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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1907
Page
8
A provocative remark attributed to Carnie Nation claims the devil would vote Republican if possible and would seek heaven as well, highlighting political tensions around moralistic rhetoric. The remark reflects fiery partisan sentiment in a historical context.
Beau Apwaman Shcspre, who commanded the battleship Maine at the Havana harbor explosion in 1895, was moved to the retired list on the 16th inst due to age.
The Tur Marign Steam Shovel Company informed its 1,000 workers on the fourteenth that it has set aside $50,000 to be distributed among them as a token of faithfulness to the company's interests.
The notice urges Defiance residents and business leaders to attend a meeting of the business men's association next week to discuss boosting the town's prospects. It stresses collective effort and civic involvement to realize a brighter local future.
A sentence noting old label names like Raspberry Jam and Vermont Maple Sirup updated to clearer wording. The change signals a shift toward commercial honesty in packaging as a new year begins.
Local merchants promise to duplicate any lower price found elsewhere for comparable quality. The aim is to encourage shopping at home and support local businesses. Citizens are urged to compare prices and buy domestically.
A Washington dispatch reports Geo. E. Lorenz and August Machen of Toledo are due for release from Moundsville prison as their terms end. It remains unclear if the heavy unpaid fines will lead to further imprisonment or be remitted.
Welch opened a closed porch door and stole five pounds of corned beef. He pled guilty to burglary of an inhabited building and was sentenced by Judge Allread of Circleville to life in the penitentiary, the judge noting the sentence was excessive but required by the jury’s lack of clemency.
Unofficial word says the Post Office Department plans a Sunday delivery trial on rural routes around mid year to meet farmer demand for Sunday newspapers. Publishers nationwide urge the move, while carriers fear pay cuts and expect extra compensation.
Advance sheets of the 1907 official Catholic directory show a US Catholic population of 13,080,353, up 437,309 from the prior year. Clergymen total 15,093, with 334 new churches in 1906 bringing churches to 12,148 and 86 seminaries training 5,697 students.
A Friday vote of 183 to 92 adopted an amendment to the appropriation bill raising salaries for the vice president, speaker and cabinet to 12000 per year and for senators representatives territorial delegates and the Porto Rico resident commissioner to 7500 per year. In effect March 4 1907 this raises annual costs by 1199000 and avoids a full roll call.
Youngstown suffered a $700,000 loss after a Sunday blaze destroyed two four story brick buildings. Fire crews fought the flames and contained the fire to the structures with no immediate report of injuries.
Joan R. Watsa former president of the Chicago National Bank was indicted on 182 counts on Friday for alleged mismanagement of bank funds.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough plan separate lives. The Duke will retain Slenheim castle and the $100,000 annual settlement from the Duchess' family. Their children will spend six months each year with each parent.
The organization will relocate its headquarters from Toledo to Chicago on May 1. Marion Lawrence, long-time superintendent of the Washington Street Congregational Sunday School in Toledo, elected secretary in 1889, also will relocate to Chicago.
Monroe Wilbur J. Doenges begins college at Ada. Mrs. Julia Hughes visited relatives in Defiance over Sunday. Miss Mae Hughes returns home. Rev. Jay of Mt. Zion church reports strong revival with nearly 20 new members. Mrs. Frank Grant visited daughter near Continental. Misses Maud and Florence Skiver visited Lenore Lewis at the Continental institute. Jim Snyder jokes about a new boy. N. J. Spencer loses a valuable cow last week. Miss Cora Kratz visited Edna and Zalla Parrett. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hallogeno. Ada and Virgil Donaldson visit grandmother and Uncle Donaldson. Rural carriers struggle on mud roads from Continental. D. S. Donaldson family visit Asa Donaldson and family at Continental. Oak Wood News notes smallpox reports in Continental with a disclaimer from the Continental paper. Three cases barely outside Continental city limits. scare subsiding.
Misses Lizzie and Cora Thome and Matilda Oakley arrive back in New Bavaria following a week spent with their aunt Mrs. John Hess.
