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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1901
Page
3
Joy Allison, in St. Nicholas, writes of a mother guiding children to keep busy with chores and play. She sends them to the woods to avoid quarrels and urges gentleness toward a busy chipmunk, teaching patience and care. The scene emphasizes daily duties and family order.
The House of Delight for Children in Fairmount Park Philadelphia has run for 15 months with swings see-saws wagons and tricycles for older children and hammocks baby jumpers rocking horses and building blocks for younger ones A sand parlor holds twelve tons of white sand A trained nurse attends injuries and gives treatment The institution was bequeathed by Mrs Richard Smith and others.
Five to six sparrows pecking in a gutter before an engine-house were disrupted when a cat pounced. The birds attacked with war cries and flocked from tree and house top, forcing the cat to retreat inside with its prey after a 30 second assault.
The 1265 meeting in Westminster Hall marked the first English national parliament where common people were represented. Two knights or nobles per county and two citizens per borough formed this body, a pivotal step toward citizen participation in lawmaking and governance centuries before the United States.
J. B. Moore of Royal College of Science led an expedition funded by the Royal Geographical Society. After a 2000 mile march through the Zambesi to Uganda, he returns with hundreds of specimens and notes on Central Africa. He sighted ice peaks in the Ruwenzori, found Lake Kivu larger than Albert Ntw. He describes encounters with cannibals, volcanoes, and glaciers, and a ten day ascent of Sitihwi at about 16500 feet.
Curiosities in London recounts thriving plants and crops. A Chelsea hospital wall bears fast ripening black grapes while a Flood Street mulberry yields abundantly this year. Mulberries are scarce and pricey, with losses from fallen fruit. Reed harvests loom small but essential for thatching. In Dingwall Scotland a Covenanters open-air communion service ran from 10 am to 4 pm.
The article explains how French conscripts are registered at the mairie after birth, drawn by lot in January after turning 20, and how councils of revision determine service terms. It notes dispensation rules for eldest sons or those in specific professions, marching orders, and the path to enlistment with pay upon incorporation.
Tall light colored men encountered during an expedition to Tanganyika killed several bearers but Mr Moore avoided open combat. The mission aimed to scent the lakes and study marine life, debating whether jellyfish and crustaceans in Tanganyika came via the Nile or Congo. Moore argues Tanganyika separated long ago, leaving sea species behind in a vast Congo basin. Fossil likenesses indicate these species have existed for millennia.
The article outlines Holland’s historic fight against water from dykes to polders. It notes Haarlem lake draining added 41 675 acres at $20 million in four years. Now attention shifts to draining the Zuyder Zee, a 1865 square mile project with a 45 mile embankment, 216 feet wide, 10 years to build, 40 years to reclaim land, estimated cost $750 million.
An early 20th century note discusses how deaf children may seem cruel due to lack of hearing cries, reducing empathy. Professor G Stantley Tall cites Aristotle linking sight and sound of pain to imaged suffering, suggesting deafness blunts emotional response by depriving key senses.
A sweeping account of brutal killings during China’s contact with foreigners, focusing on incidents like the Ku Cheng massacre of August 1 1895 and the 1870 Tientsin massacre. The piece links mob violence to anti foreign sentiments, recounting deaths of missionaries, nuns, and children, and notes official suppressions and executions of rioters.
The piece notes a key difference between cowpuncher and cowboy, branding cowpuncher as a term of opprobrium among cattlemen while cowboy earns respect for courage, dash and hospitality. It cites Colonel Henry Watterson misusing the term for Roosevelt and explains the historical use during cattle drives in the early seventies.
A nomadic figure learns the cattle crate car trade to keep cattle on hoof, while cowboys scorn the cowpuncher as “poor white trash.” The craft’s grim method, long poles, and crate-car culture are examined through rival identities and pride in calling.
The United States general appraisers acknowledge hippopotamus and other animals like boar, narwhal, right whale, and alligator as ivory producers. Hippopotamus tusks weigh 0.5 to 4 pounds and fetch similar value to elephant ivory when made into small articles, though elephant ivory remains preferred for larger pieces. Hog teeth can polish well and sell, with hogs killed producing only rare tusks. The tariff stands at 35 percent ad valorem for ivory.
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