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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
2
Andrew Carnegie praised his endowment of the Scotch universities as the best investment. The Director-General of French Elementary Schools issues a circular banning leap-frog, football, rounders, tops, hop-scorch, and oiler games for pupils.
Negus Menelik of Abyssinia blocks telephone links with the Italian settlement. In Eritrea Italy supplies the wire and Menelik provides the poles. Anyone cutting the wires faces confiscation of property and loss of an ear as punishment for the damage.
A Syronean town passes an ordinance requiring all husbands to be at home by eleven or pay a fine. The measure is criticized as a pernicious attempt to discourage marriage and swell the ranks of bachelors. The piece argues single men would be rounded up and forced home earlier, disrupting social order.
A report cites a serious wood poisoning attack linked to verdigris on a public doorknob. The article stresses vigilance in cleanliness and warns that skin cuts require careful protection until healed, noting past incidents at a hospital involving contaminated objects.
A Washington Post anecdote recalls Justice Wieht of the Supreme Court who blocked a pushy book agent at his home. The agent insisted on seeing him, prompting a tense exchange before the Justice ordered the intruder shown in. The scene ends with the agent deterred by the justice’s volley of stern words.
W C Arnett of Sissons California tried a self cure by tasting for 31 days. He took no nourishment except what he sucked from a pipe, dropping from 259 to 210 pounds. He now adds an orange to his daily diet.
The Vice Chancellor of Jena University forbids student dueling and dissolves the college fencing club, enforcing discipline among the student body.
A Major obsessed with music and liquor funds a crippled boy named Mozart Mendelssohn, whom he dubs Mose. The child shows rare talent, but fear keeps him from playing for others, yet he performs for the Major, forming a fierce bond of loyalty and care amid social disapproval.
A crippled Major wanders from town to town a degraded life shadowed by poverty. His only true friend is Mozart a hunchback Negro violinist whose music sparks hope. After nights of craving mercy the crowd urges the Major to “lick him up” and Mozart plays, lifting spirits. They trudge through a blizzard to a gate at dawn and rest together as they go home.
Senator Foster of Washington and Mr. Loud of California shared meals sent between their hotel room and table. A lamb sent by Loud was praised as tasting only mill. Later a waiter delivered a salmon from Puget Sound, with Washington cream, prompting Loud to declare satisfaction with the senator’s culinary diplomacy.
A brief note on culinary curios tied to communal fellowship. It highlights shared meals and dishes enjoyed in convivial company, emphasizing tradition, sociability, and collective enjoyment rather than individual indulgence.
A collection of maxims on virtue and character contrasts with a detailed Independent excerpt on Japanese painting technique and a Western anecdote about a Russian minister. The pieces emphasize self-control, prudence, integrity, and cultivated skill in art and diplomacy.
An Indianapolis News editorial questions the need for the largest whistle in a local industrial plant. It argues whistles are outdated when timepieces and electric signals can perform the same function and suggests banning whistles in factories as well as on trains.
An Atchison Kansas businessman refuses to keep an engaged girl in his employ. When she begins to show engagement symptoms by being careless and absent minded, he gives her a wedding present and pays her off.
The article details elusive zoo wants such as the proboscis monkey of Borneo with its long nose and three stomachs, the black and white gilereza, a rare parti colored bear from Thibet, and Nature’s reluctance to captive duckbills. It notes the duckbill as a unique link between animals and birds with four legs fur and egg laying traits.
A blind Black man in ragged clothes rode a busy Bowery car. A compassionate young man alighted, guided him to the sidewalk, then hurried after the departing car. Passengers and conductor were urged to stop, and the rescuer rode on unseen amid smiles.
A former Idaho senator, McConnell, served a short five or six week term and vanished. He reappeared in the senate chamber years later, barely recognized by peers. Edmunds, noticing the stranger, asked a page who he was and lamented that a man he had never met could deliver a speech in the United States Senate, prompting him to leave.
A respected astronomer, Mme Ceraski, has contributed key data to astronomy. She first discovered a variable star of the Algol type two years ago and recently found a second Algol adjoined by a dark companion. No telescope can yet reveal the planet causing the star’s brightness changes, though her work earns acclaim for research and discovery.
A returning lady describes Kaffie people as exceptionally clean in personal ritual though not in clothing. She notes hot baths and oil anointing before dressing in old clothes, contrasts house boys in white duck, and observes mine laborers wearing only a blue cloth called moochie wrapped around the hips.
Daniel Hardy, named general superintendent of the Missouri Pacific railway, recalls that thirty-five years ago he was a water boy on the old single-track road through Frazeyville, Ohio. He says no man has greater dignity than that of a man whose hat is blown off in a gust.
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