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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
7
The note confirms rate parity between the Weekly Express and the Daily Express. No price changes or new charges are announced. readers are advised to rely on the existing quoted figures for both editions.
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An observer recalls a stylish girl on a train and comments on American gentility while noting photographs.
Three sisters and Lucy Kemp face a yearly ritual of flowers for Sylvester Kemp's grave while Phebe Ann, sick in bed, inspired a rival longing for appearances. After Phebe Ann's death, John Kemp reveals Sylvester's money saved for Lucy's schooling, and the family resolves to honor the grave with dignity each Decoration Day.
A Boston Budget note reflects on Memorial Day at spring’s end. It envisions a brighter future when lives emerge from grave loss, comrades reunite, and wars, wounds, disease, sorrow, and partings cease.
Ethel remarks on a horse laugh with a hint of discrimination while Blanche jokes about a horseless laugh in a Pittsburgh Chronicle snippet. The dialogue reflects social humor and character interaction within a column or feature.
A playful verse imagines swapping heads with Granny and a child, wondering how odd both would look. The speaker muses on head and hair swaps, then decides such a change would be strange and undesirable. Constance M. Lowe notes the idea in Cassell's Little Folks.
In the Santa Inez mountains, Vernon and companions confront a tree-clinging mountain lion under full moonlight. Vernon waits for the ideal shot as the panther advances, then fires when the moonlight reveals the sights. The shot ends the creature, hailed by Morton and the others.
The Chicago Record recounts Dr. David Livingstone’s 1840 encounter with a male lion near a Bechuana village in Cape Colony. The beast crushed his shoulder and tore at him but was killed by a native shot, leaving Livingstone injured yet alive and later respected by the locals.
In a moonlit canyon two youths imagine a gruesome prize, speculating on skinning and dressing a neck trophy. One proposes to have Old Mason dress it, celebrating their grim find as a prize to keep. Their gleeful, savage dancing echoes through the canyon.
In Loring Park Minneapolis Harry Carson four is plunged into Lake by a large swan after pelting it with sticks. Onlookers faced a potential tragedy as the bird dragged the boy toward the center of the lake. Rescuers reached them 20 feet from shore and a blunt blow freed the child who was then revived by a physician.
In Bartonville Vermont S C Morrison a prosperous farmer planned to move to Tacoma Washington. A Scotch collie left behind by the family refused to accompany them. The dog lay on the railroad tracks as a train approached and was killed by the passing train. He had been trained to stay away from tracks and had shown fear of trains prior.
Five year old Willie asks to visit Tommy Jones for playtime but cites his friend's lack of new carpets as the reason. The mother questions the motive behind spending so much time at the other home.
The Bohemian composer Anton Dvorak has been named a member of the Austrian House of Lords. A Londoner named Stroh has devised an aluminum resonator to replace the wooden belly of the violin, claiming a louder tone. Charles Wynn marks his twenty-fifth year as manager of London’s Criterion Theatre, a record no actor-manager has equaled. The Gainsborough theft is set to inspire stage use, with two English songwriters creating a hit ditty and plans for a full play. Mrs Langtry at the Imperial Theatre in London ensures a four inch wider aisle between seat rows for lady patrons.
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