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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
2
A collage of dated opinions and quotations touches on gender, literature and drama links, weather risks from lightning, irrigation displays at the Paria Exposition, and praise for George Washington. It questions advertising value and cites science’s expanding boundaries while noting a costly university research institute.
Beaton at Yarmouth reports the Fisher girls who had been cleaning curing and picking flah completed their H mile trip home to Peterhead aboard a special train. The consist included two corridor coaches three saloons and four luggage vans full of their belongings. Their ordinary vacation garb featured knee high boots short skirts and oily frocks with no hats or bonnets even in rain.
A narrator recounts a brutal Russian lightning strike on Michael Kubarkin’s hut, the ensuing blaze, and the rescue of two women and a child. He and his uncle lead peasants to fight the fire, witness the hut collapse, and extract survivors, including a boy saved near the doorway. Ten years later the narrator serves in the Crax bodyguard and undertakes a dispatch ride to General Todleben through a drizzly forest.
A retreating unit crosses open space under Turkish fire near Plevna when a comrade shields a wounded officer with his body. Eleven men die, a Red Cross party recovers the dead and a missing horse, and the officer later learns the selfless sergeant is the boy he once saved from a burning hut on his uncle’s estate.
A collection of maxims on self value, social success, restraint, and humor. Notes on greatness, self control, and treating others with dignity. Observations include a Paris laundry novelty balloon drying linen and a remark on Japanese humor by a Buddhist mission in San Francisco.
Sergeant Major Richard Wilde Walker of the Thirty-seventh Infantry led a perilous seventeen mile voyage in a leaky banca through heavy fire to reach a telegraph station and summon reinforcements for Muntinlupa. He faced mutinous rowers, endured wet exhaustion, and inspired dawn aid that reached his troops at 9 PM with scant ammunition remaining.
General Hector Archibald MacDowall rose from private to command the Black Watch, serving in Afghan and Boer campaigns. He earned fame at Mamba Hill and Omdurman for courage and leadership, saving a regiment in battle. A separate note from Baraboo Wisconsin recounts Paul Pagel, seventeen, receiving a $2 bounty for a fox scalp after a dramatic encounter with a fox that attacked him.
Physicians endorse salt cod as nourishing and digestible for fragile digestion. The article details a scallop dish using shredded cod, milk and egg sauce, breadcrumbs, and celery, plus guidance on fruit wafers, muslin toast, and kitchen hacks. It also offers household tips from cleaning to health notes and a look at Manchester tramcar facilities.
A Havana tale shows Senor Tobilla aiding a U.S. journalist who photographs fortifications and Spanish troops. Tobilla pardons the photographer with a salute, later omitting the incident from his forthcoming book. Also cited is a discussion from Engineering Magazine on differences between American and English locomotive power and operating practices.
A New York Sun correspondent describes Newfoundland caribou thriving despite yearly hunting by foreign sportsmen and settlers. They kill few of the herd, which migrates along rivers and rail lines. the vast range keeps deer largely safe from molestation, though some slaughter occurs near the rail corridor during southward migrations.
Fragmentary quote from Indianapolis Journal notes the value of thinking for others and the critique of aristocracy conventions. It contrasts excuses for expensive facts with fluency about seeds and the vanity of tracking rubber marks in mud. It ends with weather signaling a mean forecast.
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