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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
2
A poem recalling friends who offer comfort in sorrow and need. The speaker thanks those who stood beside him when he felt alone, blessing them for their hands and tears and wishing them well, as the lines honor kinship amid distress. The piece cites S W Gillian of the Los Angeles Herald as the attribution.
A humorous anecdote by Horace Eaton Walker recounts a man named Sam Wilters driven to madness by a popular song. After locking away the organ, his family discovers the parlor pictures turned to the wall and the organ open, prompting a comical nighttime vigil and a tense defense against imagined intruders.
In a chilling tale told by Waverley a narrator explains nightly disturbances at home. Pictures tilt, the organ opens, guards sleepwalk and fire revolvers during prowling episodes, revealing a sleepwalking father and a dramatic family misadventure that ends with the mystery explained.
A children's vignette notes that an elephant has eight teeth in total and, at fourteen, grows a first set with a new one. The tale shifts to a baby’s cry and an old bachelor character who suspects something is wrong when the child ceases crying.
An English officer's daughter recounts a haunting tale after a fiancé dies abroad. A New York visit to a trance medium yields messages the lovers alone knew, prompting the father’s war tent near miss in South Africa when a shell struck moments later. The piece questions whether such coincidences hint at deeper meaning.
The Academy notes that electricity is rapidly transforming the globe yet remains largely misunderstood by the public. It argues that many think electricity is a fluid in a wire, while physicists admit they cannot define what electricity truly is. There is consensus only on what it is not, with no settled positive conception to replace it.
A Bermuda fish described as a brilliant green parrot fish with rainbow tail bands and pink fins, whose flesh is bitter and poisonous to humans and likely other fishes. It is defended by color as predators avoid it, while a pink hind beneath the parrot flashes light at night to deter intruders. St. Nicholas.
United States Consul Albert W. Swalim reports rising fresh meat exports from the River Plate to Europe. After a foot and mouth embargo, quarantine remains. three steamers now carry beef in quarters to England. Through Oct 1, 1901 exports totaled 847 924 quarters of beef and 1 990 042 frozen sheep, with River Plate capable of supplying 3 000 000 to 4 000 000 quarters. Cattle cost $25–$30 gold per head and best sheep cost about $3 each.
A collection of humorous quotes from various papers including San Antonio Express Puck Detroit Free Press and Washington Star. It features jokes on pets, coin collecting, cosmetics, plots in plays, affections of suitors and social manners. Also includes light exchanges about family, wealth, and fishing.
A light domestic exchange from the Chicago Post features a husband asking why his slippers end up against the wall. His wife replies that he never puts them away in the slipper rack after removing them, prompting a playful back and forth about tidiness.
A Chambers's Journal writer notes Jews possess sharp humor and deft storytelling. Anecdotes feature Disraeli and Lord Rosslyn, plus Rothschilds. A banker’s sleeve buttons prompt a quip about malachite mantlepieces and a Rothschild driver story ends with the line about a rich father.
A collage of aphorisms and witticisms from various authors. It cites sayings by Pollock, Puller, Victor Hugo, Confucius, Marie Edgeworth, Colton, Jeremy Collier, Tupper, and Success about sorrow, reform, justice, kindness, ridicule, doubt, reflection, and tact.
The London Graphic notes two unusual bridal departures in recent days across Europe. In Spain a grandee’s daughter features eight bridesmaids in English style, while France and Spain typically use few attendants. A Paris wedding showcases a nonwhite classic bridal look with a white velvet gown and camellia bouquets creating a distinctive coiffure.
Excerpt from On a Baltic Sea Sloop by James B. Connolly in Scribner's recalls serene flounders reposing in a ship pocket. The fish show no struggle when dumped into the well, contrasted with cod and haddock that writhe in capture. August notes the contrast in tone.
A Japanese avenue stretches fifty miles from Namanda to Nikko lined with cryptomeria trees. Each tree stands 130 to 150 feet tall and 12 to 15 feet in circumference, noted as perfectly straight specimens.
The New York Tribune reports Elmer S. Bunday, a U S Circuit Court Judge, weighed about 100 pounds at death five years ago but now weighs over 500 pounds in a Moravian Cemetery vault. Experts doubt petrifaction, suggesting mineral accretion from percolating waters in a grave could explain the weight gain, while airtight coffins seem unlikely.
Charles Morris in Lipincott states the atmosphere may extend to at least 500 miles above the surface, based on meteorite behavior. He notes meteors flame out above 100 miles due to rarefied air, implying upper limits set by gravity and centrifugal force.
The California agricultural station has tested sixty fig varieties over ten years and linked with the National Government in studies of the Smyrna fig. It shows the crop must be fertilized by a tiny insect to reach peak form, mirroring Old World fig biology. The result promises profitable cultivation of premier European figs in California.
A Pennsylvania railroad official compared two labor groups at a freight house. One group rested on Sunday, the other worked. On Monday the nonstop workers showed a 10 percent drop in efficiency, worsening each day, while the rested group remained valuable in the second week.
The article explains that snow crystals form slowly as water molecules cluster around centers, yielding delicate flakes in calm air. Hall, usually falling in warm weather, is rain frozen abruptly by a sudden upper air temperature drop, typically with wind.
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