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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1902
Page
3
Fashion notes survey rainy day petticoats in black interlined with criholine and velveteen and new black taffeta underskirts with tucked flounces. Ready to wear hats show wings in white gray or black. Advice favors buying ruffles, with emphasis on belts and sleeves reform.
A sunny faced girl with no listed arts or talents brings happiness and peace wherever she goes. Though she never learned piano or painting, her cheerful aura brightens gloomy faces and warms the elderly, spreading comfort like sunshine and song through her voice.
A roundup notes Mrs Peary’s Arctic expeditions wife Mrs Ida Foster Cronk of Chicago pushes housework as a profession. Mentions Eugenie Empress of the French, Ida Hugo, Miss Gould, Adele Hugo, and voting rights in Australia. Massachusetts IX Club led by Florence Everett hosts luncheons for notable women.
A listing from the Dry Goods Economist highlights a fall catalog of women apparel and accessories. Purses in silver gun metal and gilt motor hats in red cloth. Heavy white gloves for walking. Agate and gilt chatelaine chains. Suede belts with gold and silver embroidery. White revering with black stripes, brown chiffon boas, white ribbon with water effect. Short hop sacking coats in gray and other tints. Black chiffon bows with forget me-nots. New season prints in various designs. Openwork hosiery in black and white. Straw walking hats with quill trim. Long satin taffeta coats with lace. Embroidered flounces in widths and open-work. Shirred ecru linen parasols with warp printed taffeta. Pearl beaded ceilings sewn on velvet spots. Fancy black ceilings in new designs beyond prior styles.
A New Orleans statistician calculates the word capacity of a lead pencil. He scales pencil length and lead diameter to estimate that one quarter inch yields two newspaper columns, an inch yields four times 3690 words, seven inches yield 100,260 words, enough for fifty six columns of solid matter in an eight page paper.
A wise maxim about action over empty promises leads into a discussion of progress and virtue. The piece quotes Ram’s Horn and cites Lippincott on advance gifts to travelers, noting earlier failed ice wagon ventures in London and the shift to refrigerators as a needed preservation tool. It observes London households’ waste and the plan to target “packet nerve” for adoption with demonstrations in shops.
A Country Lite note claims gasoline is the best submarine fuel but dangerous fumes give no warning to humans. White mice reportedly die quickly from the fumes, leading to future submarines keeping cages of mice on the floor to monitor emissions and ensure crew safety.
A southeast wind creates a striking natural display as Taide Mountain appears to don a cloud tablecloth. A thin fleecy layer forms and drapes over the summit with edges hanging downward, resembling the household item. The passage notes Europe Russia publishes about 78 newspapers and periodicals, roughly one third of New York State’s count.
A collage of passages from a nineteenth century paper includes whimsical lines about zoo creatures and sports, a tale of a cautious woman guiding a man and a boy, a treeing bear trap described with chain reaction gags, and a playful Marie and Henri with a French lesson.
A reader shares a lyrical meditation on aging and beauty, contrasting inner grace with outer charm. The dialogue traces secret eyes and handwriting, the enchantment of a youthful allure, and whether years have dulled that magic. Several quoted snippets from newspapers punctuate the piece.
A man in a crowded Lexington avenue car pulls from under his coat a night stick that becomes a three legged camp stool. He quickly stretches a canvas top to form a seat and sits down, reading his pauper in comfort.
The piece decries rising souvenir collecting where small portable items from horses, hotels, and friends vanish. It notes women reportedly stealing spoons, glasses, sugar basins, and other items to display in cabinets, warning furniture may be next if behavior continues.
Instantaneous Marconigrams discuss speed of Hertzian currents and the claim that radio signals travel near light speed about 184,000 miles per second. If proven, a message around the world could transmit in roughly one eighth of a second, making sending and receiving clicks nearly simultaneous.
A Morristown New Jersey letter carrier receives 18 claims from the Washington Patent Office for a postbox recording mechanism. The device locks boxes at night to deter tapping and uses an electrical time lock linked to the post office to allow morning access and record the opening time.
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