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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
7
A lyric reflecting on a May world and love sung through shifting seasons. The speaker contrasts fleeting happiness with memory and enduring emotion, noting how the song persists beyond blossoms and changing times. The verse suggests love survives as a constant under changing skies and a fading spring.
Tob plots to seize control of a future Tin island kingdom with Deucalion as king while Deucalion contemplates staying in Atlantis. They voyage along a perilous coast, harvest provisions, and debate gods, fate, and the offer of power as Tob insists on ruling their new world.
Instructions describe building a humane vermin trap using a wooden box with a hinged top an external notch a balancing stick a spool and a baited plate. A string release mechanism triggers the cover to drop when the animal touches bait and dislodges a balanced stick. Farm and Home notes offer variations including a weight on the cover.
A Kentuckian revisits a popular tale with Uncle Rastus as he naps by his fire. A neighbor, coaxed by the smell of possum, enters and samples the dish, leaving only bones and grease. Rastus awakens to find the prank, but vows to eat “that possum” despite the thinner feast.
A Cambridge tale from the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post recounts Prof Royce and a visitor James Russell Powell at the door. Royce’s son, a boy in knickerbockers, had played with the hose, provoking the inquiry and the genius remark.
In a National Stockman letter, a farm group criticizes rural free mail delivery and store meeting gatherings. The writer condemns the store box as a needless social trap, calls for reading better papers, and urges attending the grange for refinement and culture.
John Eckroat explains practical squaring techniques using two six foot posts to align north south and east west lines. He details stakes placed at shadow ends at noon and at six o clock for morning or night to form a right angle. A triangle of sx4 boards yields a ten foot side for building layouts.
The article notes mistletoe as a parasite on trees and its use in Christmas decorations. Demand has exhausted natural supplies, threatening extermination in many areas. Efforts to propagate the plant include planting it on young apple trees in some parts of England.
Prof Triggs told a Chicago University class that Washington and Franklin rise above Stevenson and Macaulay for prose. He argued value comes from content and experience, not rhetoric, and that Washington’s writings reflect knowledge gained in action. Another professor urged theatergoers seek didactic value in drama.
Isaac H. Levagood reports from Didsbury Alberta that Kansas and Missouri delegates touring Western Canada praise the new settlement lands. He notes extensive land transfers, rising community growth, a planned schoolhouse, and settlers improving to 160 acres with livestock as crops look promising for a winter wheat region.
A toy flying machine becomes a popular novelty despite its failure to fly. The model draws on the Santios-Dumont affair and relies on a string of wire to move. Earlier gas-inflated toys did fly but were deemed unsafe, so make-believe remains central to the toy’s appeal.
A London fashion journal praises Miss L for rare grip and grace as a musical performer. The reviewer commends her courage and stamina from Beethoven through Bach Brahms to Capriccios and waltzes, noting a lively racy style unseen often in musical criticism.
Miss Mattie Douglass of 138 Thomas Ave Memphis Tennessee writes of long standing headaches and poor health improving after using Peruna. She reports buoyant health and no headaches for over a year and offers a strong endorsement. A note says many women across the United States and Canada testify to Peruna's virtue.
An advertisement asserts Peruna fully cures catarrhal diseases and renews mucous membranes. It targets women as more weather sensitive, urging early use to prevent lingering illnesses and offering free medical advice from Dr. Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
A young pastor dining with a congregation family launches into a treatise on life. A child at the table interrupts with a quip echoing Herbert Spencer, provoking a chorus of amused eyes from all present.
Mrs Uptardeight speaks this afternoon to the Mothers Scientific club on The Care of Children. The discussion follows a local theft where a youngster recently robbed Snoop's candy store, identified as Mrs Uptardeight's youngest.
In a crusty exchange, Willie Boerum defines placid affection as the steady fondness couples show after years of marriage, contrasting it with the early blaze of courtship. The remark frames a humorous, old fashioned view of long term conjugal bond.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway issues a six sheet calendar 12 by 14 inches with ten color portraits by Leon Moran. Copyright owned by the railroad, limited edition available for 25 cents per calendar of six sheets. Mail order to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Detroit Free Press asks what constitutes the severest test of love in a dialogue style. The exchange pits a bold question against a terse answer, exploring romance and fidelity in a concise, period-tinged flare.
The notice promises a 10 cent refund for Mnackage if dissatisfied with PUT NAM FACELESS DUES. In Monroe Ohio Unionville Missouri the Observing Man remarks on a financier's fate, noting a man who lost money in Europe and later made another fortune in Louisiana cane.
A long quotation era ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine promises a one day cure for colds with money back if it fails. It includes testimonials from Mrs Robbins of Norwich NY and J L Bower of Water Street, York PA, and notes on social opinions and wed ding proprieties.
New York prices show flour patents at 3.85 to 4.15, wheat No 2 red 89 to 90 cents, corn 67 to 68 cents, oats 50 cents, hay 17.50 to 18, veals 8.75, lambs 5.75 to 6.60, sheep 3.75 to 5.00, hogs weak. Cleveland reports similar ranges for flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes cattle calves sheep hogs. Toledo and East Buffalo list cash wheat 87.34 cents, corn 62 cents, oats 45 cents, cloverseed 5.75, veals 8.75 to 9.50, hogs 6.50 to 6.65, lambs 6.15 to 6.25.
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