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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1880
Page
5
A Home Journal verse memorializes John and Elizabeth, a long married couple who shared sixty years of love, five children, and a peaceful life. The poem recalls their life, their family, and the quiet final scene as they died together, four eyes closed and hands joined. Marguerite F. Aymar.
A stone carver lodges in a village inn near an estuary and becomes entwined with a morose bird and mammal stuffer and a plan by a gardener to uncover a jewel thief ring. Suspicious dealings unfold around a museum of stuffed animals and a promised loan for a cash purchase of suspicious items.
In a mystery involving a gardener and a naturalist, police expose a thief ring hiding jewelry in animal decoys and a game bird. The chief detective, posing as a gardener, uncovers the stash and captures suspects. the naturalist and his son receive five year terms, others punished, one acquitted. The narrator receives a gold pencil-holder as thanks.
A London paper notes Tennyson's aging but continued affection for waltz, while a Leip sian society named Simplicity rejects false hair trains and double skirts. It also reports on Sir Henry Layamp in Syria praising Christian Muslim cooperation and Beyrout’s commerce fostering harmony.
A deadly blaze in a building at No. 64 East Fourth Street traps twelve or more residents on upper floors. Four die on site, others suffer severe burns and injuries from jumps and stairway entrapment while firemen battle flames for hours. No fire escapes were present.
Gerrity the boatswain says Captain Roberts ordered seven lifeboats lowered as the steamer sank. The metallic boat No 3 held eleven. Gerrity and Larsen managed it with crackers canned meats and water. A Frenchwoman clung to the rail while her husband urged her to board. she chose to return to the doomed ship. The storm was the severest the crew ever faced with wreck and panic among the one hundred sixty aboard.
About 8 000 people gathered at Ison Square New York Jan 4 to welcome Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon. Judge Gildersleeve presided as Parnell urged land reform in Ireland and unity of Protestants and Catholics. Dillon defended Land League measures. receipts reached about 2600 dollars for the Land League with funds later transferred.
A prominent San Francisco burglar acquitted in court meets a stranger who proposes a bank theft plan. The conman names the cashier as a target, outlining details and timelines, then negotiates a tentative arrangement while discussing the broader urban crime scene.
Readable excerpts cover horse breeding profits from poultrylike feeding, onion peeling hacks, curtain care methods, and a long notable essay stressing crop rotation and soil fertility. The agricultural column urges diversified crops, proper manure use, grass in rotation, and maintaining soil structure to boost long term yields.
The Chicago Times argues Western farms rose in value due to external investment and development but now face stagnation. It urges farmers to abandon old methods, adopt scientific agriculture, restore soil fertility, control weeds, and invest in drainage and fruit cultivation to sustain profit.
The passage argues that soils in old settled countries decline under slack farming and require heavy manuring or fallow renewal. Resting soil in depleted directions and growing a crop to shade the ground can sustain fertility, but continuous production of special crops without rest will render soils unfertile and mechanically damaged.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a wife attempting to send ten dollars via telegraph with two different messages and a skeptical receiver. The tale shifts to an antique coins expert in Paris revealed as a poodle, trained to sniff counterfeit coins, exposing the scam.
An old advertisement touts 25 cents worth of Gilt-Edge Butter Maker to boost butter value by 3 dollars, color butter golden year round, raise production by six percent and quality by twenty, prevent rancidity, and equalize summer and winter butter. Sold via druggists and grocers with a stamp request for “Hints to Butter-Makers.” Buffalo, N Y. Also promotes Vectrine as a universal headache remedy addressing nervousness digestion and other causes.
Rev Dr Harvey proclaims the remedy's effects as miraculous as it sparks a broader sense of health and happiness nationwide as prosperity begins a new era per the Better Times report.
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