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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1902
Page
2
The item discusses brevet inflation and officer recognition parallels with Britain, King Christian of Denmark meeting workers, Australia rabbit control failures via cats and foxes, and Louisiana Texas rice gains from irrigation. Also notes on Japan’s rice seed, land prices, and rising immigration to the rice belt.
King Edward at sixty enjoys horseback riding as a pastime. President Roosevelt favors riding as his exercise. The Brazilian Congress allocates 25,000 to M. Santos-Simons. Brigadier General Venry C. Merriam of the U.S. Army is placed on the relieved list for age. Lord Roberts may resign before next April per British military circles.
A fragmentary line hints at a future dawn when crime is known and a clue is found. The text presents an enigmatic meditation on unveiling wrongdoing and seeking evidence. The source lacks concrete names or events to specify.
Mrs. Caleb Brown investigates a $10 bill miscue at Meadow’s after her mother mistook a lace purchase for a ten dollar note. The error sparks tension with clerk and store manager as Mrs. Brown seeks remedy for the eight dollar discrepancy affecting her household budget.
A Chicago Record-Herald tale shows Mrs. Brown disputing an $8 purchase with Mr. Highridge. A $2 bill misidentified as a $10 bill triggers embarrassment, a repayment, and the clerk’s quip that under their system mistakes are impossible, leaving Phyllis touched by the scene.
Theodore Roosevelt describes a cougar hunting scene where three dogs attack the cougar head first but fail to pierce its thick hide. The dogs anchor the fight while Jim and Turk inflict rear damage, yet no dog bites through the hide. The piece notes the cougar’s jaw power and the risk to dogs from a single bite in this narrative from Scribner's Magazine.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes an Arizona farmer returning from Buffalo praising dates. He saw a box of the fruit at an exposition and said climate near Phoenix suits date palms. He believes all dates eaten in the country may be grown in Arizona within years and handed a sample.
Nervous travelers welcome the vigilant dragon, a brass shelled tor toise style alarm table. A dome gong with spiked legs and a dragon head activates a bell when a door is forced open, then rests as a quiet writing table bell after the night.
The Salton salt farm near Salton, California, yields a thousand acres of crystalline salt under extreme heat. Workers, mostly Indians and Japanese, endure daily 140 degree heat to plow, grind, and stack salt for shipment. A government suit challenges the farm’s title amid complex legal questions after the Salton Sea's rise and fall.
Washington Star reports on the Post Office Department mail bag and lock shop in Washington. About sixty machinists and 250 workers manufacture eagle locks and keys, with 12 000 locks and 7 500 keys produced last year at roughly 43 000 dollars. The system times locks inside and out, resists rust, and keeps each lock and key numbered and traced for security.
The article surveys the rapid spread of electricity in homes, noting gadgets from land lamps and pocket lamps to clock attachments and decorative miniature lights. It mentions power for flat-irons, coffee mills, ice cream freezers, sewing machines, and heating tea kettles, plus telephone replacements for speaking tubes and independent electric plants driven by gasoline engines in large country houses.
The piece describes the Azores as elevated by volcanic forces, with the sea bed found far firmer than expected. A 1000 fathoms drop would split the archipelago into two groups, while 1500 fathoms more would fuse them into one vast landmass. Submarine features abound as rock building continues across the North Atlantic.
A discussion from Elizabeth A. Withey in the Ladies' Home Journal contrasts shall and will in asking about future liberty. It explains that shall asks for will or willingness and will asks for futurity and intent.
A reader notes burlap and paper wall coverings clash in a room. A two toned effect using darker tints is preferred for walls with a plain ceiling, or extend the two toned paper up onto the ceiling slightly to harmonize the finish.
Ink stains on furniture are treated with nitre and water or oxalic acid solution to lift the ink. Beef steak can be tenderized by a home method: chop porterhouse ends, cook rice for sides, and assemble a dish with browned meat and butter, served with rice or macaroni and kept simple for thrifty meals.
The Philadelphia Record describes fresh cretonne curtain finishes for portieres and bedroom hangings. Edges include a deep three-quarter inch turn stitched back, braids in varied tints, and cotton fringe. Portieres are often double sided with matching patterns or contrasting patterns for bedrooms, sometimes unlined for windows over muslin curtains and lined with silk or sateen.
A block of old kitchen instructions includes Curry Sauce using butter flour curry powder and milk, French Straws dough fried like doughnuts with sugar, Tomato Chutney with green tomatoes vinegar peppers onions sugar radish celery cloves allspice apples and jars, and Fried Rolls dough with yeast milk butter salt egg white and flour. steps describe mixing rising shaping and frying.
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