramatic intervention at a market area fire in Alexandria. The piece also mentions a general note about youths in love and a Mennonite mission to Kodiak, Alaska.
The Chicago Times notes limits to stable manure application to avoid rank, poor quality grass and grain. It says excessive manure harms hay quality, reduces stock appetite, and lowers feeding value. It favors moderate manure for small grains and urges heavy manuring on corn, cabbage, hops, squashes, and melons, with guidance on prioritizing corn acreage relative to manure capacity.
The article explains how soils depend on both natural mineral content and artificial fertilizers for fertility. It notes coarse lands wash moisture quickly and fail to retain nutrients, causing crop failures in droughts. It recommends fall plowing to bring subsoil clay up, green manuring, and lime with organic matter when clay is not accessible to improve texture and moisture absorption.
Practical guidance on soil types including clay and alluvial lands, stressing drainage, underdraining, and returning crop residue. Highlights the role of green manures like peas and clover, and notes regional variation in applying these practices. Encourages sharing experiences via journals and clubs for wider adoption.
Captain Charles L. Pierce, a well known attorney in the city, choked to death at the Farmers Hotel after a large roast beef piece lodged in his throat. He appeared lively at first, then dropped silent in his chair. physicians extracted the unmasticated meat and efforts to revive him failed. The Death occurred within minutes of the luncheon, leaving a stunned dining room and a swift medical response.
Government diver Mr SMALE recounts a fierce octopus attack on the Moyne River bed in Belfast Colony of Victoria. The creature gripped his arm as he fought free with improvised tools, dragging the monster from rock, the eight footer measured across eight feet and capable of holding five or six men. Meanwhile in Washington schools hire Miss Corson to teach cooking, with a citizen committee inviting her to lecture on cooking for health and temperance.
A poetic meditation on compassion and humanity aboard a moving train. The speaker contrasts art’s idealized figures with real deeds of care as akeeperly guardian steadies a feverish child. The poem honors selfless, practical kindness over religious or genteel imagery.
A historical listing of Sunday School lesson topics and dates for the first and second quarters of 1880. Includes lessons on Giving and Praying, Our Father's Care, The Savior's Golden Tale, The Wheat and Tares, The Transfiguration, The Crucifixion, and After the Resurrection, with review and school-selected lessons.
A collection of moral aphorisms and quotes from various figures including Schlatter Whipple Dana and Browne. The passages urge wisdom, faithful trust, Christian charity, and the danger of malice while praising honesty, steadfast faith, and forgiveness tempered by spirit and justice.
The piece argues worldly possessions bring limited happiness and warns against worship or envy. It suggests joy grows when wealth is enjoyed rightly, shared with others, and sacrifice replaces selfishness, citing Paul and biblical themes to frame material pleasure within spiritual balance.
Pier Green, a distinguished allopathic centeron, wrote to the Medical Record of Atlanta to say that after other means failed he sent for the Kidney Cure and cured a serious case of Bright's Disease. He reports it beneficial in other cases and advises fellow physicians to use it for kidney disorders.
A Buffalo New York advert promotes Gilt-Edge Butter Maker claiming a 6 percent price rise and 20 percent quality boost while distancing rivals not using the product. It notes 25 cents’ worth of powder can lift product value to about 3.00 and asks readers to request “Hints to Butter-Makers” from the Butter Improvement Co. via stamp to Buffalo.
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