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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1878
Page
5
A narrator recalls Noah Barbitt, a roving printer who befriended him, loaned two dollars, and regaled nightly talks from pauperism to love and crime. Barbitt’s wanderings stretched from Canada to Galveston, ending tragically as a missing man later found deceased on a Minnesota prairie.
Charces F Frepericks a night distribution clerk at the Newark New Jersey Postoffice was brought before Commissioner Whitehouse in Newark. His father pleaded for mercy and his wife cried out in grief as the case was committed to jail in default of bail. He had worked seven years with an excellent reputation.
Driep and canned fruits and barrels of apples are important exports to Great Britain. Boreas will occasionally turn an umbrella but nobody returns one.
A brief mock tale likens a toy savings bank heist by children to broader bank frauds, ending with a verse urging forgiveness. The excerpt shifts to a poem about forgiving and forgetting, quoting a Chambers journal piece and musing on mercy and moral lessons for readers.
A San Francisco Chronicle dispatch notes Admiral Wilkes entry into Pago Pago with a 29 fathoms depth, praising Pago Pago as the finest Polynesian harbor. It mentions Tutuila’s bays, Honolulu as a safe Hawaiian harbor, Papeete at Tahiti, and Apia’s year round accessibility, plus a forthcoming naval survey of Pago Pago waters.
Warden presents a remarkable case from Charles Town Prison about an Irish farmer who shot a girl in his garden while firing at trespassers. He was sentenced to life and ten years into confinement his face has become marble. A Halloween cabbage superstition ties the tragedy to a grave outcome.
An extended analogy compares celestial, financial, and human systems to a clockwork machine. It warns that halting the earth would cause universal disruption, with a Wall Street crash mirroring systemic failure. It then extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets as cures for humors and blood poisons.
A lady praises Dooley's Yeast Powder as indispensable in the kitchen saying it makes biscuits, cake, waffles, and muffins reliably good. She notes fifteen years of use with never a disappointing result.
An old advertisement claims Graefenberg Marshall's Catholicon relieves and cures female complaints. It states the product is sold by all druggists and offers salmarac with ordering details for Graefenberg Co at 56 Readest, New York.
OHN H. Govse & Co. in Cleveland Ohio sells Neptune Coffee in one pound roasted packages. The product promises satisfaction and is distributed through wholesale and retail grocers.
Advertisement extols Mrs Winslow’s Scorn ing Syrup for teething children claiming relief from pain wind colic and bowels and providing rest to mothers. The notice emphasizes all diseases of teething and soothing properties for infants.
The treaty grants the harbor of Pago Pago to the United States as a naval base. Apia, Samoa’s capital, becomes a central trade point in the region. Tutuila’s center harbor is rugged with steep cliffs and a narrow entrance, making it unusual yet accessible for ships. The harbor’s strategic value is highlighted as a key American interest south of the equator.
The item lists simple kitchen recipes for cakes muffins and puddings including cheap molasses cake mountain cake fried cakes and lemon conserve. It also shares earache remedy using pepper and cotton in the ear. A Maine Farmer correspondent advocates upgrading dairy by replacing skim milk cows with butter cows and investing in a warm stable and yearround feed to increase income.
In simple terms the milk making process is described from cow to udder, detailing how milk fat forms in the vesicles through cell growth and blood-derived material. The explanation links cow biology to practical milk production and variation among cows. A humor snippet about stationery and a joke about triplets follow, with a Tennessee theft sentence noting a nineteen year prison term for a bacon theft.
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