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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
2
A Freeland PA column blends subscription notes with broad vignettes on Germany, Austria and Mexico. It reflects on naval modernization, cross border relations, and the value of friendship between families amid celebrations and disasters. It also recounts heroic acts by Boers and shepherds, and a dramatic fire scene with a patient matron guarding loved ones.
The New York World reports a sharp exchange in which Augustus Thomas laconicly criticizes Barrymore in a Warryimore play. Mid Neen teases Mews as the actor winces at the witty jab. In Wheeling, West Virginia 2,500 tons coal per day and 2,000 tons coke are handled.
Nellie Rivers overhears talk of Thornton May's engagement to a Spanish girl. A heated confrontation at a hall ends with Nellie in tears and Thornton revealing their long pursued secret. He declares his love, calls off vengeance, and they share a kiss, promising a future.
The scene follows Nellie and Thornton May as they exchange veiled words about a rumored engagement and a waltz, revealing past folly and restraint. May confronts his old ties and contemplates a final farewell while Nellie admits her vanity and hidden lessons from sorrow.
A famed New York physician credits “sick-room manners” for her fortune and urges young doctors to keep a cheerful disposition, engaging conversation, and a careful return to the patient’s knees before leaving. She notes many patients are highly sensitive about their condition and warns against hurried or abrupt exits.
A brief exchange in New York World where a tramp asks a lady for breakfast and a chance to work. The tramp insists the interruption is not polite yet expresses need and seeks employment.
Manila correspondent Harry A Armstrong notes children in Filipino villages laugh, shout, and play tag and the local game laha. A girl in a ground sweeping husa gown poses for a photo, her shoe toss decides who stands, Eness squeals at a near miss, Brassidis becomes center court.
Spartan rooms at West Point mirror uniformity with shared furnishings and strict rules. Cadets pay for their own items from government pay, walls stay bare except for a few photos, beds are made after reveille, and rooms hold numbered hooks for uniforms. Each cadet shares a room, selects a roommate, and takes weekly turn as room orderly to ensure order and ventilation.
A Philadelphia Call item notes a witty exchange at a public reception where a lame man insists he is not a lame lawyer. It also recounts a common pleas court moment where a defense cross examination of an old lady ends with the judge’s line and the witness’s quip about exhaustion.
A suburb Paris laundry uses balloon-launched clothes drying to avoid the city’s contaminated air. The method lifts laundry above ground level into cleaner upper air, cutting exposure to pollutants while speeding drying times.
A Polish mathematician Procopovitch has introduced a finger based method for large sum multiplication in Polish schools. It uses numbered finger ends to aid memory though adults can learn by position. The method targets numbers six and above and reduces pencil work.
The article describes a two-hand finger arithmetic system where the two thumbs represent 6, index fingers 7, middle fingers 8, ring fingers 9, and pinky fingers 10. To multiply two numbers, join the corresponding fingers and count tens, then multiply the remaining fingers for units. An example multiplies 8 by 9 by placing middle finger to ring finger and totaling seven tens plus two units to reach 72.
The new Government Printing Office will cost about 2 million dollars and may still be too small for demand. Eight stories high with nine acres of floor space and 86 million pounds load. Twelve electric elevators and 7000 incandescent lights. Refrigeration on every floor and a crematory for refuse. Congress may fund modern typesetting later. census work may reset equipment needs.
An ironic exchange contrasts equal wealth desire with a wealthy man proposing one half for his partner. A note from The Pathfinder warns against overhunting as wild ducks face near extermination in Michigan marshes due to a nine month hunting law.
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