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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement urges faithful use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla for cures of impure blood catarrh or rheumatism promising relief after consistent dosing. It claims thousands cured and encourages persistence for personal healing. A separate note mentions Mrs William Astor’s Egyptian snake ring, a flexible gold wire design with a moving gemstone setting.
A jumble of old promotional text touts Endless Chain Starch Book offers for Red Cross and Hubinger's Best starches with free gifts, followed by a moral cartoon about penny-pinching mothers and rail fare, and a Baltimore News lamp shade anecdote about a pink dress lamp shade made from a dress. The piece includes a quip about a man’s memory for feminine wear and a southern family tale of fashion and flirtation.
Letters recount relief from uterine inflammation and fibroid tumor after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Cuavreva of Grant Parish Indiana and Mrs Van Cleert of 416 Saunders Ave Junksy City Heights New Jersey describe severe pain, nearly insane distress, and dramatic improvement after treatment, urging others to seek Pinkham guidance.
W J Bryan argues against the gold standard and for government issued greenbacks over bank notes. He contends gold backing concentrates wealth, privatizes money, and creates favoritism for national banks. government should issue and control currency to serve all citizens, not private interests. He cites Jefferson Benton Cicero and Wendell Phillips to warn of private control of money and promotes greenbacks as superior legal tender.
A Philadelphia Ledger editorial attacks government lending of taxing power to fatten monopolies. It condemns the Tin Plate Trust as a rapacious, anti competitive monopoly exploiting tariffs to oppress consumers and calls for genuine protective measures that preserve home competition and fair wages.
The passage argues that wages are not labor’s property but a loan to sustain life. If labor kept all earned money, circulation would shrink, reducing wages. Only labor producing money would expand the circulating medium and raise wages, a fundamental financial issue for labor.
The Kansas City Star notes Mark Hanna is a skilled organizer but fails as a speaker. His Cleveland remarks on trusts claim they are good yet require Republican relief, illustrating what the writer calls genuine Hanna logic and questioning his impact on the cause.
The Lafayette Journal notes a shift in McKinley from leaving Philippine policy to Congress to stating in his annual message that the Philippines must be ours for keeps. With about six weeks until Congress opens, he may not have time to reverse this stance, though he has changed opinions quickly in the past.
An advertisement outlines per barrel flour at $3.50 and announces Julius Baltimo’s storage of a nationwide customer base. It promotes a lithographed catalogue with furniture, glassware, jewelry, lamps, and more, plus made to order clothing, suits, and a special catalogue for pianos organs sewing machines and bicycles. It invites readers to request the catalogue and mentions free fabric lining and sewed carpets.
Monaghan reports Siberia’s vast five million square miles may become a major breadbasket. Wheat in northern France ripens in 187 days, oats in 76 days in Amur and Yenisei regions. Ishkinsky coal lands, gold sites, and high quality iron mines earmark vast mineral growth. England imports many horses for army use, with 14,000 registered. subsidy and wartime demand push enlistment of foreign stock.
A Boston Courier poem narrates a preacher long steadfast in a slow harvest. He endures repetitive toil for a promised four hundred yearly, then to his shock the stipend rises to six hundred. He pleads that taxing him two hundred more would exhaust him, revealing the strain of overbearing demands on faithful labor.
A humorous collage of quips and dialogue fragments from a newspaper page. It weaves jokes about football injuries, druggists, editors, critics, and social musings, plus brief notes on fashion, wit, and a reference to opium suppression efforts in New Zealand.
John W Page of Stokes Pitt county visited Congressman Small to discuss his son Alphonso GC Page who vanished six years ago and enlisted as George W Pollard in the navy. A post office letter reveals Alphonso died in a hospital aboard the Monadnock with $150 credited to him. Small moved to recover the money and body. Washington Gazette reports.
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