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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1887
Page
3
A verse from the Detroit Free Press laments bachelor life in Bachelor’s Hall. The speaker revels in freedom and disorder, living with a cat as sole companion, while anticipating the return of the Queen of the Home to reclaim order.
A mother believes she killed her son because a pirate named Portuguese Joe possessed her. The tale follows a stormy night, a hermit’s death, and a mother driven to rescue her boy’s body from the hermit’s cave. Her husband and a skeptic narrator witness her descent into trance like fear and the grisly discovery of the boy with ten finger marks. The narrator wonders if the pirate’s spirit possessed her to reveal the crime.
An East bishop questions Brother Bixby's activity in an Arizona church. The preacher recalls Bixby's past when he fought a crowd in fifteen minutes, eluded deacons, and impressed bystanders. Wunderlich notes warm baths as a lasting cooling method in tropical climates.
A collection of quips and vignette jokes with characters like Fogg and a New York Sun exchange, snippets about snoring, wet stock boasts, marital notes, hotel incidents, and a playful gallery of domestic and social misfires. Named figures are few, but the tone matches a 19th century humor column.
Advice on building better roads using plow scraper roller and log rollers with a turnpike approach, plus notes on rising wool prices from 17 to 24 cents and projections to 30 cents. Guidance urges culling ewes for better rams and emphasizes raising quality sheep as a profitable hedge. It explains live stock weighing versus estimation with English authorities Orton and Sadler, and provides a step by step method to calculate beef weight from chest girth and back length with an example.
A London anecdote recounts Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson failing to recognize guest Oscar Browning at a reception. Browning, a wealthy London figure, introduced himself, but Tennyson insisted he was not Browning and claimed intimate acquaintance with Robert Browning. The hostess concluded with a comic note on social misfires.
Professor Sanborn of the University of Missouri outlines a comprehensive beef breed comparison study. Ten calves per breed, exact feed weighing, three diet groups, age based growth analysis, marbling and meat quality tests, microscopic and lab analyses, all at public station for nationwide relevance.
The article notes a wintering contrast between two groups in treeless prairies and woods, then discusses 1885 sheep totals in the United States. It states 1885 numbers fell $5,722 short of the three year average yet exceeded the seven year average ending 1881 by 9,041,928. It highlights a long decimation since 1855 driven by wool prices and says rising wool prices now prompt regret among shepherds who reduced flocks.
R W Phipps of the Canadian Forestry Bureau explains two main methods for moving large young trees. One uses fall trenching and straw to protect the root disk, then lifting and replanting in spring. The second employs a tree lifter to lift a root ball, with a three foot six inch disk, drawn by horse. He favors a Canada style mix for rapid results and warns on leaves removal and proper pruning to protect tree vitality.
Guidance on curing sick hens with home brews and tonics. Instructions cover feeding regimes based on breed, bedding, yard rotation, dust baths, litter, and exercise. Details on using corn, sunflowers, bark, and ash mixtures, plus child involvement and seasonal care.
A Farm and Fireside inspired guide explains making soap from reclaimed grease with potash. Steps include heating melted grease with potash, adding water, salt, and careful boiling, then pouring into a box to form bars. Five pounds of grease yields fourteen bars at a low cost.
Guidance on avoiding dark furniture in kitchens and proper linen storage. Tips include canning peaches halved with stones removed, FrisnH-Guine for furniture glass and china, a decorative match-safe from clay pipes, and a water safety method using permanganate to test for germs with boiling advised until a clean source is found.
A dated home cooking note lists soft gingerbread ingredients with one egg brown sugar molasses butter sour cream soda ginger and flour. It also covers sealed shortbread dough with flour butter sugar and caraway or citron, plus an orange cake with milk eggs orange juice rind sugar and cream of soda.
The text lists recipes including a sugar cake with butter and walnuts, a baked leg of mutton with suet ham and herbs, and a rich chocolate custard pie. It details ingredients, quantities, and cooking steps for each dish.
A New York man questions Austin science on how ice is made. An Austin philosopher explains a two thirds full water tank and freezing. A Goon authority notes the country spends 22 million dollars yearly on patent medicines and lists over five thousand nostrums.
A summary of Matthews portrayal of Jesus as Messiah King and the Sermon on the Mount structure. It outlines moral, religious, secular, social, and official laws of the kingdom, plus providence themes, and explains key images like the lilies of the field and Mammon, with notes on regeneration and choice.
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