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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1900
Page
4
A mass Fourth of July celebration is urged to unify patriotism and defend liberties. An article on a New York Sun report details a new motor cycle piggybacking on bicycle design, weighing sixty pounds with a twelve inch engine, and its potential impact on mobility, gender roles, and future transport.
The new municipal building rises slowly and secrecy surrounds the contracting process. Residents call the structure a disappointment from foundation to top, blaming legislators for signing the costly contract. The editorial also notes British gains in the Boer War, a June 16 Valley Forge memorial event, and wider reflections on patriotism, living costs, and political trust. The piece ends with pithy aphorisms on money, truth, and human nature.
Senator Clark of Montana bought Stewart Castle in Washington for about 140000 and leased the Arlington Hotel annex for ten thousand dollars a month to host friends and witnesses. The Chicago Journal notes the lavish display as Clark settles in during his stay in the capital.
Private John Haney of the Twenty second Infantry, detached with Lowe's scouts, spotted a fire at a mountain pass near Wigan. He crept in, surprised eight insurgents cooking a pig, and forced surrender with no resistance. Haney escorted the eight men and their eight guns to camp, pig in roast glory.
A Missouri inventor introduces a grass cutter with a single large driving wheel and two horizontal cutters. Operated by a chain and sprocket from the wheel shaft, the device trims close to awkward edges and around trees much like barber hair clippers.
The Chicago Tribune profiles a Wayne County Indiana Shetland pony farm with about two hundred foals produced yearly. It details calm stalls, careful training for gentleness and usefulness, diverse pony types for boys and girls, and the farm patriarch Tom Thumb, a coal black Shetland imported ten years earlier.
A collage of facts states the US Indian population at 325,464 with a 50 year drop of 62,765, compares Atlantic steamer costs to construction, cites the yeast plant as the smallest known flower, and notes five states not using capital punishment. It mentions Venezuela soon manufacturing cotton, gold from Cripple Creek, six Bonapartes and Berlin’s retired officers, two great European capitals never occupied, and a judge ruling forged documents need no revenue stamp. Hawaii’s trade rose to 29 million, population up 9,916, and Lewis Carroll mailed 98,000 letters by pigeons, about 2,000 yearly for 49 years.
A survey traces eagle symbolism from ancient Rome to modern Europe with Russia Poland and Austria adopting double and single headed eagles. It notes the US bald eagle on coins and flags while detailing the engineer’s vigilant role aboard trains and the dual life between cab control and ground tasks.
A collection of wry maxims on manners, pride, and relationships. It notes how mean words fail to reveal wit, how settings can ruin a gem of thought, and contrasts ways people handle troubles. It uses humorous contrasts like doctors for women and lawyers for men to illustrate social expectations.
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