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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1880
Page
4
A father recalls comforting his sleeping child and speaking of a mother at rest in Heaven. The tender scene blends a child’s Santa Claus wish with visions of angels, heaven, and a mother’s perpetual care, ending with the child’s hopeful plea to bring mamma back.
Poem excerpt by Alfred Tennyson urging ring out the old year and ring in the new. It calls for casting out grief pride and feud and welcoming truth virtue compassion and a better world through a hopeful vision.
Farmer Henderson vows to kill his troublesome ram Old Dan after a morning stumble. A hungry tramp arrives seeking lunch and steals silver spoons. Carrie hides the theft, Dan pursues, defeats the thief, and the ram earns his master’s favor and a peaceful life for years.
The New Haven Register notes that children in the North commonly eat snow and ice, causing nasal catarrh and potential chronic inflammation. It describes how cold contact irritates the nasal membranes and may lead to consumption, while adding a light aside about red mittens and a humorous quip on truth.
A Rural New Yorker note offers cooking guidance for beefsteak steaming in a lightly heated pan, then frying with butter. It also covers propagating roses from slips in water, removing stains with borax solution, a potato yield report from Franklin Mass Farmers Club, and recipes for waterproof boot coatings using tallow, beeswax, rosin, and turpentine.
Farmers should plan for winter manure management to boost next season. Build a flat, compact heap from stock yard waste, keep it moist, and prevent leaching by careful watering. Regular cleansing of stables and yards, mixing litter, and light salt use help convert waste into ready top-dressings for corn, wheat, grass, and vegetables.
The article explains turning winter sheep feeding into a profitable farm operation by using summer harvests to produce beef milk wool and pork. It highlights sheep as the best return for low cost and labor while delivering valued manure and potential profit with proper know how and perseverance.
The article outlines choosing healthy sheep, avoiding unprofitable types, and building a simple open shed with dry yards. It details bedding, water, and a strict feeding schedule with hay, grain, roots, and bran, plus timing from dawn to evening, to fatten a flock for sale in three months and through winter markets.
A humorous tale from a Chicago Tribune item imagines a frustrated suitor plotting census revenge in a small town near Chicago. Separate notes report Swiss mill losses after a failed 320000 dollar venture and a church sermon noting rumored royal conversion to Rome with a forthcoming public announcement.
A new plastering machine is described with a mortar receptacle and a cylindrical segment forming a chamber. A pressing plate moves against the mortar, and as the device rises along the wall it forces plaster through a narrow bottom opening.
A reflective poem urges letting the old year pass and embracing the New Year with faith. It speaks of life’s hard road, seeking rest in a higher guide, and the lamp of life with love and patience. It calls for perseverance, charitable love, and trust as time moves toward ages beyond days and months.
A list of weekly lesson topics for January to March 1880 covering infant Messiah, flight into Egypt, Jesus baptism, temptation, true disciples, temper, prayer, mercy, the golden rule, and discerning false from true. Includes scriptural references from Matthew chapters 2 through 7.
Poem reflecting on grief as the child of love and the solace found in heaven. It laments earthly sorrow, contrasts streets of snow with streets of gold, and envisions eternal morning where joy replaces tears. The piece frames mourning through faith and heavenly reunion.
The article argues that true piety must permeate daily home life not just church observance. It warns that rigid decorum at church without warm, cheerful conduct at home undermines faith and misleads children. Genuine religion should be natural, spontaneous, and reflected in parents' examples and attitudes.
The piece argues that the religious atmosphere of a home shapes children's future, stressing that Christ’s love should bind father, mother, and children beyond ordinary affection and praising a home where faith makes religion lovely and winsome.
A Sunday School class with mischief leads a teacher to invite the boys to his home for a Friday time. The evening fosters personal relations and proper conduct, making the boys better in Sunday School. One well managed weeknight gathering proves more effective than six months in class.
A reporter visits inmates on death row in New York to probe their opinions on methods of capital punishment. Respondents favor hanging, drowning, gas, or chloroform, with some expressing strong moral or religious objections, and one prisoner appealing for mercy before execution. The piece also notes related items on nobility, a Philadelphia shoemakers ball, a venting of Yankee pragmatism, and a Indiana Supreme Court judge’s remark on juries and common sense.
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