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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1902
Page
7
Luck taps a cottage door. Lazines and a lazy cat await. Luck moves on to a second door where Industry toils. MenéGirg welcomes him and pulls Luck inside, beginning a stride of encounter with work and effort.
Ned Raymer accuses Jasper Grierson of greed and schemes with banker Andrew Galbraith to seize control of Red Lake pine lands. Kenneth Griswold wrestles with guilt as workers file out for a strike at the iron works signaling the outbreak of labor action.
Griffin tracks down Kenneth Griswold alias a robber by using field glasses and follows a cat-boat from Farnham grounds to a cliff side cove. He saves Griswold from danger then learns of a planned strike with potential hidden backers and hints at a decisive clue involving a powerful townswoman.
The United States Supreme Court awarded Hannah Callaghan, a 65 year old Cork ragpicker, 300000 in John Sullivan’s estate. Born in a Cork slum, she lived a frugal life selling bones and fruit while earning as little as five dollars weekly. American lawyers secured her share after long effort. Sullivan, also from Cork, built Seattle’s early shanty village and became a Seattle founder before tragedy and fire reshaped his land holdings.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt shows Ethel imagining a teaching career while Edna plans to be a mother of six. Edna suddenly recoils at the thought of discipline, crying out that her children have done nothing to deserve it.
A Chicago Daily News aphorism noting that public opinion varies and slander can be harsher than praise, reflecting on reputational risk and social judgment. The line contrasts negative and positive attention, implying greater harm in hostile or malicious commentary from some than widespread praise.
The former Mrs. Arthur Paget Mary Stevens of New York now spends little time in London and has faded from society leadership. Once famed for her vast charitable drives including a 100000 relief fund and the coronation bazar she organized jewels lending to hospital causes, her prominence has declined since three years ago.
Sufferer declares immediate tooth extraction from the dentist while a scientist dismisses the pain as imagination. The playful exchange appears in Tit-Bits, illustrating humorous banter over toothache and imagined ailments.
A literary fragment collection quotes John Oliver Hobbes on human nature, youth sorrow, wealth, hypocrisy, and gender. The narrator contrasts New York modernity with Renaissance ideals, notes youth’s harsh sorrows, and sketches opinions on religion and the feminine soul across cultures.
A Boston Post correspondent outlines charms as cultivated by attention to small acts and tact. Self-control and spontaneous brightness define the charming woman who rules in a broad domain, with sulky temperaments shunned in social life.
Mrs. Ann McDonald of Pittston accused butcher Max Connors of stealing her goose. An alderman ruled the goose would decide, directing a constable to release it by McDonald's home. The goose flew toward Connors' store, and the verdict favored him.
The article argues that eating large amounts of fish does not increase intelligence. It notes that coastal peoples like Eskimos and Labrador fishermen do not show more brains, and it points out that stale fish glows due to phosphorus not abundance.
A delightful salad combines diced pineapple and celery in equal parts with a liberal mayonnaise and whipped cream dressing. Sprinkle salted almond and pecan slices over the salad for a finishing touch.
A Baltimore convention of football supporters debates reviving interest in the game amid public weariness from wars and auto culture. A shaggy man from the Russo American Society of Anarchy proposes dynamite filled balls, triggering wild applause before remarks end.
Four daily trains run from Chicago to St Paul Minneapolis via Chicago and Northwestern Railway with departures at 9 a m 6 30 p m electric lighted North Western Limited 8 p m and 10 p m Fast schedules claim the most complete luxurious equipment in the West and unsurpassed dining car service Tickets reservations and pamphlets available from agents or W B Kniskern 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago Ills
Representative Pearre of Maryland received a constituent’s hard luck story. The man said he lost two horses and his wife, noting it was a good stock of horses. The Des Moines Leader reported the remark.
An advertisement notes the St Paul Calendar for 1903 six sheets 10x15 inches with color pastel drawings by Bryson and mailed for 25 cents. It directs readers to F A Miller Chicago for orders as a general passenger agent.
Financial notes report farm and grain prices in New York with wheat at 7714¢ and corn 66e, plus livestock values for beef veal and hogs. Cleveland lists flour and produce quotes. Chicago shows December futures for wheat corn oats pork lard and cattle. Toledo notes cash wheat 76a and December corn 43c.
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