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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1884
Page
16
Atlantic Monthly depicts a frontier mining camp as a harsh, alluring world where hopes clash with despair. The piece notes rapidly built shanties, real estate offices, saloons, and crude roads, with women fierce, babies content, and miners gambling on luck as a perpetual life script.
The American Fashion Review describes new trends in menswear with shorter walking coats, fuller fronts, and longer overcoats. It notes adjustments in sleeve size, cutaway styles, double breasted frocks, and no collar vests rising as coats stay high on the chest. Overcoats remain longer with piped edges and cuffs.
A San Francisco paper reports Dolly St. Clair aged fourteen chose a young man's company over dinner. After her father scolded and punished her she retrieved a revolver and shot herself, sustaining injuries likely to prove fatal.
Joseph Carter argues against banning school recesses citing health and vigor as essential to lasting education. He asserts utilitarian aims should protect physical development and discipline, warning that overemphasis on memorization harms welfare and moral character.
Cornelius Young known as Texas Charlie, scout for General Crook, defends cowboys in Albany. He says cowboys are herdmen and drivers, few in number on ranches, loyal on duty, often armed but rarely violent when sober, distinguishes rustlers as horse thieves, notes they tease newcomers with shots and drinks.
A Defiance County list shows individuals on the U S pension rolls as of January 1, 1884 with injuries and monthly amounts. Names include Cornel, Charles. Smith, King. Van Dusen, Matilda. Wells, Mary. Stephens, Margaret. plus many others across towns Evanstport Hicksville and Centre with varied injuries from abdomen wounds to loss of limbs and dementia, with pension amounts ranging from 2 to 1812 dollars.
Cluster of brief ailment notes lists residents by surname and condition. Thomas A Horn forearm injury while Hanes, Lyman R varicose veins, David Wineland pale and weak, Eleanor Fitzgerald widow, John Ney widow, Abram Bostater injured leg, Joseph Lichty eye issue, Sherwood Reyff shoulder, Henry Rock Sr wd 1 arm, Sam L Broom rheum, John Wagner wd face and eye, James Anderson dis liver, William Hatter wd 1 arm.
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