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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1886
Page
8
Two young laborers by the sea dig in the sand with a shovel. They discover a starfish beside a big shell and, excited, recall a star they had watched each night. One boy concludes the star has dropped from the sky, imagining its home. The tale is credited to Malcolm Douglas in St Nicholas.
In Mrs Ticknor’s hall a liveried footman usually shows no emotion until a quiet afternoon when a hired amanuensis hears howls from below. A maid explains the man’s outburst is relief when the house is empty and the staff free to vent.
The speaker likens a boy to iron, valuable only after processing. Hard study and training increase worth from $5 to $340 for needles and up to $25,000 for watch springs. He urges balanced work and play, warning against neglecting education for fun.
The piece profiles Edward F. Flower born in 1805 in England, famed as the missionary to horses. It recounts his early treatment of animals, Western stock-farm youth, and later success in Birmingham. The essay blends moral lessons on humane treatment of animals with notes on Victorian household diet and virtue. Boston Record.
Harper's Young People profiles Mr Flower who traveled from the Western plains to English cities to oppose animal cruelty. He spotlighted the bearing rein and harshHarness, wrote Horses and Harness, and with Sir Arthur Helps published Animals and their Masters. He aged 75 and coauthored The Stones of London urging humane street paving.
A grocer tells his assistant that the parson says it is wicked to do unnecessary work on Sunday. He says sugar need not be wetted until tomorrow and that the Sabbath should not be broken unnecessarily, in a humorous Puck moment about religious business.
Visitors in New York City are urged to save baggage and carriage hire, and to stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel lists 613 rooms, a million dollar fittings cost, and daily Sardine? price. Elevator service links to horse cars and elevated railroads. families can live better for less money than at other first-class hotels.
Guidance on prompt arrival and overnight stays to avoid delaying meals. Rules on who carves, how to handle hot soup, setting multiple utensils, and tracking tableware with private marks. Tips include napkin receipts, waiter placement, tips for tipping, and seasonal handling such as keeping plates hot with buckskin gloves.
A foreign observer learns quirky collective nouns from examples in New York harbor lore. The piece plays with fleets flocks mobs and more, detailing unusual terms for groups such as ships bees soldiers thieves and worshipers.
Washington correspondence describes Peruvian preserved heads from the Amazon valley. The article explains scalp modification, drying, and ritual value as trophies, noting the heads are four inches in diameter with black hair and braided lips.
The piece describes pack hunting sharks and the thresher shark using a long tail to scare prey into a school. It notes sharks lay few eggs and includes a humorous aside about a boy's remark on a rich cousin. A Paris cremation costs $3 to cremation and urning.
An earnest booster describes Hoostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a powerful tonic reviving feeble and nervous individuals. It claims restored digestion, strengthened appetite, better sleep, improved color, and blood fortification, calling the product safe, vegetable, and effective for both sexes.
An Arkansas editor recalls entering New York editorial rooms where colleagues refused drinks, describing dry stares and a stiff reception. He recounts approaching a bald editor who reacts with astonishment as the governors’ joke flares into tension. The piece ends noting his visit to Harper's Magazine with similar reception.
A Tecumseh Nebraska resident married and on a wedding journey boarded a train to Topeka for dinner. At the station a waiter cried a gong. The groom mistook it for a charivari and exclaimed to halt the prank, vowing to set up the jokers for the boys.
A shaved text fragment notes a “Pet Proposition” and lists 150 cloth bound Dollar Volumes given away for $1 at the Rochester Home. It mentions world cyclopedia guides, poultry yard wisdom, boys pastimes, and history volumes. The fragment names Hon. R Parsons, mayor, and a Rochester address.
A Washington physician Dr Saml Cox endorses Red Star Cough Care as purely vegetable and free from opiates after analyses. The product is priced at twenty five cents. The note cites concerns about cough syrups containing morphine and other poisons reported by doctors and coroners nationwide.
Dr. R BuTwen of Cambridge University England asserts that St Jacobs Oil acts like magic, praising its quick relief. The quotation presents a confident endorsement from a high academic authority.
It is claimed that ozokerite or mineral wax saves about 800 dollars per mile on the Transcaspian Railway as it nears Merv. Purified and melted, mixed with limestone and gravel, ozokerite yields a durable asphalt used to mold ties that hold their shape in heat.
Thorough cleansing of the blood is urged as the fountain of health through Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The ad claims cures for humors including scrofula and blood poisoning, with effectiveness against scrofulous sores, salt rheum, and enlarged glands, plus lung issues like consumption and bronchitis. It touts benefits for weak lungs, dyspnea, liver complaints, and dyspepsia, and notes it is sold by druggists.
A Boston Commercial quotation notes croquet causes quarrels and racket over lawn tennis. Also advertised are Ger Lyons Patent Heel Stiffeners for new boots and shoes, Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, and Rough on Itch for skin conditions and irritations.
A concise patent remedy claim states Rough on Catarah provides immediate odor elimination and complete relief of chronic cases. It also offers unequaled relief for diphtheria sore throat and foul breath as part of its listed benefits.
Ad duplicates archaic medical jargon and dubious claims for pile relief. It promises immediate relief and complete care with a misquoted product name and unclear contact details, typical of unsolicited medical advertisements.
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