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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1901
Page
2
A chaotic collage reports on Russian student unrest signaling dangers to monarchies. A California farm hand shoots two men and dies by suicide for love. Climate’s failure to help is noted, while a Chicago boy’s honesty earns ten cents for returning a lost $1000, whose owner is found. The London Saturday Review questions America’s protective role versus the world.
The Prussian Diet begins a crusade against the advertising billboard while ads remain as evident as ever. Generally, measures to improve care accuracy and knowledge in drug sale and prescription compounding are to be commended.
The problem of opening a new reservation and getting the settlers into it without rushing is a puzzle. If the Government solves it to everybody's satisfaction, it may well consider itself Wise.
In the Greater New York dialect a siller is a person always at the window. To sill means leaning over the window sill to watch happenings in the street. Silling is the continuous act of leaning. These terms grow from the elevated system.
The Bremen consul reports German investments in Central America at 59.5 million dollars and that German houses control most foreign trade. Direct trade with Germany runs 7 to 11 million dollars while German steamships carry the remainder of the region’s trade.
A Russian colony in Ellis County Kansas is established on a wheat barter system. Land is sold for a set number of bushels of wheat with buyers pledging to plant annual acreages. Half the crop goes to the seller until debt is cleared, with no interest and flexible payback terms. The colony totals about 4000 and many acres have transferred under these conditions.
Indiana employs about fifty thousand people in wood industries with annual wages of fifteen million dollars. The labor output contributes roughly fifty million ninety thousand dollars annually to the state’s manufacturers through product value.
A historical note states that twenty percent of horned cattle are killed for sixpence in a year, with forty of every hundred sheep killed, and a placeholder figure for pigs. The fragment suggests livestock loss statistics across species and a price reference.
Miss Mayne, back in Lindenthorpe after seven years in London, unsettles villagers with her bold dress and defiant behavior. In church she enters late with a parasol, then wanders to the rocks where she flirts with rebellion by taunting the conservative town, drawing Mr. Attenborough into a wary, frank exchange about propriety and shock.
After a seaside church gathering, Mr. Attenborough carries Miss Betty Mayne through the crowd to the shore. Onlookers react as romance blooms, Miss Griggs scolds, and the church community watches the public display.
A London Golden Penny summary notes horses die from hard work and starvation in wars. It cites Plevena siege losses of 22 900 Russian draft horses, half England’s Crimean horses returning, Napoleon’s 60 000 cavalry horses reducing to 16 000, and 1882 Egyptian war losses. Emphasizes fatigue, injury, and sea voyage perils as key factors reducing horse effectiveness.
The New York Commercial Advertiser describes large scale participation of factory workers in St. Petersburg demonstrations led by students, noting a bloody clash with Cossacks. The piece traces Nihilism from educated action to underground unions, detailing Narodovoltsy splits, terror tactics, and the shift toward trade unionism amid rising labor activism.
A collection of curious notes spans hair textures, child marriage cages in Polynesia, a mistaken history misread by a pupil, burglars using compressed gas in London, patent counts by gender and race, a Mojave dry lake boat with wheels, a patent speaking clock by an Austrian inventor, and a clock phonograph reminding hourly duties.
The Bushmen appear in a transitional speech stage between click and throat methods. The Geographical Journal notes in 1896 some adopted village life and cereal cultivation, while most remain primitive, wandering the bush, sleeping where they rest and eating roots snakes and berries. In wet weather they cover the head with detached bark to shield the body.
The Manayunk Philosopher warns that coolness under risk can harm a man’s reputation as a Philadelphia Record quote notes teeth chatter from fear and suggests restraint in danger.
Detroit Journal recounts Maud Muller a hayfield girl who rejects a marriage proposal from the Man with the Hoe, chooses reputation over elopement, and later marries him, with their life ending in happiness.
A collection of light anecdotes featuring a bowling alley job joke about pin money a teacher and pupil wordplay on self evident truth and preexisting relationships, a train wedding trip prank by a groom and bride, and a couple splitting engagements with no final breakup.
The Washington Star notes how the postal service earns revenue beyond taxes. It cites 5,191,000 special delivery pieces last year and 2173 messengers, with a $147,000 net profit after costs. The system ran a $5,385,000 deficit overall, supported by stamp and card sales, and even waste-paper sales contribute to receipts.
A London Chronicle note describes British pickle makers enlarging pint bottles slightly to skirt law. In Canada this backfires as any package over a pint incurs a quart duty. The quip closes with a wry line about facing a dentist who can take the nerve.
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