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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1883
Page
7
Defiance County’s old newspaper piece blends a Thanksgiving poem about home and harvest with a personal reminiscence from Hesekiah Butterworth. It recalls families traveling, the clamor of children, and a gander that returns memory, linking food, faith, and loss across time. The tale interweaves seasonal humor with a touching tribute to a boy Nathaniel and a bird’s silent memory.
A rural tale recalls a widow's son Nathaniel going to sea and a wild goose gander chosen to accompany him. Storms loom as months pass, and on Thanksgiving week the narrator hears a haunting honk in the woodland pastures, hinting the gander may reach the table as a final farewell.
A London Globe excerpt portrays a bourgeois French girl raised under strict guardianship. The fifteen year old reads secretly, while parents bar her from streets, social contact, and independent thought. She is prepared for an arranged marriage, with male suitors kept at bay and interactions tightly controlled.
A Washington letter notes some long serving civil servants in various departments. It highlights James H. Marrs in the Post-office Department with a $2,500 annual pay, a veteran clerk aged ages and long service. It mentions a clerk in another bureau who has served more than fifty years, a descendant of George Washington appointed for merit and need, and a War Department appointment linked to Rose. The piece mentions Thomas Jefferson’s descendant in Interior and a Providence of Hancock’s circle. It suggests some workers may be less productive but still considered for loyalty and need. Boston correspondent notes Wilkie Collins’ sixty-year milestone for his novel in January.
Cape Cods cranberry culture is described as a highly developed industry with meadows, extensive investment per acre, and high profits. The piece notes 1,300 acres of bogs, annual crop 30,000 to 45,000 barrels, values up to 300,000 dollars, and labor focused on hand picking during harvest. The article then shifts to a series of brief items: a London anti vaccination advocate’s death by suicide, a libel case involving Rev Beck, a Times remark on Americans visiting England, a Baltimore healer claiming a cure, a quip about snow, and a jab at patent medicines and marriage in Ohio.
A Rochester letter examines a high profile letter by Dr Henry Foster praising Warner's Safe Cure and ties it to Clifton Springs Sanitarium trustees including Bishop Coxe and President Anderson. The piece notes Foster's age, his institution, its aim to aid evangelical missionaries and ministers, and the trust’s fundraising support. It presents mixed endorsements and details of Foster's views on remedies and the hospital’s purpose.
A collage of promotional lines for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Brown's Iron Bitters. It cites a young woman named Tennyson’s May Queen, testimonials on Ely's Cream Balm, and various doctor endorsements. The piece frames medicine as cure-all and includes a quip about a dumb wife and a historical beer note.
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