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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1901
Page
2
The Freeland Tribune prints subscription rates and delivery notes, with Freeland carrier and mail prices. It also includes brief international and domestic curiosities, railway and transit musings, and a Paris conscription anecdote about a widow and her crippled son.
An urban health expert warns that Excelsior mattresses with shoddy outer layers harbor filth and disease germs. The piece cites cheap imports ground from ragpicked rags and sold at low cost, urging health authorities to investigate the danger to life. The article also contrasts global height averages, noting a one foot six inch gap between tallest and shortest races and an average height of five feet five inches.
Reports say a massive eruption at Kolost volcano Batavia Tava killed many natives in Lilitar district. Heavy rain of cinders blanketed six districts including Saar grang Wedivl awl. Last year Pacific Coast salmon pack reached 60 cases, the largest on record.
In Trinity Bay dockside eyes, Comeau emerges as a famed local figure. A hunter, linguist, telegraph operator, postmaster, and fishery overseer, he saved two seal-hunting men at sea, earning a bravery medal. His quiet, observant nature, a wife with twins, and a life spent on the coast frame a portrait of a respected, modest hero.
A brave voyage told by Martin Hunter in Forest and Stream recounts Comeau guiding two men from Matane across the ice to Cap Chat. After a hazardous push in a frail canoe, they survived with lost fingers and feet, weathered near freezing, and endured days of peril before reaching land. The tale highlights endurance, lantern signaling, and miraculous deliverance.
A Rouen report describes an overhead ferry system or pont transbordeur that carries a rail guided carriage above the Seine to allow ships to pass beneath. The movable frame car travels along rails with power options including cable steam gas or electricity and can be powered by a shore or on frame dynamo.
A Milwaukee Sentinel piece quotes a tramp named Micky describing Chicago hoboes versus St Louis. He claims Chicago coppers tolerate rough lodging houses, noting a Halstead Street station hobo lodge with about 200 tramps, where one manipulates meals and keeps a hotel register for beds and meals.
A fragmented note describes tie making and grooming steps, including washing hands with tepid water, glycerine and lemon mix, drying, and powdering. It references old brocades and embroidered silks replacing gold and details a large panel in pale blue satin with a pine trunk, branches, and a dove motif with ruby eyes in silk and silver thread.
The latest bed sets imitate chintz and cretonne window hangings by cutting large floral motifs from a border and applying them to a white center. The process is done by hand, making the result exclusive, though it risks losing the original printed border effect.
Reading excerpts shows home remedies for carpet cleaning using warm water and ammonia, with steps to rinse and dry thoroughly. Also includes 의견 on beef cuts and pricing, noting porterhouse and tenderloin as good for families and suggesting buying large quantities to reduce cost.
A fragmented recipe item lists Orange Fritters with orange prep steps and a batter with two eggs one tablespoon oil and sugar, flour and water frying in hot fat. Also included are Coffee Crumble and Egg Basting, Apple Salad with lettuce and apples dressed with lemon juice oil and salt, all described in a compact, period tone.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat account describes foreigners along Mexico's southeast coast hoarding quinine for daily use. An American engineer on a Vera Cruz coast sugar plant tours reveals supply shipments to a distant American colony and locals who swallow large quinine amounts with spatula knives.
A Paris chess figure maker crafted a rare set from bones including arms and hoods for a bequest by Herr Bredwall. The prize went to Mme Antoinette Trebelli, a famed prima donna, who now guards the carved pieces with velvet pockets for handling only by renowned believers.
Jesse Powell of Emporia Kansas recalls working on a farm once owned by President McKinley’s father and laboring with the future president. At seventy he credits a life of eating hot biscuits daily for his health while noting doctors' cautions against hot foods. He argues idleness dulls perception and that the out of work grasp any idea.
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