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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1878
Page
6
A poem fragment echoes imperial ambitions of a Russian czar. It speaks of freeing the Bosphorus, expanding fleets toward the seas, and claiming a global role under the title of Peter the Great, with references to Batyushka and Gosudar.
White Caffee reports a perilous stand near the Yellowstone as Maxwell, wife and four men, with two women, fortify a ravine camp against a village of about forty lodges. For days the besieged repelled attacks, protected by earth, logs, caves, and a lone rider for help. Col. Baker later arrives as Tongue River rescue brings relief.
Professor Sumner reviews popular flash story papers in Scribner for March, warning parents about city youth heroes from rich families. The excerpt describes a son arrested in police court for colliding with a policeman to aid a girl, later simulating wealth and crime to impress a thieves’ circle, with vivid scenes across New York and a masked ball.
A collage of short items mentions Cornbred-Poultry and Chinamen idol hands, a blue del ring and the Arctic zone, Weeping willows, female telegraph operators, and a ditty about a watch. It also notes real estate raffles in Texas, temperance pledges in Illinois, and various social witticisms, jokes, and domestic scenes.
The article surveys Constantinople’s strategic position as a crossing of two seas and two continents. It notes the Bosphorus and Dardanelles defenses, climate, and health, then outlines the city’s three divisions and diverse population including eight to nine nations and major groups such as Mohammedans, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, and European residents.
An exchange between Magee and the State Executive Committee reveals his insistence on the presidency despite chances, as he contemplates the governorship or mayoral run while denouncing party machinery and public demand. The chairman counters that a mayoral bid is unlikely with Jenkinson holding pledges.
In La Veta last Sunday night a trio of couples was married by Justice W. A. Toffelmire after a spur-of-the-moment plan. The two brides Addie Patterson and Laura Patterson and Kate Lewis, plus grooms F. D. McHolland and E. A. Palmer, face possible divorces as they did not intend to wed. The incident involves local Deputy Sheriff McHolland, D and R railroad agent Palmer, and a saw mill worker, all from La Veta, Colorado.
A San Francisco lady with an exceptionally large wardrobe has left for an Eastern city to begin a grand tour of Europe. The collection includes 30 to 40 robes from silks to laces, some from Worth in Paris, costing $100,000 excluding diamonds and dressing articles. A Manchester woman won joint second in Mathematics and Moral Science at Cambridge, first such feat by a woman.
A compilation of kitchen instructions covering dairy advantages and desserts. It lists recipes for rice griddle cakes waffles molasses cookies spice cake and lemon pie with step by step methods. It also discusses pig feeding guidance and the value of milk and bran in hog growth.
Strong colored pearl buttons large and stitched through center for spring dresses and woolens. Kilt suits in brown basket cloth or dark ink blue with silk trims offered from $28 to $35, ready made. Cashmere des Indes wool, bourette trends, and black goods priced from $0.50 to $3.50 per yard with various textures and trims highlighted.
Harper's Bazaar notes long double square shawls in pale and deep blues, cardinal red, gray and brown. Prices range from 7 to 25 dollars, with lighter, sleazy India wool options at the low end and finer, softly twilled shawls at the top end.
Henry Marshal ex cashier of the First National Bank of Olney pleads guilty to embezzling fifty thousand dollars and is sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. He provides a sworn life history noting a 1871 short cash balance and failed attempts to cover losses with bank funds. He claims no personal profit, cites faulty bookkeeping, and reveals he turned over property to the bank after the scheme was found. He is fifty, in poor health, with a destitute wife and six dependent children.
The 1496 Statute of Laborers fixed meal and work hours by season from March to September and winter terms, with allowances for meals and rest. It imposed wage rates and punishment for refusals to serve. The Louisville Courier Journal advocates whipping post as a remedy for petit larceny.
The text argues that health comes from cleansing the blood and digestive balance rather than mythical searches for a fountain of youth. It extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Purga tive Pellets as the universal cure for skin diseases and scrofulous sores, promising relief from a wide range of ailments by cleansing the blood.
An old Graefenberg advertisement from Graefenberg Co of New York claims their Catholicon cures "female complaints" and urges readers to send for an almanac, noting distribution by druggists.
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