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Defiance Weekly Express

Location

Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1905

Page

7

Hoyt Will Case Brings $200 000 Estate To Judge Bunn

Mrs Charlotte Hoyt widow of Reuben M Hoyt left most of her fortune to her affianced lawyer Judge J F Bunn of Tiffin after divorces. The will contest revealed Hoyt’s lavish life, Bunn’s long legal career, and the Maples estate in Ohio with additional properties in New York and Yonkers.

Tiffin Charlotte Hoyt Reuben M. Hoyt New York City J. F. Bunn Hoyt Will Judge Bunn Eva E. Hill Frank and Rufus Guss Ohio Cincinnati Toledo Ima Tifa Stettheimer New York Hoyt Aristoca the Maples Catherine Guss Reuben A Hoyt Hill Frank Rufus Gus Europe

Oldest Ruins Red-Cut Temples at Ipsambool Nubia

The oldest architectural ruins are believed to be the red cut temples at Ipsambool on the Nile's left bank in Nubia. The largest temple houses 11 stone apartments. A verandalike projection stone measures 57 feet long 52 feet broad and 17 feet thick according to one account.

Ipsambool The Nile Nubia

Prairie dog sprint tale links to fatal shot and church tags

A fragment from a Nebraska hotel debate recalls a legendary sprinter who allegedly outran prairie dogs until buckshot injuries ended his career. Separate notes describe J P Withrow of Hollis NC urging tobacco chewers to save tags to fund a local church. A Missouri lightning strike kills eight cattle on Asa Hull’s Brown county farm.

Norfolk J. P. Withrow Hollis Ellenboro N. C America Hollis Post Office N.C Withrow Bolton Kars2 City Brown County Asa Hull

Only Indian Priest Transferred to Antlers Parish

Father Albert Neganhquet, claimed as the only full blood Indian priest in the United States, has been moved from Eufaula to Antlers. He served two years in Eufaula and will lead a parish largely composed of Italians. Educated in Rome, his fluent Italian prompted the transfer.

Albert Neganhquet United States Eufaula I. T Antlers Negahnquet Rome

Dad Wears His Masonic Fez in Con stantinople

A traveler recalls taking his father to Constantinople where a red fez worn by Dad sparks jokes among Turks and Masonry talk. The tale blends curiosity about shriners with tense moments as a Turkish merchant and a guarded household reveal cultural friction and danger in a vivid, if rambling, anecdote.

Dad Constantinople George W. Peck Russa Moscow Turkey Constantine Ti Sereius Pete Seeeiry Goarom Russau Brecon Sane Masons Turk Justice of the Peace Allah America Bosphorus

Education and industrial progress for the Negro in the South

The speaker urges education that builds head hand and heart, stressing industrial training to secure farmland skilled labor and business ownership. He warns the next twenty years will decide the race’s place in Southern industries and calls educators ministers and friends to unite for practical economic foundations.

South Livestory

Unministerial Discipline by a Bronc o Bull

Rev Elijah Kellogg, famed sea adventurer-turned-minister, tamed a dangerous pasture bull by luring it to the wharf and plunging it into the bay. He then rode its back and forced its head underwater until the creature yielded, afterward becoming a law-abiding beast.

Kellogg Elijah Kellogg Harpswell

City Farm School Turns Street Gangs to Garden Work

A city farm school in De Witt Clinton Park equips both boys and girls from tenement districts to farm and tend recreation grounds. The article notes broader moves toward urban parks, forest belts, and rural access, highlighting Mrs Henry Parsons’s charity in opening summer programs for needy children.

Chicago New York de Witt Clinton Park Henry Parsons

The Little Farmers Park Project Inspires Working Children

A city park adopts a farm plot where 360 children from various backgrounds grow crops such as radishes onions and carrots under careful supervision. The program aims to teach nature study and responsibility, with wild edge plots for observation and future distribution of harvests to schools.

de Witt Clinton Park

England's Reservoirs Beckon Waterfowl and Fish

Some of the great reservoirs in the country districts that supply certain English cities with their water have become populous breeding places for water fowl and are well stocked with valuable fish.

England

Loss in Coal and Yiddish in London Notices

Notes on coal storage reducing heating power with ground coal losing about 47 percent and shed storage around 25 percent. East London population growth prompts official notices to be printed in Yiddish alongside English. Additional items mention a fish theory of human evolution and Paris’s Grand Visseur closing after 136 years, plus Choctaw Indians forming a toad association.

London East London

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