07 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1886
Page
1
A Scottish journal lists ministers by family names and nicknames: Thirteen Scots, one French, one Welsh, one Ireland, and one Irvine plus many surname clusters. It notes Browns Whites Greys Reids Blacks Greens Primrose among clergy and families like Peebles Burns Burnside and Muir with various trades and titles interwoven.
Lyra Doone meets Reginald Stanley’s past at Snowdon Station and learns of a Swiss marriage involving Estelle Langtry. Estelle warns Lyra to wait, while Lyra vows to pursue the truth and may seek divorce papers through Stuart & Ayres.
A Chicago Ledger excerpt asserts happiness as a home made, vital force tied to religion and life’s wheel. It contrasts cash as a powerful yet perilous ally, noting money can be a ruthless engine and a source of both respect and villainy. The piece blends aphorisms on wealth and happiness.
A nostalgic verse recounts a bygone rural life where women spin and weave, raise children, and manage a household. It describes a wife’s role with flax wheels, looms, and a johnny cake board stored near the cupboard, and laments the social gossip that follows a wife who leaves home during hardship.
Vivid account of the hours after President Lincoln's shooting at Ford's Theater. Witness Noble McClintock recalls passes and Bill in Lincoln's box, Forrest Home guests, and the somber vigil as Dr. Gurley and Mrs Lincoln faced the aftercare. Field recounts the Willard Hotel gathering and Lincoln's deathbed scene.
The narrator recalls meeting Chief Justice Chase who learns Lincoln is dead and soon after the oath of office is administered to Andrew Johnson as President. Cabinet members accompany Chase to Kirkwood House for the ceremony ending Lincoln's presidency.
In Paris many cheap restaurants reportedly serve horseflesh used in soups stews and ragouts. The 1739 start stop efforts by authorities contrast with a wartime shift where horseflesh became common. A 19th century observer recalls tasting it at a student dinner and notes distinctive signs of horsemeat in dishes sold as beef.
The Locomotive warns that using solvents on fouled steam boilers requires thorough cleaning after treatment. Do a full shutdown, blow off, open hand holes and rake out loose scale, remove the manhole plate, and scrape partially loosened scale to avoid shell damage and achieve clean boilers quickly.
A man wandering to sell a mule on his ten acre farm buys a ticket to Keene's Richard at the town hall. He bursts with emotion as the line quotes A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse. He offers a tavern mule for free to the actor, causing a ruckus until six ushers and a policeman restore order.
Belgium averages 480 persons per square mile and four acres per three people, yet yields sixty bushels per acre. The passage argues that disciplined cultivation and efficient land use support stability, contrasting Belgium with distress and pauperism and presenting high farming as a proven agricultural principle.
A London Lancet summary notes M Germain Lee advocates dietary change and tea over long dieting to reduce obesity. He warns against banting and diuretics, arguing fat loss should not damage essential organs and prefers moderate fluids and exercise with baths and medicaments as safer options.
A Greenville Tennessee letter in the Atlanta Constitution recalls Daniel Boone’s frontier life. It notes a beach tree near Boone’s Creek with an inscription he scratched in 1760, and recounts his roles as hunter Indian fighter and Kentucky founder.
Bank president questions ledger figures as the director asserts the cash in the safe is shown as 35550.10 while claiming the cashier has fled with the funds. The exchange hints at a bank fraud undisclosed by the Brooklyn Times.
At a Linnean Society meeting in New South Wales a beetle named Cryptomma tus jansoni Matt. was shown to inhabit the fur of the common rat in Tasmania. The group suggested Australia may yield new species with similar habits if smaller mammals are examined after death. Two allied Peruvian species are also known, one living in mouse fur and nests.
A collection of short humorous exchanges includes a thought on pockets in nightshirts for keeping change to pay a drink in a dream. Other items feature a highwayman hoaxing a coal dealer, a Sunday school quip about Moses as an ox-driver, and a doctor’s quip about charging five francs a visit in Brussels.
A visitor asks Mr. Pourke why German art is absent from his collection. Pourke, a Chicago capitalist, quips that Bismarck refuses to take his hogs and declares he wants none of his art.
An advertisement claims women with ailments are urged to seek Dr. Price’s Favorite Prescription. It promises renewed strength by restoring organs and function, described as the product of years of study by a scientific physician. Available through all druggists.
The text claims insomnia stems from a dyspeptic stomach. It urges digestive health to restore sleep and credits Hostetter's Stomach Bitters with curing stomach weakness, aiding digestion, calming the nervous system, and invigorating the liver and bowels.
A fashion paragraph notes dogs this season wear ribbons to match ladies sashes and have preferred perfumes rubbed into their coats. It jokes the perfume causes annoyance and could boost dogs social standing if dogs could consume their own scent, a witty chronicler’s aside from the San Francisco Chronicle.
An advertorial note touts the Danville Route via a new Ohio River bridge near Evansville improving Chicago to Nashville, New Orleans and Jacksonville travel to about sixteen hours to Nashville and forty hours to New Orleans. It promotes Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars and an illustrated Florida story by William Hill. A reader from Lafayette credits Dr Williams Hall’s Balsam for the lungs with restoring health after a near terminal diagnosis.
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