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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
5
Poem recalling a rural church in pine shadows with praise for heavenly peace. The speaker evokes fading paths, lingering memory, and visions of Zion as old songs rise to the sky. Cited from the Atlanta Constitution.
In a harsh upland, a priest and exile endures perilous travel and evolving loyalties. Zaemon urges a return to defend Atlantis while the narrator admits his deeper love for Nais outweighs sacred vows, planning to honor her above all.
A Pearson's Magazine view describes Russian soldiers as simple and poorly paid. Their main pleasures are singing, dancing, and playing small instruments like harmonika and batlailai ka, with chorus singing valued and rewarded by officers. Ivan Ivanovitch, the typical soldier, endures four years of service on meager wages unless support comes from home.
A Philadelphia Record item notes a disappointing social moment as Charley visits Sue-Mabel and declines a proposal, instead reciting the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale. The scene hints at romance stalled by a moralizing aside.
A brief item notes humor as a social guide with a focus on restraint and timing. It cites the idea that a man with humor knows when not to chase a seat, reflecting urban manners and wit in daily life. The column highlights humorous self control as a social virtue.
The Chicago Chronicle notes common schemes women use to earn extra cash. Wives and daughters leverage skills from hat trimming to lace making and violet culture. Embroidering turnover collars, knitting underskirts, and home lace work offer small profits, while violet cultivation grows in popularity despite varying success.
English household devices highlighted by the Brooklyn Eagle include a teacup clip cradle for crackers, a tea infuser with tong handle, classic form claret and water mugs and cream pots, and an egg cup. The designs emphasize ornamental appeal plus practicality, reflecting English innovations for the American home.
A tailor advises drying a soaked coat on a hanger and shaping it with crumpled newspapers. Hang it where there is space, button up, stuff the coat into its worn form, smooth the fabric, and let it dry to preserve its shape.
Description of Miss Alice Roosevelt as a tall athletic debutante in New York society. The piece notes her independence, physical traits, and family ties to Theodore Roosevelt, including her mother’s previous marriage and a prestigious Boston lineage. It mentions a $100,000 bequest from an anonymous admirer and references a White House ball in her honor.
The article explains tears as a natural eye cleanser with chemical notes on phosphate of lime and soda, describing tears as tonic for sight and linking female emotion to tear sensitivity. It blends Hygienic Gazette religious commentary with New Testament reflections on Stephen and deacons, faith, and moral instruction.
Ida Cuthbert, daughter of retired Capt. Nelson Bronson U.S.A., was granted an absolute divorce from Frederick R. Cuthbert. They eloped to Albany seven years ago when she was 15. A son, Roland Jerome, six, lives with Ida's father the captain. Ida's mother descends from an North American Indian chief.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports Paderewski will visit again and will be accompanied by his wife. This follows the public pursuit of Kubelik as hero worship continues.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, an avid amateur photographer, showcased a picture with the inscription Taken by O. W. Holmes & Sun on its back, reflecting his playful attribution.
The Prussian government built a central pigeon breeding station at Spandau. In Germany 2,000,000 Mormons abstain from alcohol coffee tea and worldly amusements. Germany imported apples worth 10 million dollars and pears worth 2.5 million. London emits 18,000 tons of unused fuel daily. Poppy cultivation replaces wheat around Foochow. Opium production pays better. An Austrian army mobile trial saved 2915 dollars versus horse transport. Siberian crops rot due to storage and transport limits. Austria’s beet sugar harvest 1901 estimated at 179 million centners, up 17 percent from 1900. Germany may require state exams for two thirds of 150,000 music teachers. Snuff’s 19th century revival noted in London.
A flood of congratulatory letters from across the United States testifies to Pe-ru-na’s value as a catarrh remedy. Dr Hartman reports hundreds daily. endorsements span social classes and professions. A 1898 Oregon governor letter cited, praising perpetual household use.
Market notes from Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Cincinnati report futures and spot prices for flour wheat corn oats and butter eggs cheese potatoes and cattle sheep hogs and lambs with bid ranges and reported trades for February 17 across regional exchanges.
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