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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
3
Collage of outdated items notes Missouri River shifts and land loss, a horse power formula, patent remedies for catarrh and fits, shipyard gun and boiler imports, laxatives, and a 1900s quip about youth versus learning, reflecting random newspaper miscellany. Contains names and places like Toleda, Arch St, Philadelphia, Trinity Springs, and Franklin, N. I.
Mrs Bruce a Seeera Singer recounts years of road travel and ill health, advising rest, then taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. Within months she credits the remedy with improved health and no affect on engagements, urging others to seek her testimonial guidance. The notice invites letters to Mrs Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
A Washington Star excerpt jokes about bats leaving nests at night and notes quirky breakfast and tea times. It defines letter shapes using stones placed relative to a line and explains how combinations form letters and the ampersand.
A New York State youth gang improvise outlaw roles to avoid ridicule and create a secret stick and stone alphabet. Messages hidden as scattered sticks read to insiders as arrows at the big spring. They use the cipher to guide camping, wood gathering, and tracking their band.
The article explains a clever code using sticks and stones to relay band plans for a Robin Hood style gang. It describes an alphabet diagram, a dirt line with crosses representing stones, and a cent fate via placement, plus a water drop trick to retrieve money from a bottle.
A description of a hand and circle game where a cat and mouse alternate actions determine escape or capture. The second item notes that sewage destruction by cremation operates in ninety seven U S cities, indicating growing adoption of cremation plants.
Lambs fetch about double the price of sheep including wool in market reports. Evaporated corn yields about ten ears per pound, with 100 pounds of fresh corn becoming roughly 25 pounds finished product. Lettuce profits favor market gardeners near cities, with hardier growth when beds are well manured and protected on ridges. Feeding strategy for mixed large and small chickens uses a box feeder arrangement. Quick hog returns are superior to steer, with most of the hog’s weight yielding dressed meat while the steer often shrinks. Sheep breeds are increasingly improved, and buyers distinguish wool and breed traits. farmers should educate themselves to improve profitability and avoid reliance on others’ judgments. Consul Mehin reports Austrian refiners plan to export petroleum to challenge American supply in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Russia.
The Okapi, recently identified in Central Africa, is proposed to have been known to ancient Egyptians. Monuments show a creature called the animal of set, variously described as a fox, musk rat, dog, camel, or mythical beast. Prof Weideman argues the depictions represent the okapi, hunted to extinction in Egypt by early hunters.
In Humboldt and Mendocino counties California there are 36 sawmills at work upon the famous redwood forests which are gradually disappearing the value of the output of the year 1900 being nearly five million dollars.
King Edward VII intends to establish a new order to honor distinguished women. Since Baroness Burdett Coutts received her title no woman has been elevated to the peerage for philanthropic benefactions. Concessions allow building and running 27 Swedish rail lines totaling 260 miles, enabling Sweden to purchase substantial rolling stock.
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