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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1883
Page
2
A vivid reminiscence recalls a woman's hair and a shared rural past. The speaker contrasts a golden tress once belonging to Ethel with twelve years of change, recalling Sundays after church, village chimes, and carefree days, now set amid London smoke.
In Hong Kong Phileas Fogg delays to catch the Yokohama steamer Carnatic while Passepartout, under Fix’s wary watch, encounters opium dens and a brewing plot. Fix reveals he is a detective pursuing a Bank of England robbery and pressures Passepartout to deter Fogg, with a potential reward, as the chase tightens.
The piece surveys remarks on modern novels and reading habits, recalls Theodore D. Wild’s 80th birthday in Hyde Park, and notes a Chinese minister's wardrobe value. It mentions Updegraff’s age at death, Judge Milo Olin’s charity, ministers' sons, Governor-elects Pattison and Cleveland, Leland Stanford, and Patti son’s tribute to parents. It also reports a new authors club in New York, Miss Windle’s poverty, and Peter Cooper’s visit to Clara Louise Kellogg with a ballad singalong.
The piece contrasts James G. Fair’s wealth with youthful happiness, urging Telemachus to value vitality and love over money. It notes the shah’s daring tiger hunt, where the Persian ruler, undaunted, uses a hunting knife to finish the beast after a dramatic chase.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from papers including Yonkers Gazette and Boston Post. Jests on insurance, barbers, editors, Liars, and neglected editors, with playful riffs on bee fatigue and buckwheat balls.
Occupants of a large Elmira New York aquarium fought causing splashing that toppled a rock into the glass. The impact broke the side, releasing 300 gallons of water and all the fish onto the floor.
The Pall Mall Gazette characterizes Russia as the unwieldy empire sprawling across two continents, highlighting its vast geographic reach and sprawling domains.
Poem by Adam Cummings from Golden Awe urges moral choice for the year. It contrasts sowing evil with reaping good and asks whether one will cultivate virtue or allow discouragement to derail effort. The speaker vows to welcome grace and produce a harvest of good deeds for a meaningful life.
Tinkey, under an apple tree, tests a fairy’s rule of one wish per item. He conjures ice cream and a new city suit, but mishaps with a larger shoe size and bald hair lead to a storm of silver dollars and a near burial in coins before a gale foils his desires.
The Cheyenne Leader describes Devil's Gate on the Sweetwater range sixty five miles north of Rawlins as a monumental granite gorge where the river cuts a mile long channel through a sheer rock wall. A 260 to 300 foot drop and 100 foot width create a Titan like gash with ice blocks along the stream and a solitary forty foot tree offering scale.
The London Standard reports the execution of Lyukas Kathi a 52 year old peasant woman from Szerdahely Hungary for poisoning crimes. She sold arsenic wrapped in cakes to husbands rivals and even children. She killed two of her own husbands and confessed to twenty six murders. She displayed piety during trial and on the scaffold blessed onlookers. Her daughter was kept from the yard and narrowly escaped mob violence outside.
A Boston woman, after shopping, unknowingly left a book from three stores in her possession. At Tremont and Boylston she could not recall which shop she had borrowed it from and asked bystanders to reclaim it, but none could.
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