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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1902
Page
4
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The piece surveys Pennypacker versus Quay and Elkin in Pennsylvania politics, noting Penrose’s weak position, Bribery allegations around forty-one delegates, and critics from The Philadelphia Press and other papers. It discusses Pattison’s nomination as a strong minority choice and critiques the Republican platform as self congratulatory while hinting at Philippine abuses concealed by the national administration.
A historical essay compares traditional, esthetic, and sanitary cleanliness in homes. It contrasts old fashion cleaning with modern science, noting only sanitary cleanliness truly protects health via physiology and bacteriology, urging thorough dust and air safety beyond visible dirt.
Alfred M. Hunting of Iron Mountain Michigan designs a folding high chair device that attaches to a standard dining chair. A seat pivots between two vertical posts with a tray extension and brackets, allowing easy placement of a child and full chair use when folded flat.
Modern kitchens showcase glass water coolers in two sizes a ten gallon center ice cylinder and a five gallon glass unit with a glass ice case. Both enclosures keep water clean and filtered, but the smaller model risks breakage. Each cooler sells for ten dollars.
Marshal C B Clay of Elma Washington owns a silver cup from Thomas Jefferson dated 1779. General W F Draper, ex ambassador to Italy 1897 1899, returns from Egypt and the East. Joseph Springer named Cuba vice consul by General B S Bragg after twenty years in Havana. Louis A Gudebrod designs Richmond memorial arch for Jefferson Davis. General Charles H T Collis wills two regimental flags to Grant’s tomb. Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad banned in Russia for heresy. P Hi Harrison of Manchester NH compiling history of battleflags, cites 1861 65. Alfred Bell claims greater charity than Rothschilds in South Africa. Professor Lewis Swift age 82 reports 15 comets and 1 342 nebulae. Halsatta Micco elected Seminole chief, may dissolve tribal government. Uncle Jack Haydon dies at ninety, Civil War guide to Lee and Jackson. Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood named first on Canada Boer War memorial roll in Halifax.
Lole Fuller to dance in America next season. Al Hayman commissions yacht Sapphire for summer. Mrs. James Lewis visits Easthampton on Long Island. New features added to The Wild Rose including a song by Eddie Foy. W. I. Crane to open season with David Harum at the Criterion in New York. Julia Marlowe, 3, 8. Willard Ferdinand Gottschalk and Adelaide Herrmann sail to Europe. Bertha Creighton to star next season in A Colonial Girl for P. B. Mattox. Lillian Coleman joins Prince of Posen in Boston after The Burgomaster. Mrs. Langtry to tour the United States next October with Madam Moiselle Mars and The Degenerates.
Water late planted trees adequately and prune peach trees from last season. Thin canes on raspberries to three or four per hill and weed sprouts between rows. Do not let pear trees grow tall. prune in June or July to aid tardy bearers. Mulch quince roots near the surface to protect against heat and cold.
France news notes Paris managers ban critics from dress rehearsals while Nantes with 200000 residents runs five shops selling mule and horse meat. A physician urges a law forbidding corsets for women under thirty with fines or prison. Paris plans a Gavarni statue. The Surcouf transport used in northern fleet gun practice sank within ten minutes after firing.
A fragmentary verse describes a violent persona reveling in chaos and harm. The speaker boasts of killing and disfiguring as victims pile up, ending with a bizarre image of a life, a crash, and scattered items found like suspenders and a green corele.
A New York Journal quip depicts a two week romance with a mock male disguise and a plea for clear feelings. The Baltimore American and Chicago Post tease a poker scene and a witty dialogue about income and love. A late night insomnia pun from the Baltimore World adds a domestic joke.
A Washington Star item quotes a bold young woman declaring taxation without representation as her objection to the system. A bashful young man responds that he would be glad to represent her views at the polls in every election.
Vansant confirms two weeks on the job and an interest in the business. The boss warns he must show more commitment, saying he would need to take an interest in the business in the future. Gertrude remarks on the short tenure.
Reported in the Ohio State Journal an employee notice announcing discharge at week end. The exchange includes a comical reply from an office boy about missing the warning before a ball game yesterday.
Customer named Walter complains about nearly an hour delay for a steak. The cook forgot the combination to a safe, requiring an expert to open it. The New York Journal quotes the exchange.
A witty exchange features Jones praising an office boy as the neatest and most polite, while Smith credits the typewriter with a small weekly boost for making love to him, illustrating sly humor from Puck’s pages.
A terse exchange follows as Mrs Kyndharte probes a poor man about his home. The switch engine nearby is noted as having left the area this morning.
A brief exchange notes that the Bible speaks of people with eyes they see not and ears they hear not. The Philadelphia Record cites Nell and Bell as voices in the snappy dialogue.
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