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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
3
Mrs Williams receives a war letter from her son Roger enlisting in the Seventy-first regiment. She endures grief, guilt, and prayer as she contemplates joining him in Cuba, imagining sacrifice, nursing, and a perilous voyage aboard a vessel to reach Santiago.
A mother, in disguise as a boy, travels to war near Santiago to reach her son Roger Williams. After rescuing him from battlefield peril, she tends him through fever and wounds. Roger vows to write to his masked mother if he dies, but she is revealed when a hospital attendant recognizes her.
A narrator recounts posing as a top model in artist Lorrimer's studio where Alice Gray, the famed society model, captivates him. He learns of her family need and contemplates disclosure while a subplot of deception and romance unfolds amid art and Broadway streets.
A caller recounts chasing a missing woman from a bank to a Brayton Car Wheel office. She asks to meet later, while the narrator faces a boastful patriarch who considers him for a job. The twist: Alice Brayton wishes the narrator as a son in law, resolving the day’s tensions.
A Pennsylvanian traveler in Kansas spins humorous tall corn stories. He jokes about cobble street paving, hollow cobs as sewer pipe, husks forming children's tents, and feedmen sending grain to stables. He notes soil depth and stalks bending to ground level, where ears could be chopped with an ax.
A New York theatrical manager complains that religious scruples still affect business as theater attendance fluctuates during Lent. He notes only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday remain important, down from forty days, and says the trend may improve further.
Tommy Northside asks what a coastwise steamer is and Mr. Northside answers that it is a steamer wise enough to keep off the rocks along the coast. The exchange appears in the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Travelers note chilling scenes in Chinese cities where dried mice hang from roofs by tails and are butchered with knives. Mice are smoked after drying, and dog feet rank as delicacy with black dogs preferred to white. Dog fat is said to be fit for royal tables.
London reports total British losses as 16,418 killed wounded and missing excluding invalids sent home. Numbers cover all theaters and include service members and missing personnel.
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