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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1904
Page
7
A tongue in cheek reflection by Sabin in St Nicholas on the varied uses and meanings of the word strike. It traces how strikes appear in work, sport, commerce, and imagery, ending with a playful question about balancing the sense of strike in life and language.
In Denver, McCloud confesses to a ruthless Murgatroyd’s hold over him and recalls his abortive attempt to protect Darrel. Payton questions McCloud’s ties to Murgatroyd as Darrel faces police surveillance and contemplates his fate while Lenyard contemplates Elise Avery’s love and a possible reconciliation.
In a tense confrontation on the trail from Anaconda, a man shoots at Darrel, mistaking him for another. McCloud realizes he killed the wrong man as Murgatroyd lies wounded and Merrick intervenes, while Darrel and McCloud struggle with guilt and truth.
Cedar time timber from Round Hill Presbyterian church near Nashville is being sold to a pencil factory after high prices. The 1820s church, once part of Bethbirel Rock Creek, was founded by Father Hall and later sold to a Negro congregation after a split in the old and new school factions, with proceeds used for a white church building.
A downtown professional man in Pittsburg attempted a Havana cigar and forced smoke from the smoking end after a few whiffs to extinguish the spark. When questioned about the act, he offered an unclear explanation.
Lee Chung of San Francisco earns a living as an agent for the Six Companies tasked with exhuming and shipping the bones of Chinese deceased to China. He maintains records of each case, ensuring bones remain intact in white muslin bags, with precise labeling and cross state travel to meet burial in homeland.
Edmund Russell argues in Everybody's Magazine that India has exaggerated the widow's role, likening it to the old maid stereotype fading from the modern girl-batchelor era.
A reader shares a method to revive a cigar by relighting after a rest period and blowing out smoke to restore flavor. The article also describes the Kremlin Cathedral Ikonostas jewels, weight of gold and emeralds, and a grand silver chandelier. It notes a noble widow revered for piety and duty. Meat eaters remain common as health trends wane. A Panama Canal Company check for 40 million dollars is issued, the largest in U.S. history.
Practical guidance on avoiding hair dye and focusing on scalp health. Emphasizes brushing and massaging, using dry or wet shampoos, and limiting washing. Recommends a green tea and sage tonic to slow gray growth, with nightly scalp applications and thorough brushing for better hair health.
A Springfield clergyman recalls a vacation tale of hungry moments and a dinner invitation that turns comic. The piece shifts to practical tips on cleaning Oriental rugs using shaking, washing, brushing, and sun drying, stressing gentle beating and forward-thread care to avoid damage from steam cleaners.
A note discusses oriental bug care and indicates that their treatment differs from methods used for Wilton or Brussels floor coverings. The piece contrasts pest control approaches suitable for delicate oriental textiles with those applied to standard carpets.
In Eeaussines Belgium an annual Cupid Festival brings together about 100 young men invited by unmarried women. The event features a lecture on Woman's Emancipation, a formal dinner, and 20 engagements announced at the dance.
A Milwaukee Sentinel guide explains washing flannel garments to prevent shrinking. Gather and mend items, melt white soap, use hot borax water, prepare a strong foam, wash gently, rinse, and wring. Keep water temperature steady and press while damp to avoid yellowing.
The feature describes fashionable stiletto work or English eyelet embroidery for shirt waists. Firm linen fabrics stamped with patterns are easy to embroider. It explains marking holes with mercerized cotton, punching, overcasting, and stitching details for a floral design with scalloped collar and cuffs.
A Brooklyn Eagle kitchen and home feature highlights a silver two branch candel drum that can serve as a vase. The design shows pink candle shades La France roses and soft interplay of silver and blossoms. Also included are brief home remedies and baking tips.
Detroit Free Press explains cow horn composition and uses. Phosphate of lime, gelatine, and albumen form the horn, with proportions making it hard yet workable. The hollow core yields crucibles for melting metals. the outer horn end makes knife handles. Horn can be softened by boiling, pressed into plates, or molded when heated, historically used in windows and horn-books.
In Central Africa near Victoria Falls a steel arch bridge will link the Cape to Cairo system. The chasm spans 650 feet between shores and rises 450 feet above the river. Temporary timber staging is impracticable, so an arch is chosen with construction advancing from both sides. Large quantities of material will be moved, and a cable will convey steel pieces during the interim.
A new wire rope tramway with a 3 3 4 inch diameter cable nearly 900 feet long will span a river chasm. One end anchors to land near a tower base, lifting the cable 36 feet, with the other end on a tilting truss to compensate for temperature. Load tests, 60 tons, will be used to keep tension. the middle could drop about six feet by the cable’s weight. The system will carry up to ten tons per trip, with the traveler guided by grooved wheels and an electric index. A load of 400 tons per day is anticipated, after tests in England and arrival at the site.
Traders note caviar from Bayside New Jersey is scarce with shipments to Europe down to about one third of expected. Prices on the wharf remain 95 cents a pound. A primeval camphor forest with 120 000 trees up to 18 feet in girth is found in For mosa but German factories can synthesize artificial camphor, limiting its value.
A Norwegian commission praises Capt Donvig's life saving globe as superior to modern lifeboats. The invention uses a three sixteenth inch steel globe with an eight foot inside diameter, six foot height, 64 square foot area, carrying 16 men. It includes a water tank, provisions lockers, rudder sails and oars and a raised ventilating pipe. Tests show it floats upright after being cast into water and then sails with the crew.
Glass cutting without a diamond is explored with techniques using a file to nick a line, thumb pressure to guide a clean break, and alternative tools like fine saw blades and abrasive feeds. Methods cover tubes, window glass, and thick sheets, emphasizing straight or curved cuts with steady, controlled action and heated iron fracture guidance.
Elisha H Bramhall a Milwaukee post office mail carrier for 39 years and the first one armed man admitted to US mail service retires Disability given in his letter to the postmaster He came to Milwaukee from New York in 1857 He joined the Twenty fourth Wisconsin regiment at the war start and served as orderly sergeant losing an arm at Chickamauga He returned to Milwaukee and remained in post office service until 1888 after a farm accident he returned to his former job Mammoth Pall weighed 2875 pounds exhibited at the St Louis world’s fair
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