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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1880
Page
8
A speaker ponders bonnet decoration options choosing bollyhocks sunflowers poppies dandelions and fruit. The text notes ripe cherries and hops shown in shops and suggests wearing several bunches on the bonnet.
Angie Converse faces a trainbound morning trek after a tangled visit with Sidney Alden and Bertha Huntress. A farce within the town’s library festival unspools as Angie flees a hinted proposal and Sidney reveals his lasting love and election of Angie as his bride.
In Roubaix district sixty six mills idle and 15090 workers idled as large scale strikes hit weaving and spinning. Some demand higher wages, others shorter hours. Authorities curb disturbances while workers parade, sing Marseillaise. Tourcoing mills close. Liile braces for brazier strikes. business suffers across affected districts per London Times.
The Irmity Episcopal Church in Rochester was sold for secular use and deconsecrated by Bishop Coxe. The bishop stated that a consecrated building cannot be used for secular purposes without a counteracting sentence, which he pronounced amid solemn services.
The article argues that a married man is viewed as more trustworthy than a bachelor, claiming unmarried men are restless and prone to poor decisions. It reflects social biases about marriage and character.
A compilation of practical advice on farm health and household crafts. It covers livestock care, hygiene, pest control, home-made remedies, cooking tips, and agricultural notes from various sources including Wisconsin dairymen and a Providence correspondent.
At Hillsdale meeting of the Michigan Pomological Society J 58 Woodard of Lockport N Y describes a simple household friendly grape training system. Over four years he details trellis wiring pruning to maximize fruit with minimal labor, using three eyes per cane and spar based growth to yield a sustained crop.
The Germantown Telegraph urges timely tool maintenance to save labor. It notes a sharp scythe doubles output compared with a dull one and compares oiling, filing, and grinding to essential farm investments. Preparing spades hoes chisels saws now prevents delays and boosts efficiency.
The column lists Sunday School lessons and dates for the year’s second and third quarters. Topics include Creation and the Fall, Cain and Abel, Abram and Lot, Melchizedek, the Covenant, Save from Sodom, and Abraham’s trial with weekly references.
Readers are urged to plan vacations as a relief from weariness with options for all budgets. The piece argues pastors especially need regular rest to maintain church duties and suggests churches support vacations. It also notes Bishop Simpson and Col Robert Ingersoll lectures in Cincinnati, evaluating the latter’s challenge to Christian belief and the historical context surrounding it.
Excerpts reflect on self discipline and religion with quotes from Thomas a Kempis Leighton Andrew Fuller and a New York Observer. They emphasize overcoming vices through better habits seeking divine guidance and the transforming power of kind words.
A Hungarian nobleman pledges two percent of a chosen mayor’s fortune to New York police as he seeks a very rich, very pretty young wife aged fifteen to twenty. He asks police help via a marriage procurer and promises a few hundred shillings for their trouble, while authorities warn against such arrangements.
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