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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
2
The Christian Register notes that wealth does not guarantee happiness and poverty remains unsatisfying. It compares the electric car rush for seats to past demoralizations linked to fires or shipwrecks, highlighting contemporary societal strains.
The Belgian Government released a statistical report claiming Belgium is the densest country in Europe with 605 persons per square mile, compared with 410 in Holland and 4 in England. The report notes more than twelve percent of Belgian soldiers are illiterate.
The committee may select a merit tune and award its medal yet persuading the public to substitute it for the familiar anthem America proves difficult, says the Philadelphia Press.
Census data show a New York State monopoly in making collars and cuffs. Of 57 U S establishments, 54 are in New York producing $15,534,461 annually. The three non New York factories together make only $57,138 per year.
Immigrant literacy varied widely with Syrians showing sixty-two percent illiteracy among adults at New York port last year. Southern Italians had fifty-five percent, Greeks twenty-one percent, and Poles thirty-one percent.
The Galveston News argues every farm is a factory with nature as boss. Soil and seed are materials while the farmer is the workman. Farmers must apply scientific methods to achieve successful results, equating farming to skilled trades like machining or printing.
The 1901 returns show 257 licensees conducting 11,445 experiments, with Treland recording 10 licensees and 237 tests. The fifty four folio page report is dense and critical, praised by the British Medical Journal as a monument to how state regulation can hamper science and the grandmother of parliaments guards guinea pig liberty against taxpayers.
From Chicago comes news that a woman has conquered a field once dominated by men. She works in stockyards and packing and canning factories. The job is light, labeled kitchen work, and involves cutting dried beef, packing cans, and sausage stalling.
The article notes that young Germans must obtain parental or guardian consent to marry and complete prescribed formalities or face a void marriage. It details social courting practices, including how families invite suitors after a first conditional visit, to avoid pointed attention.
Sheriff Barry and Jim chase a fugitive outlaw across a hot New Mexico mesa near Ojo Caliente. A brown faced boy aids the law, then vanishes with Tilbury’s killer at the river’s edge. The kid’s quick bluff and a fatal shot alter the chase and reveal a coded dispatch about Tilbury’s wife.
Captain Early and two deputies pursue the outlaw Tilbury across the panhandle to Ojo Caliente. Tilbury seeks the border with a fast Canadian River horse while a boy rider closes in aboard a buckskin. A final shot rings out as Tilbury’s horse drops in the dusty canyons.
The Baltimore Sun cites Sir Henry Thompson arguing against increased feeding in old age and against heavy use of concentrated animal foods. He warns over nourishment causes pains from excretion impairment and gout, notes artificial teeth worsen as diet shifts, and frames indigestion as a signal to seek a fitting diet rather than a disease.
The article notes total White House operating costs around 65 000 dollars beyond the President’s salary and repairs. Of this, 50 000 funds the executive payroll from secretary to doorkeepers, with salaries from 5000 down to modest wages. the remaining 15 000 covers furniture, typewriter repairs, stationery, and stables feed. It also highlights economies such as free franked mail saving about 20 dollars daily and preferential telegraph and cable rates.
A vivid reminiscence from a journalistic collage recalls a train trip through the Rockies with travelers chasing California dreams, a tale of Billy the bear hunter, and a New York dog and boy loyalty vignette where a mastiff protects a ragged child amid traffic danger and poverty, ending with resilient companionship.
Olen Bowles of Costello Pennsylvania, a tannery worker, found a wounded fawn on a woods road. As he prepared to help, a buck and a doe charged, forcing him to climb a tree. Bowles escaped after dark, pursued until a passerby arrived. The buck was known locally as Old Golden Sua.
A fisherman Charney Dunlap battled a twenty pound muskallonge on Muskallonge Lake. The fish used circular thrashing to tangle the line around Dunlap’s ankles, threatening a capsize. He freed himself, then resumed the fight and finally landed the exhausted fish after a brief struggle.
The forest Maid, Captain Sinnett, tied up at Boston from George's with forty one swordfish. A. Scott, a crew member, wrestled an 800 pound swordfish speared from the bowsprit. The fish wounded the boat by its sword as Scott brought it aboard in a dory. The dory was hoisted and the fish hauled to the deck after dying.
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