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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1904
Page
6
The piece argues that true order rests on removing clutter to create restful rooms with purposeful arrangement. It also laments Japan's wartime patriotism and reflects on Louisiana brimstone, the World’s Mail Service, and 1910s fashion colors. It ends with commentary on the motor vehicle race and driver class issues.
Gen. Joe Wheeler and Col. Mosby figure in a Washington portrait of Civil War veterans now serving in public life. Wynne the Postmaster General mixes with newspaper colleagues, while Memorial Hall and a Potomac span loom as future nationwide symbols.
Rhyme evokes a child’s delight in apple harvest time. Notes gatherers, yellow midas, sour crabs, apple-dumplins and cider as joys of visiting gran’mas and climbing trees when the apples are plentiful, with a playful refrain about needing a doctor after play.
A pug named Teddie could not see well, so his mistress carried him on street cars dressed as a baby. The oc ulist treated him after staff refusals, the doctor honored the royal dog blood claim, and Teddie regained partial vision with a modest bill.
A vented, editorial style survey contrasts laziness in white nations with tropical ease, focusing on Fantis of the Gold Coast. It discusses work habits, overseers, and ritual labor, noting stone carrying and early wheelbarrow adaptation. It also mentions a Japanese village in Kumamoto crater and a quip about good friends in a joke from newspapers.
The article portrays Lapland's Lapps as nominal czar subjects yet practically free due to inaccessible terrain. It details their nomadic winter routes across frozen rivers, reliance on moss for reindeer feeding, rapid camp shifts, and keen bargaining as survival sharpens wits. It notes harsh living, minimal bathing, crowded snow huts, and extreme dirt levels shaping their image compared with other Arctic peoples.
Thomas Lynch, a Northwestern University student in Evanston, walked into a plate glass window while reading a letter. He paid 15 dollars to the police as a self-imposed fine, insisting the injury was accidental. The money will go to postal authorities for a replacement window.
In Redington township near the Phillips and Rangeley railroad a beaver family dammed a stream supplying engine water. The engine crew found the brook dry, then a beaver pond formed upstream, and overflow restored the water supply for the engines.
C. E. Knudson describes making four by four foot shallow trays from 1x1 inch stock with half inch spaced laths for cellar packing. Each tray holds two bushels and stacks on four two foot posts with a tin cap to deter rats. The method keeps apples sortable and prevents children from scrambling above the pile.
A reader explains how to prevent gate sag by correctly setting posts. By ensuring posts are firmly planted at the tops of both short and long posts, a well-supported gate remains level and sturdy.
A Farm and Home note explains gate hinges bored into the wood, iron sockets as an option, and linseed oil to seal against weather. It describes nonstandard hinges formed by a blacksmith and a lever linked latch, plus wheels to ease travel in mud.
A brief description notes a corn husking rack easily built from a few sticks and scalable to any desired size as illustrated in the picture. It emphasizes a simple, affordable construction suitable for small-scale use.
The Orange Judd Farmer explains a compact rack at 18 inches high 3 feet wide and 6 feet long. To use it tip the rack so the top and bottom rest against a shock side then pull the shock over onto the rack. Untied shocks await one or two huskers.
This paragraph collection urges prudent farm management to boost value. It covers cleaning the farm to ease cultivation, using barnyard scrapings as winter protection, stacking hay to reduce weather damage, and a simple fruit preservation method. It highlights practical tips from Rural World and a Michigan farmer’s yearlong fruit keeping.
A humorous fragment from a newspaper item recounts a young man sending a song titled There s a Sigh im the Heart to his beloved. The letter falls to the unsentimental father a physician who debunks it calling it unscientific and misdiagnosed noting sighs relate to the lungs and diaphragm.
A collage of brief jokes and cartoons from multiple papers. Quips about work wages in Ireland, political commentary on public applause, domestic humor about stockings and dust coats, and light exchanges on travel, dentistry, and fashion. Dates and places vary across sources.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers. Tales range from political ambition and personal ambition to domestic humor and mishaps. The pieces feature mock dialogues, puns, and witty exchanges touching on romance work life and everyday absurdities.
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