This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
7
A nostalgic portrait of Tommy Johnson a roving peddler with a pack who charms seaside towns and maids yet breaks promises before dying with his goods rotting. The poem recalls his sly cleverness and the lives he touched with fleeting gifts and vanished vows.
Elsie and Royce Lonsdale in a fragile breakfast room quarrel over a trip. A secret letter reveals Royce's past interest in another woman, while Elsie learns the affair behind his absence. Royce plans to join a party after writing a kiss goodbye note to his wife.
Royce reconciles with Elsie after uncovering Arthur Gwen don’s deception. Millie Gwendon announces happiness but Elsie, in distress, enters seeking truth. Royce reveals all, Elsie learns trust, and the couple embrace a renewed life together.
A fragmented meditation on human desires and misfortunes, contrasting wealth and poverty, work and leisure, and risk and safety. Examples range from saving to buy a house, divorce, and courtship to drinking, dieting, and odd fatal outcomes, with a humorous exchange about a dog and a bite in play.
Dialogue recalls Grind urging a quick writer while Mrs. Malaprop touts her son as a fit candidate. A judge remarks on a boy who writes with a running hand. The exchange ends with a tongue in cheek note that most women die happy amid worldly bustle.
A farm column urges kindness to the horse with gentle care and proper exercise. It covers warming the bit, using nets to deter flies, blankets in cold weather, and avoiding fast driving. Nearby notes discuss squash as a second crop, clover acreage, and dairy yields with various breeds and cost estimates.
Levi Hell argues that extreme dryness and frozen soil during winter kill or injure hardy fruit trees and canes by sap loss. He suggests experiments spraying water to form ice coatings to curb drying and prompts research by stations with facilities in St. Louis Republican.
The Live Stock Journal reports on English milk records from prime dairy farms. J. Hall of Erleigh Court notes Jersey cows yield about 20 pounds of milk per butter pound, with 5 quarts weekly per cow in 1885 and butter output of 6 pounds 9 ounces per cow weekly. Costs: milk 6 pence per gallon, butter about 11 pence per pound. Lord Braybrooke’s Jerseys average 44 quarts per cow weekly over seven years. Annual cow upkeep about £21 including labor and utensils.
Practical guidance on ventilated store rooms and organized shelves. Advice covers flour types bought by barrel, careful handling of grains to prevent weevils, spicing shelves, sugar and coffee storage, lard butter and vinegar keeping, dried fruits and vegetables, soaps and starch, and general keep-by dates for winter supplies. Also includes small tips for household pests and foot care remedies.
The article argues for breeding fillies at two years if well grown and healthy. It cites observations from large horse breeders on two-year breeding, noting potential higher value for offspring and long-term payback, while urging care to avoid overwork before foals are old enough. It contrasts breeding to draft and grade stock, urging selective, healthy mares.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.