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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1878
Page
4
Fragmentary prose poem from Harpers Monthly November laments fading light and waning nature. The speaker yearns for warmth and beauty from a beloved source, hoping to rise in song beyond twilight and night. The tone is mournful, reverent to art, and seeks miraculous breath through love and death.
In a saloon crowded with merchants and gentry a dispute over honor ends with two officers facing pistols in a field. A banker proposes a novel settlement tying money to outcomes, and the trio barter terms via an attorney before firing blanks and finally shaking hands as “satisfaction” is declared.
An official in the State Government and his family face thousands of francs in damages for alleged long running repairs and grease marks in Paris apartments, blamed on unruly lodgers. A final scam involves a child on a departing train pressuring for a few francs, with police involvement and insinuations of landlord fraud.
Barbara Hittle, a respected Racine resident, defended herself when two burly tramps entered her west side home and began assaulting her. Armed with an oak club, she struck one man unconscious and maul ed the other until mercy, then dragged the incapacitated man outside and disciplined him with a pair of slops. The episode, recounted by the Milwaukee Sentinel, labels her among the town’s most plucky women.
A Boston Transcript piece argues young men should accept selfish employers and use self discipline to rise. It urges earning more this year to justify higher pay next year and to seek better jobs when ready, noting hard work builds reputation and future opportunities. The Hawk-Eye quip jokes about summer haircuts and frost fears.
A Kansas region reports a notable shortage of girls in certain communities prompting social and educational concerns and calls for community action to address gender imbalance and related impacts.
A patrolman finds a woman crying on steps and offers help with chivalrous, overblown rhetoric. She lashes back, hitting him with a mat and scolding him for prying. He retreats, muttering that women are the most cunning animals, in a Breakfast Table vignette.
A Paris Figaro excerpt claims Mme Bosquet at 3 Rue Gerando inventories 16 orphans aged 18 to 26 with fortunes from 6000 to 80000 francs 9 spinsters aged 17 to 38 with 8000 to 180000 francs and 19 widows aged 25 to 55 with 6000 to 140000 francs. Louisiana orange crop noted as unusually fine with strong income potential. A Baltimore dentist commends Dr Bull s Cough Syrup as superior for coughs and colds.
Henry W. Elliott describes Native American infant care in Harper’s Magazine, noting cradle design from boards to buckskin coverings, frequent cradle rotation, and constant maternal vigilance. He contrasts tribal methods with white parenting, including treatment of illness by shamans and fatal outcomes.
A Detroit dentist, Dr Thomas, details in the Dental Cosmos a case of tooth transplantation where a healthy tooth from a woman was inserted into a man who had lost a right upper canine. The tooth fit well, color remained unchanged after four weeks, and reattachment was as strong as a same day transplant. Obstacles cited include obtaining suitable teeth and infection risk, but size differences can be adjusted by bone growth.
A collection of domestic hints and recipes covering slippers to spare carpet wear, soaps, apple custard, nervousness cure, hair curling fluid, potato yeast, rye bread, Thanksgiving fruit cake, tomato steak, and roast quails with step by step instructions and measurements.
Waldo of Practical Farmer describes a wood shed style ice house 30 by 14 feet, using stone and sawdust drainage, tight packing, and daily checks from March to summer to keep ice. He notes costs near sixty dollars for the combined shed, with shade and double boarding advised for efficiency.
A French octogenarian widow, long isolated in a single room of a Lyons hotel, left a fortune of 160000 dollars and a large art collection to the town of Dijon with a reversion to Lyons if conditions are unmet. She left 16000 dollars in diamonds to adorn a venerated object in the parish church of St. Francois de Sales.
A 1878 selection shows affectionate letters praising Dr R VY Peach Be Buffalo and Dr R Pence Golden Medical Discovery for bilious and fever sores. The Paris Exposition awards announce two top honors to American organ makers Mason and Hamlin among thirty leading builders.
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