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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1887
Page
7
In a Sabbath reading piece, the author argues that experience is not always the best teacher for vice and virtue. It compares personal bitter lessons with parental guidance and Sunday school precepts, urging focus on moral uprooting of evil over mere intellectual development. The essay emphasizes discipline of thought and the primacy of inner purity over external knowledge.
The Royal Road text urges boys who love Jesus to remain joyful and true to Christ without neglecting boyish spirit. It calls for gentleness, temperance, and peace, avoiding vulgarity, tobacco, or drinking, and condemning mischief, deceit, and persecution while promoting reverence for sacred things.
The piece argues against revivalist faults that devalue obedience or faith alone. It warns that faith without obedience dies like seed, and obedience without faith results in hollow religiosity. Christ links believing and doing, else religion becomes mere morals or hype. It stresses balanced practice.
The piece argues that thinking can be governed by will and habit, not just speaking. It suggests replacing intrusive thoughts with constructive reflections, training the mind like drilled soldiers. Over time disciplined thoughts improve toward the true and good through practice.
The article contrasts massive foreign birth rates with American absorption, noting 14 million immigrants in 65 years and a ten year surge near 4.25 million. It argues welcomed settlers integrate quickly, while warns about anarchists and nihilists among recent arrivals. It asserts immigration benefits when needed but supports potential closing of doors if public sentiment shifts.
A British observer recalls the phrase English spoken here in German towns causing comic misinterpretations about court sessions and lodging. A china shop clerk misreads a question about courts as a request for a large plate, illustrating language gaps.
A collage of humor bits from a late 19th or early 20th century periodical includes jokes about burglars painters mules and servants. It also notes a geological survey finding that Finland and Sweden show land elevation and Baltic shores rising, with islands turning to peninsulas and pastures reclaiming former waters as measurements progress.
An essay discusses despondency and suicide by throat cutting, citing Prof Brown-Sequard on laryngeal stimulation reducing pain. It claims experiments on animals show minimal pain from neck injuries, noting death from throat cuts may occur without convulsions or agony, warning against overconfidence in cunning.
The Pennington Machine Works in Fort Wayne Indiana now manufactures over 100 wood cutting machines with modern designs and new patterns. The plant features a new shop and updated machinery, highlighting progress in nineteenth century industry and elevating wood working efficiency and cost.
A collection of anecdotes on literary fame and memory, noting Hawthorne and Longfellow’s overlooked works, a barber’s tale of Dr. Holmes, and the mythic status of writers among common folks. Also mentions St Jacobs Oil ads and the Charter Oak carving, with a brief speech on health from Moxie Nerve Food claims.
A Ghent professor proposes a simple elixir of life arguing that proper salt intake could raise longevity. He claims daily salt for adults should be two thirds of an ounce, making centenarians more common and salt a key regularizing agent.
An 1890s-style page advertises Dr. Vierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for chronic weakness in women and general debility. It claims to aid stomach issues, back pain, nervous symptoms, insomnia, and uterine health, with a money-back guarantee and a price of one dollar per bottle. Also promoted are cod liver oil brands and Dr. Harter's Loo Tonic as cures for dyspepsia and related ailments, alongside assorted testimonials and tag lines.
The article urges prompt use of a tonic to restore physical strength after decline. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a trusted, nationwide remedy for digestion issues and general frailty, endorsed by doctors for dyspepsia constipation liver complaints fever and age and kidney trouble as a safe effective household remedy.
Cost figures show United States fences worth 1,747,549,931 dollars, nearly the nation’s debt and farm animal values, with annual fence upkeep and debt service around 200 million and wood use near sixteen billion feet. Also short items note cures and a paint reference, plus a remark about a town painter.
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