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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
2
The Freeland Tribune announces subscription terms and addresses, notes that eighty auto companies with a capital of 430 million dollars exist, and reports on France warning railways about penalties for mismanagement. It also mentions a radish from Japan and a Philadelphia widow running workrooms for invalids with paid weekly salaries and daily lunches.
The piece honors brave women in war, likening them to Florence Nightingale. It praises brive-souled, kind-hearted women who provide comfort and risk their lives as nurses among the sick and wounded, asserting their heroic role in battles from Spain to the Philippines and South Africa.
An experimental mining venture at Cook Sulet Alaska digs into Indian River’s two mile bed. Operators plan to wash a three fifths mile river bottom to bedrock next season while paying dirt yields from twenty five cents to four dollars per cubic yard.
Millicent More and Catherine More, two educated women supporting themselves, face a moral clash after Uncle George leaves an Australian orphan. Catherine vows to adopt Willie, but Millicent resists. Willie proves independent, wealthier than expected, and Catherine’s love deepens while Millicent’s plans falter.
Kenneth Herford recounts in the Detroit Free Press a visit to Rye in Sussex where a moss covered church houses a pendulum clock tied to Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. The clock face is small while the pendulum extends about twenty eight feet, swinging every forty seconds and drawing tourists who seek the famed link to Poe.
A Rugby headmaster tale ends with a boy’s postscript praising Temple as “a just beast” in a moment of danger. The passage shifts to a note on why British officers perish in war and mentions the Census Bureau planning to employ a thousand clerks with machines to process returns.
In Washington preparations for a great government census to begin June 1, 1900, will produce results over two years. The Twelfth Census will include Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico and use electric tabulating machines. Over 40,000 workers will tally data across four million square miles, with 75 million records. Herman Hollerith’s devices will punch and count cards, enabling rapid data processing for population, mortality, agriculture and manufactures. William R. Merriam directs the census with Frederick H. Wines overseeing statistics.
The piece surveys retail strategies with sewing machines sold in hardware stores in the West, notes a wool market shift due to drought and Russian hop crop declines, and describes a German beet sugar purification method. It also reports on small mills in North Carolina, novel roof tiling in Chicago, and ends with a reflective anecdote about waiting while repairs are done.
Fourteen hundred pounds of live turtles arrived aboard the German steamship Erna, including twelve giants over a hundred pounds each. They were brought from Hayti and San Domingo, the turtles are transported alive in sea water tanks to Northern ports, and their non duty status adds revenue potential. Lord Rosebery is said to have become a near hermit, dwelling mostly at Mentmore and avoiding London except Sundays.
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