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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
16
A Chicago Chronicle verse remarks on rising egg prices and the farmer’s wary eye for hens over boastful roosters. The poem portrays market hustle, wealth hoped for, and the bond between farmers and their pullets as eggs climb in value.
La Salle completes a fortress atop a cliff guarding the Illini town and unites tribes into a fortified French outpost called Fort St Louis. Tonti consolidates peace among allied nations, provisions the fort, and faces renewed political pressure as orders arrive from Quebec demanding La Salle’s surrender.
A Scotch minister arrives at a farmhouse late in the afternoon and declines tea before work. He plans to finish tasks and draw to a close in prayer when he hears the home’s hearth fizzing, asking the housewife to hang the pan and leave the door ajar.
A New York doctor recalls a dramatic restaurant encounter in which a distressed man, urged by the doctor’s joking advice, throws a stone through a jewelry store window. The tale ends with the man seeking help, receiving employment, and later repaying the paid repair bill.
A missing Stonewall Jackson bust, taken when Richmond fell, is returned after a guard stole it to North and a soldier later delivered it to a Boston audience lecturer. The bust, carved from a death mask by a Baltimore sculptor, is identified and rehoused at Davis house museum after 40 years.
A table shows stamps issued by all countries over 60 years. A perfect collection would need 19 242 stamps. San Salvador leads with 451 issues. Oceania 1425 varieties, Asia 3628, Africa 4005, Europe 4089, America 6095.
Dialog between Gotham and a speaker notes a cynical view on trouble in the world—half arising from lying, the other half from telling the truth. The exchange uses sharp wit and urban setting language.
In San Domingo a vast salt mountain about four miles long is said to hold nearly 90,000,000 tons. The crystals are so clear that medium-sized print can be read through a block a foot thick.
A light dialogue notes a piano piece played by Euphemia, with the mother asking who composed it and the father replying it did not seem composed at all, reflecting a humorous exchange from the Yonkers Statesman.
In Milledgeville, Captain Fowler recalls paying $2.50 a peck for potatoes during the march to the sea. A comrade named Aaron Catlin cooked them for officers, paid three dollars for boiling with a Federal stamp and a ten cent note. Catlin and a partner later swapped boots and shoes to avoid raids, fooling rebel guards and leaving more presentable prisoners.
A six inch muzzle loading rifle from Fort Sumter, 18 feet long and weighing over eight tons, was presented to Northwestern University by the senior class. Henry Cannon spoke at the ceremony, and a bronze tablet honors students who served in the Civil War. The cannon sits west of Science Hall on a knoll.
A Civil War anecdote from Gen Fitzhugh Lee recalls a young Irish captain commanding timid volunteers under fire. After their first disobedience he rides the line and asks sarcastically if they want to live forever, revealing the humor and hardship of early combat baptism.
A golfer drove a low ball over a river and a salmon leaped from the water to seize the ball, landing on the bank with the ball in its mouth. In a separate account, another player scored two birds with a single ball, one in the morning and one in the afternoon round.
The article notes European college endowments by wealthy benefactors are rare compared with this country. It cites Dr. Goburrek of Tilsit who left 250000 marks to loan without interest to women studying medicine in Germany and Austria for this purpose.
A brief Stray Stories exchange shows Singleton refusing a document while Wedderley presses for the paper to show a paragraph to his wife, illustrating a small domestic irony about requests in a quiet moment.
A New York Sun exchange shows a financier pressuring a friend to secure a place in history. The dialogue highlights concerns over name inclusion and the price of legacy.
A remarkable English clock for an eastern ruler displays thirteen dials showing the time in London Paris Rome Berlin Vienna St Petersburg Constantinople Washington Yokohama Peking Bombay Samarkand and Teheran. The dials bear native characters and the ormolu frame is richly engraved for the palace.
In coal and metal mines discarded boiler tubes, though corroded or leaky, can be cleaned and flanged to form air or water pipes for pressures under 100 psi. Old tubes lost to scrap rise in value when repurposed, as threads fail due to thin walls and misalignment, making flanging the preferred joining method.
A novel device warms the steering wheel by circulating engine water through water jackets and a hollow spoke with a flexible tube. Water flows around the wheel and back to the tank, making the wheel thoroughly warm in about half a minute. Likely to be adopted in public service autos to ease winter driving discomfort.
