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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1883
Page
7
A reflective poem emphasizes that true love is won through patience and steady care. It compares love to a charmed plant needing sun and dew, vigilance, and forbearance to keep its life enchanted. The verses urge mindful conduct to sustain affection.
A comic tale of elderly scholar Theodore Grimshaw who falls for a widow with five children. The piece shifts to a critical essay on hotel fire escapes, arguing they fail in real fires and advocate enclosed brick and iron stairways for safe egress.
A fragment from Argosy quotes an injured lady and Mr Grimshaw as observers of colonial schemes in Africa and London water supply. The passage hints at social tension and distant interests amid personal drama, with a sense of impending revelation about public works.
A Boston Advertiser note explains that the term chic is fading in Paris while pschutt rising as the mark of ease, grace, and individuality. It contrasts pschutt with boudines for corseted figures and pschutteux for well-dressed men, noting chic is dead in Paris.
A Texas Siftings note recalls a boy in an Austin store asking for candy after learning it was half past ten. The grocer checks the time and the child insists mom must have him ready for the matinee, illustrating a lighthearted sign of local business vigor.
The article notes Canada calling itself a mother country as large numbers of its citizens migrate to the United States, shaping national identity and relations between neighbors.
A collection of home guidance covers cleaning pots with soda boil, making ginger nuts batter, selecting soil for long root crops, using manure sprays for squash bug, removing leather spots with aqua ammonia, making Japanese cement from rice, and layman horse sprain care with warm baths and bandages plus rest and iodine tincture as needed.
The Western Rural urges improving corn yields from an average under thirty bushels to possibly sixty or more. Emphasizes seed quality and broad manure use including barnyard, hog pen, sheep manure, ashes, and chemical fertilizers as essential steps. Cautions against limited, local applications and stresses broadcast manuring for long term land improvement.
A meditation on Mary Magdalene at the tomb, the stone rolled away, and the risen Jesus appearing to her. The piece links Mary’s sighting to modern Christian duty, urging believers to fulfill Christ’s ministry through service and compassion, ending with prayer for renewed love and devotion. Chicago Advance
The document lists first and second quarter lesson plans for the International Sunday School. Topics include The First Christian Martyr Acts 7 and 8, Simon the Sorcerer Acts 8, Philip and the Ethiopian Acts 8, Saul's Conversion Acts 9, Peter working miracles Acts 9, Peter preaching to the Gentiles Acts 10, the Spread of the Gospel Acts 11, Herod and Peter Acts 12, Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus Acts 13, At Antioch Acts 13 13-16 and 43-52, At Iconium and Lystra Acts 14 1-18, End of the First Missionary Journey Acts 14 19-29, and a June 25 review.
The garbled text hints at a religious meditation on belief and life but is incomplete. It presents phrases about belief in me and life after death with missing connectors and unclear structure. No clear persons or organizations are identifiable.
The text argues for a weekly rest day based on public health and social order. It defends Sunday rest as the majority’s worship day, notes religious equality yet accepts some unavoidable inequality, and condemns attacks on Sunday observance as oppression by interests opposed to public welfare. It supports legal rest from labor to prevent greed-driven harm and to preserve moral and educational national character.
The article surveys Easter traditions from England to Tyrol, tying folk beliefs to the resurrection. It notes sun dances as superstition, exchanges of greetings Christ is risen, and symbols like lilies and eggs. It describes church games, Easter elevens, chair penalties, and Tyrolese processions with songs, hats, and torches, ending with a reflection on the resurrection.
Do not seek mere routine in faith but the higher life of a vital Christian character. Comfort comes from divine mercy and promises to the faithful. The text cites Gates to life, Chinese Christian schools, and eternal reunion with loved ones in God.
Michael Loeman of Australia disputes a Boston Herald sketch claiming he left a fortune to Tommy Loeman a boy at Jordan Marsh in Boston. He writes to friends asserting the published career and intentions are misleading and untrue.
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