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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
2
The Tribune Printing Company sets subscription prices for Freeland residents at 1246 cents per two months or 1 in year payable in advance with delivery by carriers. Out of town by mail is 1.50 per year, pro rata for shorter periods. Expiration dates appear on address labels and renewals must occur on time to avoid discontinuation.
The Commissioner of Immigration ruled tuberculosis a disease warranting quarantine. A Japanese patient with TB arrived in San Francisco but could not land and was sent back to his port of departure. A Boston widow saved pennies to hear Mozart's Twelfth Mass, tied to her husband’s regiment.
An English merchant noticed seaside crowds snap up shells and secured a waterloid of mussel shells with his advertisement printed on each. He scattered them along the bench at night and soon his name was on every tongue. No English law restricts this novelty yet, so it may spread widely.
After a period estimated between fifty five and sixty years, the general system demands less from nutrition and physical decline begins. Fires burn slowly, ashes hinder draught, tissues lose elasticity, and degeneration affects muscle, arteries, joints, kidneys and heart. The lean and withered pantaloon foreshadows shrivelling shank and loss of strength, followed by second childishness and mere Oblivion.
A noble Boston horse named Polydexter grew calm when a familiar man slept beside him amid a severe nervous episode. The horse lay peacefully with the helper’s shoulder under his head, easing through a dangerous phase that had kept him on edge during illness. The scene echoes human-like fear of death and relief in companionship. Separately, an Argentine report notes 1807-08 locust destruction totals of over 20,500 tons and more than thirty-three tons of eggs, concentrated mainly in Santa Fe province.
Minnesota spent 164 per inmate for the 13 state institutions in the fiscal year ended July 31, up 4 from the prior year. The increase reflects higher maintenance and care expenses across the system.
A French doctor claims yawning is healthful and should be used intentionally when suffering from sore throat, suggesting a therapeutic role for the act beyond natural tiredness.
The crowd fills the streets as home-returning soldiers are celebrated with cheers and flowers. Mothers and wives, marked by war’s toll, stand among mourning families while the city revels in the sight of those who faced death for their country. Richard Burton, in the Outlook.
On a warm Mackinac evening a sixteen year old clerk recounts his rise in the fur company. Facing twenty five drunken voyageurs, he confronts Alec with a rifle, smashes a whiskey jug, and asserts company authority. The crew settles, and he returns to Mackinac a steadied, trusted clerk.
A terse quip praises editors and printers, suggesting if men knew how to pay the editor as well as run the paper, the press would enjoy a jolly time. The remark captures newspaper culture and financial humor.
A moral ode urges kindness to dogs cats and the vulnerable, then shifts to a poetic scene where sunbeams transform snowdrops and crocuses. The sunfather forgives, snowdrops learn meekness, and flowers live in harmony, praising humble virtue as recounted in the Christian Register.
A timeless tale of crocuses and snowdrops born from the same garden. Snowdrops boast green embroidery and vanity while the crocuses are pale and white. The flower angel pleads with the spring king, who sends the angel to seek renewal as dawn breaks and the garden wakes with peach blossoms and magnolias.
A common garden cactus Echinopsis multiplex shows a white night blooming flower. In Berlin a druggist sealed a specimen in glass seven years ago and claims it thrives, though carbonic acid uptake is unproven. Experts note possible dormancy without provoking factors and indefinite longevity.
A Smith discovers Eskimo woman must lack only to be a wife. Beyond cooking and sewing, she must chew hides. Furs supply clothing, and seals, reindeer, and bear skins are dried on racks. Women chew hides by bending and creasing, then gnaw steadily from one end to the other to soften fibers.
An experiment instructs soaking thread in strong salt water, drying, repeating, then tying to a chandelier with a ring at the end. When set on fire, the ring remains suspended as the salt forms a solid column, supporting the load. Additional variations with multiple threads are suggested.
An easy method to make leaf prints using olive oil on paper and lamp soot. Press the leaf between oiled paper and the print paper, applying firm pressure to capture details especially along the leaf’s thin parts and midrib.
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