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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1880
Page
4
A health guidance piece urges proper ventilation, clean homes, fresh air, and tidy garments. It stresses open windows, avoidance of damp clothes, regular sweeping, clean cisterns, nutritious eating, and walking to sustain health, asserting health as wealth.
In a Niagara River set piece Peggy Herrick recalls fleeing smugglers on Grand Island, hiding from three men, and plotting to turn their contraband into a new life. A daring river rescue by her dog Pont and her father anchors a tale of danger luck and a sheriff’s boat during a moonlit night.
The Germantown Telegraph argues for on farm trials to test new seeds and plants before large investment. It notes that newspaper reports or societies cannot tailor advice to local climate or soil, and that a personal experimental plot reveals the true value of introductions.
Last week the bones of St. Discobius, originally from Rome, arrived in this city and will go to Cincinnati for deposition in a nunnery. At the Custom House the case was opened to reveal a carved stained wood shrine with gilded claws, crimson silk cushions, a crown of flowers, and a golden halo surrounding the head. A glass vessel set in brass, believed to contain the martyr’s blood, rested near the ends, and the interior shrine was richly decorated.
A devotional meditation urges the faithful to seek God’s will above personal desire and to offer themselves as vessels emptied of self. It reflects on faithful saints, humility, obedience, and the cleansing discipline that prepares souls for heavenly rest, citing the New York Christian Advocate.
The list outlines July to September topics for the third quarter. Lessons include The Creation Gen 1 1 3 24 8 The Fi Fall and the ey Cain and Abel Gen 4 3 15 The Covenant with Me cdus Abram Gen 11 31 2 12 Abram B06 Melchizedek Sodom Trial of Abraham's Faith Gen 2 1 14 Review of the Lessons and a September 25 selected lesson.
The text argues that worldly occupations harm personal holiness when misused, but not labor itself. God assigns outward duties and places, and one can fulfill earthly toil while remaining fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, without retreating to cloister life.
A compilation of devotional extracts urging moral conduct and faith. Quotes urge study of the Bible for lawyers, courage in adversity, humility before God, honest rebuke, home-centred virtue, and patient meditation on creation.
A Atlantic Monthly meditation argues that the American woman is bound by duty and energy, living in a restless, actful world. It notes her independence, social armor, and tendency to prioritize practical skills over abstract study, urging balance and self contentment.
A Hawkeye Letter extols country life and a boy's busy day. The narrator praises the child who runs and explores from dawn, gathering wild strawberries, wandering with a wagon, chipping a fountain with gravel, staving off danger, and sharing antics with relatives. The piece playfully refutes political rumors about the boy and the narrator.
Scientific American cites Fort and Fournol cases of long artificial respiration reviving drowned or near death patients, urging perseverance in resuscitation. The New York Herald recalls a onetime romanticist now using his telephone line as a clothes line, weathered by sun. A Philadelphia woman fibs about age, saying census omits her true years to avoid mix ups.
Notes on a songwriter earning $8,000 from the piece Nancy Lee while owners of My Grandfather's Clock claim $11,500 and the Baby Mine song nets about $7,000. The piece comments that honest citizens toil for around two dollars a day in Detroit Free 38 era.
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