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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
3
A teller describes his beloved teacher who plans to quit the classroom after winter but emotions rise as she tears up at his confession and they decide she will not go away. This Chicago Evening Post piece blends affection with labor and goodbye feelings in a sentimental vignette.
Col. Richard Somers rests near Mechanicsville while Civil War combat rages. He covertly aids Louise, a dying woman seeking her lost papers and her child’s fate. He embarks on a dangerous mission into Richmond to locate Raymond Holbin, risking capture for the sake of a wounded lover and a hidden life.
A legend recalls a general pressed by battle who is saved by a spirit soldier, named the god of the target, after the general asks why he aided him. The spirit replies gratitude for the general’s unerring aim in practice, never hitting him.
A Chicago Daily News quip notes that armed chairs are not inherently hostile furniture, suggesting a tongue in cheek take on equipping or mischaracterizing objects as threats.
The Farmers' Voice urges Midwestern farmers to abandon two crop systems and rest soil with legume crops. It recommends sowing cowpeas and soybeans, double-disk oat land, drill peas or beans, broadcast clover, sow rape and vetch, increase livestock, poultry, fruit, and beekeeping to restore soil fertility and profitability.
A study of the peanut plant notes its legume family traits including trailing annual growth, butterfly shaped blossoms, and ovaries that form underground pods. Peanuts are widely cultivated in southern states and used as hog feed, with the illustration from a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin.
A compact guide explains making a push cart for garden and field work. It notes using an old buggy axle bent to shape, with a blacksmith able to form it. The design aids harvesting in summer and general work in spring and fall.
A simple garden cart built from an old buggy axle and repurposed wheels can be constructed cheaply. By bending the axle as shown, the cart resists tipping and reduces wheel wear while carrying loads. A swing drop-stick can be added to the front board.
The Farm Journal advises against overfeeding dairy calves to avoid a fat habit and stresses elevating product quality over price talk. It urges ample swine exercise and green forage, recommending clover pasture with mid summer peas, and rape and clover for fall pasture. Mature non nursing animals require only the green diet.
A London Globe report highlights a one year old American baby whose strength allows him to grasp a cane held by his father and pull himself up to chin height three times. The anecdote is offered as a striking example of infant prehensile ability, seen as evidence of near monkey ancestry.
An offer from Allen S. Olmsted of Leroy New York promises a free sample of Allen s Foot E ase a powder for shaking into shoes to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet and to ease new or tight shoes It is sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents
In Chicago Daily News style a grocer and butcher dispute a cider claim. The grocer asks if water was sold as cider while the butcher says the charge was misinformed.
A private mailing card with colored views of scenery on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps. Addressed to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago Ill.
A court scene features an odd exchange about a sculpture commission. The judge asks the sculptor Madam about charging for a bust of a daughter’s foot. The ad copy then pivots to endorsements for Piso’s Cure and Beeman's Pepsin Gum, ending with a wry note on maternal traits.
An old advertisement touts Hoxsie's Croup Cure as a life saver for children with croup. It claims no opium and prices it at 50 cents, while a satirical note from Puck complains that trying to secularize daily life prevents retirement.
A Punxsutawney citizen asks his hired man to prepare tackle before a two week trout fishing trip. The story quotes the famous pangram Pack my box with four dozen liquor jugs as explanation for the alphabet sentence.
A Leipsic musical journal ad offers a skilled composer a furnished house near the sea, piano, good meals, and fuel to write a one act tragic opera before warm weather. Applicants must send graphical notices to the newspaper office.
A London Express note recalls a census controversy where a well known author argued with an official over listing “authorship” as an infirmity. The census man insisted the term was invalid while the author urged labeling by childhood illness, prompting a stubborn exchange.
Thomas Regan and C Collins of Eden Valley Minnesota describe a December trip to Calgary and Yorkton district in Assiniboia. They report warm weather, abundant feed, and high grain yields Wheat 25 bushels oats 60 bushels per acre. they plan to join Yorkton's new districts in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan and urge readers to contact Canadian Government agents for details.
A shopper asks for a cash discount on an iron bedstead as the dealer refuses to lower the price without immediate payment. The exchange ends with the bedstead only available for cash purchase.
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway releases an illustrated booklet on South Dakota Farms covering Aberdeen to the Missouri River. The region gains new rail service and readers may obtain a copy by sending a two cent stamp to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago Illinois.
Mrs Flathbush and Mr Daubchina debate art styles with differing emphases. The Brooklyn Eagle notes her use of a grand A while he favors a bold D in discussions of creative work.
A Derby Connecticut woman, Martha M Johnson, writes she will pay any price for Palmer's Lotion after hearing its praised effects. She asks a druggist to stock it or to send samples to Solon Palmer in New York.
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