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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
4
Low fare notices describe five day tickets from Vrowland at 70 dollars round trip for dry coaches and ten day tickets from Fran land May 1 to October 1 with meals included. The item mentions Diamond express rates and a Potsmouth Va individual age over 60, plus unrelated medical cures and Grover's City store tale.
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century page mentions Kodol Dyspepsia Cure praised by HS Pitts Arlington Tex and Grover's City drug store. It also notes DeWitt's Little Early Risers and Dewitt Witch Hazel Salve as remedies, a New York law on funeral expenses, and a reference to an old snuffbox linked to Sir Francis Drake.
Leisure Hour notes regional nicknames for Australians. New South Wales residents are cornstalks, Victorians gum suckers, South Australians crow eaters or wheatfielders, Queenslanders bana nalanders, and Western Australians sand gropers or gropers. Tasmanians are Tassies or jam eaters, with calls of land of time and land of sleep a lot.
A Chicago Tribune note reports a magazine feature titled Love Letters of a Typewriter Girl exposing intimate fancies addressed to Archibald. The piece shows a young writer confessing deep affection in a public display, raising questions about privacy versus publication.
The excerpt explains how verba From Proper Names became a shorthand for hasty building by Jerry Bros. of Liverpool, whose rapid ill built houses lent their name to “Jerry” work. It also defines levant as fleeing to the Levant to dodge creditors, urging circumspection. It traces lush from Lushington, a London brewer, via Shakespeare and The Tempest.
A traveler on a moving Swiss train slipped and broke a window but did not lose the glass. the conductor charged 344 francs and the passenger paid, receiving a receipt. Later in Basel the man hurled his dress case from the broken pane, was confronted by officials, and an interpreter clarified the situation. Meanwhile Parliament faced hostile reaction to census plans, as Mr Potter introduced a bill for a national tally of people and vital events on March 30 1758.
A collage of short anecdotes and moral vignettes features Queen Wilhelmina and a tea cup mishap, the youngest Kentucky colonel Austin Nelson Edwards, a luck tale about a hotel bellboy, and a lesson on wholehearted effort. It closes with a child confessing a pantry mis deed and a mother’s blunt joke about conscience.
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