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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
3
The article extols Japan as having the world’s most perfect Kindergarten system built on entertainment rather than punishment. It highlights wooden lathe cut cones and spheres, math ideas via tangible shapes, and flat blocks with raised Japanese characters to aid the infant mind.
At the annual meeting of the Ceylon Tea Planters Association a move to form a joint agreement with Indian planters aims to curb output. If 80 percent of the combined tea acreage agrees, a 10 percent cut in output or an equivalent green-tea production will be enacted to address unprofitable trade conditions. Shipments to London are expected to drop by about nine million pounds compared with last year.
A woman from Salt Lake City describes avoiding ovarian surgery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Stevenson recounts six years of pain, finances spent on doctors, and a three month cure cited as proof, inviting others to seek guidance at Mrs. Pinkham's Lynn Mass address.
A Milwaukee Sentinel item describes how children learn language in the first six years, often mastering forms of the verb to be before schooling begins. It recounts Lucille’s playful mishearings and the mother’s patience as the child asks, in turn, what words like am were, are, and were going to were.
A fragment from Confessions of a Wife describes a moonlit garden scene with floral imagery and a dog named Job, tracing sensory impressions and a sense of paradise. The second piece notes early American glassware, its notable portrait bottles, patriotic motifs, and collectible value. The Century mentions Western Australia gold fields as vast.
The report details Japan’s growing petroleum industry centered in Echigo and Arase with imports from the United States, notes on pipe lines to Tokyo, and 1899 production near 18.8 million gallons. It also recalls the Indiana battleship silver punch bowl’s wartime damage and evaluates Portuguese colonial governance in Mozambique with harsh inland restrictions and hut-based taxation.
The piece notes weather predictions appear in every daily paper year round and that many papers publish weekly weather bulletins for their states. It also mentions St Louis holding nearly 17 million dollars for Exposition plans and expecting more.
Mrs Anna Martin endorses Peruna after a year of suffering from backache dizziness and irregularities. Marie Johnson and Ruth Emerson also report cure of female troubles and irregular menses respectively. The ad cites Dr Hartman and offers free Health and Beauty book and expert advice from The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
The Food Commission estimates the United States catches about two million frogs yearly, fueling a growing industry of frog farming and related jobs. The report notes substantial investments by frog farmers and consumer demand driving profits in various regions. Also noted are commercial ads and brief product references from the era, including health tonics and foot care remedies. The fragment ends with miscellaneous lines about a nerve restorer, teething syrup, and a coal mining fatality statistic.
Alpine hotelkeepers report declining patrons as glaciers retreat from hotel borders. The moving ice slowly diminishes attraction, leaving inns farther from the glacier and reducing guest registries.
Groner Clarke a Surrey gardener claims sixteen weeks of rheumatic fever relief after using Vogeler's Curative Compound and St Jacobs Oil. He says the treatment surpassed prior medicines, reports neighbors noting his improved health, and urges others to try the products with a free sample offer from St Jacobs Oil Ltd of Baltimore.
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