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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
7
A sermon titled Entertaining Angels Unawares presents a vision on humbly hosting strangers as shown in Genesis and Hebrews. The preacher reflects on hospitality as a sacred duty and links scripture to daily life. The piece emphasizes biblical precedent for kindness to strangers and angelic visitations.
Abraham debates moving his flocks with Eliezer as famine threatens pasturage. He resists leaving Hebron, awaiting God’s further revelation about Isaac. Strangers arrive. Abraham shows hospitality, discovering they are Lord and angels who announce Sarah will bear a son. Sarah repents for laughing at the promise.
America now makes 132,000,000 gallons more beer annually than Germany, reflecting a growing U.S. lead in beer production.
M Leroy-Beaulieu, addressing the Consistoire Israelite after returning from America, notes Jews’ strong political role citing New York Jewish votes for Roosevelt. He doubts a bright future for Zionism in the United States, calling Zionists numerous but largely platonic, as many Jewish immigrants seek citizenship while keeping Jewish identity.
The Walker-on-Tyne parish church choir is likely unique in paying its members to lead singing. The male-only group charges fees that can exceed the rest of the congregation’s contributions.
Lady O Malley ponders theater versus church, cannibalism in class dining, and literary culture. She critiques Parsifal and modern celebrity cuisine while lamenting costly entertainments and urging a revival of national fare and imagery, referencing Goldsmith, Swinburne, and Welsh attire.
A brisk visitor asks for high pay and little work. The boss questions the claimants values, noting two-dollar workers and the right kind of boy. The man insists on fair pay and effort, and the boss finally tells him to hang up his hat and start work.
The article notes odd provisions in Korea's code, including Article 234 which imposes 15 years' imprisonment on any official who enters the imperial palace in Seoul and fails to close the door. It cites Article 671 showing the code applies to all crimes and mentions a punishment of forty blows with a stick for certain offenses.
A Philadelphia Ledger blurb discusses a comic row, noting Mame nine and Mr Jinks correspondence as opposites. the sketch mocks a dark competent man and a dizzy blonde in lighthearted fashion.
A playful exchange in the Cleveland Leader features a barber and a patron debating how to part the hair, noting an odd number and the barber’s careful attempt to accommodate.
Rusty Raggles-Helly laments being stranded on a mountain after being kicked off the Air-Line freight. He reports no other trains nearby to hop onto and seeks a way down or an alternative transport.
The passage argues that harsher punishment is unnecessary and favors a simpler approach. It suggests reform or more humane methods as preferable to severe measures. The writer questions the efficacy of punitive excess and urges caution in administering penalties.
Dialogue between Jimjones and Tomsmith discusses a boy who smokes cigarettes and a claimed tobacco cure. The Cleveland Leader quotes the exchange as a humorous or candid remark about tobacco use and parenting.
In Corkerville, a June day marks the town’s collapse as the bank faces a run after orders to discharge workers. Tom and Harry defend the vault with pistols while customers demand cash, then banter calms the crowd and the bank narrowly survives. The exodus follows as prices crash and the town’s boom ends.
A hotel waiter angrily misinterprets piscatorial globes as fish balls after a Tall angular woman from Tombstone Arizona orders coffee fried potatoes and piscatorial globes, only to reveal she is not from Boston but Tombstone and the dish is fish balls.
Mrs Quiverful argues with a visitor that a neighbor’s outings with her child are disgraceful and unfit for a woman. The little daughter questions if becoming a woman requires a girl baby, prompting a maternal reply.
Italy ships 480090 cages of eggs abroad each year reflecting a large poultry trade. The figure highlights sustained output and export capacity within Italy's egg industry.
In Cambridge Vermont Verne Casey a 15 year old boy faced severe exposure while walking back home from a distant farm. He battled deep snow and hunger dragging a 50 pound grip through Smugglers Notch and forest, sleeping in a hollow log and evading a lynx before reaching a lumber shanty and his worried parents. The rescue highlighted his strong vitality and risky decision to push on.
London reports a Be Witched Walk Farm at Binbrook in the Lincolnshire Wolds where foreman White and family recount supernatural events. A dead hare detached from a hook, dancing brooms, toppled bottles, moving sausages, flying plates, milk spills, and a tub emptying itself alarm locals as offers to “lay the witch” arrive from Grimsby.
In Kittanning Pennsylvania six shoe makers went across a river for drinks. Clark E. Cochrane died while walking home and Jim Sweeney, intoxicated, fell onto the body and lay still. An undertaker wagon carried Sweeney before the mistake was learned. John Rhodes corrected the error by returning to fetch the actual deceased.
A 400 pound rooster-like bird with a powerful kick harms keepers and a Mexican man seeking a shortcut through the breeding yards needed hospital care after a sharp blow.
H. M. Vance of Muskogee I T placed an electric bulb in a nest with three eggs that refused to hatch. After turning on the current the eggs hatched in 20 hours leaving Vance with three fine chickens.
The article cites the Political Magazine 1781 claiming Africans are black due to a gelatinous layer under the skin. It asserts brain substance and pineal gland are black, blood is deeper red, hair is curled, and perspiration stains linen. It denies climate as the color cause and claims whites do not become black in Africa.
A chamois on a snowbound mountain near Flu shi repels two attacking eagles in a half hour battle. The sire of the herd joins, the chamois defends with antler thrusts and remains upright. Next day sportsmen find feathers and blood on the snow as the birds fly away.
Chicago News notes a humorous device where a folding bed by Smith resembles a piano. Jones asks if snoring sounds like sheet music. The column blends wit with everyday domestic quirks in a city gossip style.
A condemned man, walking to the scaffold, asks the prison governor to tell him the day of the week. The governor answers “A fonday” and the prisoner storms, calling it a foul way to begin the week.
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