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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
6
In theatrically charged verses a narrator mocks Governor Benjamin as hypocritical and harsh toward the state of Massachusetts while praising George D Robinson as the viable future, claiming Ben’s era is over. The piece lampoons political combatants, predicting Robinson’s rise and Ben’s decline with caustic nicknames and vivid imagery.
The piece surveys how corruption shades American politics, noting pardoning power abuses by governors, Democratic misuse of pardons to sway votes, and fears within the party about moneyed candidates like General Butler and Mr. Tilden. It cites Colquitt’s case, editorials from Macon Telegraph and Tribune, and public unease over graft and influence.
In Chicago the baggage agents held a session but reached no conclusion. They discussed methods from the old “slid er open the side door” to throwing trunks through walls into depots. The reports praise the traditional baggageman approach as reliable for owners expecting their trunks and bottoms intact. Suggestions to replace baggagemen with portable cyclones are dismissed as nonsense.
The Massachusetts Democratic hopeful Mr. Frederick O. Prince withdraws from politics citing family illness and a belief that Butler should not be backed. The piece notes Prince’s loyalty to a conservative wing opposing Butler and suggests his decline signals broader party tensions, amid reaction from Southern Democrats and press commentary questioning Butler’s leadership. The report frames Butler as a polarizing figure provoking opposition within the party and in the wider nation.
A Wethersfield Connecticut woman preparing dinner found a cherry stone sprouting inside the potato. The sprout reached nearly one chenne of an inch, a rare kitchen curiosity reported by local readers.
The piece describes widespread nonchalance toward military service among the fellah in Egypt. It notes nightly disturbances at recruitment sites, the role of sheikhs and baksheesh in selecting conscripts, and the mobilization of recruits in principal towns under kavasses. It mentions saveral conscripts as halt, maimed, or blind awaiting medical examination.
Cairo correspondent reports conscripts bound in iron collars chained in groups, surrounded by crying female relatives. Men are marched to trains or ships to Cairo, while women wail, tear garments, and enact despair as separation ends in transit.
A man on the State Fair grounds shared a joke about a pickpocket who thought he had taken fifty dollars. He slipped money into his bootleg to trick the thief, who then found the wallet contained mortgage notes worth six hundred dollars. The crowd roared, but the man with the mortgage remained pale and shaken as others laughed.
Frankford youth John Crankshaw Jr. constructed a fourteen foot canoe from muslin and barrel hoops with pine knee knots for posts. The craft features two water tight compartments, a deck, a light floor, and a total weight of thirty eight pounds after painting. Tested successfully, he uses it daily on the river with a double bladed paddle.
A historical recipe instructs to simmer water onion parsley celery pepper salt then simmer chicken pieces until cooked. Line a dish with crust, layer chicken with hard boiled egg, thicken gravy with butter flour and cream, combine, top with crust and bake until pastry is done.
Chicago Inner Ocean notes Will Carleton wrote a poem about a mortgage and contrasts poetry with finance. The teaser hints at the interplay between art and debt, presenting the amusing line that it is easier to poem a mortgage than to mortgage and poem.
A column packed with dairy tips, including creamer sizes at West Andover, milk yields from cows, calf timing for heifers, and the value of cold storage. It covers ice-house construction, feeding methods to boost milk, and preserving butter by brine in casks with proper preparation and storage.
A concise guide outlines why butter becomes sour mottled soft or crumbly and why white specks appear. It explains factors from milk temperature to churning and washing, and offers remedies such as proper brine, thorough mixing, chilling, and careful handling to restore solid, well-formed butter. Cor. Colman's Rural World.
The article explains bran as the grain husk rich in oil and phosphates, best when blended with shorts or coarse middlings. It recommends three to six pounds daily, noting great cream yields with rich milk and advising corn meal or cottonseed meal for butter. Feeding can be dry or with damped short grass or clover for proper mastication.
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