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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
2
A fragment from P. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution reflects on drifting apart in love. The speaker laments leaving behind shared bread and shelter while praying the beloved's lonely path may be lit. The text reads as a lyrical meditation on separation and longing.
A young woman proclaims a quest for a perfect partner of exalted mind and soul. She admires Jack Rendlesham as a gentleman and poet, yet sees a brighter future with a stock broker named Blobbsworth who awakens a higher life in her. The narrator plots a life of shared contemplation away from worldly luxury toward spiritual companionship.
A narrator recalls a moral struggle between personal desire and Christian duty. On a Sunday afternoon Mr Blobbsworth proposes, she contemplates leaving her beloved cottage and Jack for a higher life, yet Providence guides her to accept and aid him. She sighs at the dream mansion as she chooses duty over self-satisfaction.
Connie Mack recounts Bill Lange’s bold Pittsburg game baserunning where Lange reached first, distracted the pitcher, then sprinted from first to third and home on a wild ball. Denny Lyons failed to relay in time, giving Lange the winning run in a dramatic one run victory.
A London News piece cites a sermon by Dr. Winnington Ingram and a tale about a girl asking if the bishop can go to heaven now. It notes how anecdotes from authority figures invite layman storytelling and even invented legends about devouring souls and martyrdom by beastly means.
Commercial schools in Russia are state institutions under the Finance Minister. Initiatives by chambers of commerce establish them. There are forty-three state controlled schools and twenty privately organized ones with state supervision.
The article argues that beautiful pheasants can thrive in small country lots and outlines practical setup. It recommends starting with easy-to-rear breeds, providing outdoor and indoor quarters, a 40 by 50 foot yard, a 15 foot square warm house, and a 10 to 20 foot tall fence with top wire. It suggests combining a home pheasantry with a pigeon loft, with separate, partitioned winter quarters to prevent disturbance.
In the nineties westward migration failed to yield crops in drier plains, but modern methods offer hope. South Dakota farmer H W Campbell shows deep plowing and moisture retention boosting yields, with 142 bushels of potatoes per acre where others failed. alfalfa, sorghum and Kaffir corn require less rain. Each reclaimed mile adds about 640,000 acres to the West’s fertile land.
A Boston jeweler cites Washington Star remarks that since 1898 railroad wrecks have fallen by one third due to watches keeping to standard time within thirty seconds. He notes engineers and all train staff must use accurate watches and have them checked weekly under threat of discharge.
The article explains how British critics note silk is adulterated with tin, a practice that originated in Germany and is now common. It describes methods to add weight and stability, including tin weight and previously vegetable substances, with boiling reducing silk weight by about a quarter and tin whitening cheaper black silks. Burned scraps leave ash or a fine wire gauze-like residue.
The Amir of Afghanistan has decided to use up his father's postage stamps. No new designs have been issued yet while awaiting approval of a new design. The entire stock is exhausted, and sealing wax bearing the official stamp is being used in the interim.
A collection of quirky snippets from newspaper humor pages. It includes playful lines about a jolly fisherman and a teacher’s wool riddle, plus a light jab at editor quarrels. The tone imitates vintage coast to coast humor columns with brief witticisms and wordplay.
The New York Sun quotes Mr Fish thanking an older man while Mrs Corntessel jokes about their son entering culture but shunning agriculture. Washington Stay records a light domestic exchange with a tone of mild disappointment over career choices.
A collage of quotes shows uneducated insight, mellowing to social finance and personal conflict. Dialogues touch on public interests, Senator Sorghum’s dollars, a doctor’s indigestion case, and a marital income dispute between Miss Mil Mons, reflecting contemporary newspaper humor and commentary.
A Washington Star quote highlights diplomacy as a curious game where the most satisfactory results come when both sides can go home claiming victory. The exchange frames negotiations as a balance of gains for both parties.
In a Baltimore Daily exchange, a street car magnate taunts patrons calling them a narrow lot while one patron retorts that passers by once stretched wide enough before being jammed into crowded conditions, highlighting urban transit woes.
In a brief quip from the Cathodc Standard and Times a merchant asks what a gentleman sought, the clerk replies he learned what he did not want, and then says he sold it to him. The exchange hints at a discreet transaction within a busy shop.
A brief excerpt presents a humorous exchange between Cholly and Kathleen about love broadening and lengthening, cited from the New York Times. The dialogue underscores romantic banter and playful self-awareness without additional context.
A partisan exchange in Philadelphia Preas features one urging caution about crowing before the vote and the other promising to celebrate after. The dialogue centers on the candidate and the supposed right to enjoy what follows a win.
An excerpt discusses American railways giant scale, noting 200000 miles of track, a system larger than Germany or Russia, and mileage comparisons with other continents. It cites costs, capital, fares, and employment in 1901, including 1,071000 workers and $610 million in wages, reflecting rail growth and economic impact.
A compilation of maxims from Bovee Southey Toubert Aristotle Emerson Spencer Mayer and Success urges honesty duty independence of thought and purposeful living. It notes that true happiness comes from choosing sound means and that many miss growth by chasing public opinion or easy success rather than wise companionship and continuous learning.
University Museum visitors examined white bricks from Nippur under a microscope. They compared ancient construction to modern craft, noting Nile mud, straw, sand, shell fragments, fish bones, insects, string and finely woven cloth. The Philadelphia Record cites potential discoveries from microscopic study of antiquities.
The Vienna socialist paper Arbeit Zeitung publishes a confidential order from the Austrian minister of war prohibiting officers and cadets from joining the Anti-Duel League. It instructs current members to resign. The Austrian army reportedly favors maintaining dueling traditions.
The Arctic has no volcanoes with Petermann Peak as a possible high point near Greenland. In Victoria Land near Ross Sea, peaks reach 12,000 to 15,000 feet, including Mt. Victoria and Mt. Melbourne, with ranges extending southward. Erebus smoked in February 1901, and open water in Ross Sea occurs in summer past Cape Adare per Scott and Borchgrevink reports.
Professor Dall Osao of the Naples Museum, in a recent article, asserts that excavations and research prove Pompeii existed nine centuries before the common era, dating from ancient times.
A Berlin group of young men who have broken with their sweethearts forms the disengaged club. They argue marriage is likely a failure and scoff at traditional romance while styling themselves as a wary social circle.
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