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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1887
Page
5
A piece on Christian conduct urges believers to guard speech and avoid gossip, highlighting practical holiness in daily talk. It recalls Rev. Elbert Osborn’s habit of linking ordinary remarks to faith and stresses the need for a consistent Christian garment of salvation.
Mortality is depicted as an inescapable universal law. The text reflects on death as humanity's shared fate, comparing life to fading leaves and grass, and noting that powerful rulers are no exception to the dust of time.
A collection of religious endorsements praising the Bible as a source of light mercy peace wisdom and guidance. Notable figures compare its teachings to light from God and highlight its role in living enduring suffering and achieving eternal life.
At a Berlin swimming school several boys reported a man disappeared after going down the steps into the water. Attendants and expert swimmers searched the bath, scanning the full depth in hopes of finding the missing man.
Visitors in Amsterdam fill a six mile square ice sheet as 20 000 skaters parade past tents restaurants and theatres along Amstel and Y. Couples perform complex moves while racing lanes attract spectators and prizes from city authorities. A playful crowd with long poles speeds through the ice in a lively Sunday scene.
A Chicago minister asks a married parishioner about last Sunday's sermon on lilies. She jokes that her husband’s new obsession with the phrase causes her to do all chores, fearing he might push her to wash and heat the home.
Gus De Smith visits Gilhooly and learns the narrator quit the boarding house after a dispute with a Black waiter over a spoiled milk glass containing a cockroach. The waiter claims he washed his hands, prompting Mrs. Flapjack’s interruption and the speaker to leave without finishing the milk. The page ends with a note on Webster’s spelling book as the era’s best selling English text and a quip about backward haste.
A period advertisement explains an indolent liver causes poor bile secretion and digestive misery. It claims Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters stimulates activity, relieving right side discomfort, nausea, coated tongue, indigestion and headaches. It touts regular bowels as safer than bile pills, calomel, or harsh purgatives, and promises fever, ague and rheumatism prevention.
Anecdote from The Pioneer Quakers recounts Charles II removing his hat as Penn enters with his hat on. Penn asks why the hat, and the king replies it is the custom for one person to remain covered. Also included is a Baltimore officer praising St Jacobs Oil for poison oak, and a Sherman reader noting its quick toothache relief.
A detective questions a young man aboard a train about the name of a fiancé to be married that night. The young man hints at a plan to visit a house and make things unpleasant for the detective. The passage then shifts to assorted ad like items and brief social chatter about opera hats and a tonic called Moxie.
Life, M. Curvient marks his one hundredth birthday as a Paris letter notes. He receives hundreds of inquiries about his strength and longevity, to which he replies that the secret is two words, good health, a gift he credits to his parents.
An advertisement claims Dr. Sage cured thousands of obstinate catarrh with his Catarrh Remedy and offers a cash reward for an incurable case. The message asks who will be the next bidder for cure or cash.
Advert reads health benefits of Dr R V Pierce Favorite Prescription for female weakness with many testimonials. Warns buyers to wait for lower thermometer prices next winter. Mentions Juniper Tar Soap by Hazard Hazard Co for skin cure and promotes Lyon's Patent Heel Inserts for boots.
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