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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
8
A homely boy earns smile and pity as an egotist is transformed by derisive stares. E Kiser notes the scene in the Chicago Record-Herald, depicting humiliation and self realization.
The column battles press the Sioux toward the Big Horn while Lame Wolf weighs surrender. Generals Webb and Henry push eighteen companies, wrecking Indian ponies as Stabb Stabber advocates cautious retreat and possible capture. A critical dispatch reaches Fort Frayne as news of victory arrives amid mounting tension.
In a remote post, Nanette Flower and a Highland girl face captivity as soldiers pursue Tame Wolf's band. A dramatic rescue attempt unfolds with Mrs Hay asserting kinship and defiance while Kennedy reports frontline action and a Carlisle exile tale echoes from Philadelphia.
South Africa faces widespread drought like conditions with streamless surfaces. By shallow borings, engineers find water nearly everywhere. Cape government notes 2000 boreholes in five years with average £50 cost and about 28 million gallons daily. Transvaal appoints expert to survey potential. Demand grows. 1898 to 1900 applications average 500 annually, with 50 drills constantly operating and plans for plant expansion and private enterprise to meet future needs.
A vintage note discusses rare gold coins and collectors seeking them. It highlights the vanished $2.50 gold piece from circulation and the high premiums such pieces command among collectors.
Chitto Harjo known as Crazy Snake, leader of the Ketoowah Creek band, vows to go to Washington for an interview with President Roosevelt. He has a history of rebellion and imprisonment, and a council delegates will accompany him, needing an interpreter to discuss the 1832 treaty granting land in common.
A London exchange notes scientific belief that extreme speed as a voluntary state may form a disease called the speed craze. The article cites a trend among cyclists and early motor users and discusses delusion and delirium tied to fast driving.
The South Park commission plans a bronze George Washington statue at Grand Boulevard Washington Park Chicago with a $20,000 statue, $11,000 base and $9,000 road changes. Also notes coin relics and a July canal traffic report from the North Sea and Baltic, Venezuelan road conditions, Langley airship testing, a Denmark land scheme, and Mexican education expansion.
The lesson outlines Absalom son of David who wins favor at court then leads a conspiracy to seize the throne. He flatters the people at the gate and uses spies and sympathizers to undermine David, aided by advisor Ahithophel, as the plot strengthens and risks collapse.
References span Maeterlinck pronunciation, Rabbi Glazier’s Iowa Jewish history project, a city records printing effort for New York under British rule, Alfieri centenary celebrations in Italy, Morley’s biography of Gladstone, Dr George Wyld on Prof Blackie, Chap man Hall's new Barnaby Rudge edition tied to Old Newgate door.
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