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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1900
Page
3
Mrs William Astor has found a flexible gold wire snake ring that writhes in constant movement. A ruby, emerald or amethyst is fixed in the coil, and the slightest finger movement makes the wires quiver while the ring appears to circle the finger with a serpentine motion.
A curious ad style piece touts a 5 cent offer to receive large Red Cross and Hubinger’s Best starch packages with premiums like Shakespeare panels or a Century Girl Calendar. It contrasts with a Baltimore News anecdote about a stylish lamp shade made from a pink dress, noting a humorous misreading of manners and memory in fashion.
Letter to Mrs Pinkham No 94863 recounts inflammatory pelvic conditions and ovarian inflammation relief through Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs G H Cuarren thanks the remedy after failure of physicians and urges other women to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice.
The piece notes fur trims in millinery becoming a key feature this season with sable and astrakhan materials used for toques and caps. It covers fur decorations on hats, the appeal of coat and wrap individuality, and a plea for practical pocket solutions inside garments. It also offers domestic living wisdom and fashion-inspired lifestyle tips.
A fragmented advertisement offers a 304 page catalogue with bargains on bookcases, bicycles, furniture, groceries, jewelry, lamps, and more. It promotes made to order clothing from $5 to $20, piano and organ catalogs, and notes delivery and freight terms. Also includes testimonial and a consumer starch premium offer.
A report discusses Siberia becoming a major agricultural and mining country. Immigrant attraction, vast five million square miles, population four million with a 400,000 annual gain, rich coal and gold potential, rapid grain cycles, and extensive river steamship services noted. Also covers Britain's horse needs for the army in South Africa and international sourcing.
A Long Island home guide offers damp control advice using lime in cellars and keeping vents open till frost. It covers bayberry candle making, wall decorations with Nottingham net, and early 20th century kitchen recipes such as parsnips, baked potatoes with cheese, fricasseed eggs, and chartreuse of chicken, concluding with a note on infant mortality in Europe.
John W. Page of Stokes North Carolina sought Congressman John H. Small after learning his son Alphonso C. Page had run away six years earlier and enlisted in the navy under the name George W. Pollard. The elder Page found a post office letter for John W. Pollard dated April 1 1899 from Commander Nichols of the Monadnock announcing Alphonso's death in hospital and a $150 ship account. Small promised to help recover funds and arrange possible body return to Page's home.
The Royal Geographical Society of England calls for a world census or at least an accurate estimate. It notes Russia has conducted a Siberian census and England one in India and proposes an international body to coordinate global counting efforts. A Russian minister’s table suggests a Trans-Iberian route could circle the world in 3 1/2 days once finished.
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