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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1903
Page
2
A poetic description of sea captains and sailors as rulers of the sea. The piece portrays the guardsman at the wheel and the quarterdeck figure as emperors of the waves, enduring storm, sleet, and wreck while guiding ships through night and tempest.
Violet Grants beauty is marred by an accident caused by Veronica at a society ball. Veronica’s schemes fail as Dudley Maitland refuses reconciliation, choosing restraint over romance while Violet endures heartbreak and resiliently plans to read through the night awaiting news from the ballroom.
A romantic scene unfolds as Veronica and Maitland declare affection amid a disfiguring scar. Dudley Maitland proposes, Veronica accepts, and the couple plans a future together, while observers note the ghostly humor of modern tabloid storytelling.
In Kalama Washington a large loyal dog dogsits a clever routine. He tracks strangers in town with earnest brown eyes and a wagging tail. On each encounter a nearby helper coins a nickel and the dog guides the man to a meat shop for a five cent sausage. The dog never accosts locals or repeats the same person. The New Century notes this amusing blend of canine wit and human generosity.
An architect watching masons on a new building muses that elevators may soon run through the air by a clever device. He notes that skeleton structures quickly gain elevators as a visible feature, with signs announcing “Elevator Now Running” for passenger use and future interior partitioning.
County Surveyor Ike Hendren spent days surveying Rocky Run near Harrodsburg. He describes a wild romantic spot eight miles from town with an imitation Niagara sixty five foot cataract and a crystal pool where minnows play and bubbles dance toward the Kentucky River a mile away.
London News recounts the title of emperor born to Menelik II of Abyssinia since 1889, tracing his lineage to Menelik I and Solomon via Queen of Sheba. It notes the shift from king to emperor as Abyssinia’s realms unite Choa Godjam Djimma Baffa and Watumo and cites an Italian traveler’s earlier retelling of the dynasty.
The New York News notes that the American peanut is supplanting baked beans in Boston and invading Parisian theatres and restaurants. It describes Marseilles consuming 10,000 bags, the roaster’s whistle on street corners, and a cheap African peanut challenging American supremacy, but claims cultivated taste favors the American nut.
A young artist calling himself a nature student studied London's slums and spent a night in the Penny Sit Up, a men-only institution. It is a shed with rows of high-backed benches. inmates pay a penny to sit up all night, sleeping with heads on folded arms supported by bench backs. At midnight it fills almost to suffocation, with sixteen inches of bench per sitter. The piece critiques the lack of rest and health risks, noting harsh conditions and old-fashioned humanity.
A newly married man recalls pretending to be a local while shopping for breakfast provisions on his wedding day. He sought to mislead a stranger by acting like a native shopper, cafe chats, and small talk with the cashier, ending with a hopeful store remark on future patronage.
A brief aphorism from the New York News notes that beauty in life often lies unseen until it is out of sight, reflecting on perception and value beyond immediate vision.
Detroit Free Press recounts a fairy tale where butterflies in cloth of gold are transformed from white snow by a fairy queen who gifts them with yellow Locks after a crossing request. A separate note describes maker instructions for a two-piece paper telephone craft using parchment and cardboard cylinders.
A brief note describes cutting two cardboard pieces ten by four inches and rolling them to form cylinders by wetting the paper and stretching it into shape.
A Forest and Stream excerpt details animals in a zoo at midnight. The oryx lies with horn arching over its shoulders while the alpaca resembles a black woolly ball. Camels, monkeys, civets, possums, bears, llamas, zebus, buffalo, porcupine, emu and various birds rest in curled, stretched, or tucked positions. Bears and polar bears huddle, porcupine quills point outward, parrots fold necks, pelicans sleep with heads back.
A Washington Star feature notes zookeeper permission to visit the Central Park Zoo after hours to observe animal slumber. Lions lie on their left side, pumas, tigers and leopards on their right, hyenas with hind legs tucked, rhinoceros asleep on his left, hippos with heads above water, elephants stretched on their right, and deer crouched with heads turned to the right.
A New York World item describes a hairpin water mill built from two joined hairpins with a groove for water. The device balances on a pencil point, producing two opposite jets that drive the mill, kept going by occasional water drops. Malta is noted as the world’s densest island with 1360 people per square mile, comparing Barbadoes at 1054.
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