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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
3
The Pilgrim explains that true rest requires both body and mind to release tension. Even in a reclining pose, mental strain can keep muscles tense and fatigue higher than active exertion. Rest occurs only when the mind becomes a near perfect blank and the body lets go completely.
The text outlines the vast scope of the Treasury Secretary role, including revenue and disbursement totals exceeding a thousand million dollars, currency system oversight, indirect custodianship of 800 million in gold and silver, cash balances over 200 million, control of Mints and Assay, and supervision of a 3000-employee money printing operation. It highlights statistical collection, auditing leadership, and the aim of faithful, legal handling of all income and expenditures within a trillion-dollar ledger.
The piece extols moral courage as superior to physical bravery. It cites historic figures and anecdotes, from Isaac Newton resisting bribery to Blucher urging troops forward and Henry Clay choosing integrity over politics, illustrating steadfast virtue under pressure. It contrasts the quiet inner courage with palpable pain and the call to resist temptation.
An analysis of optimism versus pessimism notes life’s deeper meaning beyond present woes. It argues modern culture lacks equilibrium, concentration, and spiritual vigor, urging active intellectual development to face life with courage. The piece emphasizes self-directed value, resilience, and striving.
A moral tale from an old era describes a vain swan charmed by a fox through flattery. She follows the fox away from the lake, only to become his meal as onlookers lament the swan’s vanity. The piece closes with a practical nature anecdote about wasps and a teachable prompt to observe details.
Professor I. L. Garner recounts a curious cat tale. A cat locked in a room with a speaking tube climbs a chair, rises on hind legs, paws the chair back, and meows into the tube in an attempt to summon someone. The scene ends with the young mistress discovering the cat’s posture and action.
A playful Q and A style piece features puns and language games. It presents lines about a cane-bottomed chair like a bill and Athens as the wick of a can die, noting Greece in the middle. It ends with a riddle about an acquitted prisoner Ike.
Curiously designed pillars at a Leipzig theatre opening created an optical illusion with spirals that buckled the columns. A German crowd enjoyed intellectual puzzles and puns, while a note cites Great Britain’s annual illness costs at about £85,000,000.
A compact collage of humor snippets from the Washington Star and other quips. It contrasts grand banquet plans with a worry about digestion, a coal delivery remark in a consumer exchange, and a pun about a blank note replacing a love letter.
A collage of quips and scraps from London Punch and other papers includes a joke about Marconigrams and a chorus girl’s photo from a Frivolity show. Dialogues touch on photography's invention, Monroe Doctrine, free mail delivery, and a Scots golf yarn.
A Chicago Chronicle piece quotes a bachelor girl saying she has not been asked, arguing that marriage is delayed by circumstance, independence from work, and skeptical views from observing married men. She notes women postpone commitment while seeking personal freedom and better choices.
Americans visiting Mannheim describe German meat shops with ornamental tiles on floors walls and ceilings. Ivory tiles with flower panels decorate counters and bookholders while unglazed colored floors contrast. Stoneware store furniture is new and produced mainly in Mettlach factories.
A Washington man anecdotes about courting with a lamp controlled by his inventive fiancée. He jokes kerosene beats electric lights and gas, praising the parlor lamp with a red shade that a clever girl manages to burn for a set bedtime, calling the lamp a bonanza.
The piece describes the woman of poise as gracious yet not gushing, listening attentively, pausing rather than rushing to speak, and departing politely after farewells. It notes she does not linger and maintains a poised, purposeful presence.
A spring in the valley near Millau in Aveyron, France is reported to emit a liquid with violet-like perfume and chemical traits resembling violet essence. The discovery notes a unique spring offering a fragrant, violet colored, fluid output potentially valuable for perfumery and chemistry.
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