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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
7
A nostalgic verse recalls a boy and grandma riding to school with an old gray mare. The memory gathers scenes of childhood summers, the old turnpike and meadow, and a longing to relive love and days past, ending with the mare waiting as the sun rises. Robert Mackay in Success.
In New Orleans the Bayou State Bank president Andrew Galbraith is held at gunpoint by a young intruder demanding a hundred thousand dollars. The man forces Galbraith to write a check, then to surrender ninety nine thousand dollars in cash before escaping, leaving the city with a high suspense sensation.
A historical newspaper fragment notes Kenneth Griswold as a professional highwayman but implies he would have been captured quickly due to no solid escape plan. The excerpt ends with an unfinished thought.
Griswold, a hungry conspirator, stages breakfast after a bank robbery. He contemplates using the loot to aid the oppressed while avoiding pursuit, then plans an original escape to erase his identity. The tale follows his shift from thief to uncertain agent in a sparse, suspenseful finale.
A letter signed J. G. Mohafi in The Bloemfontein Post criticizes beer mixed with spirits as rubbish that corrupts the people. He urges readers to drink pure unmixed beer, stay on the narrow path, and keep their yards clean, claiming to be an educated native and a part time teacher.
An old resident confirms the road has long led to Sunny Dale, stating it has been the route for 50 years and remains so, as reported by the Indianapolis News.
Advice on womanly grace linking mind and body to beauty and poise. Emphasizes refined posture, graceful manner, and harmonious health as reflections of character, citing N Y Weekly. Encourages reading beautiful literature and good health knowledge to project noble spirit and attract lasting admiration.
King Edward’s sister Princess Louise acts as patron for the London congress on welfare and protection of children, with the king’s approval. She admires the oral method for teaching deaf children in America and hopes for its wider adoption in England, while Miss Garrett and deaf children from Philadelphia demonstrate the system.
Neck ornaments are praised as pretty with flat plaited white and colored mousseline boas edged with mousseline roses or velvet leaves. Black ribbon ends or jet bead strands finish the fronts while tulle rubes with pompadour silk stole ends and steel buttons appear in fashion. Latest cravats and boas attract attention this season.
A Philadelphia Record humorous note describes Ethel in Sabbath school who is praised as very good after being unusually quiet. She explains she cannot help being good because she has a stiff neck, turning the moment into a light, wholesome quip.
The piece recounts how Samuel Woodworth wrote The Old Oaken Bucket in his New York home after drawing inspiration from a well on his father’s farm. It notes Woodworth’s birth in Scituate Massachusetts, the poem’s lasting fame, and the well’s continued appeal to visitors who sample its water.
Chicago statistics compiled by Hugo S. Grosser show 18 157 single males and 3 310 single females arrested versus 8 097 married males and 1 948 married females. Six month totals report 22 164 single and 9 505 married, with property losses and recoveries and rising births offsetting higher deaths.
Dr E Benjamin Andrews argues teachers pay is too low in Chicago and other cities. He says low salaries lure bright men to other work while women fill vacancies, and stresses need for men in all grades including kindergartens. He notes Chicago salaries are decent but not inviting for ambitious men.
An old Belgian peasant woman left a jacket with $240 in small denomination notes on grass. Her nanny goat ate the notes, was killed, and the chewed paper recovered from the stomach supported a compensation claim the National Bank of Belgium paid after verification by chemical analysis.
A playful Detroit Free Press line notes the engagement ended after she advised restraint and he responded by giving an imitation diamond, a tongue in cheek gesture reflecting frugal courtship.
Americans seeking fortunes in South Africa face strict entry rules after peace. Permit offices in Victoria Street require a £100 self-sustainment proof and a definite bona fide journey plan. Embassies in London must approve applicants, with deportation risk for those arriving without permits.
W H Russell and son George E Russell of New York City claim a volatile gas made from hydrocarbons powers auto engines at under half the cost of gasoline. The system uses a non pressured tank, safe under normal operation, generated by an air siphon only as the engine runs.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes the king Alfonso is a camera crank. It adds no accusation of him being a cigarette fiend, though it calls the situation undignified for a king.
A 1900s advertisement features Charles Lindgren of La Porte Indiana praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney relief. He notes three years of renewed faith and offers a free trial via Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with nationwide mail order and 50 cent price at drugstores.
A Greensboro Georgia Presbyterian pastor Rev E G Smith testifies Peruna cured his family after other remedies failed. Elder M J Rossman also reports kidney catarrh relief and endorses Peruna, praising its effectiveness and urging readers to write for free medical advice from Dr Hartman.
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