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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1904
Page
7
Advice on wooing a maid from M. Lewis in the Houston Post. The verse urges courage and steady devotion, noting seasons, fear, and persistence as keys to love and happiness. It frames romance as a noble endeavor and warns against doubt.
The party follows strange clawed tracks and mysterious signs through remote forest and swamp. They discover a birch bark canoe and approach a hidden cabin where a lone inhabitant may dwell, amid quiet squirrels and rustic life. The mystery deepens as they await the owner’s appearance.
A People’s Home Journal description explains how Apache and Sioux medicine men rely on spiritual beliefs rather than drugs. Dress includes bear skins, rattles, spear-like wands, and talismans of reptiles and animals. Methods feature chanting, feigned sickness, and drawing out evil spirits with ritual images and animal figures.
Four hunters debate the strange figure they found near their camp on a lake. Martin pushes to pursue the midnight intruder while Dr Sol insists on retreating, weary of the eerie presence and danger in the woods.
A Farm Journal verse notes a ten year old boy who has outgrown his rocking horse and toy soldier. The poem contrasts a vanished childhood with a mother’s wistful sigh, saying earthly gold cannot restore her son’s youth. The yearned boy, once on his mother’s lap, now steps toward growing up.
A mother's note to a teacher explains her son Miss Frank could not attend for three weeks due to amonia and information of the vowels. The phrasing suggests a humorous or garbled spelling incident in a Louisville schoolboy's absence.
Town of Allamuchy in New Jersey faces a surge of rattlers and other snakes after blasting for a new road near Washington. Residents armed with clubs patrol streets and churches as locals share tales of venom and improvised protection.
An anecdote about Dr. William Burt of Rome, newly elected Methodist bishop, famed for cheerfulness and patience. A clergyman praises his good disposition, and Burt recalls a childhood lesson from a little girl named Nancy who described her father as liking “most anything we haven't got” implying contentment.
A bulldog visits a surgeon with a broken arm seen on its master’s arm. The surgeon repairs the limb with splints and it heals. Later another dog arrives with a pin in a three legged limb, the pin is removed and the dog recovers.
A tombstone in a Paris dog cemetery honors a Saint Bernard who saved the lives of 40 people and was killed by the forty first. The inscription recalls the dog as faithful and heroic in his memory.
The article recalls how Native American squaws started fires with two flint stones and built a hot stone bath for cooking. Children gathered dry leaves and twigs, stones heated in water, then hot stones were added to boil water for cooking corn or nuts, as shown in a Chicago Tribune illustration.
Large crabs on Ascension Island reach about a foot in length and have been observed stealing rabbits from their burrows and consuming them.
The biological survey report on birds of prey stresses their role in controlling mice snakes rats and similar pests. It argues that hawks and owls also help protect game birds by reducing predator numbers and notes that removing birds can harm trout by diminishing spawn devourers.
The Mexican Herald labels marijuana a dangerous habit linked to Manuel Guerrero and Florencio Pino, noting their recent involvement with the drug and its perceived risks.
An elderly sailor recalls a tale shared with a Portland reader about seabirds drinking rain from a tropical storm cloud. He describes birds gathering under a rain cloud, drinking as rain falls, a behavior observed thousands of miles from shore.
Prof Gates of Harvard cites a five to six year courtship tale as a humorous example of double meaning. A man who visits five nights weekly refrains from proposing, shyly sits opposite his sweetheart as time slowly changes them both.
A tense domestic exchange unfolds as a desperate woman questions a shy lover about a recent purchase. The man admits buying a $10 business suit, denying any wedding connotation, while the woman insists she means business.
Weeks of heavy marijuana use preceded a Tuesday incident where two men smoked cigarettes with low tobacco, then ran amok in the street. They fought, were wounded, captured, and hospitalized in restraints. Doctors fear lasting mental decline if recovery occurs.
The Hour Glass notes the most expensive lace today valued at $5,000 per yard. It imitates old point with finest filigree silver and diamond encrusted pattern, selling at about $140 an inch. High prices reflect careful workmanship and expensive thread, such as $20 per ounce Flanders thread, yielding lace worth $2,000.
A British army doctor observed that music heard near wounded soldiers slowed or stopped bleeding. Though mechanism unclear, it is thought air vibrations render the patient faint, reducing heart action and thus hemorrhage.
An Ohio Farmer reader describes an automatic water fountain for large flocks using a ten gallon keg and a pint cup fed by a tube. Fill the keg by removing the top cork, then seal and keep the tube below the top to prevent leaks. One cup serves a sizable flock, box elevates the unit to keep dirt out, and daily attention suffices.
The article notes 600000000 yearly passenger journeys in greater London with over 1500000 trips on a weekday. It cites 16054 vehicles in 12 hours at a Piccadilly spot and 690 buses per hour at Bank Station. London trams carry over 360000000 passengers annually and pedestrian counts reach 116902 at London Bridge with 248015 crossing Bank roads in a day.
A ragged Malaga boy asked for a jacket and shoes after breaking into Alfonso's carriage. The king asked about the boy's father and learned he was too poor to help. He directed the boy’s address and the boy declared May the king live forever, instead of thanking the monarch.
A Waterville Kansas girl writes home about moving with her parents to Indian Territory. She declares she now has enough trees and tires of mountains and pines, noting their beauty makes one long for something else.
Fannie M. Wood advises beginners to start with one empty starter super per hive and add partly filled sections from active colonies to stimulate early work. Keep brood heat prioritized, and save bait comb sections for future use. Weather, nectar flow, and strong colonies affect honey yield.
Oliver E. Doubleday notes ground type affects post longevity. In clay or gumbo land posts last longer, while sandy or loamy soils rot faster. Burr oak proved best, remaining 38 years in ground. white oak and black walnut next. white walnut from large trees also good. locusts poorer.
In pastures with no trees animals rub fences causing injuries and broken barriers. Install rubbing posts to improve comfort and prevent fence damage. Two designs shown: a two post top piece and b single angled post with rounded corners. Posts must be high enough and top rail mortised and set securely to avoid breakage.
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