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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
5
Poem in old fashioned couplets inviting companion to share a cozy, firelit moment. It extols love and domestic comfort against harsh wintry weather, contrasting a cold world with a warm room where love thrives. Published in Youth's Companion.
Lieutenant Stuyvesant and Corporal Connelly lead the rescue as a recruit car erupts in flames on the night train. Murray's assault and lack of discipline trigger a crash of flames. Miss Ray tends the wounded while Stuyvesant saves peers and pursues duty.
In Pompeii on the Barbatelli field north of the city wall a poor victim who suffocated during the evacuation was found buried six feet deep. The hemp bundle contained a silver casserole weighing 520 grammes with a shellfish ornament, a broken soup-spoon, a spoon for hot drinks, a Domitian silver penny, and two keys along with copper pence from Agrippa to Titus.
Practical guide by R. M. Winans describes a trellis system using end posts, dual wires, and twine for tall beans and peas. Rows four feet apart, align straight with garden line, then plant beans by hand. Trellis offers easier pod gathering, durable galvanized wire, and reusable materials.
The agricultural department plans to introduce new foods including crosne from France and a large fruited ever bearing strawberry. An expedition funded by a $20,000 congress appropriation searched Italy Smyrna and Algeria for marrows muskmelon pistache and other varieties. Several superior asparagus lettuce and onions were also returned.
A farmer describes building a low cost milk cooling chest in a small ice house. He used a brick tank at one end of a 6 by 8 foot room with double boarded walls packed with sawdust and matched boards. The setup cooling cans works as well as pricier ice chests.
The article recalls a famine in autumn 1687 across central and southern New Jersey when crops failed and people endured hunger. Indigenous peoples aided settlers by teaching food gathering techniques and preparing shellfish. Trade and aid arriving by river helped end the crisis with a spring surplus and a general thanksgiving.
Prof W H Pickering of the Harvard Observatory returns from Jamaica with moon photographs showing snow on the lunar surface. He divided the moon into 16 parts and captured five images per part under varied lighting to study prominences and depressions. The snow interpretation remains inferential and may indicate water ice. An atmosphere of the moon is reportedly being considered by astronomers.
A string of light jokes and quips appears from various papers. One line teases Miss Dimples with dreamy eyes while another notes sleepy wear inside out. A mad dog line jokes about fly time and Ally Sloper offers a proverb about appearances.
A Memphis traveler recalls two Mississippi farmers debating square against round bale gins at a Bayou state village station. The lankier farmer prefers square bales but fears a bale being pressed and delayed if he is last in line, worrying about how the gin handles ongoing loads.
A writer proposes a series on frugal living for ten cents daily with editor proposing payment in kind. The exchanges mock price and value, as editor questions profitability and the author negotiates a self set living cost. The dialogue contrasts humor with media business daring.
A compilation of varied items on ancient military origins, early skating, inks, umbrellas, lettuce in England, Archimedes organ claim, Phoenician naval emphasis, the mace, a Brookfield Missouri school gender balance, June name origins, and NY Supreme Court juror excuse rules.
A fledgling commonwealth of Australia is described as the richest country per capita with diversified strengths in pastoral, agricultural, mining, and growing manufacturing sectors. Last year’s output reached about 550 million dollars across pastoral, agricultural, mineral, and manufacturing industries, with wool worth 100 million from 120 million sheep. gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, coal, and pearl fisheries noted as major resources.
The Washington Times notes a glass house orange tree at the Department of Agriculture, descended from 1870 seedless specimens from Brazil. Gov. expert on pomology Saunders arranged seedling propagation, with California trees thriving while Florida ones died, shaping the naval seedless orange program.
A Boston Globe recipe describes chopping walnuts until fine and slicing four bananas. Mix walnuts into mayonnaise dressing, spoon over banana slices, garnish with lettuce, and finish with torn lettuce and a red pepper sprinkle. The note cites railroads and town topics as light aside.
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