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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
7
A Baltimore American verse urges readers to vent anger and persevere through insult and mishap with a lively challenge to stay fiery. It uses playful imagery of slips and missteps to motivate resilience and outspoken attitude.
Tonti harbors Pompon as guards search for a prisoner in Paris above a Bastille past. Pompon reveals a long life from Fouquet to Colbert, claiming shared fate with Tonti’s father, a Neapolitan banker dead in prison starvation. The pair plot escape as a guard seeks the fugitive.
Margaret Sangster argues a young woman’s marriage plans depress labor value and force employers to hire replacements. She contrasts male and female labor, notes corsets and heels harm health, and urges homes and family life as a higher vocation for women.
A well known author chats with a dilapidated bachelor who clings to vanity. He proclaims his wish for youth wealth beauty and grace as he seeks marriage. The bachelor mocks his demand while the conversation turns on desire and irony. Tit Bits records the exchange.
A French meteorologist has devised a device that, early in the evening, forecasts frost for the next night by measuring dew-point proximity and using a wet-bulb thermometer. The apparatus aims to skip complex calculations and helps farmers decide when to apply frost remedies to protect buds and shoots.
A French invention by M. Bernel Bourette offers a simple frost warning tool the pagoscope. It uses two thermometers a wet bulb and a dry bulb on a board with a red green yellow scale to indicate frost risk based on intersection points. It aims to protect vineyards gardens and farms by foretelling frost before nightfall.
Inventor unveils a belt mounted arm rest that rises with the forearm to steady a rifle. A post on the waist strap allows lateral swing, with a spring pawl and notched heel to hold the extended arm position. Adjustable notches permit 90 degree angles for pistol use.
Instructions to build a decorative hearth seat using a 12 inch box with casters, gray green and white tapestry, and a 21 inch cushion covered in gray green glace silk. Materials include one eighth yard glace silk, one and three fourths yards tapestry, and two and a half yards cord.
The current blouse trend favors a true shirt with front plaits and cambric frill, often worn with tailleur. The slip blouse in satin or broderie anglais is popular too, box plaited and held by small buttons, though frills and furbelows are avoided.
The girl with limited income can showcase ingenuity this season as fashion favors pointed bodices broad shoulders and full sleeves. A large puff at the sleeve top and mixed materials on one gown offer affordable remodeling options for the industrious.
The article describes two ancient skin applications. May dew is rubbed on the face outdoors at five in the morning, with July or August dew similarly effective. It extols morning air as a great beautifier after a restful night.
When eyes are strained or inflamed from sleeplessness or intense work apply a cloth wrung in boiling water to the lids. Use the hot compress as tolerated and relief should occur within about thirty minutes.
A historic remedy suggests dissolving an ounce of sulphate of soda in a pint of hot water to soak the feet nightly and in the morning. It also recommends dusting a small amount of boracic acid into the stocking for ongoing effect.
Leather table covers praised for beauty and durability. Crafted in natural tans browns and stained greens and reds. Favored for libraries sitting rooms and dens, with rough unfinished edges and lifelong wear with no laundering required.
The text discusses neatness as a gatekeeper of good taste and notes that luxury is acceptable only at the right moment, framing restraint as essential before expense.
A Philadelphia Press critique notes that illuminated purples and golds in old murals require much skill yet may fall into doubtful taste, reflecting on the balance between craftsmanship and aesthetic judgment.
The Times notes the death in London of John Augustus O'Shea once a noted war correspondent. He was probably the last of the old school journalists who embodied the Bohemian mood of gaiety and irresponsibility.
Philadelphia musician Garber sued the street railway for injuries from a derailment seeking 5000 dollars. On the stand he said he formerly drank 50 to 60 beers daily and now can drink under 20. The court asked if reduced capacity counted as damage and the jury awarded 1000 dollars for reduced capacity.
The Richmond Missourian reports a stingy resident of Ray courty who wed by a justice of the peace and paid with turnips. For a wedding trip he rode in a lumber wagon to Richmond and their wedding dinner consisted of a dime’s worth of bologna and crackers. On the way home he bought a nickel’s worth of candy and suggested saving the rest for the children.
A Philadelphia Press account records dialogue where a reporter compliments several songs by Miss Parkingham while a hostess criticizes the wording, noting her father made money in lard.
A man recounts a tale claiming it mirrors a prior report, joking about the need to copyright his life history after a fatal mistake, in a humorous Tit-Bits style exchange. The line lampoons originality and memory in a playful, confessional way.
The piece notes a 1902 Scientific American report of a 3 foot long lobster weighing 34 pounds in the American Museum of Natural History. Since then another giant lobster was found measuring 45 inches and weighing 36 pounds, large enough to encircle a man with its claws. an illustration conveys its size.
Cosmos reports French scientist M. Labergerie has cultivated Solanum commersonii imported from Uruguay in Vienna. He improved flavor through selection, yielding near 90 kilograms per hectare and creating varieties including a vigorous violet type, with potential as a human food in southern France.
A weighing machine built in Birmingham England is described as the most powerful in the world with a capacity to register 220 tons.
A reliable authority says John D. Rockefeller earns $20,000 a year rather than $500,000 and S. C. T. Todd takes $60,000, not $250,000 plus commissions. Few Broadway headquarters officials exceed $5,000 annually according to the report.
Earl Carr, a 14 year old from Mountain View Washington, is described as the champion wildcat killer after locating six cats in a tree and killing five with a rifle. The remaining cat resisted and killed Carr's dog during the encounter. it weighed 31 pounds and was shot six times and clubbed.
Cartoon dialogue from the N Y Weekly features Bridget advising about storing eggs in a cool place as hens discuss the tip in a light domestic scene.
An old aroma of soil testing described by Rural New Yorker using blue litmus paper to gauge acidity. It outlines moistening soil, pressing paper into paste, waiting, and interpreting red color as indicating acidity and need for liming. A supplementary test with diluted ammonia checks for humus acidity and liming need.
The Farm and Home describes a new swinging feed rack with advantages over rigid racks. It sits low for easy feeding and swings aside when empty. Feed is placed in the front manger while dropped grain is caught in a lower manger with a grooved floor to raise it above the floor.
Prof A P Brigham of Colgate University notes French roads enable farmers to haul produce during stormy periods, while American roads force reliance on fair weather. He argues this affects railway receipts when country roads deteriorate.
A clod crusher and ground leveler gain effectiveness on rough ground by attaching a seat to the leveler so a man may ride while driving. Heavier soils require weight from a rider. lighter soil does not. The pictured device in Farm and Home shows the construction, noted as inexpensive and profitable, with a Texas example.
A Missouri farmer shares a contrivance for setting hens in a subdivided 16 by 8 by 2 foot pen. Eight nest boxes are placed at one end with covered tops and wire to keep hens in and other birds out. Fresh wood ashes deter mites, 15 eggs per hen hatch in most cases, and walls have no big cracks. Dusting and good feed keep hens healthy, allowing nine days to set with no ill effects.
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