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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
3
A poetic sketch depicts a schoolhouse environment where chipmunks sit upright to greet visitors, a wren guards four hidden eggs, and squirrels, shellbarks, chinkapins, and acorns are counted. Spiders work geometry without dividers while sparrows scratch tracks that resemble Spencerian writing.
In Greenvale, Angie and Martin marry in a modest ceremony as the town celebrates their devotion. The village witnesses social change with new church ideas, uplifted spirits, and Aunt Comfort facing the sorrow of parting as the hermit tale closes.
The North Sea fishing industry gains public attention after Russian action against British vessels. Trawling began over 20 years ago amid shipping stagnation, evolving from wood to iron ships and from sail to steam. Hull shows 860 steam trawlers in 1900, four sail-powered. two fleet models—independent trawlers and large firms with Fleeters—dominate. Carrier vessels move fish to London. Royal National Mission to Deep-sea Fishermen supports a hospital steam trawler launched 1899 with advanced facilities and Rontgen equipment, reflecting Grimsby and Hull’s prominence.
A collage of notes ranges from offshore fishers’ hardships and corporate ownership to astronomical guides for Polaris and the Big Dipper, then shifts to monotelephone line tech and a glimpse of elite British household economy, ending with a 1900 death registration note and regional data.
A German authority estimates Belgium’s foreign investments at no less than 1.5 billion dollars, with France showing about 6 billion and Britain far higher. The article notes British investments possibly around 6 to 17 billion, Germany about half of France, and Russia as a major debtor with French Belgian and German funds active there.
The pole star stands as the constant reference in the night sky marking true north. It remains fixed while other stars drift relative to it, serving as a navigational beacon for explorers and observers.
A scientific report notes Indiana springs or wells with waters that magnetize steel objects. Magnetism stems from dissolved carbonate of iron turning to carbonic acid gas and magnetic iron oxide. Decomposition ends, water loses magnetism. compass needles deviate, and a knife blade becomes briefly magnetized, while water can corrode boilers unless standing allows decomposition.
A French high school professor Merendier unveils a telegraph system using an alternating current tuned by a tuning fork with a fixed vibration count to send multiple messages over the same wire. The interrupted circuit current can be broken into distinct signals for simultaneous transmission.
The U S government appoints David Hill of Little Falls as custodian of Star Island in Cass Lake. Hill and his family relocate to the island’s pine forest paradise, praised by Gen C C Andrews for its beauty. The timber will be protected from fire and trespass. Lunch customs in Japan noted as hostess gently hints guests to depart.
A tale from Smith's Weekly recounts a plumber charging £10 to a retired millionaire. The man, claiming past plumber experience, hands over a sovereign and orders “Receipt that bill.” The plumber accepts 10s change, noting the rich man’s confidence. The quip closes with a woodpecker toast and a monkey saying.
A collage of humorous bits and cartoons from various papers includes a derisive line about marriage, reflections on social titles like "The Honorable," playful exchanges between maids and mistresses, mock ads, and light cartoons. The items display era tone and social satire with quick gags and captions.
A buyer and a slick seller trade boasts as the horse changes hands. The buyer discovers the truth only after the animal collides with a post on the way out, exposing the wheedling nature of the deal in a sharp echo of Cincinnati Commercial Tribune satire.
The Spaniards met the potato in Peru where it had long been cultivated by natives. It took about a century to reach Europe. It appeared in Spain in 1857 and Raleigh began cultivation in Ireland in 1856 from North Carolina seed. The note adds Japan's banking scene with one foreign savings bank and four foreign ordinary banks among 467 savings banks and 1,799 ordinary banks.
A collage of quips from Chicago Tribune Chicago News and other papers features feisty banter about love fever lines farm politics and social roasts. Jokes touch on aloof lovers fever lips and witty exchanges with farmers politicians and sports talk.
Adam Roth of Ontario submits a barn frame plan from the Canadian Farmers Advocate known as the bridge beam. The design uses slant outline posts to remove barn floor posts, enabling full wagons and teams to turn easily and increasing strength with square-based framing and carefully joined CDE and D E sections, rafters, braces, and a bell shaped end roof.
A compact device shown adapts a sled to pull heavy loads in dry or muddy conditions. It serves many wagon-like purposes, promising easier pulls during this season when sleds carry extra weight.
A simple device adapting a farmer’s self binder trucks to a sled can cut the pulling effort in half. Place trucks under the sled’s top piece about two feet back on a 12 foot sled and three feet back on a four foot sled, secure with wire or a U clamp to prevent slipping when loaded.
The article argues every farm animal deserves good care and notes economical feeding. It advises dry shelled corn over corn meal for fattening hogs, stresses selective breeding for fertility, warns against overfeeding corn to pigs, and cautions against rough handling of horses to curb shying.
John Jackson of the Agricultural Epitomist argues against saltpeter in pork preservation. He notes nitric acid from salt and saltpeter harms meat and causes diseases like scurvy and dental ulcers. He recommends sugar as a sweeter, wholesome preservative substitute.
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