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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1902
Page
2
A biting verse passage critiques moral hypocrisy using vivid imagery. It contrasts bluntly with ideal purity, showing how decayed motives stain love, trust, and law. The fragment cites kings and slaves, suggesting universal culpability in human vice.
Artist Jim Brushingham travels to Trippville to paint and profit, courts Pinkie Tripp, and enrolls in her college scene while a meddling dove motif drives the household. Pinkie and Mrs Tripp fuel his hopes before graduation, as he faces the bill and a potential exit from town amid family schemes and a looming debt.
A pig breeder explains animal preferences with odd anecdotes. He notes pigs hate dogs but admire cows, enjoy horses, and that horses and pigs can share a stall amicably. Pigs favor women over men and dislike children, cold weather suits them, rain repels them, and they frolic in snow as children do in a storm.
Western Kansas eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska farmers now praise grasshoppers as a food source for turkeys. A To peka report notes turkeys eat a pint to a quart daily, transforming a former pest into a profitable asset. Albert Whitlock of Smith County pioneered the shift by raising 300 turkeys and renting them to neighbors.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from Inesnel Johnson Thackeray Home Mrs A D T Whitney and J Hamilton. The lines emphasize charity without delay, avoiding needless worries, optimism as riches, and faith as a tool to focus on lifelong virtue rather than results.
Luther Burbank, the "Wizard of Horticulture," on fifteen acres in Santa Rosa, California, breeds fruits and flowers by thousands, introducing numerous superior plums, a stoneless prune, giant prune, and blackberry raspberry hybrids. He crosses apricot with plum to yield plume cat, and hybrids black and English walnuts to create a larger, faster-growing species. He also produced a white blackberry.
In the London Graphic the term mysofobia is proposed for a broader fussiness about cleanliness. The piece notes people lifting glasses to check for fingerprints, cleaning watches, and dusting papers as manifestations. It describes a spectrum from overzealous housekeepers to refined social habits and mocks medical naming trends.
A U S Geological Survey gazetteer on Cuba estimates near 200000 war deaths and shows wartime depopulation. It cites 1899 census drops since 1877, farmland under cultivation at only 3 percent, sugar mills numbering 207 with daily output of 61407 bags, and notes sugar, potatoes, tobacco, bananas as main crops.
A Tit-Bits quip imagines how modern press telegrams would bluntly headline Shakespeare. It contrasts Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, and Romeo and Juliet with sensational, terse summaries reflecting sensationalist era style.
In a German custom a girl testing suitors drops their names on rose petals into water. The leaf that floats longest is said to reveal the most faithful man, guiding her choice of a husband.
Eliot Gregory argues Americans abroad stay for practical comforts rather than culture or history. He notes climate and associations draw some, but many expatriates in Italy ignore art and sightseeing, seeking affordable living with a Victoria rental and inexpensive cooks.
Max Nordau discusses American ambition as limitless in a land of strong individualism. He cites Lincoln Schwab Carnegie as examples of self made success, contrasts Aurea mediocritas with national zeal, and notes the elusive, shifting meaning of success and freedom.
Chauncey M. Depew argues that a liberal and collegiate education is crucial for personal success and national stability. He asserts education elevates language and culture, reduces social mortification, and acts as a safeguard against anarchy, urging that in the United States education is a duty.
A columnist explains how the block system transformed railroad operations, replacing lone switchmen with coordinated signals across towers. It details how unlocks, bell sequences, torpedoes, fusees, and strict rules govern train movement from Grand Central to distant towers, ensuring safety and preventing delays.
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