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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
6
A preacher argues that summer vacation temptations test Christian discipline. Excesses in rest, pleasures, and debt erode devotion, while true mastery requires temperance in eating, recreation, and spiritual duties. The sermon urges keeping Christ central, even in summer.
The lesson details Jonathan and David's covenant and friendship in the face of Saul's hostility. It notes their secret signaling in the field, Jonathan's defense of David, and their vow of lasting friendship despite imminent separation. The text emphasizes character, courage, and selflessness as key traits of true friendship.
Dr Robert C. Kemp reports to the New York Academy of Science on experiments inspired by Dr Pruss claiming possible revival and permanent recovery for apparently dead individuals. He describes a heart massage technique via chest incision and saline infusion with a pump to resume respiration tested on dogs with some success. He notes a prior human attempt failed but expects improvement with experience.
The item surveys Russia’s river network linked by canals, cites a New York physician’s quip about annual efforts, notes a double headed snake sighting in California, and compares typhoid mortality in U S cities with European rates while quoting President Keen on hospital care and scientific methods.
Dr Charles Wardell Stiles advances a new mosquito enemy, an invasive threadworm agamomermis culicis, proposed by Prof John B Smith. The parasite, carried by raw eggs, could decimate marsh populations and reduce mosquito numbers next season in New Jersey.
The New York Herald reports termites in tropical regions organize like a state with workers soldiers and queens. Nests rise high and galleries extend underground while native hunters hide within.
The London Lancet reports rain water carries dissolved solids from June rainfall in London. Analysis shows 9.1 grains per gallon of solids including salt, ammonium sulfate, soot, and nitrates, with coal combustion identified as a major source. The figures claim vast removal of impurities amounting to thousands of tons across the region.
A 1900 paper by Dr. L C Howard on the insect fauna of human excrement details how 98 percent of 27 087 house flies sampled in kitchens spread typhoid. It argues for screened manure pits outhouses and water carriage disposal and lime treatment to prevent fly development and disease transmission.
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