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Newspaper

Defiance Weekly Express

Location

Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 02, 1902

Page

8

Fainting Spells Tied to Womanly Disease and Cure

A medical feature discusses fainting spells among women, noting men rarely faint. It cites Mrs. Hackett of Brt. Chemung Co N Y praising Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Goldest Medical Discovery for chronic liver inflammation uterine trouble and heart disease. It urges sick women to consult Dr. Pierce by letter and highlights The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser free upon request.

Alon Dr. Pierce M. A. Farrington Milford Edward Co Sage Doctor Pierce Pierce R. V. Pierce Buffalo N. Y People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser

Unclear Entry From OCR Page

The readable text is fragmentary and contains no identifiable人物 or events. Key names, places, dates, or organizations are not present to form a coherent news item.

Mushroom identification lesson from Uncle Rastus

A Chicago Tribune piece presents Uncle Rastus learning mushroom identification from a botany professor. The exchange contrasts Amanita phalloides deadly to Agaricus campestris edible with clear distinguishing features for pileus, gills, stalk, ring, base, and bulb.

Rastus Uncle Rastus Chicago Tribune

Foot in the Car Sparks Gentlemenly Outburst

A gentlemanly rider confronts a man whose wooden foot blocks the aisle. After a tense exchange the owner calmly ignores the complaint until revealing the leg is a wooden prosthesis and twisting it away. The scene ends with embarrassment and a quick exit at the next station.

New York Press

A Living Emetic

A servant mistook a medicine label for an emetic and ingested a tablespoonful. She was sick with pain and vomiting, saying the directions read ten drops for an infant thirty for an adult and a tablespoonful for an emetic.

Christmas greeting from County Secretary Goller

Edward D. Goller, County Secretary, sends a New Year’s message urging broad plans for church work in Defiance county. He calls for daily Bible reading, prayer for superintendents and teachers, and the spread of Sunday school methods, ending with best wishes for 1902.

Goller Defiance County God Heaven Edward D. Goller Hicksvile Defrance Sherwood Hicksville Defiance Schaeffer Bates Sparks Howe Imer Clerk County

The Lounge That Could Drive Out a Man

A sharp featured woman negotiates for a tough lounge able to rise and eject a man who returns home with muddy feet and grumbles about supper. The salesman guides her to a green covered model and quotes the price for the item.

Chicago Tribune

Policeman Father Defines Working Class Roots

A teacher questions two worker types and Tommy explains his father earns a living as a policeman. The Chicago Tribune quotation contrasts mental and physical labor through a child’s dialogue.

Tommy Chicago Tribune

Low Rates Offer to West South West and Northwest

On January 7 and 21 Nickel Plate Road sells round trip tickets at very low rates to western south western and northwestern points with liberal return limits. Consult nearest Nickel Plate agent or C A Asterlin T P A Ft Wayne Indiana or R J Hamilton agent Ft Wayne Indiana.

Nickel Plate Road C. A- Asterlin Ft. Wayne Ind R. J Hamilton

Reduced settlers tickets to southern points on select Tuesdays

Tickets offered to settlers at greatly reduced rates to destinations south of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi via Wabash. Sales occur on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

Ohio River Eas Mississippi Wabash

Wabash Sells Round Trip Tickets to Southern Regions

On the first and third Tuesday each month the Wabash offers Home seekers round trip tickets at one fare plus $2 to points in the south southwest and west. Full information cheerfully provided at the Wabash ticket office.

Wabash Wabash Ticket Office

Customs Vary Welcome Traditions Across Countries

In Australia a groom is struck with a stick by the bride’s relatives as a welcome to the family. In America a groom is welcomed similarly with a loan from the bride’s relatives. The New York Times notes these customs as contrasts in marriage traditions.

Australia America New York Times

Conversation Friction Reaches Odd Remark in Snippet

A fragmentary dialogue features a debating exchange among three speakers about being interesting or educated. The quirky line hints at self perception and mirror imagery as one character accuses another of arrogance while denying interest. The excerpt ends without resolution.

Mystery Solved at Christmas Dinner Incident

A humorous tale recounts Johnny Green as the church sexton’s son who stands for dinner to avoid the neighbors hearing his mother complain about cheap gifts during a festive Christmas. The dialogue pits father and son against social expectations and holiday cheer.

Johnny Green Mr. Green Sexton

Aphorisms on virtue and life from classic authors

A collection of brief maxims and reflections from Fuller Bovee Franklin Longinus Emerson St Simon Seneca Dana Talmud and Terence. The pieces emphasize grace beauty ignorance concentration kindness laws and leisure as guiding ideas for conduct and judgment.

Fuller Bovee Franklin Longinus Emerson St. Simon Seneca Dana Terence

Merchants' National Bank Of Defiance Finances 1901

The bank reports assets totaling 373 407 3H with liabilities and profits. It lists cash items and notes from other banks, real estate owned, and a capital base. The balance sheet includes due from reserve agents and patrons, and notes outstanding. State and county attest the statement is true to the best knowledge.

Merchants’ National Bank of Defiance Ohio Lani Lees Zpeiee Aurae National Basik State OF County OF Defiance Rs Hooker Coset Steaboy Bank Do Sol

Canary care and human attitudes quoted in editorial

The piece urges humane treatment of a canary with daily water seed clean cage and sunshine while cautioning against glare. It notes a saying about obstacles and another about a mother spanking children, attributed to the Atchison Globe.

Harvard College Dress Through the Ages

The article describes mid and 18th century Harvard attire including olive waistcoats for seniors and sophomores, blue gray coats, and evolving gown rules. It notes class year restrictions on buttons and frogs, Oxford gowns, and cost limits for adornments, with 1525 garb featuring black mixed coats, three crow's feet for seniors, and varied waistcoats and pantaloons.

Boston Harvard Oxford

Rail earnings show booming trade on southern roads

Railroad earnings coming to hand reveal astonishing gains versus a year ago with southern and southwestern roads leading the surge. The report notes widespread prosperity across these regions, underscoring robust freight and passenger demand amid general industry strength.

South Africa

Remarkable Cure of Croup Saves Little Boy

A parent credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with saving his child in a severe croup attack. He describes giving doses as directed until the child expelled phlegm. the account concludes the boy would not be alive without the remedy. Sold by N. G. Woodward. Jan.

Major Fisher Chamberlain A. E. Steere Goodwin, S. D Joel Demont Inwood Iowa N. G. Woodward Jan

Magnanimity in a Pittsburgh father and son

A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph item recounts an Emsworth father lightly scolding his young son and later the child offering a bargain to forgive the prior whipping if the father grants a favor. The brief vignette illustrates affectionate bargaining within a family.

James Pittsburg

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