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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1901
Page
2
Professor Edward Suess asserts Europe is weighed in the American balance of trade and found wanting, highlighting economic strain and a call for adjustment.
George P. McGrady of Chicago says he has invented a device intended to produce perpetual light, a plan described as a mix of chemicals in a vacuum. He has not provided further explanation or details about the mechanism or feasibility.
The submarine craft is a key factor in French naval development and if an efficient submarine battleship de Stroyer is perfected, France would likely own the first vessel of the new type.
British medical journals argue that ozone can be produced cheaply to purify air in London tunnels and foul areas. They claim altering ozone levels in large amounts would benefit public health.
Jeffersonville Indiana thrives in marriage activity drawing Kentuckians seeking unions amid parental disapproval. In the year ending June 80 there were about 1500 marriages with roughly 1200 non residents. The town population stands around ten thousand with history of 15 thousand marriage licenses issued over ten years.
Turin professor Mosso, lecturing in the United States, argued that physical education and gymnastics build the brain as well as muscles. He favored more muscular exercise and delayed reading education until age nine, linking intelligence to a more mobile animal body and noting intellectual fatigue parallels. The graphophone is rising as a notable American export, intriguing readers in the Orient with human voice tones and operatic entertainment.
The tale follows Australian Jack, a fearless engine driver on a 1900s Missouri run, as he fights an 80 mph push to Union Station while a superintendent conceals a telegram about his dying mother. Duty, risk, and pride collide in a high stakes railway drama.
A collection of factoids: Saxons named for a seax knife, a prince Charilo dining table fetched at Moffat sale for $0, the word rival evolving from brook to competitor, Europe’s king’s business car awaiting trials, a Mexican quake draining a lake by a fissure, relics of St Edmund in Toulouse observations, Edwardian coronation bedding as cherished heirloom, and Hirzbach Germany’s living arch gate from 1820 blending art and nature.
The Fruit Trade and Produce Record notes remarkable claims: four consecutive potato crops on one plot in 12 months. radishes edible 10 days after sowing. year round cabbage and cucumbers. year bearing tomatoes and gentler crops. parsley perpetual. Lima beans bearing over a year. raspberries six months. pineapples bearing at four months and lasting for years. lettuce and celery adaptable any time.
A collection of aphorisms reflects on honesty, pride, vanity, verbosity, speech, and behavior. It comments on poverty, intellect, cheerfulness, and the impact of words on perception. The piece ends with observations on joy and sorrow and credits the Philadelphia Record.
In Klamath Falls Oregon a budding snake trade has grown from a Minnesota order for 400 pounds of water snakes. The market, driven by a postmaster's joking reply, envisions shipments of hundreds of pounds annually for medicinal use and other products. The dark colored, three foot long water snakes are abundant and locally gathered by children.
A New Jersey picnic tale describes a guest who only eats egg whites, revealing a staged “white eggs” prank via blown shells and separated whites. Then a New York Times excerpt surveys Africa’s partition, noting Madagascar, the Congo Free State, Abyssinia, and evolving European power relations with Belgium and Russia.
Instructions from Ladies' Home Journal cover cleaning wicker and rattan porch chairs and brightening rooms with white paint, plus detailed methods to care for furs. It includes washing willow and rattan with water and a brush, painting woodwork white, and scrubbing dark furs with sawdust or cedar.
A collection of kitchen directions for a beef dinner featuring broiled steak with quartered green peppers, Brazil nut crumb balls, corn creams with parsley, a fruit and savory salad with pineapple celery and red pepper, and a cheese custard baked in bread and cheese layers.
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