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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
7
A poem by Jennie L. Lyall in Christian Work celebrates beauty and faith. It speaks of sunset skies and heavenly streets, linking nature’s light to divine glory and the promise of resurrection beyond sorrow.
Griswold battles guilt and temptation as Margey letters nudge him toward truth. He confronts Raymer about love and lineage, then confesses his plan to reveal past sins to Charlotte. A midnight confrontation with detective Griffin ends with Griswold cornered and planning further actions.
In a London letter, Annie Besant is described as continuing to shape Indian education while touring continental Europe and likely sailing from a southern port. The piece asserts her enduring influence in England, her aims in India, and the deep ties she maintains with the English public as she plans another nine months in India. Besant is portrayed as a strong, intelligent leader whose work and charm sustain her controversial yet respected role. It notes her education efforts, charitable work with London’s poor, and her defiant stand in court defending her name. The article frames her as a pivotal figure in theosophy and British public life.
Nine year old Edna White of Brooklyn is hailed as the era’s premier cornet prodigy. The New England girl now in New York commands top engagements with bands, orchestras, and societies, rivals musicians twice her age, and quickly learns pieces after hearing them once. She began lessons a year and a half ago, earned her first $50 to buy her current cornet, and can transpose and sight read with ease. A charming, shy child with dark hair and brown eyes, she already plans to accompany vocalists and performs with confidence.
A compact kitchen note shows a rapid biscuit recipe using flour lard baking powder and half and half with egg and sugar for tea cake slices baked in muffin rings. It adds tips on brown bread mid dings and a nutty porridge use. Also reports a 7 pound 1 ounce radish grown in Massachusetts and a fatal horn injury to Mrs Joseph Krumfel from a cow in Altoona Pennsylvania.
A sensational interdenominational committee report warns of rising drug addiction in the United States with over one million morphine “fiends” and one in every hundred addicted. It blames physicians for overprescribing to ease pain and urges creation of a sanitarium for victims.
A long testimonial promotes Doan's Kidney Pills with a Goshen Indiana man claiming thirty years of suffering ended after using the product. Samuel J. Taylor asserts a permanent cure and notes a five year period without kidney issues. The ad offers a free trial and lists Foster-Milburn Co. as the maker with 50 cents per box sales.
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