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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1904
Page
9
Lalia Mitchell writes in Farm Journal of how memories of a mother’s songs echo through nature and life. The piece links wind and rain and birds to the singer’s childhood, birthing a faith that memories endure beyond death as a soul and angels join in the final tribute.
A tense scene unfolds as a spy narrator avoids capture by criminals planning to use dynamite against Lord Cranthorpe. After a gunfire incident, he negotiates with Number Three to buy the pavement artist’s business, only to be knocked aside by a bicycle as a mysterious stranger helps him.
Thomas the inquisitive cat upsets a Christmas Eve scene by poking at a mysterious box by the fireplace. A magical ogre bursts from the box and laments being disturbed, while Thomas contemplates returning the creature before the mishap worsens.
The passage notes Number Two’s likely plan to act beyond his instructions at the upcoming council meeting. It describes his ambition to strengthen his bid for chieftainship by presenting that he has completed a dangerous task and obtained dynamite.
Dr Matieyka of Prague notes the heaviest brain found is a 22 year old man at 1 820 grammes and a female brain not exceeding 1 500 grammes. The average male brain weighs 1 400 and the female 1 200 grammes between ages 20 and 59. Konstatinoff and Smetana have notable brains weighing 1 595 and 1 250 grammes respectively. Occupation averages range from 1 410 to 1 440 grammes for workmen to 1 500 for medical men and university educated individuals. Alcohol producers and sellers tend to have lighter brains.
Lord Snook ordered a wall around his Irish estate ruins before leaving for India. On return he found the castle gone, the builder claiming he pulled it down and built the wall with the same bricks. The tale frames a vanished ruin and a stubborn joke of providence.
A poetic fragment describes a nightly train to Trundlebed town a land of perpetual summer where goblins and elves rule. The choreographed journey features a bell and the singing whistle, evoking a lyrical fantasy.
Eskimo boys endure weekly sweat baths in a single room Kashim on Norton Sound. A driftwood fire heats the space until skin reddens under respirator protection and the body drips in sweat. After, they plunge into snow and ice water for relief, a practice noted by E W Nelson from Behring Strait research.
Glenn Harrison aged 13, eldest son of lawyer Guy J. Harrison, teaches a rural district near Gainesville Missouri. He passed third grade teacher exams at 12, then scored 96 percent for a second grade certificate. His father initially refused but allowed teaching when away. He now educates 29 pupils despite age and size differences.
Mrs. Joseph Drexel widow of J. Pierpont Morgan partner, received eight foot Vatican fans. They will be shown at the University of Pennsylvania museum. Papal fans accompany processions with two such fans near the throne. The ostrich plume fans are tipped with peacock feathers and crowned with rubies and emeralds. The exhibit includes a fan made for Mrs. Drexel by the queen of Italy.
The piece riffs on hog life as family lore with jokes about hogs being delicious and useful yet coarse in manners. It notes the hog as diet friendly but voice disagreeable and ends with a line about pigs as hogs' progeny and a playful self reference.
The Masai, famed for their fierce image, inhabit British East Africa where a Zionist colony is proposed. They are few in number yet fearless and increasingly wary of British division of the land. Ethnologists note their significance.
The season drew estimated 250000 spectators in the East with Harvard Yale Princeton and Army Navy among the top draws. Attendance figures include 40000 at Harvard Yale 28000 at Yale Princeton 22000 at Harvard Pennsylvania 18000 at Yale Columbia and 17000 at Harvard Indians. West Point games added about 12000 bringing total near 180000 with more crowds at Cambridge and New Haven expected.
A simple cheap corset cover tutorial uses three common ladies handkerchiefs cut into diagonally split pieces to form five large pieces and two small ones. Narrow lace is sewn between pieces and doubled at diagonal corners to shape the corners and underarm portions. The design centers the back piece and continues with decorative insertion along the front edges.
Instructions for a decorative handkerchief cover featuring narrow hems, beading along the top edge, insertions edged with lace, and ribbon detailing. Steps include measuring an old cover, stitching beading across the top, edging with lace, and adding ribbons for color. Armhole beading, gathering to waist, and a wide beaded belt finish the piece. material counts listed.
Chicago American discusses the test of true love in engagements. It argues waiting for marriage can strain both partners as time passes, weighing whether a man can justify long delays to build a home, while a woman’s patience may endure if love remains.
The article extols lemon powers for digestion skin nails teeth and voice with morning juice in water as a bilious remedy and quotes a Chicago American piece suggesting lemon egg rum tonic for a tonic and chest relief.
Hygienists urge more fruit in diets noting ripe apples for health and beauty, with doctors claiming apples aid sleep at bedtime. Pears figs and apricots are healthy when cooked, grapes praised as most healthy, and oranges lemons aid digestion and cheerfulness. nuts are hard to digest.
A Yonkers Statesman item notes a local merchant with a steady, flexible income. The piece mentions his work ethic and a joking claim that he could retire at will, highlighting his routine and notable habit of making fold ing beds.
Between July 1, 1902, and June 1, 1903, the mint produced $9,600,000 in one cent coins. The record highlights the scale of penny production during this period and reflects wartime or economic activity driving demand for small denomination currency.
The mission lamp marks a new trend in home furnishing as mission chairs tables and cabinets gain popularity. The lamp complements den hall or any room where mission furniture dominates and is viewed as a stylish novelty for apartments embracing the mission aesthetic.
In August 1884 George Sizer of Harrodsburg Kentucky died after being run over by a chemical engine. Ten years later a letter to him reached his mother Mrs Mary Sizer, from a New Yorker claiming to have a half dollar bearing his name and offering to return it for 50 cents. A Baltimore sender in 1903 also sought the coin, Mrs Sizer paying to obtain the piece. The Miss Irene Yorks note is dated on the nineteenth anniversary of his death.
John B. Jenkins notes that Angora goats yield steady profits on a 100 acre rocky hill pasture with birch bushes. The herd fluctuates with kid birth in January and wool sells about three pounds per fleece at forty cents a pound, while does fetch eight dollars.
A Chicago Daily News item notes Bess and Mabel stop speaking as they pass by a tailor-made hat wearer and a girl in a home-grown waist react. The line asks what the man’s name, capturing a moment of local social observation.
Cordelia and Jeanette trade banter about a hat described as more than a dream a nightmare in a Cincinnati Enquirer page item highlighting fashion quips and social wit.
After years of trial and error, brown hairpins that hold their shade better are released. Manufacturers tout improved dye stability and lasting tint for everyday styling.
An oped arguing shallow well water carries more bacteria and odors than deep well water. It notes open wells attract animals and organic matter, risking butter contamination, while deep wells limit germ entry and better supply creameries. Prof. Pommel data cited: shallow wells up to 18 000 germs per cm3 versus deep wells rarely over 400.
The drag, called block leveler or clod smasher, is cheap and widely suited for soil work. A one horse drag after the cultivator gently kills weeds and levels the surface, aiding uniform future depths and reducing hand hoe work. It packs soil to cut evaporation and can be homemade at low cost.
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