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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1902
Page
2
A statistician warns greel output would form a 1000 foot wide column and a mile high, impractical for use. Dr Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, has created a gasoline plow claiming to replace thirty men and eight horses at just over two dollars per day, sparking visions of rural luxury ahead.
A compact survey notes advertising advanced with electricity, telegraph, and telephone. It cites theories on love by microbes, bogus antiquities, and tuberculosis coping, while forecasting the Pacific as the future vast trade ocean with rich western coal resources.
In Minnesota, a man named Scott hated relatives and neighbors, tore up his first will, and drafted a second ordering bonds to be burned to keep value in the U.S. Treasury. He died before this plan could work and the court promptly ruled on the matter, leaving his heirs with the property.
In a humorous old tale Kit Cardrew seeks to mollify his fiancée Madeline with help from Jack Cardrew who muses on love while a pink with blue dots dance program becomes the symbol of romance. Miss Nelthorpe arrives and a playful deception nearly unravels a proposed engagement as cards, pencils, and promises blur lines between friendship and romance.
A descriptive piece follows seabirds and courtship, detailing a blue rival and a brave knight chasing intruders away. It then explains auk nesting on bare rocky ledges, their egg shape preventing rolling, and ends with a dubious method to boil an egg using high purity alcohol.
A playful Chicago Record-Herald verse describes Pinnikin and Pennikin frolicking through a mild winter day. The two quick, dancing mittens lead the fun from dawn to night, never still, symbolizing the baby's hands as lively, bright streaks of light.
In a Chicago Record-Herald letter, Susan Dale recounts an early sighting of bluebirds with Patty, describing a male driving away an intruder while the female sings from a twig. The note recalls a grade school song, mentions a new field glass from Ned, and plans to begin field work at 5 a.m. with tomorrow’s breakfast.
The passage notes that most sea birds such as terns skua puffins blackthroated diver and guillemot show lax nesting habits. Puffins are singled out as notably different though the excerpt ends before concluding.
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