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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1904
Page
7
Evelyn Simms recalls a past in a tranquil English hedgerow landscape. The poem describes a hillside path shaded by grasses leading to a dell with hyacinths and forget-me-nots, primroses, and cowslips. A sunlit stream threads through bracken as a cuckoo chorus signals spring.
Nate Darrel travels from Anaconda to Sandy Bar with a risk hungry code of luck guiding him. He taunts fate, outplays a gambler rival, and forges a tense meeting with Murgatroyd while a mysterious stranger and a fortune teller shadow his path toward a high stakes confrontation.
The empress trains the Kaiser’s daughter in home economics at Potsdam as a model kitchen is built for her. Princess Victoria Louise, 11, spends two hours daily with Ober hofkuchenmeister Huebner learning baking and cooking, while parents and courtiers observe with affection. The child, blond with blue eyes, is lively and willful yet supervised by her stern father.
A reflective piece urging mothers to model inner beauty through kindness and virtue rather than mere clothing. It notes children imitate facial expressions and attitudes, while highlighting that confident posture and a smiling gaze reflect soul beauty. The piece closes with a Dew Drops moral about beauty as deeds and thoughts.
A six room Artin Architecture house is planned with a stone foundation, cedar shingle gables, and dark olive green exterior. Living room and dining room feature fireplaces, bay window, and cased openings, with yellow pine floors and two staircases.
Bureau of Statistics notes February 1904 exports of domestic manufactures rose to an all time high with eight month totals surpassing prior years. Forecasts for the year suggest a new record surpassing 1900. Separately, Canadian divorces remain rare with 69 in Ontario and 60 in the territories from 1868 to 1900.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer extols the wedding chest as a stylish and practical gift for engaged and even single girls. The conceit is a trunk or wooden chest filled with items for wear or home decoration, reflecting both sentiment and utility.
Several girls, described as bonnie Scotch maidens, fill chests with gloves, lingerie, lace, and tasteful linens. They collect table linen, napkins, mats, centerpieces, china, and bric a brac, saving items for their future homes. Friends often help fund the chests, though some prefer to claim purchases were their own money.
The article notes scarce Russian pottery outside Russia with a royal St Petersburg porcelain factory, bold arabesque decor, and relief heads. It cites the Pennsylvania Museum’s collection from 1876 and mentions a fine single modern porcelain piece. Also included are two light museum-style anecdotes about Miss Marjorie and a cook’s cucumber tip.
Col Brownlow of Tennessee champions federal cooperation in road improvement. He cites widespread public demand, backing from governors and legislatures, and support from W H Moore and J He Bruner. He compares proposed road funding to navy and river projects, urging a modest $8 million per year over three years and predicting swift federal-state cooperation.
The article discusses pearl value growth driven by demand with India supplying lustrous specimens and Torres Strait Thursay Island devoted to the industry. It covers diving depths for shells, uses of shells in London bi monthly sales, pearl types, and limited success of artificial production. It then shifts to world debt statistics, noting France UK Germany Italy Spain leading totals and per capita figures, US debt, and a remark on electricity as ether disturbance.
The piece notes two places where travelers pass through tropical subtropical and temperate zones within an hour by climbing high mountains. Hawaii and Darjeeling offer this transition from palm trees and tropical fruit to cooler, forested altitudes ending near tea cultivation and northern floral climates. Britain reports a rapid firing British field gun and global shipbuilding stats.
A Farm and Home tip by James H. Merrill describes a makeshift furrow comb attached to a plow. A 4x4 piece hinged behind the moldboard and a rope from the double tree pull the outer end, dragging each furrow at a 45 degree angle to mash lumps before they set. The author notes covering three furrows with three passes each for rapid work.
The article notes widespread use of screens in creameries and cheese factories as dairy inspectors in a western state report on safeguards. It urges managers to install screens to prevent flies that contaminate milk, cream, butter, and cheeses, citing prior laxities and the need for improved sanitary measures.
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