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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1886
Page
5
A Scottish journal tabulates an eccentric catalogue of ministers and surnames. It mixes nationalities and a long chain of Scots families including Burns, Smiths, Taylors, Millers, Gardners, Walkers, Hunters, and many others with playful notes on nicknames and lineage.
Lyra Deane and Reginald Stanley figure in a meeting at Snowdon Station as a wealthy recluse and his past friend loom large. Lyra seeks answers about romance and a possible marriage, while Miss Estelle Langtry withholds truth and hints at a looming divorce case tied to a Swiss marriage.
A Chicago Ledger feature on happiness, money, and virtue argues happiness leads life, religion, and wealth help, while cash is a root of evil. It compares cash to a powerful force and warns wealth alone cannot ensure virtue, using Proverbs style reflections. The piece blends humor with moral musings on money and happiness.
A fragment recalls old fashioned days of rural life with flax towels, johnny cake boards, and home crafts. It recalls women enduring misfortune, leaving with a johnny cake board as a symbol of hardship and divorce rarity, and the desolate return to the hearth.
The article recalls vivid post assassination scenes at Ford's Theatre and the Forrest Home near Philadelphia. Noble McClintock describes passes and a relic bill from Lincoln’s box. Hon. Maunsell B Field recounts Lincoln's dying hours and the sorrow in Peterson's house and Willard's Hotel.
A witness recalls meeting Chief Justice Chase on the morning of Lincoln’s death and describing the oath of office administered to Andrew Johnson at Kirkwood House by Cabinet members.
A collection of humorous maxims on gender roles and everyday life. The piece teases women and men with playful proverbs about marriage work fashion and self reliance, noting the quirks of modern society and the quirks of self improved living.
The New York Sun notes Paris eateries may serve horseflesh in cheap soups and stews with eighty licensed horse butchers in the city. It recalls 1883 slaughter figures, historical efforts to curb the trade, and impressions of horseflesh misidentified as beef in various dishes.
The Locomotive warns that improper solvent use in boilers with scale can cause burnout after idle periods. It recommends shutting down, blowing off, opening hand holes, scraping loose scale, and removing the manhole to thoroughly clean the boiler interior for a safe, clean return to service.
A theatergoer heckled the performance of Richard with mock mule offers prompting ushers and a policeman to quiet the crowd. The piece shifts to a Belgian population density analysis noting 460 persons per square mile and explains how high farming and soil cultivation prove agricultural prosperity.
A London Lancet piece discusses obesity reduction through diet, moderate fluid intake, and exercise with mention of balneotherapy and medicines. It critiques banting and canting and notes that bleeding and diuretics are poorly tolerated by fat individuals.
A Greenville Tenn sentinote recalls Daniel Boone’s frontier exploits and an inscription carved on a beach tree near Boone’s Creek along the road from Jonesborough to Blountsville by the Wauunga river. The text notes Boone marked the year 1760 with a hunting knife.
A bank President questions ledger figures as a director claims the cash in the safe is inflated. The director confronts the cashier and accuses him of defalcation, hinting at fraud and disappearance. The exchange illustrates trust in financial records versus suspected theft.
At a Linnean Society meeting in New South Wales a Cryptomma tusransoni Matt beetle was shown living under a rat’s fur in Tasmania. The presenter suggested examining freshly killed small mammals could reveal new species with similar habits. Two Peruvian allies are known, one found in mouse fur and nests.
A humorous exchange on pockets in nightshirts and dreaming of barroom money. A Boston Courier item then notes a coal dealer on a lonely road faced by a robber who bluffingly proclaims to be a highwayman. The dealer replies with wit and a playful invitation to friendship.
A jumbled page of quirky captions and comic captions appears. A Sunday school remark about Moses being an ox-driver prompts astonishment. A squabble over medical fees hints at satire while Brussels Independence and a private art gallery exchange reveal terse quips about art and politics.
A fragmented passage describes someone suffering from peculiar ailments and a physician seeks to treat them. The text mentions Bevekae troubles and suggests the dangers of druggists. It ends with a poetic line about the sweetness of a mule from old hearts and the delicate fingers of a child.
The text promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable remedy for insomnia linked to dyspeptic stomachs. It claims the tonic invigorates the stomach, restores normal function, and yields a tranquil nervous system while benefiting the liver and bowels, unlike minerals or narcotics.
A San Francisco Chronicle quips about dogs in fashion with scented ribbons and perfumes, while various notices tout Dr Pierce s Extract of Smart-Weed and Calieaya elixirs. The collection ends with testimonials praising Prickly Pear and Ayer s Cherry Pectoral, plus a lumberman s logger drink note from the St Paul Herald.
The Danville Route offers the fastest path to Florida with Chicago to New Orleans and Jacksonville in forty hours. A new Ohio River bridge near Evansville reduces Nashville travel to sixteen hours from Chicago. Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars run to Nashville with one change to New Orleans and Jacksonville.
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