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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
9
A Walter Foss verse in Christian Endeavor World asserts rest comes from work and purpose. It proclaims rest exists where labor continues through corn fields mills engines and sewing machines, and that without work there is no true rest, no matter where one travels.
Captain Somers arrives on a secrecy bound mission seeking Raymond Holbin. Frances orders him out but he insists on delivering a message to Holbin before leaving. Louise reveals she shot at Holbin but is dying and never married him, while unseen by others Richard Somers is led into a young girl’s room as a watcher above.
In June 1862 at Brookin, Raymond Holbin plans a dangerous act that could seal his fate. His loyal mother watches from the window as he faces desertion, fear of capture, and a choice between Louise’s doomed gambit and his own future, with revenge and wealth as haunting promises.
In a tense Civil War era scene, Raymond Holbin evades capture after a confrontation with Capt. Somers in Frances and Louise Somers’s home. A guard shoots Holbin as he escapes through a window, sparing the family and triggering a reveal about Louise and a forged promise.
A Confederate officer and Frances face a doomed farewell as war tears them apart. He pleads for one kiss before parting, she resists then yields, kneels in sorrow, and he departs into the looming bloody struggle.
A parolee in a Confederate uniform escapes a collapsing line and reaches the Union battery. The scene shifts to a cottage grave where a dying woman and child are remembered, a rose vine marking peace and a son's love for Frances and her husband.
A 12 sided pig housing plan from Ohio Farmer designer H. E. Tweed proposes a decagonal building with 12 equal pens, 38 sq ft each, central stove heat, wasteward floor slope, and skylight to reduce mortality. Total area about one third acre, cost estimated around 100 to 150 dollars, with expected rapid payback for winter farrowing.
Horace Mann encounters an insane intruder in his study who challenges him to a fight. Mann declines quoting the odds are unfair, saying he is a Mann by name and a man by nature. The exchange ends with the offer to include others in a four-man confrontation.
A short stepladder with bent irons attached to the ladder end fits the wagon end board to ease loading. Using this ladder reduces lifting and bruising of farm produce, making handling quicker and safer per E McGill in Farm and Home.
Farmers Journal urges beekeepers to ensure consistent grading and careful packing. Warns against mixing dark and light honey and mixing partial fills. Recommends stamping goods with name and address to build buyer trust and encourage repeat business.
The National Stockman notes that horse grading has risen. a top horse now must be better than in the past due to more educated buyers and stricter market requirements. Careful selection, feeding, and overall management determine if a horse is truly good by current standards.
Cooking directions from the Detroit Free Press describe making shad croquets. Two large shad roes boiled in salted water with vinegar, mashed and mixed with bread crumbs egg salt pepper butter or cream, shaped into walnut sized balls, dipped in egg and crumbs, then fried. Serve with cucumber or egg sauce.
A Cincinnati reader endorses Palmer's Lotion for tetter after twelve years of struggle. The letter says the effects are permanent and urges keeping the preparation at home. It invites readers to order samples from Solon Palmer in New York.
A worried man asks if this generation can produce men as grand as the past. Farmer Corn tessel replies uncertainty and notes a shift from quiet study by pine knots to cigarettes and fireworks in demand.
Dialogue references a college student who writes for magazines but not for pay. Mrs Phoxy jokes about dinner choices to doctors. Mr Phoxy quips about doctors inflating bills with truthful dining details. The exchange appears in York Statesman and Philadelphia Press clippings.
Read by the public a promotion offering a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease from Leroy New York with a powder to shake into shoes. It claims to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet and eases tight shoes and helps corns and bunions. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
Describes a new line of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway reaching the Aberdeen to Missouri River country. The illustrated booklet offers location change information and requests a two cent stamp to F A Miller for a copy. Also includes miscellany ads and light items from Atchison and Puck.
A Chicago Chronicle anecdote about Thomas Hart Benton quotes him on book printing and reading, noting his size, strength, and a quip about fighting in the Senate. It highlights his blunt style and a notorious reply on first edition numbers based on census readers.
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt presents a boy in a crowded city facing family changes and a sense of isolation. His woes stem from relatives divorcing remarrying and leaving him with step parents, while he grapples with feeling alone in a vast urban landscape.
Lucy Annie Heiser a nine year nurse from Minneapolis writes from Albert Lea Minnesota November 8 1899 to The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio praising Peruna as a grand valuable medicine. She cites cures for an inflamed womb and a thin patient noting Peruna revived strength and health and mucous membrane function.
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