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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
2
Poem from Baltimore News honoring President McKinley. Recounts nation’s sorrow, flags, bells, and taps as McKinley rests in Autumn tribute. Mentions Sister States and the nation’s grief, with lines on love and peace surrounding the bier.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports that President Roosevelt’s pledge to retain the McKinley cabinet and continue his policies wins the South’s praise and loyalty. Senator Pritchard of North Carolina endorses Roosevelt as an exemplary president with strong Southern support.
A compilation of editorials praising and criticizing figures linked to McKinley’s death, including references to Bryan, Wellington, and Roosevelt. It notes partisan shifts, party prospects in Ohio, and reactions of journals like the Cleveland Leader and Indianapolis Journal. The piece reflects varied press takes on unrest, trust politics, and national mourning.
The last public utterance of President McKinley at the Buffalo exposition on September 5 urged a shift from exclusivism to global engagement. It stressed expanding trade, reciprocity, and a peaceful, prosperous era under Roosevelt while supporting stronger markets, an isthmian canal, and a Pacific cable.
Column cites the Indianapolis Journal praising Senator Hanna. It notes widespread prior denigrations by cartoonists, but recent efforts to fairen his record. It recalls Hanna’s early support for McKinley and the depth of his friendship after the president’s death.
The piece argues that a new president should avoid vanity by changing policies for display. It says Roosevelt is too substantial to be swayed by such urges and will prioritize preserving political stability after McKinley’s assassination, guiding both domestic and international policy.
Editorials from the Troy Times and Detroit Free Press praise Theodore Roosevelt after his first Washington cabinet meeting. They note continued McKinley policies, confidence in leadership, and the president's patriotic resolve guiding the nation through the crisis.
Capt. Sam H. Beckwith of Utica New York recounts delivering Sheridan's Shenandoah valley report to President Lincoln through Gen. Grants cipher operator. The narrative chronicles Beckwith's ride, meeting Lincoln in 1864, and the moment the president received the dispatches in the telegraph tent.
A St Paul post office cat earned a raise after a record month killing 125 rats and mice. The postmaster requested higher pay from Washington and the cat now makes $10.40 a year. She later presented five kittens who joined United States service as soon as they could handle a rat.
A Chicago Inter Ocean tale recalls six Illinois and Ohio soldiers whoion crossed into a Confederate picket line near Reed's Bridge on September 18 1863 seizing 22 captives and learning Bragg’s reinforcements. Their raid, unmentioned in official reports, helped trigger the Chickamauga battle.
A French hygiene expert explains wheat composition. The envelope adds little food value, the digestive layer and embryo contain nutrients but the embryo decays quickly, while the albumen provides nutritious, clean flour. Proper grinding yields very white flour free from fermentations.
A London Lancet excerpt argues cheerful people tend to longer lives. It claims mood shapes life experience and outcomes, noting that a ready laugh benefits health and friendships, while chronic worry shortens days. Encourages maintaining cheerfulness despite adult responsibilities.
The London Illustrated News reports Col. de Pilsoudski has developed a ground based wireless telegraph system avoiding tall antennae. Experiments in Vesinet show 550 yard and 2000 yard distances with ground conductors and Leyden jar receivers, using the Popoff-Ducretet radiotelephone for audible transmission and goal of water cross communication. The project seeks Russian government patronage and military interest.
The account recounts General Benjamin Butler landing in New Orleans with Farragut, the ensuing oppression and ruin, and his recall after seven months. It notes Banks replacing him and contrasts Butler’s approach with repercussions for Louisiana’s reconstruction. An anecdote from a wartime diary describes a hospital rector and a firing fuse misperception during the siege of Vicksburg.
The first and last guns fired in the American Civil War will be displayed in the government building at the Buffalo exposition.
Specialists claim examination of the thumb reveals paralysis risk and incipient insanity long before other signs. They describe a brain thumb center operation and note thumb changes indicate success or failure of treatment. The thumb's posture, whether it remains at a right angle or drops idle, is described as an unanswerable confession of mental disease.
Vice Consul General Murphy forwards a report noting two scientists clash on sugar's dietary value. Dr von Bunge urges reduced use and higher sugar taxes, while Prof Lepine argues sugar has little iron or lime impact and may not harm health.
Wright A. Patterson argues that Western Canada uses wholesale farming, long straight furrows, and abundant land to achieve high yields. He cites 2,700 acres near White Plains Manitoba with 67,500 bushels harvested and notes government land policies and cheap acquisitions make farming highly profitable.
Prof. Kramberger of Zagreb University Croatia claims discovery of skeleton fossils at Krapina Croatia similar to Java pithecanthrope remains. The Krapina specimens show a high protruding forehead and were found in a cavern with bones of bison and hairy rhinoceros, stone tools, a small home ax and traces of fire. He plans to lecture in Vienna and display the finds to Austrian scholars.
The Brooklyn Life quips about secrecy in charitable acts, noting a playful clash between personal discretion and philanthropy becoming fashionable. The exchange contrasts hidden deeds with public praise in a light editorial tone.
Local farmers discuss why small truck patches get their nickname. Citiman notes patches are sowed on and common in rural areas as the term persists in the talk reported by the Philadelphia Press.
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