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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1884
Page
23
A playful, rhymed meditation on confessing love to Maud. The speaker frets over the best way to reveal feelings, musing on poetry, gifts, and dramatic performance while weaving literary allusions and theatrical references. The voice is witty and self deprecating.
A seventeen year old narrator in Paris receives a mysterious bouquet and telegram about her step mother Mrs Northcote. She travels to England after meeting Mr Weston at the Embassy ball, where the sender of the flowers remains unknown as she contemplates a life changing pursuit.
Nina Northcote inherits Crowsnest and occupies the cedar chamber where she sees a pale face that resembles her stepmother. The ghostly visitation recurs, spurring fear and a failed marriage proposal, until her husband George helps dispel the illusion as a moonlit reflection and curtain trick.
The article explains Rev. Mr. Curwen’s tonic solfa system as an unpatented method using letters d r m for do re mi and so on. It claims consistency of intervals across keys, needing only the initial key, with notes read by symbols and bars. Musicians are skeptical of the new approach.
The issue states that a person who finds lost property and keeps it without making effort to locate the owner is guilty of larceny according to a Chicago court ruling.
The article argues old hens can lay well, sometimes more than pullets, with variation by breed and individual. It notes that feeding, hatching time, and age affect laying, and suggests keeping hens to spring of their third year may prove beneficial for breeding and steady lays. It cites Canada Farmers' Advocate.
Samuel M Courtright of Allen town Pennsylvania gave away 4000 toys to poor children at Christmas time. The Pittsburgh Post notes his generous act benefiting local families during the holiday season.
Hon. A. W. Sheldon of the Arizona Territory Supreme Bench extols St. Jacobs Oil as the great conqueror of pain and sovereign cure for bodily aches. The note adds a proverbial caution about superstition with a horse-shoe analogy.
Wells, Richardson & Co. Improved Butter Color won first premiums at multiple fairs with judges as farmers praising its practical value. The product uses creamed vegetable oil to resist rancidity, imparts a bright natural color without tinting milk, and remains the strongest and cheapest color in the market.
The ad touts a new Vegetable Hair Restorer that frees the head from dandruff, restores gray hair to its natural color, and promotes new growth without harming health. It claims to turn light or faded hair to a glossy brown in days and markets through Brenton, Myers & Co. and C N Carrenton. A pun about love and potatoes closes the piece.
An advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as a vegetable compound of roots leaves and berries that aids malaria rheumatism biliousness jaundice and liver kidney or bowel troubles. It claims to remove the disease cause and strengthen the system against new attacks and cites faith in its efficacy by its works.
Dr J A Rogers of Kenton Ohio reports universal approval from his customers for Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup, noting it has been sold for years with no complaints.
A Syracuse interview with Dr. B. G. Martin recounts a years long battle with Bright's disease. He attributes recovery to Warner's Safe Cure after a harsh sequence of illness, doctors' advice, and his wife's decisive remedy, marking the episode as a warning to guard health early.
A collage of brief items including a Merrillan Wis testimonial praising Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup as the best cough medicine, a wedding report, a censure about a hanging joke, Swift's Specific cure claims from Salamanca, N S, a claim by Gen John A Logan about Durang's Rheumatic Remedy, a ladies editorial on marriage missery, Diamond Dyes ad offering 24 colors, Brown's Bronchoidal Troches promotional line, and a Freckles anecdote.
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