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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1904
Page
7
A reflective vignette about a Chinese mandarin figurine beside a blue clock, silent to English words, eyes unfocused toward distant blooms and tea. The scene echoes separation and longing, with lanterns and bamboo swaying as memories of a homeland linger.
Darrel, a deft player, intervenes at Hawkbill's to aid a ruined youth. He exposes a cheating partner using a hidden "hold out" device, wins large stakes, and returns the young man's money before slipping away toward Monkhill's to await Lester Murgatroyd's next move.
In a fading Sandy Bar, Nate Darrel confronts Sturgis over a past card game and a deadly trap. A shot from behind kills Sturgis, Darrel survives, and a crowd gathers as the marshal is sought. The scene hints at ongoing tensions between Darrel and the Murgatroyd feud, with the mystery of who fired the fatal shot left unresolved.
Angus Hamilton portrays the Manchurian railway as Russia’s vital artery for troop and supply movements to Manchuria, noting long distances, a fragile track bed, and heavy security. He describes Harbin, Mukden, and the Chinese Eastern line, rail weaknesses, and the need for reconstruction halted by war. The piece warns that brigandry and remote posts threaten operations, while local peasants may assist if paid and treated fairly.
A critique of Victorian hats and Parisian straw fashions, contrasting oversized back draperies and veil dominance with dainty Watteau hats, ribbons, and flowers. Notes on new straw varieties, including paille chichi patterns, zizis, and tiny colored straw balls forming delicate designs, plus tricorne and curved toques for morning wear.
An ancient Mexica codex on the founding of Tenochtitlan reappears after years missing from the national museum. found by an American priest in a pawnshop, it triggers a court summons for Hipolito Ramirez son of a former museum director. The price tagged is fifteen thousand dollars.
A detailed overview of shirt waist trends for summer wear, highlighting the preferred simple yet chic shirt waists for outdoor sports and coats, with embroidered linen and craft waists in demand. It notes fabrics like linen etamine, mercerized madras, and linen blends, various embroidery styles, and the rise of shirt waist suits over separate waists, plus a mention of a yellow waist example and a brief dialogue snippet at the end.
A report explains the rite of inserting a coin in the cornerstone cavity during public building ceremonies. The act, once linked to a burial ransom, symbolically ensures the structure’s firmness. The practice reflects a shadow of a bygone tragic custom once believed to guarantee the edifice’s endurance.
A fragmentary report recalls bones embedded in castle bases in England and a German fortress tale where a child was bought and walled into a donjon tower. It notes that effigies of humans remain used in Europe as harmless dummies and that harsher customs still surface in some regions.
This guide favors woven wire as the best durable hog fence, compares alternatives like plank, rail, and pocket fences, and provides practical construction tips. It covers post spacing, tightening methods, bracing, and the addition of barbed wire to deter rooting, emphasizing tight tension and upkeep.
Prairie Farmer notes black locust makes hard durable posts but borers threaten early on. Honey locust resists borers and yields similar post quality and growth rates. Growth depends on soil and rainfall with larger trees reaching 5 to 8 inches diameter in 20 years and trunks rising to 25 feet.
A Farmers' Review piece warns that hog cholera spreads when exposed hogs enter healthy herds or when visitors from infected farms enter pens. It urges strict separation and prohibits infected men from visiting noninfected herds unless they wear clean clothing to prevent transmission.
A reader describes a simple smoothing tool. Take a log the length of a harrow, split it in two and attach each end with a stout wire about six feet long. Place the oval side of the log down. The implement works well for smoothing the surface after harrowing, per Mrs. Q. Farpener via Epitomist.
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