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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
7
The article notes long mourning by the British regiment the Loyal North Lancashire, the Forty-seventh, for over a century. Officers wear black with gold braid to honor Gen. Wolfe who fell at Quebec.
The text notes a tradition in which Victoria’s gold coinage faced left while Edward VII’s coins face right, marking a deliberate reversal for each new sovereign. This change aligns with a long-established custom that the monarch’s portrait on coins alternates direction from predecessor.
The Boston Advertiser questions why lawmakers are not licensed or certified like other professions. It suggests examining legislators to prevent unqualified individuals from making laws, a notion likely seen as impertinent by the average legislator.
The dry southern Oklahoma climate is credited with producing superior cotton fiber in the Choctaw nation. Early season results show fiber grading above average and in strong export demand with shipments to Germany and England increasing.
Congressman Hoffecker notes on the Delaware Maryland peninsula that the Day family has seven daughters and the Sunday family seven sons. Five Day daughters wed Sunday sons, with another wedding soon, and Hoffecker predicts every Day will be Sunday someday.
The duke of Connaught,Edward VII’s brother, resigns the King’s title of royal brother and becomes grand master of the English Freemasons. He studied at Woolwich as Prince Arthur and advanced to captain by 21. Now 51, he collects an annual parliamentary grant of 125,000 dollars.
After 27 years of effort, geodetic triangulation establishes a 2625 mile baseline across 16 states along the thirty ninth parallel. Begun in 1872, the effort yields a verifiable master measurement for U S territory and validates prior surveys.
The dish gains popularity in New York French restaurants and among home cooks using chafing dishes. A French chef’s recipe features salt bay leaf lemon tomatoes saffron white wine dry toast olive oil garlic onions peppercorns and lobster eel or other fish. Thackeray’s ballad is blamed for popularizing it.
The first industrial and manual training school in the Philippines begins in Dumaguette Negros. The two story building funded by H B Sillman of New York costs 10000 and will teach carpentry iron work and more. Rev Leon C Hill a Princeton graduate leads the program and 100 acres were purchased for agriculture. Dumaguete citizens welcome the project.
Rev Dr William C Winslow of Boston announces discovery of a valuable papyrus in Oxyrhynchus about 140 miles south of Cairo. The fragment contains the first chapter of Matthew and is dated around 150 A D. It is said to be closely related to the Sinaitic and Vatican codices.
Inclement weather in Washington on March 4 sparked renewed talk of shifting inauguration to April 30 Washington’s first inauguration date also noted. An amendment proposing the change passed the Senate but failed in the House. The public asserts reverence for wartime precedents and doubts any broad date change will succeed.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues in the Chicago Tribune that pockets and modest dress are essential to protecting women and others from theft. She cites robberies involving pocketbooks, urges church guidance, and recalls a college incident where a purse vanished, suggesting practical dress reforms to reduce temptation and loss.
In Union New York Miss Estella Rockefellow of Chicago married H Allen Bush of Westpoint Kentucky via a phonograph ceremony to bypass a diphtheria quarantine. Two clergymen and two phonographs recorded questions and answers, then cylinders were exchanged for the rite to be legally binding.
The piece notes clever women in poverty turning to niche trades. Lace repairers restore priceless lace. indexers serve scrapbook owners. several binders gain modest fame. A Vassar alumna teaches cold cream chemistry for perfumed beauty preparations. dernatology tutors hair and scalp care with high earnings. Restoring photographs yields occasional handsome returns. one woman inlays books.
The article notes growing use of cyclists in England Italy France and Russia for reconnaissance and communications as well as advancing motor wagons and automobiles behind and at the front. It details English Aldershot trials Transvaal usage and new designs including a four wheel benzine auto with a Maxim gun and an armored motor wagon with turreted machine guns and searchlight.
Guidelines for washing piano keys describe using tepid water soap and three thin flannel cloths. Wet cloth one to rinse soap from small surface areas, use second to remove soap thoroughly, and finish with a dry cloth to polish until shiny without leaving soap residue.
Webb Donnell in Farm and Home presents a bay window idea that uses a low shelf and drawer beneath to add utility. The shelf holds a fish globe or aquarium and potted plants while a draped curtain reveals a bird cage and climbing plants above.
An Englishwoman living at Jacobsdal records in her diary how Dutch girls tend the British wounded and spark jealousy among locals. She recalls Highlanders arriving after Magersfontein and hears the women lamenting they cannot even afford trousers.
Do not cut woolen goods before they are dampened. Sponge materials first, then press with a hot iron along the length. Use an ironing board or table the width of the fabric, cover with calico, lay fabric wrong side up, top with a wrung linen cloth, keep the iron moving, and let the pressed cloth fall evenly onto a clean floor.
