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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
7
Poem-like piece reflecting on telegraph wires as a voice across terrains and times. It muses how messages touch sorrow, joy, war, plague, disaster, childbirth, love, and daily life from factories to farms and seas, imagining winds carrying every word.
A quiet farm tale unfolds as four sisters linger with their aging parents through a blizzard. Deacon Stearns debates keeping Sunday at home while his wife plans normal duties, sheltering a hungry traveler and considering guidance for a wandering heathen.
In a snowbound town a deacon feeds a hungry man who laughs at first. Mrs. Stearns seeks guidance, shares pies, and asks the child to recall the Sabbath. A mistaken Sunday leads the family to rethink duties and attend meeting, while Ben and the girls laugh at the mishap for years.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a young canvasser posing as promoting The Encyclopedia of States. He pressures prominent citizens for photographs and fifty dollar engravings then adds a five dollar paper fee. The scam harms victims over weeks as the ruse unfolds.
A compilation of practical tips and observations on farming and home care. Topics include plant care and food prep with tomato celery dishes and cranberry sauces, poultry dressing, spavin treatment, cleaning feeding bedding, and the value of steady farm team work to improve efficiency.
A travel sketch describes the Norwegian cariole a quirky open carriage on hills without brakes, its awkward stance and relays of ponies, alongside assorted notes on diet naturalization bias and patent medicines, including praise for St Jacobs Oil and Brown's Iron Bitters.
A health column cites alarming blood poisoning figures with kidneys and liver as leading causes. German Hop Bitters is recommended, alongside Brown's Iron Bitters and Ely's Cream Balm. Testimonials include Rev G W Offley and W A Downs praising various remedies and a note on Switz’s Specific.
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