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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
2
The Freeland Tribune page lists subscription options and payment handling details including one year and six months rates, addresses, and receipts. It also contains short anecdotes and opinions on salaries, roads, and insurance policy matters, reflecting period views on economy and public works.
An illustrated life of the Russian empress notes her fluency in five languages and love of painting riding rowing sketching swimming and tennis. She enjoys drawing caricatures freed from censorship upsetting Russian ministers and even drawing the Czar as a bald infant in long clothes surrounded by feeding grand dukes. The German Authors Association has ended but a new universalist writer club may appear to protect authors.
The Minneapolis Journal notes foreign ranch tenants in California rely on women for heavy work in homes fields and barns. Mrs Ramos near Stanford in Santa Clara county supports her family builds fences plants potatoes and walks miles to poison grain against squirrels. Her life mirrors European peasant women with little recreation yet strong will and ambition.
Elmira doubts the Josslyn reunion but becomes excited after cousin Bradford Josslyn visits and identifies a rare red pattern china. Elmira boasts the family status and a $3,000,000 valuation claim, while Amelia remains skeptical about prestige and lineage.
In an Atlanta Constitution excerpt, sisters Elmira and Amelia discuss using inherited family china and tea cups. Their aunt’s Josslyn artifact connects to upstairs treasures as they reveal plans to acquire new Josslyn cards reading Elmira and Amelia Josslyn-Bumstead.
Major B F Cheatham reports a bamboo bridge built by American troops across the Panay island river at Molo. The 290 foot wide, 20 foot deep stream with a three and a half foot tide difference was spanned in four days by ten native workers, costing 125 dollars. The structure used only bamboo and rattan, with buoys formed by bundled bamboo tied to stringers and a bamboo apron system to help carts cross. The bridge rises and falls with the tide and demonstrates a rapid, cheap method for river crossings amid limited materials.
The piece notes long quill feathers, especially eagle, are prized for hats and that turkey buzzard feathers are increasingly used to meet demand. It questions impact on buzzard numbers and the humor of fashionable women wearing such feathers.
A jurist in a case seeking $10 for a dead dog’s loss faced a twist when a witness described the dog as a yellow cur. The judge rejected judgment for the loss of a yellow dog, and the verdict favored the defendant. In a lighter note, a bold suitor learns danger can come from behind.
A sketch traces Olive Schreiner s rise from a remote Cape Colony station to fame as a controversial writer. It notes her father a German missionary and mother English, her Boer life sketches, and her stance on girls training. Also included is a legal anecdote about executors, a court writ of habeas corpus, and Mexico’s Senor Ignacio Mariscal near President Diaz.
The text highlights an advocate for Boers criticism of England and notes a veteran minister to Mexico with deep knowledge of Spanish American politics. Senor Mariscal is portrayed as highly informed on Central and South American affairs and favorably inclined toward US relations, praising cordial ties between the two republics.
Mrs William Warren of Brastina Place Staten Island claims she introduced the washboard to inland England about twenty six years ago. She describes early washing by tubs barrels pounders ribs and palm rubbing before the Yankee board inspired village adoption and a nationwide fever.
A Brookly n lawyer ridicules country judges who sit in city courts during summer vacations. He cites a ruling suspending habeas corpus to illustrate the perceived incompetence of visiting country judges and contrasts civilian and clerical reactions to judicial rulings. The discussion notes that congregations accept clergymen reluctantly while lawyers must endure rulings after vacations.
The cucumber belt southeast of Benton Harbor Michigan suffering widespread damage from a foreign red bug over two weeks. The area yields over 1,000,000 bushels annually and losses are estimated at 100,000 dollars as eggs hatched into a huge pest destroying vines and cucumbers.
A quip from Household Words captures a judge describing a complex case. He notes heard evidence and counsel but offers a wry doubt about the verdict, suggesting if neither side’s arguments are believed, he cannot predict the outcome.
This feature cites toll abolition trends, crude petroleum treatment for dust control, and farmer gains from better roads. It covers Mecklenburg County macadam trials, interstate object lessons, and state road funding, noting Massachusetts and New Jersey cost comparisons and Herr Riggenbach’s death.
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