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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
3
A collage of witticisms and anecdotes from 19th and early 20th century periodicals. Humorous exchanges touch on weather guessing by observers, wedding gifts, fashions, and domestic quirks. Notable voices include Harper's Bazar, Puck, Chicago News, and Chicago Record-Herald.
A collage of short humor vignettes and quotes from early newspapers. Poking fun at clerks, politicians, and family scenes, the snippets reveal how missteps purportedly save money, provoke resignations, or trigger family talks about apples and bonnets. Notable digs include lines from Chicago Record-Herald, Washington Star, Tit-Bits, and Baltimore American.
A Boston Herald piece extols mixed Mexican racial lines and Indian vigor. It lauds Maya, Tarascan, Zapotec, and Aztec admixture, praising Indian loyalty, mental poise, and stamina. It contrasts open-air life with urban modernity and ennobles feminine beauty and health in indigenous women.
A collage of quotes discusses Chinese clothing for ease of movement, mockingly praising loose garments for stooping and gymnastics, and a London note on advancing animal surgery with artificial limbs and features. It also cites a gender remark from the New York Press about love.
A miscellany of curiosities notes Lee Trickey of Glenwood Wisconsin as the heaviest man in America at 500 pounds. It covers strange natural claims from Algeria, Northwich salt fields, a Brazilian nesting frog, a peculiar West Stockbridge tree, a sand colored mouse in Dublin Bay, and reflections on country editors versus lawyers and doctors, concluding with Tommy’s ditto lesson tale from the New York Sun.
Consul Hossfeld reports on ozocerite or mineral wax found in Galicia’s Boryslav district and along the Caspian. Mining risks include deadly gas pressures. in 1898 zones covered 956,885 m² with 42 mines employing 5413 workers. Exports from Austria in 1899 reached 11.07 million pounds, while U.S. shipments were minor.
In a Kaltenborn concert a walter unintentionally aided the orchestra during the first rhapsody. While fetching a tray, it kicked over, its sound aligning with an offbeat moment. The kettle drummer looked up surprised, realizing the noise fit none of the written music.
American Queen outlines infant development from birth to twelve months, noting taste and smell at birth, hearing and sight forming by month two, emotion by month six, imitation by month eight, memory by ten, and intelligible words and obedience by month eleven and twelve.
The U S Post Office Department ties rural free delivery success to road quality. It will abandon routes interrupted by neglect while favoring communities building passable roads. States Iowa Illinois Wisconsin show many spring interruptions, with allowances for impossible terrain and unfunded areas.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes that wild birds teach their young essential skills such as finding food, bathing, following, singing, and avoiding danger. It highlights lessons learned from mothers and fathers, differences from hand raised birds, and observed discipline in both wild and captive settings.
In late spring the road machine or rond grader shapes roads before summer travel. The tool should smooth and restore the original crown, not create an excessive crown. Operators often misuse it to pile up earth, causing a mid road ridge that washes into ditches. A flat road is best for travel and hauling.
In Philadelphia the Southern Industrial Association adjourned after a session of thanks to local business leaders. A resolution urged Southern states to improve roads and memorialize legislatures to enact laws aiding road betterment, noting vast rural stretches lack water navigation and European practice of good roads.
The piece argues that three top players show chess strains sanity and life. It questions exhibitions and matches as harmful to modern civilization. It asserts evolution favors democratic, scientific ideas over old military mimicking struggles.
In an open car two women discussed a mutual acquaintance and called him a selfish cynical pig. The remark was delivered in public with the illusion of privacy, a scene noted by the New York Mail and Express as a sharp jab at an unwitting subject.
A traveler in Sweden learns the Swedish mile is 11,700 yards, a distance so long that choosing to walk becomes impractical. The tale notes the absurdity of chasing a point distant by nearly seven miles if measured in a mile’s terms.
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