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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1901
Page
2
A playful collage lampoons medical fads from glycosate sodium cures to electricity for ailments and notes a new explosive Maximile that pierces seven inches of Harveyized steel. It mocks aristocratic indifference to marrying American heiresses and praises Sam Lewis’s large charity bequests. It recalls early US savings banks and a railroad signal failure, plus a quip from Winston Churchill on Anglo American bonds through soap and water.
A critical narration condemns Portuguese boundariess in East Africa from Lorenzo Marques to Mozimbujue as a hollow protector. It accuses Portugal of blocking development and aid, leaving the coast unsettled and people untreated, while hindering progress and influence.
In a tale within a tale, an editor plans to publish a supposedly terrible love story to mock it and its young author Miss Marguerite Wentworth. The plot twists as the author, a Texas schoolteacher, endures public scorn before a twist of fate and a counterproposal that spares her, culminating in forgiveness and a rethink by the editor and writer. The piece ends with Miss Wentworth confronting the editor about the story’s fate, choosing anonymity and pride over fame.
F W Myer of Bonney Brazoria county describes a wind propelled prairie schooner at the Capitol hotel in Houston. The two wheel sets power a 16 foot sail platform carrying six men. It traveled on a rough prairie surface at 10 to 15 miles an hour and a trial trip proved successful with plans for more to be built.
A fragment shows a father Pa Henry Peck and his son discussing what a sage is. The exchange hints at wisdom and age with the notion that a sage is someone who agrees with his wife, framed by a Judge’s perspective.
In the Philippines grasshoppers swarm in great numbers and fetch two dollars a bushel in larger cities. Bell boys in church towers signal hopper swarms, netting by skilled natives. Grasshoppers are dried, sweetened, and sold as confections or used in pies and cakes. Moths and large bats are also eaten in some regions, with bats caught by hooked poles and sold at markets. wings and heads are discarded.
A collection of odd christening gifts from past times highlights social foibles. A Liverpudlian’s tankard presages a thirst for inheritance. a South London sponsor gives a ton of coal as the costliest token. a gourmet provides a bound recipe volume with a generous check. A Devonshire cousin gifts venomous reptiles to a godchild via a nativity anecdote, and a conjurer’s hat backfires as a comic tale in Tit-Bits.
Ambassador Powell Clayton described President Maz Diaz's vigorous visit to Washington and the Mexican military academy. During gym time cadets practiced rope climbing from a 40 foot high rope. Diaz stripped to the waist and climbed hand over hand to the top, impressing the onlookers.
A Dublin fusilier's private recounts surviving multiple bullet wounds two through his helmet one in the shoulder and two explosive rounds through his left breast. A Cape Town legislator teased him about near heart region and the private quips his heart was in his mouth for safety. The note ends with a colonial misspelling of a Boston river name Mis-eha-um meaning great highway.
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