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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1899
Page
3
A collage of early 20th century ad blurbs promotes Dr. Kline’s Great Serve Restorer and No-To-Bac, with claims of permanent cures and money-back guarantees. It also notes tobacco quitting aids, calcium and candy cathartic promotions, and jokes from Jewelers' Weekly. A travelogue on Tahitian ingenuity closes the snippet.
A grateful letter from Mrs H J Goopran of Acutey Iowa credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with curing years of female troubles including kidney inflammation and womb issues. She details failure of doctor's treatments, rapid improvement after starting the remedies, and a promise to share the cause of her health.
Farmers have the most stake in road improvement as poor roads cost them money. Steep grades hinder haulage, while winded routes around hills save wear and time. A novel grass paving concept from Atlantic City uses compressed grass blocks to reduce noise and improve resilience. Belgium’s roads are generally good with clear cycling paths and government support for improvements. Automobiles are seen as road builders, not destroyers, urging expansion of paved streets.
Half a century ago Niagara Falls nearly stopped when a massive ice dam from Lake Erie blocked the river. In spring 1848 a cold winter froze the lake, later loosened ice flowed with a west wind, choking the lake mouth and draining the falls. March 29 showed a dry riverbed until the dam broke at dawn.
At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich England a twenty five foot telescope tube houses several colonies of spiders. An earlier attempt to evict them failed leaving spiders protected by officials. To settle their stay scientists supplied goods and the spiders now weave under official protection amid a long sought eye piece fabric.
A Georgia boy’s verse defines poetry with playful lines on rhymes and feet. It jokes that poets wear long hair during hard times and sometimes live in garrets or on a ground floor to dodge bailiffs. The piece notes a father praising poetry and a mother disputing the writer’s type, ending with a poet’s monument after death.
A strong-minded woman moves into a suburb home that proves chaotic from the move. On the second night a burglar with a dark lantern shone it into her face, prompting her sharp remark. The burglar, without stealing anything, simply wished good night and left.
Walter Wellman, the Arctic explorer, teased a pompous merchant about what he would do upon reaching the North Pole. The explorer quipped that if he failed in exploration he would simply return home, noting there seemed little left to do otherwise.
Natives say crocodiles age by stomach stones, with one stone per year. Volunteers find a twelve foot crocodile containing fifteen stones, while younger ones average four to eight. Voltz Kow has studied the matter for years.
A Boston Traveler note explains an Italian engineer’s estimate of up to 10 million cyclists worldwide. If half ride on a single day, each covers about 12.5 miles, totaling 2500 earth circumferences, illustrating the bicycle’s pivotal role in modern civilization.
The first American attempt to mass produce clocks began with a Yankee who built wooden wheel clocks in 1792. By 1837 metal-wheeled clock technology arrived, shifting the market away from wooden designs.
A major Northwest carriage manufacturer based in Milwaukee announces a pivot into the automobile business. The item also notes beauty product ads and quips about health, kidneys, and a reproduction of a Cumberland Sheridan anecdote from the Argonaut.
A collage of humorous quips and misread lines from various papers shows playful takes on balance in life, courting, politics, attire, and incentives. Notable snippets include a Chicago Times Herald style balance metaphor, a broker and speculator exchange, and jokes about engagements, governors, and salaries in marriage.
The piece extols Syrup of Figs by the California Figure pro company as a world renowned laxative, noting its acceptance by physicians, pleasant taste, and lack of unpleasant after-effects. It mentions global advertising reach and a claim about British cabinet records.
Two sick boys in Belleville could not see a circus parade until circus proprietor Mr. Sells asked the mayor to reroute the procession. The parade passed by the boys in a window, an act described as humane and pious, while the piece notes a cautionary moral about heaven. Also referenced is a past Atchison Globe remark on a widow blamed for her death due to daily work habits.
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