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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1900
Page
3
A jumbled collage of light verse and quips from various papers and magazines. The items include a sentimental reflection on a smile, a tally of umbrellas and coats, and multiple short jokes from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati publications.
On the day the Boers declared war Africa had nearly 12,000 miles of railroad in operation. End of 1890 showed 5815 miles continent wide. In eight years 5972 miles added. Extensions and new routes may add about 2500 miles. Government schemes abroad could push total toward 25,000 miles by decade’s end.
A Lyons consular report notes that in France tuberculosis claims over 140,000 of about 850,000 annual deaths. The US observer warns no disease matches TB in deaths, with one in six French people dying from the illness and families bearing its heavy toll year after year.
Water flowing into the Gulf of California and the Pacific has been redirected across the Rocky mountains through a sinuous irrigation scheme. About 400 cubic feet per second are drawn from the Pacific to irrigate farms in Larimer County via a long ditch reaching the Poudre headwaters. The feat, though not literally lifting water over the range, achieves the same effect. The former Cyrus W. Field house in East Twenty Third Street, New York, is being torn down to make way for a cable dreams milestone. It housed Field when he first proposed linking Europe and America by cable and remained his home through twelve years of struggle before the project succeeded. The boarding house kept the property for years before razing.
A 1899 Avoca New York letter quotes D P Jolly describing a long battle with consumption and a neighbor's advice to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After using the remedy she was quickly healed and enjoys good health.
An distressing cough advertises Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as the best remedy for hard coughing and weak lungs. It warns against delaying treatment for consumption and urges immediate purchase to strengthen frail lungs.
Dr. Moreno describes Patagonia as a little known South American region with rich products and landscapes that counter the harsh impressions of Darwin and Fitzroy. The piece draws analogies to Arizona table lands, Alaska fjords, and glaciers, noting similarities between Patagonia and Alaskan Indian customs and industries.
A promotional notice urges shoppers to ask grocers how to save 16c through Investing So Henn offers. It promises a large 10¢ Red Cross starch and a large 100 package Rubin er's Best starch with premiums. The rewards include two Shakespeare panels in twelve colors or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all free with purchase and delivery.
Russians consume vast sums of brick tea mixed with stems and pressed into cake form. Working people drink about twenty stakans a day, a measure similar to five American thimbles. Along with bread onions garlic dried leather fish and strong herrings these foods drive a prodigious tea intake to aid digestion.
An essay argues that rocking babies to sleep is harmful and instills bad habits. It notes rocking is a quick but damaging method, leading to insomnia later and troubling guardians. Mothers and nurses should avoid rocking and instead train infants to sleep naturally from the start.
A distorted notice asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease rather than local. It claims local remedies failed but a national tonic from F. J. Suenes Co of Led Ohio offers a constitutional cure in unspecified doses for widespread catarrh. The garbled text cites practitioners and dates without clarity.
A New York Sun feature contrasts Italian newcomers with Americanized relatives at a barge office welcome. Giulia dazzles in Third Avenue millinery and bright autumn fashions while Pietro wears a gilded waistcoat and yellow gloves. Francisco and sisters scrutinize the transformed kin as Giulia’s bold style unsettles the crowd. A later note touts Endless Chain Starch Book premiums with Red Cross and Hubinger starch.
The article notes that Paul Kruger's bitterness toward Britain is deepened by his father’s role as the first shooter at Boomplaats in 1848 and his participation in the Great Trek of 1856. It recalls the elder Kruger signing a Boer petition in 1854 seeking British protection, and Newcastle’s refusal as a lasting insult remembered by Kruger and associates.
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