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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1900
Page
2
An Illinois farmer applies to an employment office for a woman to work on his farm. A New Jersey judge orders mothers to spank misbehaving boys in open court. Twenty eight states back a constitutional amendment for direct election of U.S. senators. The postal check currency idea gains wide backing and promises banking access for distant Americans.
President William A. Tucker of Dartmouth College prepared the inscription for the tablet on the battleship Kearsarge. The State Committee accepted it, reading From the State of New Hampshire to the battleship Kearsarge Dedicated to Justice, Liberty, and Freedom, in the Service of a United People.
An elder, Benjamin Harrison, named among ministers and laymen on the Westminster Confession revision committee, shows church dignity surpassing worldly status. A French education journal surveyed 87,000 Nord Province pupils. 14,000+ admitted smoking, 82,000 said they are happy, 1,853 boys and 660 girls said they are not, with boys hopeful for happiness after school and girls generally not, and both sexes largely desiring wealth.
The Journal of German Engineers notes the fastest train now is on the French Northern Railroad from Paris to Amiens, 82 miles, nonstop in 1 hour 15 minutes, about 65 mph. French schedules include ten trains averaging over 56 mph over distances above 62 miles, while English lines lag.
Liberia through Minister Washington requests two light-fraight vessels to patrol its shallow coast and curb smuggling. A corvette once gifted by the United States vanished, and Britain also supplied two flat-bottomed ships that disappeared. Secretary Longling could not grant even this modest request without congressional action.
A lyric description praises a girl as the winsome Summer Girl. The speaker foresees her smile dimples and frolic laugh, imagining their hillside scenes and distant departure with the butterflies. The verse laments change as blossoms scatter and summer ends.
In Arizona's mining lore Tom Harper and James Penfield chase the lost Picacho Peak mine after Barlow, the station keeper, dies. They follow Barlow’s mule trail, deducing the mine lies near the Picacho Peak base, and begin a dangerous prospecting trek toward the saddle and ridge.
Penfield and Harper, exploring a ridge in Arizona, uncover a quartz outcrop after breaching a dam at Barlow’s watering tank. The flood exposes rich gold bearing rock, confirming the lost mine mystery. Barlow quickly secures samples and restocks the dam, noting five hundred sharp miners had previously overlooked the site.
Three boys report a den of foxes on the Miami river bank near Redbank. Lloyd took two kits to his father’s place and found the young tied in a kennel. The cords were chewed and the young were missing, believed released by the parent foxes who carried them away.
A new study by KR H Scott analyzes hourly rainfall across twenty four hours. In the West the heaviest rain falls in the early morning and the lightest in early afternoon, while the East and inland areas see heavier rain in the afternoon. Overall, most islands are driest from about 10 a.m. to noon.
Parisians coin the nickname Teuf Teuf for the automobile to capture its murmuring plaint and half grunt half gasp noises as it moves along. The coinage reflects the vehicle’s distinctive sound impressions during travel.
Practical guidance on prewashing clothes with soaking, sorting into white, medium, and dark piles, and using tepid and hot water baths with soap and soda. Includes flannel care, blueing test, and parlor furnishing tips to place a center of interest, lighting, seating arrangement, wall treatments, and color combinations for a cozy, stylish room as described in Harper's Bazar.
Divided orange wedges fried in batter until golden, chicken dressed with mayonnaise on lettuce, currant buns with nutty glaze, Mexican cod stewed with onion pepper tomato and butter, corn meal crumpets with Indian meal batter, molded cabbage with white sauce for a delicate finish.
A veteran banker recalls a near collapse when a bank faced a sudden run. With minutes to spare, the president lit a ten dollar bill to spark calm, allowing the institution to recover as customers withdrew no more funds. The tale underscores the fragility of trust during panics.
An amused officer recalls tales from naval life. A brig’s midshipman tells of a black steward's feet in the soup tureen and the boatswain who fired on a French captain at a palm tree. The captain survives after the burial service drill on deck.
A South St Louis Globe Democrat item recounts a witful Maryland avenue spaniel named Mike. The small gray silky dog performs tricks, fetches slippers, alerts when the telephone rings, and even pleads with paws raised as a heavy satchel blocks a slipper. The owner praises his cunning and amusing antics.
A New York News account recalls the famed Irish horse tamer Sullivan celebrated for taming vicious horses. He trained in secrecy for about thirty minutes, emerging as the horse lay exhausted yet compliant, the once fierce animal now safe for riders.
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