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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1884
Page
2
Demorest's Monthly proclaims itself the World's Model Magazine the largest family periodical with 64 pages of illustrations steel engravings oil pictures and art subjects. It notes 1884 marks the twentieth year of publication and offers a combined price with the Defiance County Express at 3.00 per year.
A medical paragraph promotes Hoop's Sarsaparilla as a cure for scrofula and related diseases, arguing that all people carry blood taint that can trigger consumption and other illnesses, supported by testimonials.
In Detroit Free Press tale, Gustavus De Snide, a pampered youth, pursues Miss Merry by music. A clumsy serenade ends when a shotgun-wielding neighbor heckles him, leaving Gus to abandon songs for cigarettes and vanity.
Reports cite New York Board of Education spending 3,626,328 on common schools. Chicago group aids 1,000 women into self-supporting roles. Youmans condemns dead languages. a Kentucky church notice mentions Sulphur. Thaddeus Stevens monument proposed in Harrisburg. Packer family to fund Lehigh University chapel and lab. William and Mary College in Virginia closes with one student, noting historic alumni.
An editorial urges sleep as a cornerstone of household morality, arguing that most adults never experience true rest. It advocates sleeping in a dark, well ventilated room with windows adjusted for air and darkness, and warns against early rising as artificial and harmful. The piece cites a Boston woman's claim that poor sleep ages her and extols waking naturally to refreshment.
Birdie McHennepin and Gus DeSmith argue over intelligence as they banter about sincerity and pride. A line about hanging crape on Miss Birdie’s door hints at a renewed, discreet rival romance and another name scratched from the Austin belles list.
The piece contrasts bad and good luck through examples of daily habits and character. It argues luck favors those who work, study, and show discipline, naming figures and scenes from Burdet te’s Bur lington Hawkeye column and a string of quips on virtue, manners, and wit.
A Nebraska man undertook a long trek with 18,500 sheep spanning 1,200 miles, moving flocks from one region to another. The journey highlights endurance and large-scale livestock transport across rural routes.
A collage of brief notes cites gender work trends in New York retail, vast timber holdings in Michigan and Wisconsin, licenced draymen in New York, sizable estates in New York, and a Philadelphia pauper’s poverty with a hidden fortune. Additional items discuss a Texas pasture project, long running Christmas poem printing in Philadelphia, emigration costs, gold prospect promises in Georgia, hydraulic mining costs, and a strong potato harvest season with per capita yields.
A Binghamton gentleman recalls a conversation with an older Black man he employed. The exchange centers on alleged racial theft stereotypes and whether taking poultry from a master constitutes stealing. The man argues chicken was property and thus not theft when a master’s property took from another master.
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