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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1904
Page
4
The new Majestic theatre at Fort Wayne burned Tuesday. Loss estimated at $50,000, covered by insurance. Postal notices list rates for daily and weekly edition deliveries and long distance telephone numbers.
A large audience attended the Thursday night high school entertainment, with recitations songs and a notable sum raised. Libbie Crossland thanks her class for a Bible gift. Rev Kelley receives a Christmas rocker from the farmers. Herm Blosser mends after a foot injury. Families visit relatives in Garrett Toledo and Indianapolis amid holiday activities.
Francis Wire resigns as US judge for the northern district of Ohio effective February 1 to resume private practice in Cleveland. Jackson Swisnen sentenced to one year in Ohio penitentiary for arson, from Lucas county, from a wealthy family. JW Gaiby of Lima Trust Co. electrocuted in his bathroom in Toledo, after touching a chandelier while standing on an iron register. A Toledo firm offers to bail Mrs. Chadwick and pay $2000 weekly for ten to twenty weeks. Jacob Netreno, Toledo junk dealer, gets seven years for receiving stolen property and running a school of crime. President Castro again repudiates payments to powers over damages in the Venezuela dispute. US may compel compliance. Hollister's Rocky Stain Tea advertises happiness and product. Weis enburger & Emery.
The Caspian Sea and Aral Lake shine as major global features with vast areas and depths. The Caspian, nearly as large as France, sits eighty four feet below the Black Sea, while Aral and Balkhash grow deeper since 1801 though both are brackish or fresh water. their waters reflect historic sea depressions and climate.
A preacher argues that Sunday schools must adopt better organization and clearer instruction. He urges modern graduates to demand improved methods, notes children imitate weak teaching, and promotes upgrading with books like The Organized Sunday School and Grading the Sunday School. A future note promises summaries of effective practices in America.
The report surveys instances of rain from clear skies, naming serein in France, southeast wind effects in Marfitius, and a Genoese tale of six minutes of warm drizzle during a cloudless night. Explanations include upper atmospheric vapor condensation and ice particles melting, or warm and cold air currents colliding to cause precipitation.
A slender young woman visiting a London art show recognizes a portrait of herself as the model Doninthorne painted. An artist explains he sought her identity to trace a life, and invites her to dinner. They discuss art, love, and ambition amid the Strand view. She reveals an engagement ring but asks to begin as friends while he shares his tale and hopes for the Sir Anthony Frewell academy reception.
A Brit and American joke about fog transformed into bricks and a house, ending with a punchline on glazed fog bricks and a vanished home. The tale riffes on wartime fog economy and London’s smog origin, closing with a wry, aged newspaper banter tone.
A narrative excerpt recounts a dinner with John Adams in 1818 hosted by Henry Bradshaw Fearson, detailing a simple menu and domestic staff. It then shifts to a County Wexford custom where funeral processions place two crosses along the road, one by a hawthorn and another at the grave site, reflecting ancient practice.
The New York Tribune describes Montenegro’s open air jail in Cetinje located in the capital’s main square. Minor offenders are confined outdoors by day, with night lodging in the town hall. Prisoners freely roam the square as punishment while escape would endanger the pursuers’ honor.
In Cherbourg the Count Du barry hires the Meteor to pursue his runaway wife aboard the Flying Cloud. A long sea chase from Madeira to the Cape, with Messmore and the Countess aboard the pursued craft, ends at Cape Town where Messmore kills the Count. The Count escapes. the wife returns to Paris and is forgiven.
The Wa bash offers round trip excursion tickets at low rates to southern regions with good return by 20 days after sale and special rates on holidays. The Wabash and Ohio Central Lines provide reduced rates for homeseekers and letters, with details available from agents or Moulton Houk Toledo General Passenger Agent.
The B and O railroad will offer low rate excursion tickets from all stations west of the Ohio river for Christmas and New Year holidays December 24 to 26 and January 1 and 2. Tickets valid for return until January 4 to all points on the B and O and connections west of Pittsburg Wheeling and Parkersburg. For details contact a company agent or BN Austin, GPA Chicago.
The piece notes black and red velvet costumes trimmed with black skin piping panels and wide black lace bands. It cautions fashion repeats the overuse of white and blue frocks from spring, urging restraint while still embracing vivid velvet styles, lace and daring shapes as wartime attire evolves.
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