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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
8
A local retailer touts its wide selection and daily low prices with 500 pieces of Fancy China Samples offered at import price. The ad highlights bargain counters in Sadie's Hosery, Underwear, Handkerchiefs, Napkins, Corsets, Skirts, and Muslin underwear, inviting customers to browse and buy.
Advertises low prices on household goods including washing powders baking powder baking soda corn starch tar soap laundry soaps and toilet soap. Also lists envelopes writing paper steel pens hair pins collar buttons court plasters and glassware with special Dewey tumblers offered at two for five cents.
Fire at North German Lloyd docks in Hoboken destroys three docks and the Hamburg American pier extension, damages warehouses and ships including Main Bremen and Saale, with estimates around ten million dollars and 200 lives lost or feared dead. Injured number in the hundreds, crews displaced, relief underway as authorities tally names.
A whale found in the Bering Sea in 1890 bore a toggle harpoon head from the Montezuma whaler, suggesting the harpoon dated back to at least 86 years. The Montezuma operated in Bering Sea until at least 1854 before being sunk as a Civil War obstruction in Charleston harbor.
A strange missing person vignette describes Rupert leaving a club for the opera and vanishing without trace. Harold laments the disappearance as complete as if the earth opened. The exchange hints at a hat or crack evidence and compares the case to a wife marriage joke.
In a humorous Chicago News excerpt a young man tells Miss Ethel he lacks cash but his father is wealthy and seeks a woman to guide his son. He proposes himself as a mother to the boy, implying a domestic match. The exchange reveals social expectations and playful courtship dialogue of the era.
West Chester resident John G. Taylor contracts about $100000 in Lafayette Cemetery grounds at Brandywine battlefield to honor his family with monuments. He unveils a unique Mrs Taylor in Marble and Long monument featuring a Carrara marble Christ statue and a Bible inscription.
Mr Taylor has completed the base of a $25,000 Lafayette monument honoring General Lafayette, with a 60 foot granite shaft and a lifelike bust lineup including Count Pulaski and Rochambeau. Nearby stands Taylor’s ancestor Colonel Isaac Taylor shaft and a fourth costly memorial to his late wife Hannah Jane Parker Taylor featuring a Carrara marble figure and a carved inscription.
A 1894 quote from John G. Taylor expresses hope that all will meet again and never part, invoking God for guidance and blessing.
Mr. Taylor arranges another monument and endows a large farm at Brandywine Creek junction to fund perpetual upkeep of the historic burial grounds. He has invested hundreds of dollars in stone gateways and wall repairs, defying critics who say he is crazy and noting the fortune is his business.
Mr Spellem of Highlandtown asks what is the holesomest food for children. The Baltimore American notes doughnuts appear among the questions about wholesomeDiet choices for kids.
A Cleveland traveler recalls a Washington trip where a Potomac river boat deckhand fixes on a goat that chews and swallows its shipping tag. The anecdote, told aboard the boat serving Virginia and Maryland towns, ends with a simple joke about the goat’s appetite.
A fragmented price sheet lists hides salted and green hides sheep pelts grain hay straw and corrected by A Growey & Son with per ton and per cwt prices for Timothy clover straw and hay. A charitable note reports a rich lady donating 10000 to Nicholson Institute for free Ear Drums for the deaf. Address 8102 Th Nicholson Institute 780 Eigh Avenue New York.
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