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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
3
A nostalgic meditation on children at bedtime praising their innocence and night attire. The verses describe morning through night hours, lullabies and prayers, ending with the idea of children peacefully sleeping under guardian care.
In Sicily Leglosse and an Italian officer escort a mission to seize Hayle and Kitwater at a cliffside villa. A violent struggle ends with Kitwater dead and Hayle missing, the remaining treasure destroyed. the narrator retires from crime and marries Margaret Kitwater three years later.
A Bolivian Andes traveler recalls two taciturn drivers greeting each other with long looks and the simple exchange of nothing as they met while crossing dizzy passes under a glaring sun. The midday pause ended as they resumed their routes with no news shared.
Rev J Harrison Jones of Alliance Ohio marked his eighty ninth birthday. A 75 year preacher he helped grow the Disciple church to 1.5 million members and aided establishing churches in Canton Wooster Mansfield Bucyrus and other Ohio towns. He served as Civil War chaplain to an Ohio regiment linked to Col Garfield and attended the funerals of Garfield and fellow Quintinkle club members. He remains active walking two miles daily and recently spoke on The Way to Be Happy.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune note presents contrasting boarder lines about a hotel owner. The first claims the proprietor misstates the bluff location while the second counters the man had no money when starting the venture.
Scientists report repeated earthquakes have raised the beds of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, rendering former navigable channels unusable. The tremors alter coastlines and waterways, prompting reevaluation of regional geography and shipping routes.
A veteran recalls a Civil War era incident where Capt. was forced to march at drumbeat for two hours after Irish private Mike Flannagan disarmed him during picket duty. The tyrant captain was hated, faced a resignation petition, and was later killed in camp by an unknown assailant.
A music publisher recounts how Harrison Millard wrote The Flag of the Free during the Civil War. Lincoln and his son heard the Massachusetts regiment’s band perform it at Washington, inspiring praise from the president. Millard later served at the customs house and died unknown, yet his song endures.
The article outlines a compact dairy barn plan emphasizing proximity of cows and horses for easy manure handling, a warm horse room for milkers, and flexible partitions. It notes keeping AA low for air flow, five foot horse stalls, potential separation of stalls, a shared or separate carriage area, and hay and straw delivery via above chutes with CC grain chutes for animals.
H. E. Cook in Rural New Yorker outlines a dairy barn layout optimizing sunlight and air. The design includes separate cow and horse areas, box stalls, a box drive for unloading manure, and a silo in a corner for convenience. It emphasizes ventilation, moisture control, and robust upper floors for vehicle passage.
In a whispered quarrel, Mrs De Style laments losing status to Mrs Oldham who returned to the social set. She contrasts noble lineage and heirlooms with her own, noting Oldham’s husband died on the Matterhorn while De Style never climbed it. The exchange, published in New Weekly.
Cattle feeders near beet sugar factories use refuse pulp rich in sugar to boost milk and appetite. Much of the pulp is fattening when fed with grain and coarse fodder. It stores in silos with a top seal six to eight inches deep. decay of the top layer is not a major concern.
In a Chicago Record-Herald tale a magazine editor's guest, a broken-down man over 40 with a family, fears loss of work. He remarks on charity and the editor explains the man is the department editor for “How to Succeed,” whom the editor keeps from spending all at once, worried he may collapse on leaving.
A poetic paraphrase of daybreak to nightfall in flowing prose. The piece describes morning as a gray dawn washed in dew, a sunlit robe of gold, hours of contentment, and an evening dress of dusk, ending with the moral that every day ends.
Dr Schiffmann claims his Asthma Cure relieves attacks immediately and helps sleepers. Free sample packs are offered via local druggists or by mail to those who send name and address with a 2 cent stamp to Box 814 J Paul Minn. The notice echoes a Detroit Free Press joke about chop houses.
An old advertisement promotes Cure a Cold in One Day Tale Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure. It includes testimonials and promotional lines from various sources and urges readers to buy at druggists.
In New York on September 8 1902 flour and wheat prices are listed along with corn oats hay and animal markets. Cleveland shows mixed grain prices and cattle hogs and sheep figures. Chicago notes fresh readings for wheat corn oats pork and cattle while Toledo lists cash wheat and seed prices. East Buffalo reports cattle hogs and lamb values.
Mrs M K Bousch and daughter Pearl praise Peruna for curing longstanding catarrh in both. The letter cites personal recovery and urges others to try the remedy. Dr Hartman of Columbus offers free advice and a booklet on catarrh for women.
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