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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1878
Page
4
Poetic reminiscence recalls mornings filled with household noise and distant laughter from past loves. The speaker seeks memory amid shadows and woodlands by a streamless willow, where songbirds once sang and lovers spoke.
A veteran river guide recalls near doom at Niagara Falls, where the roar and spray became a life and death ordeal. He narrates a harrowing canoe run toward the rapids, a breaking paddle, and a perilous rescue by boat and cable, ending with a wary warning not to seek profit or spectacle in the power of the falls.
A compact recount of famous conquerors and statesmen meeting violent or scandalous ends. Cyrus the Great is said to have his head severed by a woman and displayed in blood. Miltiades, Pausanias, Hemistocles, Epaminondas, and Philip of Macedon face execution, exile, or murder. Alexander the Great dies young, others like Hannibal, Mithridates, Antiochus, Persius, and Scipio encounter betrayals, captivity, or assassination.
An advertisement angles a vegetable compound called Dr Bell's Coven 8rror as a universal remedy for children, claiming rapid cures for croup and whooping cough within hours. It lists a price of 1 cent per bottle or five bottles for $1.00.
A long column reviews astronomical and meteorological rumors linking planetary perihelia to global disasters. It cites heat waves, cold snaps, floods, famines in China and India, and epidemics, arguing forewarned is forearmed. It urges cleaner streets, temperate living, and preparedness.
The piece notes astronomers’ belief that 1880 to 1885 could mark a decisive era as planets Jupiter Uranus Saturn and Neptune near perihelion. It cites Dr. Knapp and Dr. Lowenthal arguing coincidence of planetary perihelia may trigger epidemics, floods, and pestilence, with history showing pestilence at such solar alignments.
Dr Thorne reports experiments where workers using eye glass or naked eye saw the solar eclipse with equal or better clarity, noting the image in glass appeared upside down. He tested a spherical iron piece at 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, which looked flat and disc like from distance, then returned to a sphere as it cooled, echoing Ericsson's findings.
The article argues that traditional cram methods in primary schooling are doomed and Boston leads a reform. Teachers will shift to direct teaching through observation and discussion, using pictures, everyday life, and oral instruction. The metric system and reading books replace spelling books, with grammar rules reduced to composition and writing skills.
After dinner at city hall a man, startled by a slip of memory, proclaims he made affidavits about alleged bargains between Smith and Jones and Brown and Davis. The laughter on the steps follows as he concedes forgetfulness and asks the crowd to forgive the lapse.
A collection of practical recipes and tips including horseradish storage, cream cake and lemon pie methods, pop corn balls, suet pudding, cistern cleaning with alum and borax, victorias pancakes, cough remedies, burns cures, canker sore mouth treatment, plant care, washing a woolen shawl, and a nubia fabric refreshment with logwood.
The Indiana State House excavation shows the river once flowed across the site and changed course at least three times. Sand and gravel filled former tree forests, preserving stump shapes as workmen remove material for the foundation. The staged stumps appear eerily real, though made of mud models.
An anonymous Chicago letter claims H Bitters cured a man of an alcohol addiction that ruined his health and business. It reports the drinker’s thirst was quelled and he became sober and steady, with others also reportedly cured by the remedy.
The Ohio Farmer is highlighted as one of the oldest and most valuable agricultural and family papers in the country, urged for attention and recommendation in this issue.
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