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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
10
Discount prices listed for Paynes boots and rubber goods with men women lines. Boots and rubber items priced below typical retail. Ladies footwear including Kangaroo Calf and dress calf shoes marked down from earlier prices with several items noted at reduced rates.
An eighteenth century Italian doctor Louis Cortusio left curious burial instructions forbidding black in his funeral and house, requiring 59 musicians, green flowers, and 12 green-dowered girls to carry the bier. The procession would avoid tears, and laughter would determine the heir.
When a British soldier is taken as a prisoner of war he faces an offense against the queen and potential trial if there is doubt he relinquished liberty without necessity. He must prove it was impossible to act otherwise without needlessly sacrificing his life.
A circus elephant, injured by a fall en route to Baltimore, was hanged in Boston yards. The animal, known for his tricks, died after a nine minute hanging, an execution deemed a signal success given the circumstances.
A Vermont village student preacher in summer work corrected by a pronoun emphasis habit as he read I Kings. On verse twenty seven he misread and caused smiles with his odd phrasing, saying Sathe me the ass and they saddled ompanion, showing the pull of elocution.
The undersigned Silas W. Irish of Nebraska is appointed executor of the will of Charles R. Irish late of Defiance County Ohio deceased. Nebraska Mid-Roadters Grand Island Neb July 21. The Populists of Nebraska held their state convention in this city nominating a full state ticket. Wharton Barker and D Clem Deaver spoke and resolutions endorsed the Omaha and Cincinnati platforms and fusionist score.
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