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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1883
Page
8
A narrator recalls a misty Seaside noon with a white India silk parasol and lace trimmed petticoat as a symbol of old romance. The scene shifts to a graveled shore where a sleeping baby near the water stirs memory and longing as the sea sighs.
A long tale at a Miami frontier gathering unfolds with Old Bill Varney recounting a near lynching after a supposed crime. Jem Whackett’s crowd coercively twists evidence, leading to a dramatic escape by rope and a rescued stranger later revealed as the murdered man.
A humorous tale from Pall Mall Gazette recounts peasants in Austria discussing new taxes tied to mustaches, children, and eggs, only to learn the taxes do not exist. Similar baseless stories have fueled revolutions in history. Also notes bronze tablets planned for Brooklyn Bridge towers and a seven year old prodigy lecturer Jennie Scott in Texas, per Chicago Herald.
The piece praises Canada's Welland Canal, noting a parallel old canal west of the new route, a tunnel under the Great Western Railroad of Canada, and the superior Canadian waterway depth. It laments American delays and highlights dramatic engineering with large ships passing through elevated terrain and silent streets.
Almanac style notes from the Home, Farm and Garden column offer old fashioned advice on water for animals, butter packing in stone jars, salt fish soaking in sour milk, keeping meat from souring by chilling outdoors, cucumber milk tan remover, cleaning farm tools, and the value of a well kept garden and small orchard. It also includes horse care tips for preventing shoulder strain, digestion warnings about unhealthy foods for young ladies, cucumber and cabbage dishes, and a candy and pickling recipe fragment.
Practical guide on harvesting times and methods for potatoes. Highlights dry weather for digging, avoiding rot, storing in cool sheds or barns, and using raised bins and ventilation. Notes potato shrinkage, early digging, and lime as a rot preventive. Includes a brief unrelated Irish agitation mention.
Practical advice to save hatchlings from gapes and other ailments. Emphasizes strong breeding stock, full vigor, proper feeding with whole grains, dry and warm housing, and clean conditions to prevent disease and deaths. Warns against dampness and improper foods like moistened meat, urging dry, hearty nourishment from healthy hens.
A discussion on truthful writing contrasts skilled novelists with sham poets and sensationalists. The piece notes many authors fail from lack of experience and verification, warning that untrustworthy columns erode newspapers. Mention is made of Connecticut corporations warned to organize or lose charters by July 1, 1885. Also includes brief notices on cures, sales pitches, and a Farley ad parody.
A collage of quack remedies and testimonials praising pills bitters tonics and hair restorers. It touts Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Brown's Iron Bitters S S S and Wells Rough on Coins alongside claims of cures for bilious disorders malaria rheumatism debility throat diseases and hair restoration with endorsements from various locales and individuals.
Prank W Horrxax of the American District Telegraph Co. says he used Hunt's Remedy for kidney trouble and it cured him after three bottles. He recommends the medicine to others with urinary and liver complaints.
A reader recalls how Hop Bitters is praised in papers for curing a daughter after doctors failed. The ad like clamor extols the remedy’s virtues and urges trial, claiming it restores health after nerve and bodily troubles.
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