A new device from a western packing house uses a receptacle for killed chickens with multiple air currents from high speed fans at 5 000 rpm to strip feathers instantly. The inventor says the process leaves no feather fragments and enables rapid reuse, inspired by tor Nces.
Inventor Hiram L Getz of Marshalltown Iowa proposes a bicycle ambulance to reach the injured quickly. The device attaches to the bicycle frame with curved front and rear bars and a foldable stretcher canvas, steered by an extended handle for singlehanded use.
King Leopold of Belgium impressed sportsman flair as a cyclist shouted a taunt in Brussels on Avenue de Tervueren. The rider cried Polle, who reaches Quatre Bras last, pays drinks, then sped ahead while the king laughed at the dare.
King and aide-de-camp race in car as a cyclist darts ahead then collapses, being pumped out. The royal car stops at Quatre Bras for drinks, while the challenger dares not face the king's chauffeur and bears the expense.
The International Cyclists Union notes record progress in distances from one mile to 634 miles, aided by motor cycle pacing. A 40 mile hour pace was reached, and 24 hour attempts covered 183 miles in six hours, 434 miles in 12 hours, and 634 miles in 24 hours, with quarter mile flying starts at 20 seconds.
Richard H Mitchell explains a ventilation improvement for dairies. By routing a shaft from floor to ridge with an inward shutter at the ceiling, a controllable draft develops air from the bottom, reducing moisture and keeping animals warmer without overdrying the space.
An Arctic conservation note warns that rogue hunting by white passengers in northwest Greenland and northern Alaska is wiping out walrus herds. With Eskimos relying on walrus for food, officials urge strict vessel and voyage regulations to stop slaughter and protect scarce resources in Behring and Arctic waters.
The text extols spring as a time of renewal and recommends Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy as the best spring tonic. It claims universal acceptance, cites testimonials, and notes the product is vegetable based and physician endorsed with a New York City origin.
Description of an inexpensive method for crossing small streams on farms. Stout angled posts brace rough logs with dirt filling, forming a durable makeshift bridge over muddy ford risk. Grass grows to stabilize soil, improving appearance and longevity. Origin cites F. O. Sibley in Ohio Farmer.
A Golden Days note says bicycles did not end horses and autos may not finish them either. It recalls old forecasts that horses would vanish with delivery by auto, yet steam and trolley traffic grows and sound horses remain, urging caution before hasty predictions.
Baron Hermann, agriculture expert of the German embassy, reports that Germany will send a specialist to the United States to study American agricultural machinery for possible general adoption. The inquiry aims to boost German farm productivity by examining farms and factories during spring sowing through fall.
The sultan of Turkey bans further bicycle races in Constantinople fearing crowds near his sacred person. Turkish authorities cite riots and threats to the caliph’s life after King Humbert’s assassination, and police forbid additional races in the city.
Wortland Maine police judge Judah rode a bicycle on a forbidden sidewalk and, after a citizen reprimand, swore out a warrant for his own arrest. Marshal Gibson arrested him and Judah appeared in his court, pleaded guilty, fined himself one dollar, and paid the fine. The record followed standard form.
Brock in Holland is celebrated as the cleanest town in Europe with 2700 residents. Its leading industry is Edam cheese production and the town restricts horses in the streets for tidiness.
Berlin plans a school for men to learn how to manage crowds in the city streets. Norwegian legislators propose barring marriage for women who cannot knit, sew, wash, and cook, even against wealthy families. Census counts 27,374 physicians in Germany, with Berlin leading counts. England’s Australasian colonies show 266 percent population growth 1860 to 1898. Japan expands cavalry and adds 40 field batteries, highlighting reliance on imports for horses.
A marked rise in Dead Sea levels drowns El Bahr near the River Jordan mouth. A broad lagoon forms on the north side of the Jordan delta as the water level refuses to sink in summer. Scientists speculate volcanic activity may have raised the sea bottom.
Practical Farmer offers tips on mulching leaves for winter protection and soil fertility. It explains transplanting berries like blackberries and raspberries with roots just below the surface, notes late ripening navel oranges in California, and compares Snyder and Taylor's Prolific blackberries for hardy yield. It also advises transplanting evergreens when small and preferring smaller plants for speedier establishment.
Eastern Germany protests the Zoppot resort administration plan to remove gender barriers at the beach near Danzig and declare a common bathing area. The move sparks indignation over changing traditional bathing customs and facilities.
A satirical line from Puck mocks a man who claims he has opposed income tax by remaining single. He quips marriage would amount to a 100 percent tax, framing it as a personal stance rather than legal policy.
Managers of several German theaters refuse actors the right to respond to curtain calls claiming such appearances before the footlights are inartistic and obsolete, foolish and in bad taste.
Ice floes from the Arctic menace Newfoundland waters threatening to blockade the coast and disrupt trans Atlantic steamers, endangering maritime traffic and commerce.
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