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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
7
A poem fondly yearns for holidays fixed in spring to fish the old home creek. The speaker imagines gathering all holidays into one week, cutting an alder limb for a seagrass line, attracting grasshoppers, blue bottle files, and listening to birds while baiting a hook along a shuddering hemlock. Poem by J. M. Lewis in Houston Post.
Webb and Blake lead a night pursuit of Sioux returning from Bear Cliff after a village capture. With frost and snow, scouts trace hidden trails, signal for a dawn strike, and seize a wounded prisoner litter including Eagle Wing, while Nanette's fate looms.
A nostalgic poem celebrates Grandma's country home with train journeys, farm chores, attic play, cookies, and a grandfamily scene. The speaker invites readers to join, imagining a idyllic retreat where school is forgotten and boys stay lively.
The Boston Herald summarizes the American magpie as an intelligent western species with two types black billed and yellow billed. It describes size plumage and white patches on wings, varied diet from carrion to insects, and its bold yet cautious nesting behavior. Nest is large built among bushes or trees with a mud lined interior and seven eggs. Young magpies are curious and playful stealing objects and teasing animals.
The superintendent of a promoted breakfast cereal describes a simple process from washing and steaming grains to flaking and drying them into breakfast flakes. He notes the plant will expand, and credits advertising activity with driving sales.
The Baxter Springs News reports the last of the Modoc tribe will depart Indian Territory for lava beds in Washington state. After a storied resistance they were conquered and dispersed after Captain Jack and others were executed. Only Princess Mary and Lu-ke-el-tu remain, aged 105, fading landmarks of a once famed people.
In a Blackwell's Island project a row of tents behind the tuberculosis hospital shelters consumptives drawn from New York City. The open air method, proven successful, will be continued through winter with ten tents of 12 beds each, offering maximum pure air and minimal infection risk.
A 12 year old player, John B. Stegale, was struck in the side by a line drive at Bainbridge Georgia during a game and died within an hour. The tragedy is reported amid a collection of humorous and odd clippings from the Chicago Pest and a circus tale about teasing an elephant.
The Louisville Courier-Journal describes a method to add a motor to existing bicycles without a new frame. It recommends strengthening the rear wheel, adding a coaster brake, and using a second sprocket to connect the motor while mounting the gasoline reservoir and electric outfit as on motor cycles.
The department of commerce and labor reports goatskin imports reach 25 million dollars annually, with most supplies from India, China, Arabia, and southeastern Russia. Rising demand for kid leather products like footwear and gloves boosts U S opportunities for farmers and manufacturers to capture profits.
In St Ives England a large electric torpedo fish was hauled from the sea. A fisherman who grabbed the creature received a severe shock and was ill for two hours, while others felt mild shocks on contact. The fish measured about five feet long and three feet across with a black back and white underside.
A Chicago inventor attaches a screw propeller to the swimmer rather than a boat, enabling rapid movement with leg and arm motion similar to cycling. Beginners must learn body positioning, but hands are not needed for propulsion as the screw provides sufficient power.
Seeds can remain viable for extraordinarily long periods under favorable conditions. Historical notes cite ancient seeds germinating after centuries and the Garden of the Horticultural Society possessing raspberry plants from seeds 1600 to 1700 years old. Watering interacts with seed carbon, triggering decay of vitality. once germination begins, vitality is exhausted without adequate nutrients.
A Paris scientist claims a telephone linked apparatus can judge wine purity by conductivity. Two wine samples sit on scales with the phone touching both, producing audible signals proportionate to water content, allowing detection of watered wine.
Practical advice on preventing and treating gapes caused by a small white worm in chicken windpipes. Recommends clean, dry yards, fresh air, lime-sprinkled floors, carbolic acid in water, tar in drinking water, green garlic or onion tops in food, fetid powder, sulfur fumes, turpentine wheat, and pyrethrum camphor blends.
Dust collects near electric fittings due to air currents from heating and electrified particles. In a non earthed system dust deposits on conductors or walls, but switching the non earthed wire limits deposition to lamp operation. Mr D B Moure suggests concentric flexible conductors with outer conductor toward the earth for further improvement.
A detailed plan by I. N. Ash describes an 24 by 32 foot hog house with 6 by 6 inch framing, five bents, a central 4 foot wide feedway, swinging 3 foot high partitions, corner posts, and 2 by 4 braces. It features a slop tank, windmill water supply, overhead corn crib, grain bins, ventilation, eight windows and eight doors, sleeping spots in each pen, and capacity for 60 to 70 head. Pasting hogs when weather allows. house serves as head quarters.
A compact 14 by 16 foot fowl house with six foot high walls showcases an elevated two foot ground floor, a roost at four and a half feet, a three-part floor, chaff under the roost, and central corn and water storage. North entry, paired drawers by the door, bay window on the south, small east passage for birds, orchard setting with pasture, by Judd Parmer.
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