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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1900
Page
2
Freeland Tribune from 1888 edition lists subscription rates and payment rules, notices on delivery and discontinuation. Includes remarks on 80 automobile companies forming, French rail time penalties, a moral lecture on enforcing law, vegetable Arvalish radish import, and Philadelphia widow turning rooms into workspaces for invalids with paid weekly salary and daily meals.
The piece praises brave women serving as nurses in Spain, the Philippines, and South Africa. It likens them to Florence Nightingale, noting their sacrifices of comfort and even life on battlefields. The tone honors their compassionate, heroic service amid war.
In Cook Alaska ex perience operators drill into Turnagain Arm tributary Lech of Tuli river two miles of bedrock to wash gold. Pannings report twenty five cents to four dollars per cubic yard. A NY man, locked out, learns a four dollar night call fee after medicine night bell rescue.
Millicent and Catherine More, schoolteacher cousins in a modest New England town, are shocked when an orphan Australian boy named Willie arrives after Uncle George’s death. Catherine vows to adopt him, while Millicent resists. Willie proves independent and wealthy cousin William arrives, turning the plan on its head as romance blooms between Catherine and William and Millicent reassesses her stance.
Kenneth Herford recalls Poe's Pit and Pendulum as he tours Rye's old church in Sussex. The pendulum within hangs high on a beam, about twenty eight feet long, swinging with forty second ticks that echo through the quiet church. Tourists flock to confirm the legend, while the caretaker notes many seek the Poe connection.
Dr Temple then Archbishop of Canterbury faced a boy’s reply after a discipline scare. The boy’s father sent the letter home without checking the postscript. Temple found the line: though Temple is a beast, he is a just beast. The bishop recalls it as a great compliment.
Washington prepares a great publishing enterprise for the first of June 1900 the Twelfth Census of the United States will be conducted on a larger scale Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico join the count all recording and computing will be done by mechanical means with electric tabulating machines pioneered by Herman Hollerith over forty thousand people will work in two main divisions field forces and Washington headquarters Enumerators start June 1 1900 with 100 days for data entry and about four months to transfer records to cards The system aims to publish the four principal reports by July 1 1902 under Director William R Merriam and Assistant Director Frederick H Wines.
A roundup of 19th century market notes covers sewing machine sales in hardware stores boosting Western commerce, booming American wool amid Russian drought, sugar purification methods in Germany, and a North Carolina shift toward small cotton mills. Also described is Chicago roof tiling innovation and a humorous reminiscence about shop wait times when mending gloves.
Fourteen hundred pounds of alive turtles were landed from the German steamship Erna at this port. Twelve big individuals, each over a hundred pounds, were unloaded after arriving from Hayti and San Domingo. The turtles are carried in tanks of sea water on tramp ships to Northern ports, avoiding duties and adding revenue. Also, London reports Lord Rosebery has become a near hermit, spending most time at Mentmore and rarely visiting London except Sundays.
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