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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1904
Page
7
A poem by Tsabet KE. Mackay in Canadian Magazine portrays a lone idealist facing a doomed cause. While others doubt or withdraw, he battles alone, dies, and his sacrifice prompts reflection on the worth of the struggle.
In Greenvale ghostly figure Scar Face unleashes tricks at the haunted mill town. David Curtis, driven by fear and guilt, endures a Halloween night of creeping danger as Nezer stalks him with a phosphorus masked threat. The sequence ends with David fleeing in terror as Nezer barely restrains his own fright.
The village hovers over the mystery of Davids disappearance after a feared haunting. Angies inheritance from Amzi Frisbie is contested while Aunt Comfort guides the survivor pair through grief and law. Angie accepts a future with Martin Frisbie as comfort for the hurt family.
A St Nicholas note describes making tiny egg shell planters by cutting the top third from eggs, filling with earth or sawdust and plant food, and placing shells in a drilled board with drainage holes.
A survey of baby gifts from keepsakes to practical items. Suggestions include a food pusher with a long silver handle, a bottle-holding frame attached to a high chair, bib pins on gold chains, silver christening cups, and amber beads. Also mentions ivory sets, baby bracelets, rings, and engraved remembrance pieces to last as the child grows.
The World notes a year of dramatic change in women’s dress from neck to toe. Warmer waistlines, wider skirts, and enhanced shoulders redefine the silhouette, while corsets loosen and basques evolve into short coats. Vivid color returns as the era moves toward romantic mystery and elusive style.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece describes a wise old horse belonging to a grocer on Wentworth Avenue near a school. The wagon accompanies the store, and children cluster around the horse for candy and sugar rewards, while the animal gazes kindly upon them. The narrator wishes the horse a long, joyful life.
A short article headline notes that sleeping with the mouth closed is linked to longer life. It cites health observations and popular guidance promoting nasal breathing during sleep.
Thomas Muir and his mother of Plainfield New Jersey awaken at the same moment in St Louis after a telegram arrives detailing the death of Muir's brother. The family now believes telepathy linked their experiences with the fatal fall.
Advertisement notes a Paris night school offering lessons on sleeping well. Curriculum includes how not to snore and how to keep the mouth closed, with tips for composing limbs artistically before dozing. Women learn hair preparation for repose to wake cheerful and good tempered.
A Kansas man evolves a featherless chicken preventing the Kansas tornado from its favored pastime.
A reflective piece citing questions about everyday nature and objects to encourage careful observation. It references a meadow bird with three eggs, a snow white colt, clover leaves, two colored two o'clocks, two variegated flowers, a sleeping animal in the street, and Pussy’s toes, challenging readers to notice detail. The quote from Kate Lawrence appears in Youth's Companion.
A Boston Globe inspired profile of Trixie the South Hadley Falls dog owned by Town Clerk Madsen. Born February 21, 1900, he fetches stones marbles a rugby ball and a baseball, loves trolley rides and swimming on ice during floods, and even chases candy from children while speaking to show his affection.
A Detroit Free Press note describes using a boiled egg shell on a moistened plate rim to spin around while the plate tilts. The experiment mirrors how Earth orbits the sun, offering a simple at table lesson in astronomy for the family.
A Camden New Jersey druggist is roused twice by a night caller who asks for ginger ale. The first bottle costs twenty cents with five cents returnable on return. Two hours later the same man returns for the bottle and demands his five cents back.
A full blooded shepherd dog named May shows intelligence by protecting her two pups. When the owner plans to keep or kill her, May leads her pups to a hidden woodchuck hole. She later retrieves them to the house, then again hides them to keep them safe until they grow. May lives to old age.
A Wellspring essay extols the virtue of perseverance after a fire ruins a shop. It argues that true American grit comes from early discipline and habit of facing hardship rather than seeking easy paths, urging youths to build this character from sustained effort.
A collector notes the sultan of Turkey holds 71 titles with promises to add more. Titles include Abdul Hamid the Eternally Victorious and Shadow of God on Earth, while the Persian shah bears grand epithets like Luminous Star of the Firmament and Pivot of the Universe. The Ava king signs decrees as King of Kings and father of the sun, among others.
A boy's diary entry humor shows a nephew writing got up at seven, mother correcting to get up, then the child changing to rose at seven and inscribing set at eight before sleep, illustrating playful language learning and parental guidance in a diary anecdote.
Thresher World explains various belt lacing styles 1 through 8 including when to use each for heavy belts and high strain. Tips cover threading, center-start sewing, Rogers punch half circle notch, and preserving lacing by wetting or oiling ends to ease threading.
A Farm and Home tip describes building a 15 by 16 foot enclosure with a 15 foot gate arrangement. With the large gate closed the colt is driven into a small area where it cannot turn, allowing safe handling and reducing bite or kick risks.
Midland Farmer advises on horse care noting high calks cause contracted heels and cracks, worms reduce nutrition, and proper pasture rest benefits profits. Do not remove all grain during pasture rest. moderate work aids recovery. if mare is heated, milk should be drawn and colt kept from nursing until cooled.
The farming year begins with rituals as a neighborhood farmers committee plows the first furrow. The plow and bullock are decorated and worshiped while the sower and assistants follow, planting seed and collecting spilled grain. Afterward the community holds a celebratory dinner.
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