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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1880
Page
5
Fragmentary poem lines reflect on vanished time and silent summer birds. It speaks of a deluged park, a lone cuckoo, and a dawn breaking after sixty years. The passage contrasts joyless June with a distant sun rising on early life’s days.
A wood lot foreman known as Gentleman Jim saves Jack Elliott’s two children when a towering pine topples during a brutal Marquette winter. The incident occurs near the Eagle Mills camp, where Jim’s actions earn enduring respect from co workers and the Sterle household.
A bedridden man nicknamed Gentleman Jim clings to a silk shirt and a hidden bag of money. In a rural winter shelter, Mrs. Sterle discovers a dried rose card dated June 10 1871 and 1872, revealing wages saved for a final fate. The bag returns to him as he lies dying. the money’s whereabouts remain implied.
The text notes William the Conqueror among early foreigners attempting English and aiming to administer justice in native tongue. It describes his resolve and patience but the linguistic complexities of Anglo-Saxon defeated armed force and obstinacy alike.
A Buddhist priest in Osaka described a distant heaven beyond a huge square mountain eighty thousand miles north of Osaka to the Rev. Mr. Forest, illustrating the need for a new theological school in Japan.
A Rural New Yorker column shares simple recipes for corn coffee cure dried-apple cake and pumpkin pie plus home projects. It covers crimping hair with gum arabic, whitewashing outbuildings, a cheap bricked well, and a molasses flavored sauce for pudding.
The National Live Stock Journal discusses feeding horses with a mix of ground corn and oats plus wheat straw. It recommends equal weight ground meal with four parts straw, suggesting twelve pounds meal to about eighteen pounds straw for a 950 pound horse with moderate work. It cautions against over wetting and notes higher meal for heavy work.
A Germantown Telegraph note recommends bandaging trees with cotton or woolen cloth eight to ten inches high for mice and at least two feet for rabbits to prevent gnawing. Stored cloth lasts for years. secure tying is essential. In gardens feed nearby produce scraps and place a dead trap baited with apple to deter infestations, noting rabbits can wipe out dozens of young trees in one night.
The article urges farmers to provide comfortable beds for horses, cattle, and other stock during winter. It notes bedding saves feed, preserves stock condition, and aids manure production. It suggests using refuse fodder, straw, fine sand, and saw dust as economical bedding materials.
A church bulletin lists lessons for November 14 titled Joseph the Wise Ruler from Genesis 41 41 57 and November 21 Joseph and his Brethren from Genesis 44 30 4 45 18 with school guidance noted.
The essay argues courtesy stems from unselfishness, not mere manners. It contrasts outward polish with inner regard for others, citing Paul and Peter and urging self forgetfulness, careful listening, and thoughtful speech as true politeness. It concludes real courtesy follows Christlike humility.
The article cautions that actors, described as professional repeaters, should be closely observed during voting. It frames performers as influential voices in civic participation and suggests scrutiny of their political messaging.
A swaking Italian led a bear along Newark Street Hoboken yesterday morning. The bear growled and fought as a crowd watched. A butcher named Speer helped restrain the animal until the bear owner arrived from New York and took the bear home. The Italian, though scratched, escaped injury.
Newspaper notes about rescue bottle messages from ships such as the Combat and Herciades. A Norse bottle letter from the Bay schooner Bay recalls peril at sea and cautions against hoaxes. The item ends with Fisk University Nashville reporting doubled international enrollment and advancing education among colonists in the South.
A collage of eighteenth and nineteenth century snippets recounts sales claims for Hamburg Drops and St Jacobs Oil, a Dunbarton political procession anecdote, a humorous theater gag, Hop Bitters advertisements, and a Dublin tenement housing remark. The writing labels include Bay City Tribune and Norristown Herald.
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