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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1880
Page
5
Beth Day writes from Chicago Inter-Ocean about a widow and her husband facing selling their lifelong farm after debts and a storm claimed their son Willie. The tale recalls twenty six years of toil, memories, and a hopeful twist as a buyer arrives.
A poor Irish worker, Patrick Connor, rises from hardship to win wages and dreams of Nora and son Jamesy. After theft, kindness from fellow workmen, and a perilous voyage, Nora and Jamesy perish on the ship, leaving Connor to join them in a final, hopeful vision at his death.
A collage of domestic advice and rural notices. Warm bridle bits for horses or cover with rubber. craft spiced apples with vinegar and sugar. benefit of salt in agriculture to cool soil and curb rot. dry sand bedding for stock and poultry. wash Abutilon and Oleander plants. use glue-water slurry at roots to spur blooms. prepare a weeklong beef stock by browning meat with onion and marrow then simmering with bone and shell scraps.
A Chicago Times article describes refrigerating ice storage with a ten feet square by height structure. It stresses double walls are unnecessary and emphasizes sawdust insulation, a cobble floor, well-sealed roof, and top and gable vents for ventilation to prevent melting.
The article argues that poultry marketing lags behind other meats due to high handling costs and perishability. It urges dedicated poultry cars with multiple floors and ventilation, rest facilities at destination, and shipping practices to improve appearance and value. It notes live shipments are costly and inferior and calls for industry changes.
A periodist reflection on why Washington attracts officeholders and visitors. It extols the capital’s climate, the comprehensive early plan, roads, parks, and urban growth under the Shepherd era, noting its appeal to leisure seekers, scholars, and fashionable society.
The piece notes rags and old paper now fetch about three and a half cents per pound, with clean white paper reprocessed from scraps. Printing paper price has climbed six and a half to ten cents wholesale, prompting anticipated subscription increases. It claims families could earn a year’s reading by selling waste paper, and highlights nails rising from $2.15 to $4.35 per keg, a gain over 100 percent, reflecting a booming market.
A farmer notes that an inexpensive ice-house on a well to do farm yields benefits. Ice saves butter loss in heat, enables fresh meat, keeps cooked foods, and allows frozen cream and custard as inexpensive luxuries. Ice also makes ice milk tea and water common in the harvest field.
A horse buyer should inspect all four legs for firmness, hardness, and smoothness, noting absence of adipose tissue, strong joints, and proper bone shape. Avoid curbs and spavins, bowed or calf knees, and ensure the horse moves with a firm elastic tread without interference, testing motion both forward and backward.
Two brothers Robert and Dennis Patrick quarrelled over a hog crop and fell into a kettle of seething water at Solon Kelley’s premises near Huntsville. Both men suffered extreme burns. Robert died the next day and Dennis died the day after. An accompanying note from Rochester urges monitoring teachers during noon recess to curb rude behavior in schools.
A quarrelsome husband pleads with his wife claiming she is his treasure. She retorts that his wish for her death is a bid to lay up treasure in heaven. The exchange reveals strain in a troubled marriage with religious sarcasm.
A fragment of Rose Terry Cooke from Good Company contemplates blaze on distant hills and the sun, asking for divine radiance to cleanse passion and sorrow. The speaker longs for light to brighten the soul and home, seeking spiritual renewal.
A 1880 church bulletin fragment lists February and March lessons and events for True Discs and Grand Praying Ball. Topics include Our Father's Care The Tongue and the Temper and False and the True with cited Bible verses from Matthew.
A United Presbyterian exhortation urges ministers and helpers to share workload rather than stand idle. It condemns clergy who elude responsibility and warns that elders deacons and lay members neglect church work. The piece calls for action to energize missions and prevent souls from dying due to inaction.
A Burlington Hawkeye fragment notes a spy complimenting an article copied into Eastern papers and urges a young man to seek better than destruction. The tale tells of a skeptical official who loses his way, finds shelter with a hunter, prays over a Bible, and rests in quiet faith, urging preservation of faith against eroding modern unbelief.
A Baptist Weekly editorial urges a revival of Christian principle within existing churches. It argues that strengthening current members yields greater progress than adding new ones, and calls for self examination to remove obstacles such as anger covetousness improper companionships and illicit reading.
Major-General Bisset recounts an 1830 migration of interior Africans to the Cape Colony. A family, Job and two wives with seven or eight children, followed locust swarms nightly, gathering disabled insects for food after processing heads tails and insides.
In Biblical Things Not Generally Known a traveler describes locusts dried in sun and ground into flour to make cakes baked on coals, eaten with wild honey. He notes abundant honey during the hunt season and compares the locust diet to John the Baptist’s wilderness meals.
The United States Mint in Philadelphia cannot keep up with penny demand as pennies circulate nationwide. Transit and merchants drive the need, with horse-car firms limited to twenty dollars daily and three-cent pieces substituted. Regions vary in penny use, with the South and West showing less familiarity, while New York and the East are heavy consumers. The five-cent piece dominates the West, but pennies are gaining ground as trade grows.
Dr. T C Osborn recounts using compound tincture of benzoin on a decayed tooth with immediate relief for the patient. He later found two more patients were instantly helped, prompting him to share the remedy with his druggist as toothache drops. The winter saw several similar cases, all relieved, and demand spread. The article also notes confiscation of valuable majolica ware from Gandolfo by the Italian government under papal property rules.
An elderly physician reports a simple vegetable remedy for consumption and lung ailments, claiming radical cures and nervous debility relief. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English to interested sufferers, addressed to W. W. Sherak 149 Powers' Place Rochester NY.
An ornate early ad promotes Dr. Pierce’s Family Medicines sold in principal drug stores and at the London World’s Dispensary branch. It extols Golden Medical Discovery as a blood cleansing elixir, Pellets as cleansing pills, and VEGETINE for improving circulation, claiming rapid, sweeping cures across multiple ailments.
Public tests on deaf and deaf mute show promising results using a scientific invention called the Dentaphone. Pamphlet available from the American Centaphone Co. at 289 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
An advertisement extols Warner’s Safe Nervine as a remedy for nerve weakness, pain, headache, and neuralgia. The copy also mentions Axle Grease production by Frazer Lubricator Company and references Piso’s Cure Cure for consumption as available in drugstores.
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