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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
4
A man at a restaurant laments he has no home to return to for Christmas. He rejects sympathy, stating no divorce or reverses of fortune, but acknowledges shared human sorrow as festive celebrations unfold at his former home. A newcomer offers help. the bald man reflects on losing his house.
A husband laments Christmas gift chaos at home as his wife and daughters craft and hoard impractical items. He endures a house full of embroidered mufflers, waxed tins, and bric a brac while pondering the odd artistry of common objects and the cost of sentiment in holiday giving.
Bargle the village sexton opposes Christmas bells but a mysterious tolling draws him to the church where he finds his daughter Alice in danger and a pair of visitors reveal themselves as the Squire's sons who dared ring the bells early revealing Bargle's long overdue forgiveness and duty.
New York Central promotes a safer suburban electric system by boxing the third rail and routing contact from beneath. The under contact rail uses insulated blocks, wooden sheathing, and continuous board protection to reduce shock risk, weathering, and ice buildup while keeping a clear contact path.
Readers are shown basic demonstrations of centrifugal force using a water filled pail and a spinning globe. Water clings to the bottom when spun rapidly, rising along the pail walls and forming a hollow center, while adding oil creates a central hollow. The method also illustrates milk cream separation, and a spinning top or globe disperses water outward, confirming the force.
A light exchange between Mrs. Nexdoor and Mrs. Sunshine on gifting habits. Mrs. Sunshine says she buys for herself and trades with her husband who does the same. The conversation centers on mutual wishes and practical humor about holiday shopping.
The practice of giving presents on Christmas Day appears linked to a broad custom of sharing gifts. The text suggests a general spirit of generosity and exchange tied to the holiday season.
The Detroit Free Press notes that Christmas generosity began with great lords gifting retainers and grew into widespread charity, as the season shifted to everyone giving friends presents.
A Chicago Interior author notes that the unseen hunger at a neighbor’s holiday table stands as a skeleton in one’s own feast, linking shared kindness to stark hardship across the community.
Margaret E. Sangster celebrates Christmas as a time to dress the home in holly pine and fir and to mingle with festive crowds. She urges participation in the bright chat and shared joy among friends, noting the happiness of children and the exhilaration of being part of the holiday crowd.
Describes hanging decorations for the Christmas tree using peanuts wrapped in tissue, cranberries on red strings, and gilded English walnuts. For the walnuts, crack to two halves, place a motto inside, glue, attach a tack, and hang the shells as ornaments on the tree.
A warm Christmas reminder celebrates the day as the worldwide anniversary of Christ's birth. The text urges happiness and spreading cheer to others, embracing the day’s sweet significance for all people.
A lighthearted item from the Chicago Post notes the tension of holiday costs as a quip about a father’s gloomy mood. A quick exchange hints at the burden of Christmas expenses in a playful newspaper vignette.
Andrew Whiton recalls in Popular Mechanics how he cut chestnut logs into tapering fence posts by sawing square then splitting diagonally. The posts were set in the ground large end down, bringing half of them bottom up from their natural growth and reflecting an old farmer’s advice.
A narrator explains marking inverted logs as a fence was built nearby and nine years later the inverted ones remained sound while the upright logs decayed more. The observation supports choosing inverted construction for durability.
The Saltair process uses a large settling basin to remove impurities from lake water, creating reddish iron-rich deposits. Harvesting ponds, about 90 000 square yards and six inches deep, are filled May to September as evaporation concentrates salt before plowing up the salt layer for milling and final processing.
A $1,200 pearl necklace stolen from a bride in Brooklyn during a fashionable wedding is recovered after three decades. The tale highlights romance and mystery as the long-lost jewel returns to its rightful owner amid modern excitement.
An Iowa woman files for divorce claiming her husband has not bathed for 22 years. She argues any wife may seek divorce when a husband shirks the bath for extended periods.
A Chicago zoo keeper was robbed in a recent incident. He remarked that the more he deals with people the more he likes animals, highlighting his preference for creatures over humans.
A short kitchen experiment suggests using an orange half with the peel intact as a holly shaped hemisphere. Readers are invited to try a simple method with common table items for a festive display.
Instructions describe a plastic orange cup placed in a tumbler with two holes in the bottom. Red wine poured in rises through a hole while clear water flows through the other, separating by density. The setup can use oil instead of wine or water with milk or colored syrup. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune origin.
A National Tribune correspondent recalls a 1864 Florence South Carolina prison experience and a near escape during September. He details a claustrophobic four-man dugout hidden under rails, guards probing, a fierce muskets volley, bayonet prods, and a brutal sprint to the stockade gate that left him wind-broken weeks later.
A farm near Biggleswade England lit a field with acetylene gas and attached two six foot mowers to an Ivel gasoline tractor. The set up cut 15 acres in 3 hours and 35 minutes proving day and night agricultural work is feasible with gasoline power.
In New York four master conductors Walter Damrosch Victor Herbert John Philip Sousa and Nahan Franko led the same orchestra at a St Cecile lodge of Masons concert. No precedence was claimed as the Masonic sign bridged the status gap and equalized the performers.
An old Thirty-First Illinois member recounts Gen. Logan's bravery at Fort Donelson where his regiment suffered heavy losses. Logan was wounded in the left breast and carried off as dead. His wife famously forced her way to his bedside and tended him, nursing both him and Col. Morrison through injuries.
Mme. Maxime Gorky challenges the common story of her husband’s origins. She asserts he was born to well-to-do parents and that his grandfather, a painter, gave him lessons despite no formal schooling.
The Detroit Free Press quotes a reflection on cheerfulness as the sunny ray of life and the way a person forms his path through inward and outward circumstances. It suggests happiness is a personal choice shaping one's trajectory.
The piece notes widows now wield influence in arms manufacturing, citing Krupp’s widow and Mrs Colr as leaders of major revolver production. It casts their roles as pivotal in European gun markets with a cultural nod to power behind the industry.
The Chicago Inter Ocean recounts memories of Seventy-sixth Ohio and others from Company B struck by lightning near Young's Point Louisiana in February 1863. It details fatalities and injuries, then shifts to Lexington Missouri and a tale of soldiers under heavy fire, highlighting patient endurance and improvised actions by scattered Union troops.
After two years the Duke of Argyll restarts treasure search in Tobermory bay off Mull for the sunken Florida galleon of 1588. Operations are kept secret with boats hidden under canvas awnings.
Grace Wales a 13 year old farmer near Sedgwick is noted for her work this season harvesting 90 acres of grain cultivating 20 acres of corn ploughing 44 acres of wheat harrowing 40 acres and mowing 50 acres of hay according to the Kansas City Journal.
Canadian authorities establish a permanent post office at Fort McPherson in the Arctic circle. The facility serves winter needs and marks a distant extension of Ottawa's mail network, located roughly 5,000 miles from Ottawa and about 2,000 miles north of Edmonton.
A clock in the tower of the new naval college at Dartmouth will indicate ship time, striking eight six four bells and the like to synchronize with aboard vessels, reflecting the maritime timetable standard.
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