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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1902
Page
2
The article describes a precision timekeeping method at the U S Naval Observatory using a star crossing wires to measure clock error to fractions of a second. An observer notes eleven punctures on paper as the star crosses each wire and adjusts the clock to match celestial time.
In a rustic tale a Georgia slave named Sambo prays to God for rescue from sorrows. One night mischievous boys imitate the Angel Gabriel arriving to take him to heaven but Sambo hides under his bed, fearing death. He remains alive, proving reluctant to depart this world.
A Washington county man recalls a six year feud between neighbors Beron Hart and Dempsy Armour over a spring on their shared boundary. After a fist fight and rising tensions the spring dried up during the dispute, then resumed flowing when Armour moved to Missouri five weeks prior, a change the witness says never happened before. The oldest resident notes the spring’s history of abundant water.
The piece contrasts English club life with New York clubs like the Manhattan and Knickerbocker. It notes Americans join English clubs for social reasons but rarely use them, finding English clubs lacking the day’s deals and business chatter that draw Americans to clubs in the United States.
A war era poem recounts soldiers marching in blue with bugle call. A woman's grief and a soldier's silent sleep frame the changing years as bugles weep and memory endures. The verse recalls the line and the lingering sound of Tans era, with drums, cheers, and distant hills.
In Evansville a drifting stranger named Simon Friend arrives during a blizzard and becomes a focal point of village life. He amuses men with stories and a mouth organ while women grow wary yet curious, as his lame leg and rheumatism fuel sympathy and gossip. His sudden social ascent ends when a doctor helps him after a broken leg and a vengeful wife confronts him about abandoning his family.
In a letter to the Chicago Record-Herald Mrs M L Rinyne recounts a dramatic scene where a woman falsely claims her husband, with a broken leg, must be dragged home. She alleges the husband has used a rheumatic condition and a wooden leg to avoid work, while neighbors debate sympathy and truth.
A Georgetown matron watches a courtship unfold around her eleven year old daughter Naomi. A fifteen year old suitor exchanges a portrait request, then sends a surprise gift, an Americana Beauty rose, after promising a better image. The tale, narrated with social critique, appears in the Washington Star anecdote.
German reports describe artificial clay made from cand chalk cement liquid glue and petroleum forming a claylike mass that fires into stone or tiles. The material is water resistant fireproof absorbs no moisture and can be colored. Tests at Charlottenburg lab yielded favorable results and the process requires no machinery for mixing.
A youthful man wearing a natty opera hat and raglan coats enters a trolley car on Ares Street. He blushes as passengers notice him, then is teased by two red faced servant girls at Seventeenth Street who mockingly question the suited man’s appeal before he exits quickly, per Philadelphia Telegraph.
The text contrasts Irish language as the language of lovers with examples of other languages and praises its sweetness. It then notes a trade shift in advertising, arguing that ads create new business by reminding people of needs and serving both the public and advertiser.
Surfman Seth L. Dills, sole survivor of the Mongnomy crew, recalls the lifeboat capsizing while aiding men aboard the stranded barge Wadena. He describes repeated rightings, passenger panic, and a final rescue by Captain Elmer Mayo as he clung to debris and swam toward shore.
The article notes the U S leads in reading public size and that newspapers supply most literary entertainment. It observes books and magazines flood the market, yet the newspaper remains impregnable amid fierce competition and bold publishing.
A quirky historical note from Madras records Baboo clerks requesting permission to depart a plague affected area. The appeal asks for leave to leave the unwholesome spot, unwisely offering their souls in exchange for sanction.
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