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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1904
Page
7
A Houston Post reader recalls a past love amid lilacs and dew, walking through familiar valleys and wooded slopes with the beloved beside them. Memory opens heart to an older, fuller emotion as the scent and sight of the dear one resurfaces.
Number Two plots a body disposal with hired help and a fake arrest bluff to escape, while Number Six doubts the scheme and Tarborough conspirators prepare to slip away. The plan hinges on a shallow grave, a coffin, and a last dangerous move.
The chapter describes a police misstep regarding a coded informer’s shed near a cemetery. A letter claimed an informer would reveal a five-man gang, prompting a large Tarborough police mobilization. The shed was found empty, yet later details suggest a pursuit chase. bodies, including an informer and constable, lay in the shed.
A Louisville Courier-Journal piece observes Japanese childrearing practices and beliefs. It notes quiet households with little punishment, heredity and ritual linked to Shinto and ancestor worship, polygamy in religion, and the social stance on kissing and crying.
A Chicago Daily News verse about a model doll laid to sleep with Dolly's calm, secret care. The speaker contrasts nursing duties with a child’s desire for quiet, noting Dolly never cries or disturbs, and mirrors a mother’s example, while wishing to be good like her.
The Boston Globe notes Pete a small fox terrier at Somerville’s post office stands out for devotion to daily duties. Since arriving in 1902 he befriended Assistant Chief Clerk Griffiths, refused lodging, and spends all spare time at Union Square office. He reports at 6 40 each morning and rings in promptly.
An animal named Pete, a post office cat in Somerville, quietly inspects each returning carrier and matches routes by sight. He times the day, follows the mail flow, and sits under the clock to note arrivals, earning a license and a collar reading Pete Somerville Post Office Union Square.
A celebrated cross examiner describes milder tactics to trap a witness by flattering him first. He recalls a railroad damage case where a man exaggerates arm movement after flattering questions. Then a brief note explains how flag colors are read from the post outward, noting the red on the inside for a U S flag and the reverse for France.
A Hearth writer recalls boyhood experiments with a spider named Crusoe using a wash basin as a ship and water as sea. The spider builds a web raft to escape his desert island, revealing an early lesson about air currents and danger. Berlin claims the title of world’s champion tru ant, a boy of ten who avoids school, is kept by policeman, and eventually sustains severe injuries from a fall while escaping confinement.
An advertisement describes a house with shingled gables, creosoted roof, yellow pine trim, two coat plaster, olive green paint, double thick glass, tar paper under floors, and four ten by twelve foot rooms on the second floor. Ready for occupancy with broom-clean interiors as stated and signed by Geo A W Kintz. The second passage notes the Vienna Academy commission to locate radium minerals in Bohemian Erzgebirge and discusses supply, cost, and the Curie monopoly.
The Scientific American notes artificial pumice made in Bietigheim Germany from ground sandstone in ten varieties by hardness and grain. Used like volcanic pumice for wood finishing, metals and lithographic stones, with oils for polishing. Variability in natural pumice spurred development of the artificial substitute.
The article highlights two major cancer findings. First, cancer exists in fishes, suggesting cross-species insights may speed understanding. Second, Farmer Moore and Walker show cancer cells respond abnormally to irritation, resembling reproductive tissue, aiding distinction between malignant and benign growths.
The London Lancet reports on ether and chloroform to force plants to flower earlier. Dr. Johansen of Copenhagen notes bushing after repose and experiments with lilacs and azaleas. Le Blanc of Nancy chloroformed azaleas, exposing them 48 hours, then warmer greenhouse temperature spurred buds by March 8.
A patient swallowed a packing nail and, after six days of bronchoscope attempts, doctors at St Antoine Hospital performed a temporary tracheotomy. A magnet was used to retrieve the nail from the bronchial tube, and the final five minute operation saved the patient’s life.
Instructions describe building a horse and cattle fence with line posts set at one rod or half-rod spacing, end posts braced with red elm and No 12 wire, and ground clearance to prevent rot. Also covers unwinding barbed or woven wire using an iron axle, securing wire to end posts, and guiding wire along a row of posts to prevent bouncing.
A Prairie Farmer excerpt describes a practical fence building method using wagon wheels, a stay chain, and binder guards to stretch barbed and woven wire. The writer explains looping a chain around a wheel hub, bracing, and stapling to posts, with guidance for woven wire using a long stick for tension.
A guide to proper honey storage warns against cool damp places and ice boxes. Dry warmth is best. avoid freezing damp conditions that crack combs. Keep extracted honey in warm dry areas or sealed cans to preserve original quality and deter moisture.
A suggested design for a scratching shed on Little Street features a warm dry roosting room with a single door. The plan emphasizes year round comfort for poultry in exposed locations and outlines a tightly closed roosting area.
A fragment notes a scratch shed built on an ell with wire netting enclosing the front to create a warm dry spot for poultry at all times, described in Orange Judd Farmer.
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