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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1902
Page
2
Finley Peter Dunne as Mr Dooley marries Miss Margaret Abbott in Paris. The couple depart for the south after the ceremony and plan to settle in New York. Dooley jokes that marriage won’t change a man and defines a termagant as a wife who nags after a year.
The Washington post office tests new postal devices including a numbered mail box system with wired annunciator bells to show which box is opened a preventing circuit stops opening the next box a transmitter inside each box enables direct talk with the chief.
Washington attorney James M. Watson warns that owning a car leads to dissatisfaction and a craze. He cites his own shift from a comfortable ride to faster cars after witnessing a red whizzer and predicts greater restlessness if a green devil passes at express speed.
Vallejo Cal W P Borland analyzes the evolution of labor strikes from 1877 to the coal strike era. He argues public opinion now treats strikes as a national concern, pushing toward public ownership or control of key industries and stronger worker protections.
The North American Company washery at Minooka Pennsylvania, with forty nonunion workers, ended the strike by replacing all imports with former staff. Upon strike resolution, the outsiders left, old employees returned, and no clashes occurred. Some unionists accepted work at Minooka to avoid scabbing stigma.
Professor Leopold Mabilleau of the College of France spoke at the Musee Social after a January visit to the United States. He praised America's wealth and vitality, cited Carnegie on dying rich, and suggested future multinationals might place vast enterprises in workers hands as a path to true socialism.
The New York Journal quotes Rev. Dr. Hillis of Plymouth Church Brooklyn lamenting the bruises suffered by nonunion workers amid the clash between capitalists and unions. He urges nonunion men to join their brethren in fighting for workers’ rights in what he terms the battle of the ages.
Governor Bailey, a bachelor known for charm and wealth, reportedly avoided marriage after a youthful sweetheart at Urbana University chose another man. Bailey, class of 82, went to Kansas to run his father's stock farm, while his former love married someone named Johnny, ending their romance.
An Italian paper reports King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena clashing with a sentry at a mountain fortress as they travel in disguise. A Canadian economist, Goldwin Smith, plans to donate his brain to Cornell University upon his death in a lighthearted pledge.
Mrs. Emma Shaw Colclough is back home in Boston after a tour through central Africa. She traveled the Uganda railway and visited Somaliland where a recent tribal war occurred, studying local conditions and peoples.
A survey traces calendars from Greek and Roman priestly tablets to medieval and early modern almanacs, noting notable figures like Flavius and Petrus of Dacia, then describes a new Thames pedestrian tunnel and Mrs. Roosevelt’s souvenir scheme.
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