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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1900
Page
3
The passage surveys umbrella prices from fifty cents to hundreds of dollars in New York retail stocks. It details varied handles and mountings including gold, silver, enamel, jade, rock crystal, diamonds, and exotic materials. High-end models reach $275 with luxury ornamentation and gift appeal.
Instructions describe making a rack from stout cardboard eight by five and a half inches, shaping the upper end, covering with grayish blue velveteen, and sewing with velveteen or velveteen drag satin. Letter holders require thinner card stock three and a half by five inches to form compartments.
A Chicago study discusses the Martingale betting system and its flaw under even odds. It explains how doubling after each loss can lead to ruin in a finite run, despite theoretical long term profit, and why gamblers chase small-sample luck against mathematical certainty.
A Chicago News blurb notes Diggs praising Biggs as having the clearest head of any man known, while remarking there is absolutely nothing to doubt.
Correspondent details vast famine across 400000 square miles east, north and south of Bombay. Government relief reaches five million. forty five million depend on aid from others, notably the United States. Heartbreaking scenes of hunger include starving children, widows selling daughters, and families wiped out by poverty.
A Jamaican creeper known as the tooth brush plant is described for its simple use by natives cutting, fraying, and shaping pieces to form brushes. Dead stems are ground to make a tooth powder to accompany the brushing practice.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls the Touse volunteer fire company in Buchanan County Missouri. The town, famed for weddings led by the fire captain as Justice of the Peace, featured red shirts blue knee breeches red-top boots and odd funeral rites with Masonic or Odd Fellow honors. The unit hosted dances parades and revival attendances and even hauled the deceased to the engine for burial.
In Galicia a police commissary Paul Rabrei and six subordinates are sentenced for cruel tortures using a thumbscrew. Rabrei received eight months while others got one to ten months. Dozens of prisoners were harmed and an inquiry into tortures in smaller Galician towns is ordered. The press decries the light punishment.
A farmer visits a friend and learns a bunco-steerer is a guide to a bank, a humorous misunderstanding about finance. The tale pivots on the notion of finding one’s money, with a punchline about clever schemes and misperceived advice.
In Luzon fighting last week left 11 Americans dead and 16 wounded while 160 Filipinos were killed. Eight American prisoners were surrendered and 100 rifles handed to U S officials. Insurgents show slow acceptance of amnesty with officials pausing operations to allow rebels to use the decree. Health officer notes Manila death rate 28 per 1000 from Oct to Jun with 8535 total deaths including plague and intestinal diseases.
The excursion steamer Pearl operating between Buffalo and Crystal Beach ran aground on the Crystal Beach shore after leaving the dock around 10 PM. The stern wedged in sand as waves rose and fell while 900 passengers were safely brought ashore. Tugboats freed the vessel at 8 AM the next day, with about 300 passengers returning to Buffalo and the rest staying at the beach dance hall overnight.
Havana announces a new charter taking effect after this week's publication. It grants the city broad powers over administration public ways health and safety and economic and moral welfare while limiting intervention by central or provincial authorities.
Charles H. Leroy of Fullerton California died by his own hand on a Santa Fe train near Joliet due to the heat wave that swept the western states. A businessman and developer of Bradford oil wells Leroy had recently acquired oil land options in Santa Barbara county and was en route to arrange a financial deal. His brother Dr. B W Lederer of Chicago stated the act was a direct result of the heat.
A wind and rain storm swept Vineland New Jersey and nearby Minotola causing major damage to two factories. The Vineland Window Glass plant lost about 5000 and Jonas Ginas works at Minotola suffered about 6000 in building and contents. Many trees fell and window panes broke with no injuries reported.
Albany July 9 Chairman Frank Campbell of the Democratic state committee appointed Mayor James K. McGuire of Syracuse as chairman of the committee's executive group. He will direct the gubernatorial campaign in the state this fall and gained prominence at the Kansas City Democratic national convention for his strong support of Senator David B. Hill.
A Bangor church yesterday hosted a funeral for a woman believed dead. Minutes before the service she walked in alive, and the coffin held her brother instead due to a wire miscommunication. The two were known by nicknames Ad and A.
Three more bodies recovered from the Saale wreck bring the total to 140. The latest victims were located in the ship’s after section, all in the second cabin and horribly burned with little clothing, making identification impossible.
The Tribune presents local news in a concise form for Freeland readers. It touts truthfully written content and a low price under one cent per copy, aiming to inform the home circle and busy workers.
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