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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
6
Advertisement snippet shows weekly rates of $1.76 and $1.00 per year with cash in advance option. Mentions long distance telephone numbers 14 and 34 and a Wednesday evening presentation schedule. Likely a classifieds or newspaper notice about service terms and contact details.
An official large scale map of Paris is finished. It measures 25 yards long by nearly 20 yards wide and shows every building in Paris, totaling 88,500. Despite the cordon ronge and the universal cookery exhibition, French hotels are praised over English ones by Food and Cookery.
The prince of Wales will give no presents and receive none during his coming visit to India. By contrast, when his father visited the country as prince he gave gifts totaling $200,000 and received gifts valued at $2,500,000.
Extensive plans to improve the Suez Canal include widening the waterway so large ships can pass at most points between Port Said and Suez. Continuous dredging will keep the depth around 28 feet, enhancing navigation.
The gold eye, an eye strain linked to dentists from constant use of gold leaf and fine gold particles while filling teeth, is rising. After a year or two of such work, dentists are compelled to wear glasses.
A Belgian commission to the foreign office notes Cuba’s growing automobile use makes it a promising market for small cars. It highlights the voiturette, powered by benzine or steam, as the most in demand model.
Report notes authorities in Turkey allowed circulation of the Bible but advised omitting the phrase Come over into Macedonia and help us or, failing that, replacing Macedonia with the villages of Salonika and Skopje.
The viceroy's wife Lady Curzon invites all Europeans and Indians injured in the recent earthquakes to Walker and Ripon hospitals in Simla as her guests. The invitation was sent via the Punjab lieutenant governor, and the American vicereine will cover the expenses.
Residents amid Great anxiety in Peking Illinois fear consequences for dairy customers after cows discover and eat dynamite from a field. Dairymen strike and cows are milked by volunteers while the thrifty proprietor secretly continues to serve milk.
An inquiry by Ohio State University students on yearly cigarette consumption finds ten average students smoke about 10 cigarettes daily. Over a 365 day year the ten together would reach roughly 36500 cigarettes, with each student averaging a package per day.
The Markneukirchen consular report notes local instrument makers relied on Hungary and South America for raw materials. Suri nam wood dwindled toward the end of 1903, nearly failing, creating demand for maple bird's-eye curled and plain and clear white pine supplier options for American dealers.
The sole European royal fully backing Japan in this war is Queen Margherita of Italy widow of King Humbert. She celebrates Mikado victories and her pro Japan stance has boosted her popularity in Japan. She plans a postwar trip to Dai Nippon as the first European crowned head to visit Japan.
France raises 140 million dollars yearly from stamp duties as universal taxation spreads from hotel bills to checks theater tickets and municipal needs. Every purchase of food drink and fuel bears tax while Paris adds 10 centimes on spirits and enacts heavy landlord and tenant levies.
At a Magnetic Club dinner in New York President Fish of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. stated Thomas Edison was the first to use hello as a call and response on the telephone, replacing the older greeting Are you there.
An ex speaker describes how reciprocity and compromise govern lawmaking in a large state. He details a clique that trades votes, the boiler graft scheme tied to state institutions, and a governor who fights junket corruption while pushing tight appropriations.
I met an old man who claimed to be Satan guiding me through a provocative cemetery tour. Monuments praised reformers yet mocked by inscriptions show greed, routine teaching, and political self service. The poet Byron inspires a critique that hell is paved with good intentions.
A census method used beads and colored strings to mark status. Big beads signified adults, singles, and married individuals by color, while small beads represented youths.
The mild weather lets the biddy roam and sing as in old times for a breakfast of ham and eggs, according to the Franklin News in Pennsylvania.
In Belford township Sanborn County residents report a nightly specter haunting the Heidorfer home with log chain noises. The ghost then moved to an abandoned gumbo flat well where it frightened John Johnson as he rode past Firesteel creek road.
The line from the Chicago Tribune hints at optimism in reform efforts despite turmoil. It juxtaposes sunshine with thunderstorm to imply peaceful progress amid challenging times.
