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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1900
Page
2
A Chicago invented mechanical device called the kymograph is described as a tool to ascertain a person’s moral character. The article notes its fame and predicts its readiness for use on an artificial man to be manufactured in Chicago, highlighting frequent scientific marvels from the city.
Siberia furnishes a new game bird for European epicures called the Siberian partridge. Found in the mountains south of Omsk and perhaps Manchuria as its origin, it feeds mainly on wild nuts. Birds appear in London markets in winter and are shipped to England via the Baltic Sea.
Professor Pupin of Columbia University has inserted inductance coils into an electrical circuit to greatly increase cable efficiency. An experimental cable transmitted 600 times more current, enabling a distinct 250 mile telephone voice. The method could extend telephony across oceans and aerial lines, enhancing telegraphic signal speed.
A snippet recalls Kelly Pumpkin and Rev Jon Haynes debating scandal with a punny pumpkin lecture. It notes Enfield post office heritage from Queen Elizabeth era and Tudor architecture with EM monograms. Also mentions a cedar tree grown from a Mount Libanus seed and New Jersey eel divers.
A long gray line of convicts in a prison yard advances to a whisk broom shop on a steel gray day. 2034 defies a foreman, a fire breaks out in the stock room, Tommy seeks his father, and a lone convict risks entry to rescue others as flames rise and guards fear the worst.
A dramatic scene unfolds as a figure enters a prison cell, bears a child in its arms, and a man lowers the child to a waiting father while a woman lies nearby. Flames ignite a coat, roof collapses, and 2054 reels to the ground, crying his last, with the warden pondering a Record Angel inscription for “good behavior.”
A Ionian petroleum spring famed for 3000 years is noted as Herodotus mentioned it. A peculiar last century clock had hollow numbers filled with sweets so the owner could tell time by taste. A Kansas postmaster delivered a letter to a man living across from a schoolhouse near Burlingame. Insects described as numerous breeding animals. Wheat elevators in Western Kansas overflow with grain stacked along railroad tracks. Hair loss after a mule incident leads to baldness and later a fine, albino-colored new hair growth.
Artful bread making among the Moki women is described as they prepare and bake piki sheets on hot stones in a three chamber trough. The batter, made from corn meal and water, yields a blue, sweetish flat bread eaten dry or in soup. The process involves sacred stone preparation and long secrecy, with heirloom stones carved and preserved by elder women.
A sparrow nesting high in a tree speaks to a dripping monkey asking why he lives in misery. The monkey angrily scorns the sparrow and destroys the nest. Moral: Don't talk with a passionate man.
A Vegatarian note recalls one of history’s bold marches, Colonel Wilcocks leading a party from Kumasi living on bananas. The group reportedly waded a river shoulder high for two hours, testing endurance on a vegetable diet.
The essay notes a shift in American youth toward modern comforts and sophistication. It imagines a future Ben Franklin riding to Philadelphia in an automobile to pursue a scholarship, with refined meals and well-groomed peers at a contemporary college opening.
The gypsies of Hungary are the finest looking people in Europe. They are very seldom ill.
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