Belgian naturalist J Wery reports experiments on how flowers attract bees. Perfume alone is weak. glass shaded artificial and natural flowers attract similarly. Full color and form beat partial petals. honey scentless. color and form drive most attraction. Bees rely more on sight than scent when seeking honey.
A diminutive marine triple expansion engine built by Robert Bunge of New York City stuns observers with flawless workmanship. The three and one quarter inch high model runs at 7,260 RPM with 100 pounds steam, driving a two and a half inch screw. cylinders measure five sixteenths, eight sixteenths, and ten sixteenths inches.
A model of a triple expansion engine made with minuscule parts impresses with hexagonal nuts under a cylinder cover. Nuts are under one sixteenth inch, studs just under one thirty-second inch, with steel crossheads and brass wear shoes. Steam pipe is one eighth inch, exhaust three sixteenths inch. The maker claims it the smallest triple expansion engine in existence, best appreciated in operation.
A Baltimore man is highlighted by the New Orleans Times-Democrat for using illuminated door signs to help visitors find houses at night. The piece notes the common problem of unread house numbers in darkness and laments the cost of lighting.
A proposed device mounts a lighted casing above the door frame to illuminate the transom number. An electric bell style button on the frame powers a lamp and reflector that shines onto the number, helping seekers verify if they are at the correct house.
The Hampton Court conservatory grapevine planted in 1769 had a stem 13 inches thick and a main branch 114 feet long in 1830. It covered over 160 square yards and yielded about 2,200 punches of fruit in a year, averaging a pound each, roughly a ton of fruit.
The text explains that Admiral Togo's name is pronounced like Tongo and that the Japanese letter g with a soft sound is linked with n. It also translates the victory shout Ban zai as May the emperor live forever.
A New York newspaper reports 47 fatal deaths in New Orleans. The article notes a nonfatal death has not yet been publicly noticed or satisfactorily accounted for.
Yonkers notes a dialogue where Patience calls a writer prolific and Patrice mentions the writer has only one book. The exchange highlights that the author produced all the press notices for that single work.
The article notes eggs hurled at an umpire in a western town mark a shift from bat and cushion to a calculated act of malice. It warns that eggs, regardless of age or condition, convert spur-of-the-moment frustration into deliberate offense with criminal implications.
The Washington Star quips that Briggins has less money than before because his physician calls his condition a cold rather than admitting hay fever. The remark frames financial decline through a light medical misdiagnosis.
Mrs. Bixby notes that whether two heads are better depends on if both sides try to outdo the other. The quote appears in Town Topics.
A humorous noting of Smith buying a car by selling his yeast factory. The Judge quips about how he raised the funds, implying an unusual source for the purchase.
A farmer describes efficient manure handling methods learned over two years from experiment stations. He explains using a spreader five months, then loading with a wagon to the field half a mile away, unloading, and returning to the shed in 30 minutes with one man, versus 80 minutes longer by alternate methods.
A farmer explains in a letter to the Orange Judd Farmer that a manure spreader improves work pace and coverage. He notes a 50 bushel load carried by three horses, spreading over about thirty acres of meadow each year. He describes storing fine manure for cow absorbent use and timing spread before fall rains to prevent drying. He urges every farmer with ten cows to own a spreader.
The Farmers' Review argues silage makes dairy operations cheaper and steadier through winter. It urges growing corn for silage every year, using well-made cutters, cutting at the right stage, filling the silo quickly, cutting stalks to about an inch, packing tightly, and ensuring airtight storage.
A new peach insect is found inside ripening fruit in northern Ohio with no outward signs. Experts suspect seeds planted for young trees spread various peach diseases and call for reconsidering spraying during bloom to curb infestations.
Advice on calf housing and feeding emphasizes giving calves sod with earth, explains why, and notes milk weighing to catch cow theft. It also suggests building a silo to grow herd size and profits and advises dairy cows calving in July to stay in the stable during peak heat with dry food.
Farm Journal advises readers to fashion their own crates for apples and potatoes using wood cut to three-eighths inch thick and one and a half inches wide. Use hardwood for corners and bottoms, fasten with shingle nails, and build a bushel crate with inside dimensions of one foot deep 13 inches wide and 16 inches long.
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