Mrs. Crandall of Chicago visits in Defiance with her father J W Slough. Several residents travel, recover from illness, disasters touch church windows and gas service, and a Danvers area sale of Wm Schroeder’s 80 acre farm in sec 14 Mark township to John A Flory of Adams township for 6425 dollars.
Three members of a family died from gas asphyxiation in a Fostoria residence as a chimney clog allowed stove gas to escape. Clement Leidy aged 52, John Kreais 26, and his 17 month old son died. Mrs Kreais was dying, and Alonzo Schuman, another Leidy son-in-law, discovered the tragedy.
The Ohio Farmer promotes practical agricultural matter with conservative progression and farmer focus. A one year subscription costs 75 cents, while Weekly Express and Ohio Farmer together are priced at $1.50 and Daily Express by mail with Ohio Farmer at $3.50 per year.
Bernard Hughes pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the Thornton deputy marshal murder and shooting about a year ago and received 18 months in the penitentiary. Frank Kirby got one year, while George Baker was sentenced to one year for a saloon robbery. The other three fled jail weeks ago.
A gale- swept flood Saturday night and Sunday caused one death and heavy property losses in the Upper Sandusky area. Miss Kate Ioats was swept into a flooded ditch while walking along a roadway and drowned as the Sandusky River overflowed its banks reaching record levels.
In an East End pub a crowd of sailors emptied a London Hospital collecting box, coaxed by an elderly man who urged saving time and money for a grand donation. He explained pennies keep the hospital for seconds and hours, then led the crowd to raise funds for tomorrow’s dinner.
In the Auvergne region a large amount of carbonic acid gas rises from soil near fissures. The Mont Pensier spring, named the poisoned spring, asphyxiates animals that drink from the cavity. The gas remains a remnant of ancient volcanic activity.
Labor leaders bitterly oppose a proposal to extend British civil service employment to ex soldiers and sailors. They fear veterans will take low pay alongside pensions, reducing wages for current workers.
A century in Durbanville near Cape Town marks a milestone as the municipality celebrates its hundredth anniversary by laying the foundation stone for a new town hall. The project heralds an ongoing period of growth without public debt.
Codfish are sold in Norway by count regardless of size. Salt is the sole desirable preservative and many are air dried, earning the name stock fish.
A report from an American Consul explains the Greek controlled Egypt tobacco cigarette trade. Greek tobacco from a bumper Greek harvest backs Egyptian brands while Greece’s paper monopoly pushes production to Egypt. Egyptian cigarettes are mainly Greek-made and exported to England and the United States.
Passenger train No 164 traveling from Jackson to Toledo wrecked in the liga yards at 945 pm killing one man and injuring eight to twelve passengers. The smoker and day coach were torn from their trucks and the front end collapsed, but rear coach passengers escaped serious harm.
Items of interest note British eggs worth about £206, Great Britain spends £14,000,000 on tobacco and pipes, 3,500,000 people travel by sea daily, Herat Afghanistan faced 56 destructions and 57 rebuilds, plate-layers have frequent accidents with one hurt every 35 hours, no vessel resists freezing water, twenty pound steel shells shatter like glass.
Country Life notes Britain reduces consumption of wild creatures once common as delicacies. Young gulls especially the black headed inland nesting rooks are now scarce on markets and rooks hunting declines yearly. Squirrel meat was once common but has likewise fallen from favor.
An 19th century style account explains Chinese census methods. In each group of ten houses the eldest man visits the nine others plus his own household to count family members and report to the Imperial Census Bureau.
The text describes how a monk named Perignon discovered champagne in the seventeenth century. It claims the abbey monks kept the secret for years and that Perignon invented the cork later used for sparkling wine.
A York shire winter custom sees a horn blown at 9 pm on Bainbridge green to warn wayfarers on the moors. The practice is credited with saving travelers lost in fog, while a later station incident sparks indignant exchange as an elderly passenger misses her stop and demands fare refunds.
A Scrap Book note compares Bank of France vault protection to medieval moats. It describes sealing a straw room with hydraulic mortar and flooding vaults to deter access, suggesting water remains a formidable barrier despite modern firearms and electronics.
The act requires railroads to pay 25 percent more than any initial offer if they fail to settle a claim for loss or damages within eight days, applying to judgments obtained by the claimant.
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