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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
3
A composite children’s vignette recalls a farmyard convention where a Pug a Pony and a Pussy clash with Miss Lou. Uncle Phil cites Elihu Burritt to spur perseverance and schooling while spring notes on fish coloration and winter behavior contrast with doll etiquette and a family portrait mishap featuring Kittie and Sandy.
A humorous vignette plays on appearances and personality in marriage. The husband quips that a wife’s meek chin was inherited from her father while her strong will comes from her mother. The exchange highlights contrasts in character with light irony.
Household hints cover washing stockings with specific temps and soaps for lisle and silk, rinses with ammonia, drying tips, and proper pegging. Olive oil uses for children, warming chest and back, and camphor drenched flannel for cold defense. Also notes on meal prep readiness and table etiquette for new households.
A dated household menu presents Spanish Chocolate Mix for two, hot coffee beaten frothy, and mushrooms on toast with brown tops. It also lists Prime Jelly from prunes with lemon juice and gelatin, plus Baked Mush as a corn meal mold with salted, peppered slices.
Two elderly women watch Margaret skip rope with speed and daring, contrasting old time rules of speed with her Tabasco level. In the Philippines dispatch a sergeant shoots a boa, while a musician and wife discuss discords in Yankee Doodle and Dixie played together.
A New York Mail and Express note describes a cat sheltering in a hollow in a Vesey Street churchyard tree. The feline roams at night among graves and garbage but rests during daytime, with occasional scraps like apple cores nearby indicating a mischievous messenger boy.
A New York importer described large potato imports from Bermuda Scotland Ireland and Germany. He noted German potatoes are used for potato salad, cook oily and firm, small at full growth, and fetch about the same price as native varieties.
Large tracts of South America remain unknown to civilization with vast interior regions unmapped. Since 1875 only limited expeditions have been undertaken, and many areas from Venezuela to Chile lack reliable maps. Brazil shows little national surveying, with unexplored northern zones and blank sections on Atlantic coast maps. Also noted are autograph copies of Lalla Rookh sold in London and British ownership of a quarter of American rail shares.
The piece notes that the Defender of the Faith title faced changes as the 1840 British florin required letters F and D to be restored. Paul II canceled Henry VII’s title in a papal bull, later reversed by an act of parliament. It adds Los Angeles has 1 percent parkland averaging 3,740 acres, and that among 1,500 Tennessee convicts, 29 claim college graduation.
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