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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
6
Description from Armour Institute of Technology on building a work bench with a stock bill list and fixtures. Explains screw sizing and drilling to allow loose passage, enabling clamping without threading both pieces. Continues with constructing the back portion from a seven eighths inch board extending about one inch.
Detailed instructions for constructing a work bench including raising the back board to align with the front plank, dimensions for the vise front in maple or similar woods, mortise and tenon connections, iron pins and screws, and guidance on pre-cut dressed lumber and precise sizing.
Reads as a mixed piece on women voting attitudes in Colorado and detailed carpentry instructions. Notes women’s influence in politics, then shifts to bench construction with stock bills, bench legs, vises, bench hook, shoot board, and build steps for beginners.
A letter from Hennery to an old friend recounts a Venice visit with his father. They ride gondolas amid beggars and local life, witness the Rialto, and a moonlit misadventure ends with Garibaldi overboard and dad soaked. The tale blends humor, travel detail, and affectionate sarcasm.
A Marietta, Georgia case ends with Judge David Irwin overturning a six month sentence for assault and battery after a Black witness recounts a seven up metaphor. The defendant explains a sequence of card plays and a sudden nose smash, prompting a one dollar payment to satisfy justice.
An article criticizes a four year old heir to 10 million dollars in New York. Guardians plan to raise him with many instructors nurses and a sterilized environment. The writer argues public schools offer essential democratic lessons and warns wealth could hinder character development.
The lesson outlines Sennacherib’s siege of Lachish and Libnah, Jerusalem’s threat, and Hezekiah’s role as Judah’s king. It contrasts Israel’s fall with Judah’s endurance, recounting Assyrian campaigns, biblical prophecies, and the Taylor cylinder account of vast spoil and siege works.
The Tokio imperial library shows little demand for fiction with 12,486 religion titles requested. Readers asked for 166,677 volumes in science and medicine, 153,711 in literature and language, and 18 percent for history and geography. Art, engineering, military and naval works are prominent in recent additions.
The text asserts multiple royal lineages with mixed heritage. It states Alfonso of Spain is four f ifths Austrian, Victor Emmanuel more Austrian than Italian, Francis Joseph and heir largely Bavarian and Italian, Sweden Norway's king Bearnaise and French, Greece's king Danish, Serbia's king half Russian, Bulgaria's prince no Bulgarian blood, Russia's emperor Danish or German, Belgium's king no Belgian blood, and England's king Saxe Coburg Hanover Norman and French.
John Dunning, janitor at Maine hall, holds the compositor's stick used for Longfellow's first poem Outre Mer published in 1842. The stick has belonged since 1825 to T. S. McClellan, 96, Brunswick's oldest man and printer, Bowdoin Orient notes.
In certain West African practices girls are betrothed on birth to a slightly older baby boy and marry at age 20. They accept this system as the only path to a husband and are generally content. Wives are described as obedient and marriages are typically successful.
A playful exchange on a Detroit Free Press page features a traveler praising a conductor who offers a double seat. The husband quips that it still costs the same, while the wife notes feeling she got more value for her money.
Fragments of a Spanish vessel washed ashore along six miles of the Mersey coast. Oranges citrons grapes and barrels of port stretched the strand while a nearby village faced several days of widespread intoxication among residents.
An 87 year old Thurso superintendent of flagstone quarries heads a family chain of 49 members employed in the same works. He has seven sons six sons in law 29 grandsons four grandsons in law and two great grandsons all living in the same district and connected to the same trade.
A new company aims to convert Central American sharks into consumer goods. Sharks fins will become jelly and soup, livers yield machinery oil, skins produce leather, backbones create walking sticks, and jawbones and teeth supply various articles.
The Two-Cent Stamp becomes the world’s tiniest newspaper devoted to post office employees. Printed on the back of a postal card, it includes all departments of a modern paper and mainly features humorous material.
The British Post Office Department uses about 250 000 envelopes for tele graphs in a 24 hour period.
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