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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
2
A reflective verse recalls childhood summers at a gray-roofed home. The speaker wanders the old grounds, mourning the fading voices of loved ones and imagining they will call from long ago when twilight returns.
Abel Mitchell contemplates disinheriting his grandson Jim after a stubborn engagement to a poor girl, while Alice Morris, Jim’s wife, confronts him with quiet resolve. She reveals Jim loves honor over money, and Abel, moved by her plea and behind a change of heart, decides to accept the couple and help the family.
An eccentric, sensational essay argues that milk can kill when mixed with foods like cherries pickles or ice cream. It cites iced milk deaths, notes Adelaide Nelson and Anglais as examples, and warns against cold milk with meals or on hot days, framing milk as a covert killer.
The Telegraph Plant of India demonstrates clever self preservation by folding its three leaflets. The largest leaflet stands erect by day and bends at night while the two smaller leaflets move continually, tracing full cycles with a ticking jerking motion, ensuring every part receives sunlight.
The Neues Wiener Tagblatt says Dr Sellim of the University of Vienna, exploring Palestine for the Imperial Academy of Sciences, has found walls and gateway of an ancient Solomon temple near Jano huh. An exact plan exists and the fortress of Solomon is described as now destroyed yet mapped. Dr Sellim earlier located a Canaanitish fortress from before Jewish conquest and other pre Israelitish antiquities.
A collection of curious notes: coal gas lighting, wireless trains in Italy to prevent accidents, an icicle fire in Jackson Mississippi, cork trees living long if not stripped, Leibniz brain size, Chinese officials blamed for natural calamities, camel teams on Australian gold fields, a New Jersey radish 23 inches around, the long Lion bridge in China, a rapid medical round in Evinn les Bains using pigeons and a doctor’s prescription fixed to a bird, a Kingman County farmer planting a 25 mile long corn row, and circular planting methods with a sister for companionship.
Forest and Stream notes a twenty six head buffalo herd on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Owner Mr Dooly seems willing to part with the herd and island for a national buffalo reserve, given the island's size and water supply. He exchanges stock with the National Zoological Park to keep the herd robust, signaling potential for a broader Utah national park with room for other wild animals.
A domestic made toy telephone with hello ends, two dry cells, 150 feet wire, staples and screws. Priced at $6.50. Useful from porch to doll houses or nursery to play room, in constant use from door to basement, praised as high class and faithful to real telephones.
A French physician claims a new disease, examinitis, causes weight loss during exams. In a study of 240 pupils weighed before and after examinations, every student lost weight, some as much as a pound and a half. He argues that even brief strain in the examining room harms the nervous system and may cause permanent harm.
In Bohemia sixty three nobles own the greater part of the country with estates each measuring at least 12 000 acres. The concentration of landholdings marks a powerful hereditary aristocracy dominating large tracts of territory.
William H. Rossiter reports from the Census Bureau on printing and publishing in the United States in the last decade. He notes no major change in news gathering but a sharp rise in overall news output, with daily city papers pushing into global coverage and spending beyond prudence in New York.
A new New York City apartment house includes a basement swimming pool. A person with good sight can distinguish eyes from eighty yards away. Belgian railroads have introduced ladies smoking compartments, allowing women to smoke without male intrusion.
A survey of early energy and science topics discusses incandescent lamps converting only six percent of current to light, a lamp heating water, and a New Orleans smoke stack lit by lamps. It notes a proposed Government Great Lakes fisheries station, a Scottish self‑inflating lifeboat, and an oil versus coal fuel comparison with transport and efficiency implications.
A Donahue magazine excerpt recalls the old-time printer as the magnet for newsroom novices and laments the passing of encyclopedic craft. It contrasts the typesetter's skill with modern machine operation and notes an automobile clock priced at 25 dollars, framed as a luxury for electric record-speakers.
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