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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1902
Page
8
Poem fragment compares love to a song and a flower with imagery of bells stars and winds. Jessie Acheson notes in a New York Weekly feature that love endures beyond shadows while contrasting potential fading with lasting spirit and a home in love.
A compact tale by Guy Boothby from 1901 follows a curious detective’s odd encounter with a baffling mystery. The narrator recounts uncanny clues, ambiguous motives, and a twist ending revealing hidden truths behind a perplexing crime.
Grantham shelters the homeless pair Kitwater and Dodd at the ford in Burma, nursing them back to health and earning cautious gratitude. Kitwater asks for a letter of introduction to Gregory’s regiment, hoping for clues about a missing man. Gregory and Dempsey compare notes, seeking any wrist marks that could identify the stranger.
George Fairfax recounts a life of sea drift, bush work, and bold police work across Australia and Melbourne. After fifteen years abroad he returns to England at thirty three, determined to make his name and seek fortune in London.
A royal anecdote depicts Lord Morris dismissing a treasury inquiry into heating costs for the Irish law courts. He signals the official to the department chief, then departs and dispatches a nurse, sending in a charwoman to handle the matter.
Practical advice from Ohio Farmer by J G Allshouse details mounting methods for home grindstones. It compares foot and hand powered designs, outlines two mounting frames, cog wheel drive options, a water trough, and maintenance tips to maximize speed and durability on the modern farm.
A described device uses a loop of wire over the box ends attached to a block and tackle. The tackle is hung from the shed rafter to lift the box to the desired height. A crosspiece passed through rings on the joists secures the box while the tackle is removed and reused for the opposite end.
Farmers' Voice urges timely fertilizer application and notes that attractive school yards and house yards reduce homestead desertions. It emphasizes teaching children the value of shade and comfort through practical, personal examples in rural communities.
The advertisement extols St Jacobs Oil as a fifty year old remedy with mysterious ingredients known only to manufacturers and trusted staff. It claims marvellous pain killing properties and cites thousands of cured crippled individuals, asserting unmatched sales and superiority over other proprietary medicines.
Advertises Vogeler's Curative Compound as a cure for weak and sickly children with digestive issues and general debility. Claims it purifies blood and adds flesh, recommending two to five drops twice daily for birth-weak or malnourished youngsters. Free bottle offer via Jacobs Oil Proprietors in Baltimore.
A Boston grand opera Tosca performance triggers laughter from Italian box patrons. With impassioned love singing by Ternina, the audience misinterprets the aria and an usher investigates. A spectator explains the joke that the singer is saying Dont turn around your trousers are torn.
A short feature story titled The Prophet's Chamber in The Four-Track News May issue promises farmer wife readers practical information. The piece is described as appropriately illustrated and aims to benefit rural households in New York and New England. The paper offers subscriptions at 50 cents annually and single copies for 5 cents via Geo. H. Daniels, Grand Central Station, New York.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer passage features a customs inspector negotiating with a woman as he inspects a trunk filled with garments. He notes the items appear well packed and in sets, comments on lace and ribbons, and casually contemplates discarding the contents if nothing suitable is found.
Iron Mountain Route begins new dining car service on fast daily trains from St. Louis Memphis to Texas. Cars built in Pullman shops feature electric appliances fans and dainty Haviland china Libby glassware and silverware. The line operates three daily runs St Louis to Texas and two daily runs Memphis to Texas with sleeping cars and modern fittings.
A New England doctor lives near a cemetery by a Mary E. Wilkins house, where villagers fear night, yet he jokes that neighbors who owe him money keep him untroubled. The piece cites regional superstitions about graveyards and last day judgments.
A Chicagoan touring Boston is amused by the city’s paralyzing phrases and calls it unique. The exchange includes a jokey etymology claiming unus and equs yield one horse, reflecting local wit in a brief Chicago Chronicle note. Monroe Drug Co. of Unionville, Missouri endorses a refund promise for dissatisfied PUT NAM FACELESS DUES customers.
The Philadelphia Press notes a humorous exhibit by florist Coakley Budds featuring an inquisitive plant joke labeled as Rubber. The item highlights a playful moment in a local display showcasing novelty plants.
An advertisement offers Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for swollen and aching feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free samples available by mailing to A.S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York.
Mrs Eckis Stevenson of Salt Lake City recounts suffering from chronic ovarian inflammation for six years. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her in three months and avoiding surgery. The letter includes her address and an invitation to write for guidance.
A collection of adage phrases and quack lines from a turn of the century column. It includes Uncle Eben on advice and value, a Minneapolis cough remedy claim, jokes about responsibility, and several old medicine advertisements such as Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar Pike’s Toothache Drops.
Market reports from New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and East Liberty. Wheat and flour prices vary by city with Patents and No 2 red values cited. Cattle veal sheep and hog prices show firm to strong tones across regions including steers calves lambs and hogs with multiple price ranges listed.
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