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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
4
William Williamson operates a Freeland hardware and tinware shop offering tinware hardware and house furnishing goods. The brief notice highlights the merchants and their broad inventory.
An observer recounts river steamboat life and the Negro deckhands’ culture. It describes their walk, songs, rhythms, and labor on the levee, noting wage disputes, the crap game on board, and the sequence of pay before reaching the city.
Colonel Seyfert warns in a State Department letter from Stratford that Ontario’s timber depletion and forest fires threaten future fuel supplies. Hardwood costs 6 to 8 dollars per cord, softwood 3 to 3 dollars, coal 6 dollars per ton imported from the United States. A typical resident may spend at least 100 dollars yearly on fuel. Peat bogs in Ontario offer a potential new fuel source, with machinery enabling large bogs to be converted into marketable peat, as seen in Holland, Ireland, Wales, and Bavaria.
The passage links heavy drinking to crime, noting habitual alcoholics turn to burglary and theft to fund drink. It warns of deceitful frauds like feigned epilepsy and disguises such as limbless beggars and a widowed street parade, illustrating concealment of the alcoholic impulse in crime.
A seasoned lawyer recalls taking a horse thief case in a frontier town. He faced a guilty defendant with loyal but unconvincing alibis. The jury found not guilty but the judge fined the young attorney $500 and suspended sentence, allowing him to leave town.
A man demands a marriage license and a divorce coupon in a bold, wintery scene at a Detroit clerk’s desk. He claims Dakota roots and inspects the paper, provoking disbelief as the clerk stammers at the odd request. The vignette then shifts to comic snippets from Detroit Free Press items.
An obscure Chicago Post fragment cites a line about truth being at the bottom of a well and lampoons the reader as lacking diving skill. The clipped text hints at a metaphor or dialogue, reflecting a printed quip or opinion column era notice.
In Hawaii, large herds thrive on maninia grass that serves as both food and drink. Horses and cattle reportedly never take water, even when offered, as they graze on the re curved, jointed grass across mountain ranges. A voyage near Haleakala illustrated this instinct, as horses refused water at a ranch well.
Statistics show the medical profession has higher self harm risk. Over the last three years physicians recorded forty five, forty nine, and forty seven personal crisis reports annually. The death rate among physicians is about twenty five to 1,000, with nearly one fiftieth of all deaths in the profession attributed to personal crisis reports.
A Houston man built a makeshift camera from a pagtboard box with a pinhole aperture and black paper. In a dark room the plate was exposed for ninety seconds yielding a satisfactory photograph. Gambling in France prompts government study as losses rise. Japanese tea farm workers earn twelve hour days at fifteen cents daily.
A long list of discounted men’s goods highlights neckwear from ten cents to two dollars, plus silk handkerchiefs, gloves, shirts, suspenders, underwear, umbrellas, knee pants, overalls, coats, and boots. It markets Brass lion brands and mining shoes, praising value, variety, and seasonality across men’s wear.
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