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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
8
A Marion Commercial Club committee met with the president and GM of the Railway Co in New York and won agreement to move terminal shops from Galion to Marion. The railroad seeks $100000 aid. about $40000 was subscribed. A compromise basis of about 60 was reached and the move is planned for summer.
President Roosevelt delivered the principal address at the dedication of a monument to General Henry W. Lawton in Indianapolis on Thursday.
In Chicago on Friday Judge Landis entered an order empowering the receiver to sell Zion City at once. The move is expected to bring peace among the warring sections and end ongoing conflicts.
Dr J C Lupwie a 68 year old practicing physician of New Bremen was Friday sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. He pleaded guilty to criminal assault on a young country girl.
The Chicago Chronicle, founded in 1895, suspended publication on Thursday. For years John R. Walsh, the principal owner who failed a year ago, guided the paper as it lost money. Once Democratic, it could not back Bryan and was later changed to a Republican stance.
L Gillespie used paris green to color his house paint last year and disposed of the refuse in a field. A cattle drive grazed nearby this spring and five or more animals are expected to die with two already dead. Autopsy confirms poisoning as the cause.
Gray squirrels eat meat and raid nests while deep sea fish phosphoresce and boast telescopic eyes. Storks lack voices and only klapper, goats are thought to ward disease by old Virginia cattlemen, wolves persist despite bounty payments, and wolf numbers rise on western ranges.
Quote from Cleveland Leader reflects a patient’s response about health gains through social visits with strangers who avoid focusing on illness. The remark highlights a shift toward supportive, nonintrusive conversations and improved well being.
A nervous man asks why the young woman laughs easily. Miss Cayenne explains she is engaged to a lively man who jokes constantly and makes her feel she should laugh at everything he says, growing into a habit.
The Ohio Farmer promises practical agricultural matter and conservative, farmer-focused insight. A trial proves its value with one year subscriptions listed at 85 cents for the Ohio Farmer alone, 1.60 dollars for Weekly Express and Ohio Farmer, and 8.60 dollars for Daily Express by mail with Ohio Farmer.
A Paris diary recounts Seine rides past Bois de Boulogne and St. Cloud, visits to Sara Bernhardt theater, the Louvre, Pantheon, and a cold Pantheon outing. The writers describe the Louvre director, an American Consul contact, a Pantheon vault tour, and notes on Parisian weather and sights including St. Genevieve’s church and Sevillian windows.
Schoepf Interurban Traction syndicate, after two weeks since incorporation, moves to consolidate three Ohio interurban properties into the Ohio Electric Railway Co with initial capital of 100 000. The merged system would cover 700 miles from Cincinnati to Toledo and extend to Columbus and Dayton, creating the largest electric trolley network.
A brief fictional exchange depicts a man dismissing others smiles while a woman laments a dull bonnet, expressing resentment at her own appearance as a social obligation. The scene reflects marital tensions and sartorial pressures in a urban context.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a witty exchange between a father and his daughter. The father jokes about secrets and money, highlighting a humorous familial moment with sly humor about discretion and trust.
Friday featured a German Department program with Remarke Rev Walter Buoge and performances by Miss Bailey MacKinnon Gertrude Behne May Chaney and William Goernandt. The Athenaian anniversary exercises followed with multiple musical readings and an oration by Goernandt. An informal reception for members visitors faculty and trustees closed the evening.
A rear end crash on the Cleveland & Southwestern traction line in Elyria at 6 PM killed four people and injured thirteen. The front car carried holiday excursionists. eight of the injured suffered double leg amputations while others had severe injuries. Ambulances and doctors rushed to Elyria hospital where two more victims died.
A ten year old leaves at dawn to fight Indians but returns hungry and homesick by night. The family ignores him as the father reads, mother sews, and sister reads. Only the family cat senses the boy’s return and rubs against him, prompting the boy to ask if this is the same cat.
David Walters, 28, formerly of Mt Vernon Ohio, killed his wife in her Detroit home after following her from Mt Vernon. He slashed his throat and wrists, then attempted suicide. Walters, found at the scene, is in critical condition at St Marys hospital with blood loss. He had learned of a letter to Clifford Kirkpatrick from Mt Vernon.
Judge Washburn calls 15 leading citizens to serve on a special grand jury and summons 20 witnesses in the Elyria interurban wreck probe. Cr. Fournendiener, arrested in Cleveland, is charged with death of seven and injuries to eight as a high speed car rear-ended a stationary train. he fled the scene but was later held on $5,000 bail.
In Long Branch New Jersey a blaze destroyed the Rothschild rental estate killing Marion Schiffer 10 Ruth Schiffer 14 and two servants Mary Dilter and Tillie Montheon. Mrs Schiffer and Walter A Schiffer were badly burned while trying to rescue the children and others sustained injuries from jumping from windows.
An urban salesman touts an incubator to a farmer with the promise of saving time. The farmer, smoking a mouthful of tobacco, responds with a wry quip about a settin hens. The anecdote appears in Harper's Weekly noting humorous rural wit. Scientists in Washington dispute common wisdom on wood heat, ranking Linden highest, with pine fir and linden close, oak and red beech lower in heat output.
September Smart Set quotes a playful scene where a group of young fish harass a larger octopus by circling, waving fins, and shouting trust. The gag relies on the octopus’s frustrated reaction as the scene unfolds with humor and maritime-tinged mischief.
A bus driver recalls the Bulger siblings noting Bill became an actor Tom an artist Mary a music teacher and John never thrived, remarking he could barely earn enough to support the others. The quip reflects postwar social views on success and family roles.
A playful Chicago News item recounts Darwin exclaiming the discovery of the missing cuff button, producing the artifact from under a bureau with a humorous sense of triumph.
H. D. Kine, district agent for Indiana and Ohio Live Stock Insurance, announces the company is sound with 100000 paid capital and 150000 assets. It covers Williame Fulton Wood Defiance Paulding and Ottawa counties and offers losses paid totaling over 750000. Policies transferable on sale or exchange. Defiance visits every two weeks contact by letter or phone at agent’s expense. Bryan Ohio.
Superintendent Mr. Pocock notes the rat tle of the porcupine at London Zoo, produced by tail spines modified into hollow quills. The article traces spine forms, Thunberg’s early observations, and differences between Old World and New World porcupines. It also mentions porcupine flesh flavor and a separate tale about Rider Haggard and a Budapest ballet.
Last year over one billion passengers traveled by the railways in England and Wales. Records show 28 million traveled first class and 67 million traveled third class, highlighting class distribution across the network.
Chase Taylor files a suit in the Court of Common Pleas seeking to quiet title to the north half of the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 13 Township 4 North Range 5 East Richland Township Defiance County Ohio. Defendants unknown heirs and spouses are notified to answer by July 6, 1907. Attorneys Winn and Hay represent the plaintiff.
Electa Mayer files in the Court of Common Pleas of France County Ohio a petition in case 8193 claiming fee simple ownership and adverse possession of the southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 13 township 4 north range 5 east Richland Township Defiance County minus one acre. She alleges eighty years of open continuous undisputed possession and asks that title be quieted and for other relief against named and unnamed heirs and lessees. Attorney Winn and Hay represents Mayer.
A passage notes that in some African contexts a man’s wealth and status are tied to possessing wives, with a woman viewed as valuable property akin to gold. It suggests women gradually gain recognition of their personal power to earn money.
In a London Opinion piece the author argues women should not get credit and men should not either. The essay claims cash is the cure, noting tradesmen would suffer short term losses but eventually trade and money would return, while women could buy dresses at lower costs.
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