Chicago welcomes the Municipal Museum a broad educational center inviting all visitors to study city progress. Mayor Harrison urged gifts and loans from foreign and American cities, yielding substantial exhibits from Germany France Japan Argentina Hungary England Denmark and Sweden. Permanent and loan displays cover administration art recreation housing sanitation education libraries and more.
The article lauds Chicago for establishing the first municipal museum and credits thoughtful citizens who see potential beyond squalor. It notes the city’s water, stockyards, and people who love and seek its betterment, with civic pride growing as health and beauty emerge.
The museum near the art institute hosts weekday hours from 10:30 to 5:30 with noon and late lectures, attracting up to 2,000 visitors daily and offering school group visits to teach citizenship. A speaker extols city beautification and “grand citizen work” through greenery, gardens, and tree planting, while a critic questions effects on the poor yet endorses interim welfare actions. Katherine Pope.
Yonkers Statesman quotes a humorous exchange about childhood bedtimes with chickens. The snippet recalls a boyhood memory and prompts a playful dialogue between Tommie and Pop about where the birds slept.
The latest hat box trend for men carries six hats including a silk hat, opera hat, derby, soft hat, straw hat and a roll-up traveling hat, according to the New York Sun.
The exhibit showcases Chicago’s 18 local improvement groups over 20 years, noting one starting work in the Ghetto. A Hyde Park house to house visit and mass meetings illustrate community uplift led by women, with Jane Addams and Mrs. Emmons Blaine cited as early municipal museum and major contributor who spurred city betterment.
Two speakers, Mike and Pat, describe a proud moment after hearing the judges’ verdict in a contest. Faith was cited as the reason, showing which of them held the stronger performance.
A brief quip from Royal Magazine frames a stage of barter between a highwayman and a journalist. The robber demands money while the reporter offers narration of adventures in exchange for a share of profits.
A square sole leather hat box sells for 25 dollars and includes space for a cap a hat brush set with two brushes and a silk hat polishing pad. The box is designed to accompany the wearer anywhere and in all seasons and places.
Misses Mullan daughters of retired Army Captain start a laundry business in Washington, turning from society life to entrepreneurship. They note steady demand for year round care of fine clothes, describe initial skepticism from friends, and emphasize practicality and purpose over social prestige.
London reporting the death of Wallis Allspop, a South Normanton boy, after four days in a coffin. Doctors Harcourt and Le Grand concluded death was certain, leading to a funeral. The grave side scene was deeply moving as parents mourned their only child.
In a front room four hearers report a laugh from the coffin where a boy lay four days. They recall his odd remarks about heaven and a cross for his grave, and warn against burial pending further signs. Acknowledged by relatives as a remarkable tale with a chilling air.
Al Foster of Twin Lakes Colorado escaped death in a snowslide while climbing to his Lost Canon claim. The mass of snow moved across the hill, sweeping him about 40 feet before he grabbed a tree limb that broke, and he clutched another.
Miss Lillian Alma Ferguson long known as Ralph Carlisle Hamilton revealed as a 19 year old woman from Chatham County after five weeks posing as a man and a popular Mooresville photographer. She became engaged to Miss Bertha Flowe of Hickory, a 17 year old described as Hickory's prettiest girl. The pair faced social uproar as Hamilton’s deception and unpaid debts surfaced.
In Oklahoma City a family headed by James Sharp and including his 14-year-old son Lee and an unnamed Scotchman marched naked declaring the world would end in three days. Police arrested them for inquiry into mental condition as the Scotchman claimed to be God and predicted the resurrection after three days.
A lone skier reports being overtaken by a sliding mass of snow but managed to keep upright and ride it out as the avalanche passed overhead, narrowly escaping injury.
A promontory named Hayon Horoo rises 3000 feet above the Aegean waters. As the sun moves, its shadow sequentially touches islands laid out like hour marks, forming the world’s largest sun dial.
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