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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
2
The Schenectady population has risen from 15,055 in 1880 to 47,625, boosting the theory that electricity drives growth. Kentucky's highest court ruled that in total destruction by fire the insurer must pay the full policy amount, and that actual loss must be paid when damage is less than the policy.
A New Hampshire man deposited 470 at age twenty in Concord and never added to it. Over the years he withdrew 3200 at times, and at his death at ninety five, 1500 remained. Compound interest alone grew the funds.
The House of Representatives now uses large black buttons reading Page. Representative Legsler championed the reform after being mistaken for a page before members knew him. He insisted pages be clearly tagged to prevent further confusion.
The quotation stresses combining core merits from opposing views. It argues magnanimity, honesty, and breadth guide thoughtful discourse. By weighing both sides and seeking a unified truth, decision making improves and conflicts gain constructive resolution.
Lord Cramer, the British Financial Agent in Egypt, reports that many orders for railroad plants go to United States firms due to their extraordinary speed. The claim is supported by statements from several Egyptian railway officials, highlighting American enterprise and push.
A Boston man used a large force of clerks and lawyers to pretend he and three Commi liave been quietly drawing pay at Washington for codifying Federal statutes for eight years. The scheme collapsed when he learned the government already does the work, leaving him out the costs of clerks, stationery, office rent and sundries.
A movement aims to form a geographical society of America to unite growing interest in American geography and improve its presentation in schools. Debate focuses on how broad the organization should be, with some proposing including Mexico Central America and possibly Latin America to foster a Western world geographic interest.
Large exports of horses and mules from the United States to Cape Town during the Transvaal conflict have pushed prices up startlingly. Western breeders, already profiting, may expand production with the boom expected to continue for several years as cavalry remounts and draught animals command higher prices.
John Graham Brooks spoke in Brooklyn on The Best of Utopias arguing education must foster windlike energy, sanity, and strength to direct vast energies beyond mere self interest. He cited two forces reducing slavery: arts and crafts to curb the commercial spirit and science applied to home and farm industries.
In Oak Park a longtime domestic named Mary Blake, praised for skill and steadiness, suffers a hip injury after a sidewalk fall. Mr. Munson proposes a city damages suit for wages and hospital costs, leading to a courtroom win but a counter claim by Blake. She resigns after a settlement, later visiting the Munsons in fine attire, declaring new independence and a life of leisure.
A survey of famous inventions and the fortunes they produced, citing figures for products like the Dancing Jimerow and John Gilpin toys, roller skates, pencil tips, shoe laces, umbrellas, the Howard sugar-boiling patent, and steel pens. It highlights the wealth of Josiah Mason, patent shading pens, wooden elastic balls, metal shoe plates, baby carriages, Mary Anderson toilet cuts, corset improvements, gimlet-pointed screws, and a gifted Miss Knight in paper bag production.
Mrs M L Rayne comments in the Chicago Record Herald that Mary’s damage fund will not last long and that without it she may lose her sense and usefulness, urging reliance on substitutes.
The judge ordered a roll of 35 jurors. Only 22 answered. A nervous young man asked to be excused saying he had an embarrassing illness. The judge demanded public disclosure. The man confessed he had the itch. The clerk was told to scratch the juror off.
A housekeeper discards a moldy jar but a botanist explains mold as a complex mass of fungous plants. He details gray green mats, fine spore dust, and delicate frost like tracery, noting spores sprout in all directions and later sprouts grow upward.
The article extols keer waste as a resource turning scraps into valuable products. It describes salvaging blood, shoddy wool, paper pulp from rags, old iron rerolled into new sections, and pipes redrawn after rust removal. It cites processes from dyeing to beater machines and highlights vast profits in recycling. It ends with reflections on precedent and global colonial comparisons.
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