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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
2
In Shanghai a Chinese stage mocks the Allied Powers by featuring a soldier with a huge mouth who talks endlessly until his career ends by decapitation. Aristophanic comedy appears to flourish in China and the Chinese show evident humor.
A late century note reports Anaulas claiming to feed his hens an asbestos diet in a New Jersey yard and that the birds now lay fireproof eggs. The author vows to stop calling on his noncombustible fowls for help in vain.
Niagara Palla 45 generates power and spurs water coinciding with Europe and the United States as vast plants are built. Africa under German rule sees revolt and mismanagement lowering trade to British Zanzibar while Britain resists German colonial guard.
A 19th century linguistic note recalls how gutter snipe emerged in Philadelphia by 1835 through German roots and pejorative usage. The term connected to mud and impertinence, with readers pondering if it existed in older provincial English forms.
A fragment from the Chicago Times recalls a conversation between Mrs Bramble and Mr Bramble about living together and domestic life, contrasting romance with practical chores. The note mentions rising prices for unborn French books, with 50 to 55 cents and an additional cent amid higher paper costs.
Rebecca Stoner, elated yet wary, awaits Dick Waldron in Kingstown as a village tale unfolds. Years apart, a staged betrothal ends in tragedy and longing, drawing Rebecca to her long-lost love when she finds him wounded at his cottage.
Rebecca, once pursued by her lover, aids Dick Waldron after a fall and illness. Misa Stoner saves Dick, and John Jeheeen’s revealable marriage shocks Ville readers as Rebecca returns to Dick. Amid mixed public reaction, Rebecca marries Dick and nurses him back to health, finding delayed happiness at last.
A New York Sun feature describes Flagstaff Arizona’s ice mine carved from lava caves nine miles south. The cave maintains near freezing temps, with ice blocking passages, suggesting an underground lake and unknown deposit size. An English farmer’s attempt to perch ducks failed, highlighting stubborn poultry behavior.
Alexander Cox, of the Harvard Square and South Boston line, is the oldest driver and motorman on the Cambridge route. He has piloted the company’s cars since 1849, now nearly sixty, with over forty years of continuous service. He has rarely missed a car and only did so twice due to unnotified timetable changes, both times after an absence.
Ants observed enlarging and building their dwellings at midsun signal an early and cold winter. The behavior is linked to seasonal weather changes and has long been noted as a predictor in folk tradition.
The tale from the Loston Transcript recounts John Hubbard’s Newfoundland dog serving as a post route helper on Long Pond. The dog swam with a heavy mail bag through rough water and gale winds, drowned before midnight after being tethered for the run, with the mail arriving safely despite the tragedy.
A bottom trawl from nearly three miles deep in the Pacific yielded mangan ese nodules 1500 sharks teeth and 50 whale bone fragments. It notes extreme water pressure would crush rigid matter yet soft gelatinous deep sea fish survive by water permeation of their tissues.
The text portrays Aaron Burr shaping Theodosia with courage and fortitude as core virtues. Burr, awaiting treason trial in Richmond, exhorts his daughter to conduct herself boldly and without weakness, reflecting his high expectations and strict parental guidance.
A short verse from Youth's Companion tells how a generous giraffe nursers a calf with pepper tea and coddling from neighbors. The creature’s kindness brings warmth and a looming worry that his own health may halt others’ care.
A collection of excerpts contrasts a boy’s awakening to the broader purpose of business with a detailed natural history of the snail. The snail’s mouth and coiled tongue function as a precise bandsaw to slice leaves cleanly, while a nurse elephant story illustrates attentive care for a child, showcasing wonder and practical virtue.
The speaker extols an elephant as unusually capable and faithful, able to reach and assist like a nurse or servant. Pansy praises the animal's helpful nature, claiming it can be trusted in all situations and performs the needed tasks reliably.
In China the five clawed dragon signifies royalty and universal dominion with the emperor as the dragon's body and throne. Dragons appear on flags and crests, with Lung or Long as the water and sea dragon. Fishermen honor the Lung Wang with lanterns and firecrackers to appease it, while mandarins showcase dragons on garments, plates, and cups, four-clawed to mark imperial distinction.
In Harpers, Mary E Wilkins sketches a boy who receives a monkey for nothing from a bird fancier. The boy, overjoyed, abandons meals to care for the tiny life, learning happiness and truth as he walks home with the cage. The pair share silent, understood exchange as they depart together.
A woman, seeking a gentleman she cannot name or identify, asks a district government building elevator attendant for help finding him. The boy informs her the man has just gone out, and she replies she will return. Washington correspondence in Chicago Record.
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