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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
7
Detective narrator Fairfax and Gideon Hayle clash over a missing diamond case tied to Kitwater and Dodd. Hayle arrives in Paris to discuss betrayals as Fairfax probes the motive behind a decades old heist and the fate of murdered servants.
A reader learns about Tunisian harems from Herbert Vivian's Tunisia and the Modern Barbary Pirates. Mrs. Vivian recalls how women inspect visitors outfits, while the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha experiences a playful, revealing reception among medinas and harems.
An elderly Gettysburg constable, John Burns, wore a buff vest and blue coat with a bell crown hat. He advanced to the skirmish line and fired until retreat, later serving with the Iron Brigade. the poem recalls his practical, steadfast defense and return to farm life.
The 1864 James River action saw the tug Charles Chamberlain fitted as a gunboat under Lt Harris drag the river for torpedoes. A six inch Parrot shell destroyed a Confederate signal tower, and a crewman Dunbar improvised a fuse cut causing a shell to explode aboard the vessel.
James Barnes recalls a Civil War officer who obeyed orders to seize a hostile battery. Despite a brigadier’s doubts, the cadet carried out the mission with bold speed, charging from cover to flank the guns and bring them back intact.
A morning visitor in 1862 claimed loyalty with letters signed by a Maryland governor long dead. Lincoln, warming yet cautious, quipped that he would prefer a letter from a dead man rather than a living one, after an attaché noted the forgery.
A provocative letter to the Journal complains about a foul odor near a border area and mocks local landlady remarks, sparking reader debate on neighborhood standards and public nuisances.
U.S. shipping records for the year ending June 30 1902 report 1657 vessels totaling 473081 gross tons built domestically down from 1079 vessels and 498616 tons the previous year. Steel steamers total 275479 tons with 94 ships over 1000 tons. 41 of these steel steamers 153631 tons built on the Great Lakes. Delays due to steel strike high demand for steel and low freights slowed seaboard steamers.
A Washington Post quip notes an owl gains wisdom by facial repose and asks who ever saw an owl do a wise thing. The moral: when the talk runs deep, act owlish and hoot occasionally.
A Chicago Daily News snippet shows a judge remarking not guilty while Remus expresses fear and denies writing a long word, speaking with dialect and caution about speech.
The piece describes an interchangeable mileage ticket issued by the New York Central and good over 6000 miles of lines east of Buffalo. It can be used by one person or a dozen, is valid until used, and accepted on several allied lines with no limit. Tickets sell for two cents per mile, appealing to regular travelers and many families for ready travel on all NY Central lines east of Buffalo.
A young actor recalls planning to enter quietly on stage and deliver the line Hist then acknowledging an unfinished line and his own confusion in a reflective, humorous reminiscence.
San Francisco August gathering offers round trip rail from Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles for 50 dollars with return by September 30. Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway markets its Short Line between Chicago and Omaha with daily two oreven trains, superior sleeping and dining car service, and maps and timetables available from F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
A Beatrice man attempting to plant a tree on Arbor Day faced strong winds that blew the tree and the planting hole away. He saved himself by gripping his spade and hanging on to it until help arrived.
Advertising copy warns against inferior imitations of Cascarets a popular meritorious medicine. It claims Cascarets outsold rivals with over ten million boxes sold last year. Genuine tablets bear the imprint C C C and are not sold in bulk or jars. Consumers urged to buy at drug stores for 10 25 or 50 cents per box.
A Yonkers Statesman excerpt questions why war is said to thin the ranks if many generals remain fat. The remarks probe the logic behind calls for war as a population or leadership purge.
The New York Central Lines run many trains linking population centers and commerce gateways. A statistician notes it is 3,333,333 times easier to endorse a neighbor's note than to pay it. Chicago Daily News.
A Baltimore World item shows a humorously misread ad for cough remedies mentioning Stops the Cough Soma and Laxative Brome inine Tablets priced at 25 cents. The joke line asks when the chicken was killed and the waiter replies that dates with chicken are not furnished, only bread and butter.
New York reports include flour patents 3.75 to 4.00, wheat No 2 red 76% to 77 cents, corn No 2 66 cents, oats 69 cents, hay 13 to 14 dollars, with lambs 3.37 and hogs weak. Cleveland notes flour patents 4.00 to 4.20, oats 40 cents, timothy hay 14 dollars, eggs 20 cents, butter 21 cents, cattle 6.40 to 7.00, sheep 4.00 to 4.25, Yorkers hogs 7.70. Chicago lists wheat 7.11 to 7.14, corn 58 to 59 cents, oats 37 cents, pork 16.70, cattle 8.00 to 8.55, stockers 2.50 to 5.00. Toledo sees wheat cash, oats 33% on new September, cloverseed 5.15, East Buffalo cattle 7.50 to 7.75, hogs 7.80 to 8.00, lambs 5.75 to 6.00, sheep 4.50 to 4.75.
In a St Louis Republic quotation exchange the doctor argues that self effort wins while the professor contends that blocking others is the key to success. The dialogue frames different paths to achievement with a streetwise edge.
A sharp editorial line from the Chicago Daily News renders a pointed finger of scorn toward a public figure or policy, reflecting urban newsroom sentiment and the era's partisan tenor.
A testimonial style ad noting Allen's Foot-Ease relieves swollen feet and sweating and promises trials are free. Available at druggists 25c with no substitutes. Address A S Olmsted Le Roy New York. Also includes a quoted Tennyson line and a consumer claim about Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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