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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
3
An OCR fragment lists health books and medical self help titles with promotional copy. It includes claims about soldiers danger versus railway risk, free offers for "Know Thyself" and "The Science of Life" books, prices and mailing, and an Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement for foot care.
A testimonial from Mrs Eliza of Easton describes long illness from uterine ulceration baffling two city doctors until Pinkham remedies cured her. She proclaims renewed health and ability to work, praising the treatment and warning others seeking relief.
A collage of jokes and quips from Chicago Record to Washington Star, featuring a polite burglar, financiers, and social observations. The snippets mix humor about money, absence, luck, and speech habits with brief exchanges and punchlines from various publications. Notable lines include a burglar’s courteous bow, a financier definition, and a quip on right place at right time.
A Danish engineer builds a phonograph using a steel band for recording telephone messages. A Science writer notes electric light can affect plant growth, with lilies taller but blooms shorter in light. An English astronomer questions Mars canal theories, citing low gravity and altered atmospheres. New Zealand’s Takahe bird is described as flightless with a triangular pink horn beak, valued in museums. Dr Halm links Earth axis wobble to solar magnetic cycles, noting sunspot activity may distort Earth’s figure.
Kate Douglas Wiggin praises Dickens for shaping American understanding of London. The piece notes Dickens teaches about England through vivid scenes and a populated cityscape, arguing he surpasses histories and essays in conveying English life. The author reflects on Dickens’s influence as a novelist and the way fortune changes many writers.
The round up reports telegraph liners striking for a nine hour day, unions amid city wage disputes, plant reopens at Illinois Steel in South Chicago, and Glucose Sugar Refining resumes with 250 workers. It notes strikes by Cuban and Spanish laborers, plumbers in St Paul ending after six weeks, and wage shifts in harvest work. Also covered are city union policies, a Birmingham council move to end the color line, a new power plant replacing boilers in Chicago, and regional farming and land notes including New Mexico lands and large alfalfa fields in Buffalo County Nebraska.
The Boxer Society is described as malcontents and extreme conservatives opposing railroads and foreign ideas. They allegedly damaged German railway lines in Shan’ung province. The empress reportedly lost control over the outbreak and dismissed generals, signaling siding with anti foreign elements without bitterness toward foreigners.
The article notes that over the past seven years the emigration to Siberia has averaged about 150000 individuals annually, indicating a steady exodus.
A wide snapshot of campaign activity across parties with mentions of McKinley Hanna Dolliver Roosevelt and Tarvin plus regional figures. The piece also lists public notices on tobacco cessation tracts tramps building bricks and assorted consumer ads including Jell O and Frey’s Vermitage with aging timber by electricity.
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