Subscription Rates Freeland Tribune and Racing Note
The Freeland Tribune lists subscription costs 12 1 2 cents monthly paid every two months or 1 03 yearly in advance, and 1 50 yearly for out of town mail with pro rata periods. It notes expiration on address label and urges prompt renewals. The issue also highlights American horseowners earning honors abroad, praising Yankee racing spirit and global competition with Keene Whitney Lorillard Vanderbilt among noted owners.
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Freeland
Freemni
Tribune
England
France
Austria
Germany
James R. Keene
William C. Whitney
Pierre Lorillard
William K. Vanderbilt
New York Tribune
College Education and Business Success Examined
A correspondent argues that formal schooling may hinder business achievement. The Electrical World and Engineer notes that optimism stems from older conditions when colleges trained for learned professions, not practical industry. Thus early college graduates were seen as out of touch with business and limited in enterprise.
Tried Both Ways as Inmate Chooses Easier Method
A Yorkshire asylum inmate made the staff laugh by sawing wood with a saw turned upside down, claiming it is easier. London Spare Moments notes a clergyman to person ratios, and Mexico City reports growing private artesian wells with eleven public ones.
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Yorkshire
London
City of
Mexico
Guerrero
New Zealand Calve Auction Runs Set by Varying Terms
New Zealand calf auctions operate with terms that vary and run up to a maximum of 25 years. The system sets prices and durations based on market demand and breed valuation, with buyers and sellers engaging through established auction channels.
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New Zealand
An Evening Prayer by Francis E. Pope
A poetic meditation asks for guidance as life sails toward old age. The speaker recalls God’s presence in youth and asks for strength and calm as tempests of death approach, hoping for a peaceful port with the divine as Pilot.
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Francis E. Pope
Boston Evening Transcript
The Wreck of the John Andrews on the Great Lakes
A lumber barge John Andrews towing three ships from Buffalo to Duluth encounters a cyclone near Port Huron. Fire drives the crew to abandon ship. The narrator and Harry hammer a raft from planks, survive on the misty lake as the barge sinks, and escape toward shore while reflecting on fate and luck.
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Great Lakes
John Andrews
Buffalo
Duluth
Lake i
Harry
Burns
Port Huron
Michigan
Cap
Arly
Marty
Wil
Pacific Ocean
Iiavly
Canada
Timly
Cook
Journey from the Mist to Kin Cardine in Canada
A mist shrouds a lake as travelers arrive on a sandy shore. A man bails a catboat and questions their origin, while a companion named Harly dismisses explanations as a true yarn about the John Andrews, never told before.
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Harly
Kincardine
Canada
John Andrews
Monument to a horse by Wadleigh at Lake View Cemetery
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports a granite shaft in Lake View Cemetery honoring Buck the horse. Erected by W Irving Wadleigh, it bears inscriptions in multiple faces noting Buck as a faithful companion for thirteen years and died September 20, 1884.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Lake View Cemetery
W. Irving Wadleigh
Buck
Corrale
Wadleigh
Seattle
Portland
Mr. Wadleigh
Pennsylvania Weasels and their seasonal coats
The Philadelphia Record notes that the ermine, Purolus noveboracensis, is rare in Pennsylvania with only two specimens from Sullivan County. It explains the seasonal color change in northern populations and the lack of change south of Pennsylvania, arguing white winter coats aid camouflage on snow.
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Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Canada
Academy of Natural Sciences
Sullivan County
Philadelpha
Musselburgh Clock to Rest in Town Museum
A four century old clock in Musselburgh ceases to run and will be placed in the town museum. The timepiece once tolled for the Duke of Somerset around 1547 at Pinkie and later witnessed Highlanders marching with Prince Charlie in 1745 near Prestoupans as London Chronicle notes.
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Musselburgh
Edinburgh
Duke of Somerset
Pinkle
Mary
Edward VI
England
Prince Charlie
Sir John Cope
Prestoupans
London Chronicle
Nesting starlings use Cromwell era Windsor gun
A pair of starlings nest in the Curfew Tower gun at Windsor Castle. The old weapon, placed to command Windsor Bridge in royalist times, now hosts a brood as observers note the birds teaching their young to peek from the gun mouth.
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Cromwell
Windsor Castle
Windsor Bridge
Eton
Thames Street
Pall Mull Gazette
Florida's Lovely Ladies Shown Recovered After Fire
After a fire in Jacksonville the city’s women appear woe-begone and rumpled but soon their smiles return and they shine like roses with morning dew signaling a hopeful recovery era in Florida.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Florida Times-Union Citizen
Remarkable Salt Deposit at Salton Sea California
Scientific American details Salton Sea salt beds in California where a hundred thousand tons of rock salt are harvested annually. The 1000 acre deposit lies below sea level, with springs feeding daily deposits. Explains mining by Indians under extreme heat, the drying mill, plow harvests of 700 tons per day, and multiple salt grades for varied uses.
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California
Scientific American
Sea of
Salton
Colorado
America
Gulf of California
Southern Pacific
Children Strongest in Height Weights Among Siblings
Article cites Arthur Mac Donald noting first borns tend to be taller and heavier than later-borns. It cites a British study showing growth differences across social classes, Swiss data linking birth season to height, and argues early conditions affect young children more than older ones.
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Arthur MacDonald
Everybody's Magazine
England
Switzerland
The Appreciative Boston Lady at the Chautauqua
A Boston teacher from Mississippi spends the summer at the New York Chautauqua. Her lively spirit wins dinners, though her precise speech pleases, and after two weeks her landlady moves her. A Boston guest laments, saying she will miss the southern dialect the group enjoyed.
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Boston
Mississippi
New York
Chautauqua
Harper’s Magazine
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Ireland
Arthur Willis Colton
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