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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
7
A youthful author signs as Alice B. Waite of Springfield, praising forest sounds and flora. The verse travels through treetops and streams describing birds, blossoms, moss, and twilight, concluding with a nature loving child of the woods and a patriotic tag.
General Charles King recounts troop movements near Fort Frayne as Trooper Kennedy unloads dispatches. Webb and riders press toward Dry Fork while Sioux forces, wary of trooper firepower, pull back. Amid fevered scenes, Fieldborne lies wounded, and the army prepares for renewed action as the general seeks Bill Hay and orders rapid cavalry patrols along the line.
In a tense military setting, Hay plans a Cheyenne transfer, Field and Webb clash over money misplacement, and Hay's household intrigues rise with Nanette Flower. Cade and the general probe masked by coffee and duty as the chase tightens amid Indian trouble and hidden funds.
A Civil War clash east of Lancaster Missouri near Athens on August 5 1861 saw 500 Federal troops under Col David Moore defend a position as 1700 Confederates approached. The fight featured the famous rebel yell, a flag-raising at the courthouse, and a dramatic retreat as Confederate reinforcements arrived. John and Will More, sons of Col Moore, fought bravely before fleeing as their father faced renewed attack.
Gouverneur Morris presents a stark World War I era ballad about a drummer who stays to drum at the front. The narrator contrasts duty and danger as the drummer faces enemy fire and chooses fidelity over escape, ending with his burial beneath the sand beside his drum.
In the Stone River clash the Third Kentucky Confederates and the Third Kentucky Union, longtime friends from the same county, faced off as enemies. The two regiments fought with muskets thrown aside, then punched and bit each other until captors freed prisoners. Prisoners swapped sides, and the men returned to friendly chats over whisky after the melee.
A sensational 1861 Memphis Appeal tale claims Parson Rippetoe, a Methodist captain, slew Sherman by severing his head after charging a battery at Bull Run. The piece notes the claim as likely fictitious, citing Gen Sherman’s later laughter at the account and labeling the story as southern newspaper imagination.
A parcel of 1,500 dearest cigars from Vuelta Abajo in Cuba dispatched for a New York multi millionaire smoker. Each cigar valued at about $4.50, made only by the most skilled workers who produce eight cigars daily. Every smoke is wrapped in Japanese paper and sealed in a perfumed wood box.
A short verse describes a inner guide named the Conscience Man living within the speaker. The figure warns and corrects, hears a mournful song when wrong, and pleads for moral conduct. The piece presents a personified conscience guiding behavior and ethics.
The Stroebeck in Prussian Saxony is famed for chess devotion since medieval times. A Wendish prince reportedly taught peasants the game in captivity, with the Schachturm tower still standing. Each year the school conducts a chess exam awarding six prizes, three to boys and three to girls, with inscribed boards displayed as emblems of diligence. Meanwhile a Camden boy’s gamecoc k refuses to quit the surf as a bathing chicken causes a seaside stir in Atlantic City.
A woman recounts outsmarting a wall mice family using a trap and a hidden wall hole filled to block access. Five nights of catches followed by repeated plaster filling showed the mother mouse protecting her young, and she ultimately left the hole closed and the mice avoided the room.
Equitable Record notes debates over longest English words with examples like incircumscriptibleness and antidisestablishmentarianism, then cites a Welsh village name and a Greek 172 letter term for hash, ending with a question about the span of smiles.
In Bristol, 3,000 people witnessed Wilson Lippincott, weighing 560 pounds, buried in a grave by 13 of the borough's largest men. A derrick operated by Bristol's smallest man, Charles Yeamens, lowered the coffin as onlookers watched. The coffin measured 3 ft 4 in by 7 ft 1.5 in, the grave 5 by 9 ft, and sheets of Pittsburg iron were noted for their thinness.
The Cincinnati Enquirer describes a simple eight inch bamboo pump with a hollow bamboo spout and a movable rubber seal. A wood rod and rubber end cap form the pump mechanism, with a water starter added to the upper barrel for operation.
The passage explains how soil type affects drainage on slopes. Very fine clay soils with tiny pores limit natural drainage, requiring artificial outlets at short intervals to remove surplus water. In more porous soils, water can move farther downslope before exiting.
An agricultural note explains how to manage water on sloped land by using tile lines to intercept water at the base of sand outcrops and under porous upper soils. Proper placement near the sand layer prevents ongoing wetness and avoids placing tiles too far down the slope, which leaves the surface soil wet.
A collection of farmhouse improving notes on attractive surroundings with trees shrubs and lawns as well as practical tips for apple orchard management. It urges pretty farm homes and discusses fallen apples use to aid pigs milk impact from cows browsing in orchards and the rotation doctrine for soil and crops.
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