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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1878
Page
4
A lyrical appraisal of a beloved man’s faults and features, noting that others imitate him in dress and manner. The speaker teases about gloves, curls, and costumes while urging the listener to love others and to hear a bird’s song as a counterpoint to romantic longing. Mention of Philip Sidney and Raphael appears as literary allusion.
Three middle aged bachelors Jones Brown and Smith vow deadly lifelong friendship and property bequests with annual April 12 dinners. Growing illness fear, suspicion and paranoia creep in as each man fears the others will outlive him. A final gathering ends in a fatal duel, leaving Jones to read of the tragedy with grim irony.
The next morning Smith faced a grave stomach affliction and a fever as he lay in bed. He believed himself near death, noting a burning throat and an abominable taste in his mouth, suspecting the trout as the cause.
A fragment from a crime tale shows characters Brown Jones and Smith entangled in suspicion and plotted murder. Jones recalls Lydia Sherman trial hints while the trio drink and thin on a dangerous plan. The rescue moment comes after days of illness as they confront possible betrayal.
The excerpt depicts a tense moment where a character contemplates global travel and inheritance while muttering about Smith and Jones in New York. He then abruptly encounters Smith face to face, heightening the dramatic tension.
Smith and Brown meet by chance in Calcutta realizing a killer tracks them. Brown fears discovery while Smith, pale and anxious, plans to slip away to New York, then Australia, to escape the pursuit and reunion at Delmonico's.
Jones, unaware his dangerous friends left New York, endures a brutal bus collision while escaping into the night. Traumatized, he suspects a murder conspiracy, avoids crowds, and survives by hiding, scavenging bread from Harlem bakeries, until an unforeseen accident alters his fate.
In a sensational tale from the New York World, Uriah drinks heavily after proclaiming joy at a year of jubilee. He orders an elaborate dinner and remains at the table past midnight while consuming wine. By five the next morning Jones dies of apoplexy, and all three men are buried in one grave.
Fragmentary text shows a garbled Norristown snippet with a crude simile about a tuning or nose and a phraselike muddle. Context unclear. no clear event, names, dates, or places beyond Norristown.
A collection of recipes and household hints including lemon meringue pie and mountain dew pudding, pie crust leavening, pot cleaning methods, glove cleansing solution, and a tar water spray for garden pests, attributed to the Chicago Tribune and Christian Union.
Practical guidance for Niagara Falls visitors from Lewiston Journal notes Suspension Bridge access two miles from Falls on American side. Recommends seeing Whirlpool Rapids for fifty cents, Table Rock Horseshoe Fall descent with safety caveats, Cedar Island Rapids, Prospect Park view, and Goat Island for fifty cents. Warns against excess costs and pompous attorney-at-law airs.
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