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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
2
A cautious note on Maine sardine supplies eases distressing reports from afar as observers discuss public opinion power in Europe and the dream of a world federation. Meanwhile Swiss towns near resorts face cheapening by trolley and electric light, and Arkansas governors push for public execution witnesses amid brutal abuses.
Readers noted a craze for the so called bleyvle face linked to medical writings while mentions of the wheel show lazy chariots needing watering. The era also discusses the evolving automobile face and the unpredictability of self motors upsetting those who rely on them.
Reports note new sleigh coaches on the Dawson route easing travel to Daween. The journey now offers greater comfort with many travelers crossing to and from Daween annually, reflecting better conditions than four years ago.
For more than a century scientists sought protection from Nebtaing flashes. Lightning rods, despite inefficiencies, and modern buildings with metal roofs and frames, offer immunity from lightning attacks. Deaths by lightning remain very rare, about one per 200,000 people in the United States each summer.
The piece describes a grand lighting project with an estimated 50,000 lamps and 6,000 attendants. It notes 8,453 organists or workers for lighting and a yearly cost near 25 million franca, highlighting the scale and expense of the operation.
Miss Hatherton schemes to charm the Bishop of Barleyshire aboard a train to Gunter's Road with diamonds worth £20,000. The bishop, charming and flirtatious, recalls Eton and Oxford links with Sir Archibald Crowley, sparking hopes of a marriage that would place her among cathedral society.
Miss Harbeton travels with a bishop who pretends to escort her and her jewel box. At Crowley hall she learns he never arrived and the jewel box is gone, leaving her cheated and robbed while the bishop vanishes.
A historical letter argues for reviving industrial expositions as genuine records of progress. It calls for patient time, a public underwriter, and a judge chosen to award a grand prize to the most worthy displays. It urges removing private profit motives to ensure the fair serves public interest.
Interurban lines for passengers and freight grow, linking Detroit to Pittsburg via Cleveland for 275 miles under one management. New York may soon connect to Buffalo by trolley, enabling rapid regional travel.
A Denver Post piece describes how birds care for their young, from morning meals and nest duties to fledgling training. It highlights robin and pigeon feeding, instinct versus learned behavior, motherly protection during hail, and lists common birds such as the mountain bluebird, house finch, western meadowlark, and red-headed woodpecker.
Major Sweet reports life on Jolo Island as agreeable with a small post layout and limited civil authority. The island, remote in the Philippines archipelago, is described with walls, barracks, a hospital, and a population of about 400 Moros and a few Europeans. Spain exercises authority inside the walls, while the Sultan of Jolo governs beyond, recently visiting Mecca and dressing in European attire.
Buenos Aress to build three underground electric railways with a 4.88 mile first section between terminals. Cars seat sixty with two motors of 50 to 60 hp. Overhead trolley used for headroom and maintenance, no third rail. Operation hoped for in 1902. Servia called a kingdom of peasants. Austria buys over 83 percent of farm products and livestock.
British War Office recycles spent bullets from rifle ranges for profit and security. An overseas battery tech promises self charging downhill motion, boosting electric propulsion. Japan seeks cleaner sugar via four new iron mills in Taiwan, while wood impregnation offers cheaper, fireproof sleepers. Electroverre glassmaking debuts in Cologne with a Becker furnace at 50V. Geodesists push precise Earth measurements, rechecking meridian length in Peru near Chimborazo.
A former Dutch East Indies forester notes clear differences between gutta percha and India rubber. Rubber comes from over sixty plants and is elastic. gutta percha, from a single plant, is not. Gutta percha is mostly from Sumatra and Borneo, with limited global production roughly a twentieth of rubber's. Rubber production totals about 99 million pounds annually, sourced mainly from the Amazon valley, Central Africa, and Asia.
About 20 butterflies and nearly 600 moths are supplied by Wicken Lege Fen in Cambridgeshire, England, with only a few rare specimens sought by entomologists. Values vary widely from $10 to $40 for select species, though some, like the swallow tail butterfly, are worth only 10 cents and the large copper butterfly is extinct.
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