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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
4
A reflective verse questions enduring happiness as a sage notes loved ones nearby and warns that envy of a neighbor's rising fortunes cannot erase inner grief. The speaker laments missed chances and personal errors while acknowledging others' prosperity. The piece closes with a quiet meditation on contentment.
A tall young soldier rescues a rabbit from a nighttime chase along a crowded Union Pacific sleeper train. He befriends a quiet, unreadable woman passenger as they observe the desert landscape and tense atmosphere amid fires and delays.
On a crowded dining car after sunset a drunken soldier disrupts the meal aloft as Mr. Stuyvesant admires Miss Ray across the aisle. The pair discuss army life and the Society of Patriotic Daughters of America while a tense scene builds at the car door.
A Success magazine quote compares pruning a sapling to molding character in youth. It argues that early self discipline prevents bad habits from hardening and yields mature, refined manhood and womanhood in old age.
Italian composer Pietro Mascagni responds to critics by dedicating his new opera The Masks to himself with distinguished esteem and unalterable satisfaction, as reported by the London News.
Wartime accounts describe how local women organized hospital supplies for wounded soldiers after Antietam. A Chicago Inter Ocean report notes 20 pardoned convicts enlisted in Ohio's army, kept secret, watched by the governor, and their unit performed well.
A veteran recalls selecting disciplined ex prisoners for service, their courage at Kenesaw and Peach Tree Creek, and one former convict who, after a life of crime, changed his ways following a pivotal moment with the narrator. The deserter-turned-soldier died leading the charge at Peach Tree Creek.
A Southwest Georgia young couple offered a colored minister a string of fish to marry them. The minister refused saying they are too young and that he wants fish for dinner that day. The anecdote appears in the Atlanta Constitution.
An Irish recruit once tried to enter barracks by climbing the wall rather than using the gate. The officer remarked that he was late but should have used the gate. Murphy replied he feared waking the sentry, invoking a humorous line from London Tit-Bits.
A Civil War veteran warned of death in a dream on December 30 1862 at Stone River. He fought with fever and blankets about him, declined medical pullback, survived the assault and later doubted the dream as a sickness-driven fright. The account cites Gen. Rosecrans’s battle order and his eventual hospitalization.
A correspondent asks an approaching Irish sergeant about a morning skirmish with the enemy. The sergeant confirms the action and quips that not only the colors were flying but every man was stripped of pride, a grim but spirited war remark.
Enteric fever is calculated to have killed ten Britishers in South Africa for each one who has fallen a victim to Boer bullets.
Stockholm police raid booksellers and detain suspected purchasers of The Life of Abdul Hamid a two week old biography translated from German. Swedish Justice Minister Einar Lochen ordered confiscation and disclosure of buyers names threatening prosecution for concealing sequestered goods. The work had been previously suppressed by Emperor William.
A London Globe report notes a school opened in Bangkok by an English lady with 15 pupils, all Siamese princesses. They are trained as housekeepers, cooking, washing, baking, sweeping, table setting, flower arranging, and other useful tasks, and leave to marry at age 15, an admirable wife by rumor.
In Milford Ohio Mr Nimrod Price reports his wife and neighbors astonished by Palmer's Lotion curing a persistent facial eruption. He credits the remedy with effects that doctors and other medicines failed to achieve. Sample available via Solon Palmer 374 Pearl St New York.
A Philadelphia Times comment recalls a mother describing a difficult child as terrible while noting the boy’s habit of telling the truth plainly in front of visitors. The exchange highlights themes of discipline and candid speech in family settings.
Missouri Pacific Railway announces double daily trains from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado, Utah and the Pacific Coast. Through sleeping cars run between St. Louis and San Francisco without change. Excursion tickets are on sale. For details contact company agents.
A distinguished stranger introduces himself as Ban Bangs, claiming to be the next door neighbor after a recent run of fortunate stock investments. The lady recognizes him and welcomes the renewed acquaintance with a smile, noting the long-awaited introduction.
Corporal William L. Dawson, back from the Philippines, paid cash for an 80 acre farm in a Salina real estate office. He saved $2,000 in under three years of service, prompting a Topeka soldier’s quip about poker. The clipping also includes brief quotations on drinking and writing verses.
Captain Percy W Moss of Paragould Arkansas and Judge Wm T Zenor of Washington DC attest to Peruna as a reliable catarrh cure and tonic. The ad urges readers to write Dr Hartman for free advice if results are not prompt and satisfactory.
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