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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
3
In Chicago a cheeky studio contest among art students escalates from flirtatious boasting to a heated fencing match. Bruno and Harold duel under a young woman's scheming, wounds drawn, witnesses alarmed, and the outcome unsettled as the crowd disperses.
An Army surgeon in Washington recalls a rare gunshot lung wound case from San Francisco ten years ago. A Kentuckian soldier, despondent over a jilting sweetheart, shot himself in the bar racks, with a Springfield rifle perforating the left lung and narrowly missing major arteries. The man recovered, though health remained impaired, after being discharged from the army. The account mirrors the Goebel rifle wound, highlighting the rarity of survival in such injuries.
Paris subscription closed for the sword honoring General Cronje, per the New York Telegram. About 13 000 francs collected.
A Swedish student in Berlin receives a visitor who poses as his cousin but admits she is Otto von Bismarck in disguise. The pair enjoy city tours and a farewell ride in a brougham as the truth comes out through a card reveal.
A European visitor to New York describes embarrassment meeting former intimate partners in upscale venues. She recounts encounters with men in hotel livery and states they earned fortunes abroad, hiding their wealth behind respectable European social status.
Professor KE L Hewett of New Mexico Normal University in Las Vegas reports evidence from cliff and cave sites near Santa Fe that cliff dwellers coexisted with mammoths and other tertiary animals. He says populations numbered hundreds of thousands and relied on well watered mesas, challenging the view that man dates no earlier than the Quaternary and that cliff dwellings belong to the Pueblo Indians of the last 300 to 400 years.
Cautionary note from Chicago News urges respect for weary wasps they may seem tired but are not to be provoked as handling risks stings. The item frames a simple safety reminder amid city chatter.
The article profiles Leland Stanford Baldwin recounting his transcontinental trek from Racine Wisconsin to California India and Nevada. He recalls crossing plains with 26 wagons facing attacks from Native Americans Brigham Young's brother involvement the Mountain Meadows era and braving Nevada snow to seek mining and stock success. He touts the Ophir deal that earned him about five million dollars and defends his lucky nickname.
A New York artist near Union Square creates a morbid exhibit featuring a skull mounted on a post with a cigar clamped between its teeth. White mice inhabit the skull as a rubber bulb triggers the cigar to puff while visitors smoke, leading to frightened reactions. The gory setup, shared by the New York Mail and Express, aims to thrill guests.
The text traces how journals in Paris tied identity to editors and chief writers from the July Monarchy era through the republics. It cites Emile de Girardin Adolphe Thiers Sainte Beuve Jules Janin Gambetta Rochefort and Paul de Cassagnac as defining figures shaping political and literary influence across eras.
Daniel Murray of the Congressional Library leads a national effort to assemble a literary exhibit of African American authors for Paris. The project, backed by $169,500 in deficits funds and overseen by Thomas J. Calloway, will showcase works by Douglass, Washington, Dubois, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Jennings, Frances Harper, Dunbar and others. The display will include 190 authors and about 1,000 volumes. selections emphasize literary merit and notable historical works.
Joseph M. Terry of Peconic presents an ivory paper cutter once used by Daniel Webster to the Suffolk County Historical Society. The relic came from Webster via Charles Taylor, a farm manager's son, and was preserved by Taylor during his youth before passing to Terry.
A minstrel muses on songs about men noting most focus on roses love and maidens He recalls there is one about an old man drunk in the first verse as cited by the Atchison Globe.
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