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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
4
A Machinists' Journal piece by D Douglass Wilson argues the ancient cry Panem et Circenses adapts to today with the eight hour day. It links labor, food, rest, and recreation as safety valves, urging better labor division to prevent unrest among the unemployed and to secure fair returns for workers.
Lehigh Valley Railroad sells day tickets from Freeland on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7.50 round trip and ten day tickets from Freeland daily May 1 to Oct 31 for 10 round trip, valid on most trains except Black Diamond express. Also notices of National Educational Association meeting tickets on sale July 1 and store hours change for A Oswald beginning April 15 evenings.
A collage of comic snippets and misprinted ads renders a playful mix of quotes and captions. Lines reference Castoria medical ads, literary quotes, and humorous exchanges about fashion and sleep, drawn from multiple sources like Cleveland Plain Dealer and Detroit Free Press.
A Glasgow Daily Times column quotes a reader troubled by insomnia who considers writing late at night and receives a playful nudge to read their work instead.
A light collage of comic anecdotes from urban life. A very fat man occupies a shared Chestnut Hill car seat while a thin young woman drops her handkerchief between them. She retrieves it later at Tioga as the man heads to Wayne Junction. Additional quips include a suitor’s pin mishap and a blind horse remark.
Belgium's chamber considers a bill expanding work injury protection. It guarantees indemnity for injuries incapacitating a worker for more than two weeks regardless of fault, sets compensation at half the lost earnings, and allows employers to insure with the National Caisse d Epargne or a state approved private company. If uninsured, worker claims become a first charge on the estate and must be capitalized for future payments.
A unemployed machinist in San Francisco died by his own hand and willed his body to a medical institution that could provide his wife and children sustenance for a month. The article notes his discouragement at unemployment and sees death as his only perceived relief from hardship.
James Seymour, a seasoned burglar, discloses how he quiets guard dogs by rubbing horse fetlocks, enabling entry to houses in Mount Vernon Pelham and nearby towns. He recounts a New Jersey heist where four bulldogs followed him but did not bark as he retrieved silverware and fled. The tale appears alongside notes on naphthalene for mosquito bites and other brief items.
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