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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
4
A lyrical poem portrays nighttime voyages to a mystic haven of dreams where weary souls find rest and lost loved ones appear. The speaker envisions returning to childhood meadows and suggests death leads to a bright land without sorrow, in the voice of Mary K Buck in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Frances is swept into a torch lit crowd in the South where Minute Men march. Richard Somers sits in a carriage as a sorrowful farewell from frantically waving crowds flashes past. A roaring, fiery street and the legend Down with the Yankees blur the moment of departure.
Frances Brookin, a Virginia woman, tends a wounded Union soldier at her home after the siege of Richmond. She secures his parole through President Davis, aided by hospital testimonials and her own zeal, before learning the soldier is Captain Richard Somers, long presumed dead.
The article recounts Dean Gott Forget formerly dean of Worcester and now resigning bishop of Truro known for absent mindedness nicknamed Dean Forget. During a dinner for friends he suggested a grounds stroll as an appetizer then guided guests through a door in the wall calling it a shorter way home before realizing his mistake.
The article explains how dress color affects appearance and health. Dark hues slim the wearer, light colors enlarge, with greens and blues preferred for repose. Complexion guides color choice. nurses avoid black due to odor absorption and heat effects.
Washington critics hail Helen Hay daughter of the secretary of state as a rising American poet. Her first book Some Verses appeared three editions ago, followed by The Little Boy Book. Her forthcoming The Rose of Dawn is a blank verse love story set in the south seas with lyric interludes. Charles Warren Stoddard predicts a bright future for her verse. Col. Hay, her father, has long encouraged her, and she remains a popular social figure in the capital.
At the Daughters of the Revolution display in the Hotel Stratford Boston Miss Alden a lineal descendant of John and Priscilla Alden drew attention as she spun on an old spinning wheel. Dressed in Puritan attire she demonstrated flax and silk thread as generations of Aldens did for 200 years. The wheel and chair once owned by Gov. Bradford drew further interest among visitors.
Ada A. Sweet argues in Woman's Home Companion that scolding, whether by people or even animals, is futile and harmful. She warns it becomes a habit, causes harm, and should be banished from speech, expression, and even the pen.
An old advertisement warns Deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back promise. It touts Grain-O drink and references a public offer from F. N. Chamber & Co. in Toledo Ohio. The ad ends with a proverb about idleness.
A Rhode Island reader credited Palmer's Lotion with curing inflamed eyelids after years of pain. The Indianapolis News notes the lotion has offered quick relief for decades and urges readers to obtain samples from Solon Palmer in New York.
The date July 6 to 10 marks the annual meeting of the United Society of Christian Endeavor in Cincinnati Ohio. The B and O Southwestern Railway publishes a souvenir map guiding visitors to churches suburbs rail lines and transit. Obtainable from railway agents or O P McCarty GPVA Cincinnati.
An 1890s Detroit Journal ad claims Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels each day to promote health. It says the remedy acts gently on the liver and kidneys and can cure sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. The notice also includes a social quip about interruptions during conversation or meals.
Scattered advertising lines tout cures and tonics for cold pneumonia and coughs from brands like Laxative Bromo Quinine and Hoxsie's Croup Cure. The clippings include proverbs and quotes from various newspapers, plus a Beeman's Pepsin Gum endorsement and a lingering marriage joke.
A downtown pedler, visiting offices every week with patent shoe polish, is challenged by a skeptical client who asks why the stallwart salesman keeps calling after years of little use. The pedler replies the visits are to spur pride and promptly sells another box on the spot.
The marriage of Col. John Meredith Read to Countess Alix De Foras was announced in Albany New York. The Countess is daughter of Count Amédée De Foras of the Castle of Thuyset Savoy France. Col Read's lineage includes Gen. John Meredith Read and a Pennsylvanian jurist grandfather.
An oblique playwright voice declares love to Gwendolynne and offers to be her inspiration well. She replies with wit, saying she cannot marry but will remain a cistern to him. Kansas City Star.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a playful scene where a man proposes with an engagement ring shown to the woman and she simply nods. The anecdote highlights a moment of humor in a high tension social ritual.
A mission worker laments perceived savagery by Indian girls with a biting anecdote about table manners. Tears are described as she recalls last evening’s transgression of not using doglies under finger bowls.
Reverend William Lawrence Meese of Auburn Indiana traveled to Chicago to conduct his grandson William Lawrence Eaton's wedding to Esther Menards Gauger daughter of John A Gauger at 4241 Drexel boulevard He has now officiated 1500 marriages after this ceremony and leads the Meese Matrimonial association founded in 1896 with reunions for its members.
Mrs Styles asks Bridget about riding her wheel on the Sabbath. Bridget says she will not go out to avoid breaking the sabbath. Yon kers Statesman notes the exchange reflecting careful observance.
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