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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1907
Page
3
Daniel returns from college to preach to his old neighbors on a hillside parlor stage. He argues for new knowledge and the Bible's true spirit, sparking a harsh challenge from Henry Marvin over hell, Revelation and modern science amid a wary audience.
In a tense night gathering Daniel faces Henry and a minister as they spar over biblical truth and modern research. Henry and the others protest, Daniel refuses to answer, and Mary supports him before Henry exits with others. The scene ends with a preacher’s warning that Daniel must start again at the bottom.
The coroner questions the cause of death after a Tonopah tragedy. An eye witness says Hank, known as the golderndest fighter, cheated at cards and killed himself in a solitaire game. The judge is told the tale as Ostend asks if owls eat mice.
A thriving mining community in the Hoosac Hills near Charlemont and Rowe Massachusetts resembles a western camp with iron and pyrites veins crossing southern Vermont into Massachusetts. The Davis company operates the Davis pyrites mine near Rowe, with copper pockets found in the pyrites belt. Charlemont serves as the mining hub where contractors, miners, and investors discuss strikes, vein continuity, and copper potential around a busy B and M railroad corridor.
Plans for the Franco British exposition of 1908 call for a 140 acre site at Shepherds Bush with a grand Indian Court and lake, Terrace outlines, Congress Hall, a transparent lighted cascade, and multiple art palaces. Buildings will be steel and fireproof with an elevated railway for easy viewing, and sports facilities managed by the British Olympic Association. The event aims to run six months with strong cultural and commercial features.
A foreign traveler aboard a city streetcar hears the conductor explain delays with the line that the car ahead is behind. The exchange, delivered in playful phonetics, prompts the man to marvel at a country he is just discovering. The judge notes the remark as a charming glimpse of cultural miscommunication.
French director Vaughan of Quinze-Vinsts blind asylum develops a portable printing set for the blind. The device places Braille matrix types in a lower box with a grille above to receive them, using specially cast characters that link Braille signs to Roman letters with a lengthwise tongue indicating position.
A two way device enables blind readers to set text in grooves by Braille characters pressed onto paper. The system also allows writing to a blind person by placing Roman letters in reverse order, with ink pads and pressure to transfer the characters into the sheet.
The article notes a practical invention using relief Braille letters read left to right, promising great service to the blind. It explains the age of fishes via otolith rings, white rings forming in spring and black in autumn, counted to determine age, with otoliths more reliable than scales for flat fish while scales aid pollack and cod.
Professor Potonie of Berlin notes parallels between peat types and coal forms. Terrestrial peat yields bright coal while underwater slime forms dull cannel coal, with alternating strata peat matching layered coal deposits. The study links plant remains, environmental conditions, and resulting coal properties. A cartoon caption shows a quarrelsome mother scolding a boy while another child recites a cheeky retort.
Myer Jankins repeatedly asserts his gentility and manners, a claim he makes so often he seems to believe it. The exchange highlights his persistent self-presentation and the response from others, framing a light interplay over personal conduct.
The article warns of the danger of carrying a bundle of matches in pockets as heads rub and may ignite, risking damage. It promotes safety matches that ignite only on a designated strip, noting general aversion to carrying a box.
A Massachusetts man patented a new pocket match design to prevent accidental ignition. The match uses a concaved channel along the head containing igniting materials and is ignited by striking two matches together. The inventor claims a hundred such matches can be carried with no risk and no wall marking needed.
Dr H Charlton Bastian renews support for spontaneous generation through sealed saline solutions heated to 100 to 130 degrees Celsius. Despite sterilization, diffusion light and incubator heat yielded forms resembling bacteria, yeast, vibrios and moulds in silicon deposits. He argues silicon may mimic carbon in forming proto plasm, challenging current views.
Reader will receive free expert answers on building topics from editor and author William A. Radford. The article discusses hot water circulation, roof rooms, and modern house plans, noting how attics become usable bedrooms with baths, closets, and efficient layouts. It stresses design as invention of space efficiency and comfort, with summers mitigated by shade.
The article discusses kitchen and bathroom placement, water supply, and heating in a small house, arguing for a dedicated bath room, proper pipe slopes, and simple modern plumbing. It highlights the value of enameled fixtures, front water heaters, and adequate water pressure for comfortable living. It also notes country households can access newer improvements, the importance of catch basins and drains, and the king of Spain as a cultural aside followed by a separate note on a buried forest discovery in England.
The government of New South Wales will start a dam at Barren Jack on the Murrumbidgee river forming a 40 mile long reservoir. It will hold more than 33 billion cubic feet of water, about 50 percent more than Sydney harbor. The immense lake will be nearly as large as the Nile dam and will be used for li gation. The dam sits in a gorge carved through a granite ridge, with a height of 200 feet.
The article notes 1906 US rubber spending near 50 million dollars, up from 15.5 million a decade earlier, with price rising from 44 to about 77 cents per pound. Import volume grew about 60 percent to roughly 65 million pounds in the past year. A humor piece follows about social calls and club card table banter, including quips on women leaving calling cards and men leaving chips, ending with a joke about a funeral.
Chum recounts an act from the future king when Prince of Wales guiding a blind man and his dog through a busy street. A massive silver inkstand arrived later with an inscription praising the kind Christian action. The donor's name remains unknown.
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