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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
9
Advertising rates for the Defiance Express in Defiance Ohio are listed for a year contract and weekly inserts. The notice specifies charges per inch per insertion and quantities in inches, though parts of the text are garbled.
A fragment shows advertising rates with references to per inch pricing and per insertion terms for TransimatT and amusement listings. The text is incomplete but indicates standard classified ad pricing details.
A note states that weekly Express-Same rates are the same as those quoted for the Daily Express. The item emphasizes pricing parity across editions and directs readers to the newspaper’s rate table for details.
Local READERS charge ten cents per line for each insertion with no discounts for timing or number of days. Advertisers should provide clear text and confirm line counts to ensure accurate billing.
Want column pricing noted as twenty words or less at 25 cents per column. Additional words charged at one cent each.
Short-nailed men are said to rarely concede arguments and have a sharp sense of humor. Long nails suggest artistry and vision while short nails at the base imply weak heart action or diseased nerves. Pressing finger tips may shape nails, and short nails are linked to logic and wit.
Poem recalls Civil War veterans in wheel chair thinking of marching comrades. The speaker laments isolation yet feels moving with blue and gray soldiers who once fought together. He longs for the roll call above and reunion in spirit with the storied brigades. S. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald.
Capt Fitch recalls after Chickamauga being appointed chief quartermaster of the signal corps in Chattanooga. Five light wagons were built in Nashville and later unusable when mules ate the spokes. A sarcastic exchange with the quartermaster general followed. Mules also caused chaos at Chickamauga, overturning teams and raiding bivouacs.
A Macon County union veteran recalls how soldiers initially avoided cards before battles, discarding decks as shells approached. Later in the war, many troops hardened and played cards behind breastworks while gunners fired, viewing the shells with grim bravado.
A Boston Herald cartoon caption jokes about a Black woman and her infant, featuring a provocative line implying raised on a bottle and a pun on ink bottle. The humorous dialogue reflects era racial stereotypes in a printed cartoon.
In the winter of 1862 to spring 1863 the Seventieth Indiana stationed at Gallatin Tennessee with part guarding a water tank and bridge at Drake's Creek. Company G hid 16 joints of meat near camp prompting a search and a humorous sting on the captain. Jimmy Harris led a sally into staff quarters revealing beams hidden there. A wagon loaded with meat was sent for two citizens, and three hams were slipped away by the men before departure.
A Charlottesville dispatch reports Gen Thomas L Rosser writing letters on Gettysburg and blaming Gen Lee for a fatal blunder. The piece cites Gen Newton and Maj Kyd Douglass arguing the battle was lost on day one when the heights were not held, and posits Stonewall Jackson’s absence as pivotal to Meade’s success.
A brief cartoon caption notes a mocked legal defeat with a quip that damages were paid but not profit, as Smith’s lawyer received the money. The Philadelphia Record frames the exchange as satisfaction in a humorous legal outcome.
A woman buried at Yorktown Indiana with full military honors became the state’s first such ceremony. The deceased served as an army nurse in the Civil War and was renowned for bravery and devoted nursing service.
Opinion note from Chicago Daily News cites a lean conscience as key to an efficient office. It argues integrity and prudence lead to better governance and reduced waste.
Smith D. Fry presents a Washington letter reflecting on Booth and Lincoln. Eyewitness accounts, including Dietrich and Senator Stewart, corroborate Booth’s presence and alcohol’s role in the crime. The piece frames temperance as the era’s defining moral issue with remarks on Edwin Booth and public judgment.
The Lancet reports artificial manures rich in arsenic, soluble in water, with cabbage and turnip samples from fields dressed with superphosphate showing arsenic. Caution is urged as soil acidity from repeated manuring may transfer arsenic to crops and possibly to beef and mutton, prompting call for further inquiry.
Mrs Nation's temperance movement spreads to Paris as a tramway company plans April 15 cafe cars. Temperance supporters block stations and deter riders, urging use of ordinary coaches. Three large meetings force the municipal council to deny authorization.
A colored woman in Atlanta sues a street railway for 1000 dollars claiming a fat standing passenger grabbed a strap, missed it and toppled into her lap crushing her breath momentarily.
A Washington Star snippet contrasts pride in ancestors with current reputation. The dialogue questions whether the author’s forebears would be proud or ashamed of him, implying social judgment and inherited status. The quotation highlights family lineage and reputational concerns within a literary frame.
A short vignette describes Maude spotting her first gray hair and crying briefly before drying her eyes and dyeing it. The line hints at a common reaction and the quick return to routine.
A brief humorous exchange from the Chicago American features a shipwrecked sailor lamenting his lack of grub and a deprecating reply from a shipwrecked gentleman about squeezing starch from a shirt to make pudding.
A Yonkers Statesman column offers a compact aphoristic verse about contrasts and ironies, pairing common proverbs with sharp imagery to imply social tensions and resilience in the city. The piece contrasts sweetness and danger in urban life and human nature.
In a courtroom aside, the judge notes Madge’s lack of interest in history while Marjorie is criticized for preferring popular historical novels over study. The exchange highlights attitudes toward academic focus and literary tastes.
A Brooklyn Eagle note quotes a child and parent exchanging a playful promise about revealing the task first. The fragment reflects casual family dialogue and urban newspaper tone.
Towne notes difficulty finding cooks to move to suburbs while Subbs recalls hosting 32 guests at their home in the past year, highlighting social strain and hospitality norms in town.
Paris steamboats carry 25,670,640 passengers a year while Britain's mercantile tonnage rivals combined rivals of six powers. A regular semi monthly San Francisco to Manila service is to start with two first class steamers. Oceanic's Sonoma shatters Pacific record San Francisco to Auckland in 17 days 11 hours 28 minutes.
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