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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1902
Page
2
A Columbia law student recalls a moving act of kindness on a cold Harlem day when a gardener gives carnations to a hungry girl. She carries the flowers through New York, seeking to honor a barber who she believes died in his shop, a memory that moves bystanders.
A German professor's invention improved by M. Charles, the Speaking Ueht, uses an arc lamp with a microphone to transmit speech or song across a room or mile away. Spectators must wear smoked glasses due to bright light. The inventor sees future scientific uses beyond entertainment.
The Chillan corvette Magoellanes has been placed at the disposal of Sir Thomas Holditch, head of the British commission overseeing the boundary delimitation between Chill and Argentina.
Henry Sparks and his wife find domestic chaos after moving into a new flat in Chicago. The janitor William, a former cavalryman, helps with chores and attention, forming an unlikely bond with the family. A mistaken advertisement leads to a new live-in helper Rosa, and the Sparks decide to stay, praising their unusual domestic bliss despite the uproar.
In a Chicago Record-Herald tale, Mr. Sparks discovers Rosa the maid plans to marry janitor William. Facing social fear, he learns Rosa’s sister can work as cook, and grants consent while joking the tenant should not fear an old soldier.
The Helena Daily Record reports the Pension Office uses an electric automatic sealer to prepare 50 000 envelopes for 60 000 quarterly pension checks. The device licks and seals up to 25 000 envelopes daily, though actual daily runs are 8 000 to 10 000, with a dampened under roll and a fountain for moisture, a turning flap, and a foot powered attachment.
Captain R H Greenleaf leads a party planning a water journey from Albuquerque to New Orleans. A twenty foot boat under construction on Silver Avenue will carry a stove cooking gear tents blankets guns and ammunition. The craft includes grass blinds decoys and a Hotchkiss swivel gun with Gatling guns and a torpedo amidships. Captain George Toffey commands the raft with Greenleaf as pilot on the river.
A farmer can gain by making good butter and feeding skim milk to pigs. The article cites a London item about a Mr. Vacher who planted one potato and harvested 92 tubers weighing 13 cwt after two years, illustrating remarkable yield increases.
At the Ontario Beekeepers Association annual meeting in Woodstock Ontario Professor Harrison from the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph described a simple method to destroy foul brood germs. He used combs from diseased larvae capped brood and honey in a sealed box with a small top and bottom hole. An alcohol lamp heated formalin vapor circulated via a rubber tube to the box and after one hour with the holes sealed no life signs remained in the brood germs.
A short instructional note explains building a flood gate for small streams using four ties, arranged in an X, with planks nailed to frame, placed in the bank and sunk to secure. A cheaper alternative to pens and rock-filled gaps is described, attributed to Charles 8 Keen.
Farm readers are urged to recycle coarse barnyard material as a base for new compost to absorb moisture and reduce soil drying. The text also notes American manufacturers lead in economic advances, with high labor cost reductions, and stresses protecting well water as open wells risk contamination from surface runoff and dissolved impurities.
The article argues that horse quality hinges on natural surroundings. It cites Vermont, New York, Kentucky, and Tennessee as natural homes of trotters and thoroughbreds, respectively. It stresses limestone soils, bluegrass pastures, and oats as essential for sound feet, bone, and lungs, and warns against flat prairie or corn-rich environments producing lesser stamina.
An early dairy note argues cows need abundant sunlight and south facing, clean glass to improve milk cows’ health. It recommends light, warm barns with double sashes where possible, avoiding dim churchlike light and costly upgrades. It also notes alfalfa hay wastes leaves when handled, suggesting covered racks to reduce waste and keep feed fresh.
J. L. Irwin describes a shaped rack built from one inch boards set away from the barn to allow a wagon to pass. Alfalfa hay is carried into the barn, then fed to stock via a movable chute extending from the barn door to the rack. The system reduces waste and effort by simply sliding hay down the chute into the rack.
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