Freeland Tribune Publishes Local and World News Items
The Freeland Tribune, issued every Monday and Thursday from Cortex Mats Street Anove Centre, Freeland PA, lists subscription details and notices. It covers taxes on bachelors and bicycles, disarmament talk, French Canadian emigration, automobile road impact, Mme Dreyfus, a Kaltiorean paper weight study, Christian Endeavor growth, and an emergency wire system ordinance for Charleston.
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Cortex
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Freeland
Pocket sized life belt using four balloons and whipcord
M Janet a Frenchman of Bauyats discovers a simple life belt crafted from four toy India rubber balloons tied to whipcord. Inflate balloons halfway to improve wave resistance. The compact device fits in a pocket and serves as an emergency buoy.
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M. Janet
Bauyats
Digging Cellars Amid Cyclones Echoes of Ohio Farmer Talk
An elderly farmer voices fierce practicality about cyclone dangers, noting frequent cellar digging as essential for shelter. A visitor from the east queries the reason, and the farmer explains the need to shift living space and dig new cellars roughly every two months.
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Ohio State Journal
The Lad who Was Always Going To Do
A poem by Ida Goldsmith Morris recounts a boy who dreamed grand deeds yet neglected duties and learning. While others worked, he planned, and as years passed his vision faded into obscurity, leaving him friendless and unremarkable in old age.
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Aladdie
Cara
Huiiel
Ida Goldsmith Morris
Goethe
Goethe Society
Vienna
Caratta
Goettingen
Petronella
Daniel Schiebler
Schiebler
Leipsic
The Beach Gang Leader January in New York Tide
On New York City East Side a vacant triangular sand lot known as The Beach draws hundreds of sunbathers and swimmers each afternoon. January, leader of a boy gang, keeps his crew in line, while a foggy river scene ends with a sharp alarm as an excursion boat nears the shore and a woman’s shrieks cut through the air.
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New York
Great East Side
Eighty-sixth Street
East River
Upper East Side
James Jackson
Police
Children's Society
January
Arlare
Pedro
Nereelias
January and Pedro Save a Child at Sea
January and his dog Pedro rescue a baby adrift from a steamboat strike, swimming to shore with the child amid cheers from onlookers. The tale blends daring rescue and retiree bravado, ending with the boy sharing his dollar reward and diving back into the river.
Old-Fashioned Dentistry in Historic Times
The piece recalls early dental beliefs and tools from past eras. It cites Thomas Lupton’s 1627 method using an emetic pot for tooth extraction, notes a Boston dentist’s notorious instrument, and mentions George Washington’s large gold toothplate as a vivid example of antique practice.
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Thomas Lupton
Tushmake
Boston
John Phoenix
Tao
George Washington
Chicago
Photographs Lightning Flashes by Philadelphia Scientist
The Philadelphia Record notes W. N. Jennings of Philadelphia has photographed lightning from his roof for eighteen years using a special rubber suit and sensitive plates. After two years of failure he found a method that yields valuable results and Kelvin has sought early news of Jennings discoveries. In Norway, life expectancy surpasses other nations.
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Philadelphia Record
W. N. Jennings
Philadelphia
Mr. Jennings
Kelvin
Jennings
New York fashions skirt with brown beige tweed design
A New York City fashion note features a checked brown and beige tweed skirt that could suit cycling or golf wear or everyday use in rain. The four gores create a sheath upper with a flared knee-to-edge silhouette and a front gore that narrows at the top then widens into circular side gores with underlaps, closed by double buttons and loops or by buttons and buttonholes.
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New York City
Fashion Notes From The Season on Garments and Accessories
The article surveys stylish garments and accessories including a front open skirt design with deep plaits for saddle room, thread gloves in suede lisle praised for fit and washability, and popular foulards in blues whites pinks and mauves. It notes jewelry trends with butterfly motifs and combs in shell or jewel settings, plus wide sashes of crepe de Chine chiffon and similar fabrics as season essentials.
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Sarah
A Bringin Home the Cows
A rustic verse by Harry Douglas Robins describes summer chores and childlike adventures bringing cattle home from pasture. The narrator recalls Uncle Bill guiding work, the sunlit fields, and the fun of crossing streams to reach the barn.
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Harry Douglas Robins
Puck
PITH AND POINT Comic Exchanges From 19th Century Papers
A collage of witty snippets from various sources. Jests about mind and weather, money, marriage, and social pretensions appear through brief dialogues and quips. Notable lines reference a stubborn forecast, a post, a wealthy father, and a marriage proposal, showcasing light irony and social banter.
Chinese Telegraphy and Chinese Opposition to Wires
Professor Francis I B Crocker explains how Chinese use telegraphy without an alphabet relying on a vast code of symbols represented by numbers to convey words. He notes natives destroy poles and wires in protest yet also repurpose copper and poles as fuel, complicating efforts.
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Charleston
Electrical World
Francis I B. Crocker
Crocker
Balloon shoots at captive balloon near Paris
At Meudon near Paris a captive balloon rose to 150 metres and was shot at with a Lebel rifle. Most shots pierced the lower half, some the upper half, yet the descent took six hours. Light gas did not escape quickly, and hitting the upper half would demand a larger gun and different ammunition.
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Paris
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