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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
3
Neglected impurities in your blood sow seeds of disease you may never rid. If your blood is impure, take Hood’s Sarsaparilla at once for safety. The ad touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with $100 reward for cures, plus testimonials and internal use. Includes other patent medicines and royal Silver at Windsor.
The ad touts No-To-Bac a guaranteed tobacco habit cure priced 60 cents to one dollar, claiming it makes weak men strong and purifies blood. In Italy and Switzerland birds are still being destroyed with large trapping in Tessin, with 13 000 traps set last year.
National Pride notes it is two centuries since the 1707 union yet common terms ignore Scotland. A tale recalls two Scottish sailors near Trafalgar hearing England expects every man to do his duty. Geordie quips that Scotland already knows its duty without being told.
A Aberdeen business house hired a country youth as office boy to answer the telephone. Each time asked Are you there he nodded. Frustrated after the fourth prompt he shouted in broad Scots I have been nodding me head off for the last hour.
A testimonial from Mrs. Deis Remicken of Rensselaer New York praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes relief from back pain bearing down pains and fatigue after multiple bottles and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts. The note warns of neglecting early symptoms and encourages women to write for free health guidance.
In Winnebago County Illinois a farmer Bibb shot two men over a trio of trespassers on his land. He surrendered as a sheriff kept order. Tom Corwin, later a U S politician, defended Bibb and won not guilty verdicts. The county celebrated as Corwin rode home to Ohio.
In the Troy Times item a boy named Tommy, wandering with his mother on a shopping trip, spots a large candy display. He ponders with a wistful look, then sighs that he could lick the fellow with both hands tied behind him.
A San Francisco Call correspondent reports on a colossal octopus seen near the ship en route from San Francisco toward Nanaimo. The creature, estimated at sixty feet long with a parrot-beak like mouth and color-changing spots, surfaced to feed on a sunfish, emitting a dark fluid and dragging the prey beneath. The event sparked discussion of similar fossils and sightings, linking to records from Trinity Bay and Cook’s voyage.
A New York Herald report recalls a suburban trolley clash over pennies as a conductor refuses pennies for fares, preferring nickels or larger coins. The tale includes a displaced worker who saves pennies but cannot draw his pay due to the office being closed, highlighting hardship and policy concerns.
A Minnesota lake near a cavern of white lime stone flooded with water reveals a swimmer entering a cave and viewing green and blue water with a silvery sheen over submerged limbs, likened to a Blue Grotto. Also aged ads note foot powder, tobacco cessation, and German war casualty estimates.
Mrs. van Rensselaer writes in the Century that Niagara’s sounds are not a roar but a steady, musical, plangent noise. The rapids soothe with mellowness and vitality, while distant orchestra-like notes hint at subtler, fairy-like sounds that belong to imagination and remain real to the ear.
Miss Frankie Florman of Black Hills discovers a quartz vein 200 to 600 feet wide intersected by Atlin City and traced over three quarters of a mile. Assays show values from 8 to 27 dollars per ton on the surface. Frank Baker and William Partridge bond the property for 200000 dollars. Partridge travels to London to market it. In Roubaix, 11000 public school children receive free food and clothing funded by the town.
An advertisement claims permanent relief from fits and nervousness after one day’s use of Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer with an 82 trial bottle and treatise, listing Dr RB HK L Ltd in Philadelphia. A rail note mentions Australian trains locking passengers in cars to prevent fare evasion at stations.
Description of the highest point in Manhattan at Ninety-sixth Street and Madison Avenue, where the New York Central Railroad tunnel begins. From this vantage, a broad view spans Harlem to the north, the East River and Long Island to the east, with rooflines of five-story houses and the Bronx visible. The drop to East Ninety-fifth Street reduces the perceived height, making the tall chimney less imposing. The vantage is noted as a worthwhile sight-seeing location.
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