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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1906
Page
2
A Providence harbor incident highlights a schooner frolic with a cargo of forced laborers as part of a broader contraband smuggling scheme. Authorities describe ingenious ploys to dodge customs scrutiny and ferry Chinese workers inland for profit.
Boston reports reveal rising wages and clever smuggling methods used by Chinese to enter the United States. Despite official claims of enforcement, smugglers exploit borders via Canada and the Rio Grande, disguises, and fake identities. The Frolic incident highlights the scale of profits and risk, with dozens of laborers landed in Providence and Boston tied to a $15,000 haul.
An ex soldier recalls a Porto Rico cow so tame it did not kick during milking though tied up for restraint. The crowd watched as he milks the animal, noting locals keep cows restrained and wonder if Yankees will changeEggs are kept for weeks before eating in local practice.
Gerald de Costa, an eccentric old man in River Denys Cape Breton, sits long hours gazing at walls papered with canceled bank checks. Once a prosperous grain merchant from London to Chicago, he fell on hard times after 1893 but saved the checks as treasured souvenirs and now lives on them, preferring them to meals in a peculiar check room.
A Milwaukee Sentinel quip questions whether a person is a golf expert based on a sharp line about knowing the profanity in English. The exchange frames a playful jab about expertise and language.
A census official claims St Petersburg’s population is rising. The czar questions the claim while noting police laxity in deportations, hinting at potential Siberia punishment. Washington Str.
Ainslee's Magazine poem explores a shy exchange between Meriel and a suitor. The speaker notes Meriel's anger and trust, then concludes with the promise that her small hand will remain in his forever despite tempers and reproaches. The verse centers on delicate emotion and steadfast affection.
Instructions describe Japanese style dishes using rice with boiling water salt fish and mayonnaise. Shuriko recipe forms a rice cake with red bean sauce. A Japanese salad mixes olive oil vinegar onion salt pepper and hot rice then serves over crosne or lettuce with sardine garnish.
Cream one cup sugar with butter then beat in yolks. Fold in flour baking powder milk and stiffly beaten whites. Add cocoa and chopped walnuts and pecans then bake shallow pan. IcING: melt butter and cocoa, mix sugar and milk, boil five minutes, beat creamy and flavor with vanilla.
A New York Press editorial argues that repealing the Dingley tariff would destroy trusts but also ruin small independent firms and depress American labor wages to foreign levels. It warns that such action would harm the nation while only addressing the trusts’ power, comparing it to a drastic, violent cure.
A recipe combining dried apples soaked overnight with sour milk and sour cream, seasoned with salt, molasses, soda, and flour to form a stiff batter. Steam two hours and serve with a sauce made from sugar, butter, and flour, finished with boiling water and lemon to taste.
Soak a new blanket for 12 hours in cold water to remove sulphur from bleaching. Rinse in clean water, then wash in lukewarm soap and water. Rinse thoroughly, shake, and hang to dry.
A vintage recipe instructs mixing half an ounce of armsroot with two ounces of alcohol in a bottle. Cork tight, shake well, and let sit four to five days to obtain a lasting refreshing violet odor.
A new technique uses a basted tissue paper pattern placed on cloth in a sewing machine without thread in the needle. The pattern is stitched along the design line and when lifted, an outlined pattern remains. The fine needle leaves a neat, clear mark ready for embroidery.
A fragile physician named Dr. Henry La Tour returns to a dilapidated home in Tileriaville while plotting modern offices. His pride battles neglect and drug reliance as townspeople debate his role and the toll of his work during a scarlet fever crisis.
Dillon Wallace recalls a harsh Labrador season with thousands of devilish fireflies roaming the shores as newcomers suffer. He notes Duncan’s blunt swearing learned in lumber camps, understanding it as a product of harsh education from the camps and rough life near Groswater Bay.
A St Nicholas Magazine note explains grebes create regular floating nests on marshy lakes using reeds grass and plant stems. Nests may be moored to reeds or float freely on open water.
A Washington Star fragment shows a man with a haunted look declaring the heavy burden of responsibilities from reading fashion articles, social proprieties books, and restaurant regulation methods. He reveals his identity: the mayor of a summer resort town.
A Chicago Daily News quote contrasts women and a bachelor’s success with a punchy philosophical line. It frames gender influence through a wry exchange about whether a man would have succeeded without his wife.
In Washington, Senator Sorghum comments on pay for government officials and proposes an ironic notion that damages by officials should be paid into a conscience fund. The exchange highlights fiscal prudence and accountability debates.
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