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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1884
Page
8
A Brooklyn Eagle piece depicts a tramp debating debts of Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Germany, Czar of Russia and others with a bar keeper. The talk turns to government debts and unpaid tabs as the tramp plots a new scam elsewhere.
A string of short notes references General Grant as a presidential figure pending cruelty to animals in New York, Martin as Boston mayor, Pompey Graham in Newby New York, Rosa Beauty Spot from Laurens County Georgia, Senator Anthony’s roll-call claim, Mrs. C H Northam’s bequests, a Lockport clergyman’s temperance pledge marriage stance, P T Barnum offered for lectures, Huntington’s wealth and adopted heiress, Albert Jay Jones donating an academy site near Rome, and Auretta Hoyt’s Indiana temperance leadership.
A New York correspondent profiles a rich young bachelor who spends 50 000 a year yet finds no happiness. He recounts his idle routine from Wall Street to poker, arguing real work is the key to happiness and that society often erodes virtue, while noting some women in high society avoid scandal and gambling.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and light notes from various papers. Jests range from optical delusions and opera glass jokes to medical cures, flirtation, and a Cape Cod reporter’s encounter. Includes a farmer’s quip about coffee and a cartoonish line about canned peaches at tea.
A man bursts into the St Louis Chronicle office wielding a club and vows to annihilate someone. Miss Fanny Bagby, the aging editor, remains calm as the man panics and apologizes. She is noted for pluck and agility, despite not carrying a weapon, able to slap and scratch with dexterity when needed.
A narrator recalls aggressive birds from Falkland harbors to Africa and Australia. Caracaras seize hats, harpy eagles maul men, kites pilfer supplies, and honey eaters mob humans. natives train birds to guard flocks and hunt. Sparrows show revenge in France. A cruel parrot in Australia targets sheep. N. Y. Sun report.
A Washington letter asserts women improve yearly, gaining sentiment support for their efficiency. It mentions women employed as telegraph operators at hotels, with Arlington, Ebbitt and Riggs hotels preferring women operators for prompt, attentive service.
A New York man named Adolph Cohen entered a house and stole valuables but fell asleep on the stairs due to the inviting atmosphere. His snores woke the resident, and Cohen was imprisoned.
The American Lumberman suggests capitalists in Southern seaboard towns should invest, noting that the largest vessels ever built in Bath and other Maine shipbuilding towns were made from Georgia pine.
Two skye terriers alerted New York City to a fire at the Municipal Building and helped bring aid in time. The incident, as reported by the New York Sun, resulted in saving the city from greater damage and losing about $200 in the process.
A new cremation society has been started in San Francisco aiming to offer affordable funeral alternatives and community support. The initiative plans member services, educational programs, and partnerships with local providers.
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