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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
4
A Yonkers Statesman piece recasts a gothic encounter with a coal black washer named Neva Moore who demands payment for services rendered. The poem unfolds with eerie dialogue and a chilling basement voice, ending with the haunting call of Neva Moore.
The fort at the rock is bolstered by Tonti and the chevalier Baugis who reconcile and defend against a planned Iroquois assault led by a white chief Le Loup. Pompon and Boisrondet aid, Renee is protected, and a barricade prepares for night combat as dawn reveals 2,000 attackers.
The Bad Boy recounts a sea voyage aboard a New York to Europe liner. Seasickness, chaos, and humorous misadventures with his dad collide with a romance as he describes flirtation with a widow and a quarrel over a steamer chair.
A narrator recalls a sea voyage with his father and a widow. The pair act tenderly but trouble brews over convalescence, theft, and a chair dispute with an English passenger. Poker games, a missing watch, and accusations follow before a Liverpool landing and a vow to disclose more later.
Article describes a Colorado bee ranch method to manage foul brood by moving the colony to a new hive with a transfer board and queen confinement. It details constructing a chute, cageing the queen for 48 hours, and carefully staged bee transfer to keep brood alive while expanding honey production.
The piece critiques neglected old farms in settled districts where young generations deprioritize tidiness and proper farming. It argues that neglect harms appearance, value, and community pride, urging renovation and steadfast upkeep by heirs and associations.
An account recounts the assault on the fort and how Pompon fulfilled his pledged aid. The wounded Indian confirms the story of La Salle’s attempts to centralize French and Iroquois efforts in that frontier period.
The Atchison Globe notes women applaud the heroine hero embrace on stage or in fiction, yet mock the neighbor’s kiss goodbye as they doubt lasting happiness. The contrast highlights audience double standard between stage romance and daily marriage.
The essay argues student honor has improved in behavior toward property owners near colleges, but athletics and exams still cause risks. It promotes public education to reject victory at any price, favoring the honor system over espionage and urging faculties to lead in restoring high standards through enlightenment and cooperation.
A Marseilles farmer promotes watering watermelons with milk around the roots to double size, citing prize wins as proof. He says the melon receives balanced nutrients from the milk solution, allowing energy to concentrate on growth and yielding firm red pulp with enhanced flavor.
A historic passage describes Lord Elgin pressing Japan for a treaty and offering a yacht to the shogun. The account notes the British envoy’s insistence on framing terms favorable to England, while the Japanese court navigates the diplomatic exchange with restraint.
The khedive is a strict Mohammedan who abstains from wines spirits and tobacco. He is monogamous like his father and loves his Circassian consort and their children, showing a strong domestic attachment as noted by the Westminster Gazette.
The passage notes Japanese thirst for knowledge and quick learning as a raw crew trained to handle the shogun’s yacht within a week. It also observes Japanese commissioners mimicking Western toasts by roaring and shouting after meals to honor guests, reflecting cultural imitation.
An old farm note explains growing broomcorn and making brushes at home. It outlines steps to braid a broom, twist wire loops with a stick, and craft a horse brush from broom straw glued between lumber, with clamping and drying tips for kitchen use and other household tasks.
Farmers often rotate crops haphazardly depending on conditions. One farmer sowed oats before corn and corn before buckwheat, leaving ground for weeds where buckwheat could not be sown. The piece argues for a more deliberate plan to improve returns on high priced land, noting that success rests with the farmer’s choices rather than mere locality.
A Ohio Farmer correspondent describes a home made tool to bind corn shocks. A wooden block with a through hole and a rope acts as a pulley to tighten the binding rope before the band is added.
A writer in the New England Poultry Journal praises clover as prime green feed for hens and chicks in summer. Young clover and mature clover both suit feeding. clover three times daily boosted performance by about 50 percent, with dandelions also cited as a good yard green for laying fowls.
Fear sight destroys fore sight value. Proper agriculture prevents fertility exhaustion. Did you burn blighted potato vines and see new growth easier to spray. Blue grass pasture improves under intelligent management. once established it is too valuable to break up. Top-dress rather than reseed unless poor.
The article explains oats gain from following leguminous crops. Sowing pod bearing plants like vetch in early fall and allowing growth before plowing under boosts oats. Inoculating the legume with nitrogen fixing bacteria helps if the field has not recently hosted such crops.
An Ohio reader argues in favor of the hay loader and hay fork and adds that the hay sling should be included. He notes these tools allow independence from unreliable help, provided the wife can drive the horses.
A admonition warns that separating lambs from ewes harms flock welfare. It urges immediate separation only when necessary and stresses care for animals and proper husbandry to protect livestock health.
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