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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1879
Page
4
A fragment depicts a nimble distaff scene with a gallant soldier who passes by and flirts with a maiden. A looming warning echoes to beware of the rogue. The door, laughter, and danger thread through the scene as a wary sigh hints at a trap.
In a frontier tale Joseph recounts his Oregon years a lone fort keeper and former suitor who builds a home in Rogue River Valley. Grasshoppers ruin his herd a mysterious New England bride arrives in the mountains and saves him from a planned Chinese raid by warning him. A captured outlaw confesses his past while Joseph contemplates his own failed courtship and eventual distancing from the dangerous Amazon.
A garbled excerpt cites D C MacDonald in Lippincott’s Magazine for March discussing a missing girl in the Wallamet Valley and a reply about recalling or sending the world. The disjointed dialogue reflects a literary fragment rather than a complete report.
A St Louis Republican excerpt details Captain Tuttle, New York native and veteran seaman, outlining his Arctic observations. He reports an open polar sea with a warm interior, a broad ice belt, a magnetic anomaly, and signs of tropical plants and migratory birds. He describes encounters with mastodon bones, unknown coast peoples near New Siberia, and a polar bear that left lasting injuries. He plans another voyage in 1880 and seeks government support for towing equipment from Washington.
A historical overview tracing the rise of English involvement in the slave trade from 1562 with Sir John Hawkins to the spread of slavery in Virginia and the colonies. It notes limited legal sanction, royal vacillation, and later expansion aided by maritime power, with moral censure on slave theft contrasted against broader Protestant practices.
The Melbourne Exposition will run from October 1 to October 31, 1880, aimed at boosting Australian trade. The article notes January and February are especially hot months in Australia.
A brisk sales pitch proclaims Dr Bull's Cough syrup as a universal good for all, with doctors recommending it and the product priced at % cents.
A survey traces ancient moral codes and charitable tomb inscriptions from 4000 to 2500 B C, noting commandments on plagues of hunger and kindness to the poor, plus a treaty on fugitives. It surveys tomb effigies, inscriptions, and a crafts process for hat making from the Scientific American.
A historical overview of hat making before and after machinery. It describes fur preparation from Russian hare, the mixing and blowing steps to remove impurities, and forming, boiling, and felting processes that create hat bodies. The text notes labor shifts and methods used to produce uniform, soft felt for hats.
Professor Kedzie explains kerosene lamp explosions arise from explosive vapor air mixtures rather than just the lamp oil’s temperature. He cites experiments showing high brass temperatures trigger blasts even with oil below 85 F, warns against reducing flame to save oil, and urges leaving lamps burning or extinguishing them safely.
A critique of the unused front parlor as a sterile shrine to furniture, showing a somber, coffin like room that drains warmth from the home. It contrasts lived and unused parlors, noting the lack of character, mood, and hospitality in the shut green blinds and silent interiors.
A vivid excerpt describes a crowded urban kitchen as a stokehole where family life centers on stoves and utensils. It laments how the front parlor has become a tomblike refuge, suggesting a stone grave marker for Life, Light and Cheerfulness starved in this place long ago, per the New York Graphic.
The piece advises moving large ornamental or fruit trees in winter using the frozen ball method. It describes trench size, soil prep, lifting with rock lifters, and replanting with rich loams and bone amendments. It cites success moving pear trees and saving mature stock through careful transplantation.
An American Agriculturist summary notes hourly savings in winter, with properly cured corn-fodder reducing hay cutting. Experiments show cows eat most stalks without hay, when fed with corn meal and bran, milk yield unchanged. Straw bedding and fine manure improve composting, echoed by Mr Mechi’s profitable bedding practice and other farmers’ reports.
A Rochester Democrat correspontent reports that money lenders shun out of town securities while city assets draw big interest. Brokers offer nearly $2,000,000, with heavy loans on prime property at five percent and six percent on second-rate real estate. Aston and Lenox and Jet prefer government and railway bonds, storing vast sums in guarded safes. The Safe Security Co reportedly holds about $100,000,000 with no known robbery. An estimated $800,000,000 of personal property exists in the city, largely untaxed.
Intelligence supports a volcanic eruption theory off Florida’s coast. Volcanic activity killed fish and halted coastal market trade, with pumice drift serving as strong evidence. Similar events twenty five years ago confirm recurring eruptions in the area.
The text compiles home beauty hair wash prank egg wash. cake and puddings with ingredients. rusk and farmer pudding methods. hen manure usage on crops. hot lobelia for neuralgia relief. sal soda and wet cloths for rheumatism. cows milk boost with warm salted water, bran and water for higher yield. Includes practical household tips and rural farming notes.
A Butler New York man writes of six years of bedridden illness costing 200 dollars yearly, totaling 1200 dollars, cured by three bottles of Hop Bitters, wife did housework for a year without missing a day, and he urges others to know the benefit.
The article promotes Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as a long standing standard for over 25 years and notes its rapid aid when used early. It recommends Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for throat or lung involvement and urges readers to consult the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser. The combined treatment aims to quickly cure stubborn catarrh.
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