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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1900
Page
3
First come first served. Grocer offers Red Cross starch and Hubinger's Best starch coupons for a large 100 package each plus premiums. Also two Shakespeare panels in color or a Twenty First Century Girl calendar. Value of pictures: brighten homes more than anything else.
Regular letters from readers appear in this paper highlighting community concerns and opinions.
The Department of Agriculture reports a vast reserve of food worldwide edges toward inexhaustible supply. Nut crops flourish with minimal cultivation, wild weeds become edible garden fare, and ancient crops from oats to tomatoes trace origins across continents. Seventeen common weeds are promoted as healthful foods.
The article describes local wild foods used by indigenous peoples including the yellow water lily pulp and goosefoot seeds, with arrowhead tubers and ant coffee. It cites Augustus Henry on Chinese wild fruits and notes moral maxims on independence, courtesy, and happiness, followed by a report on C. E. Braens, a Turner County cattleman, who suffers a series of accidents from crutch use to a hotel gas explosion and a runaway drive.
In a Hill town scene the parson questions a discharged convict James about his plans. The ex-criminal reveals he will open a plumber’s shop citing his mechanical skill, prompting the minister to remark he thought he sought reform.
Neighbors near Dresser Indiana report a wildcat that has killed a score of lambs calves and hogs. A night hunt with thirty dogs located the animal three miles west of Dresser and pursued it for about half a mile through woods. The cat descended to kill and cripple twenty dogs before escaping again.
A collage of advertisements and notices touts Jell O as a dessert in four flavors and a Gnatx O coffee substitute claiming health benefits for children. Also noted are shipping losses, bank loan reductions, a New York physical culture craze, mint particle counts, and a New Jersey salesgirls crusade against slang.
The Washington Post notes Senator Allen of Nebraska faltered as a trotting ostrich at a fair grounds drew the crowd. While the bird ran, listeners ignored his fifteen hour Sherman bill debate until the ostrich finally claimed the spotlight.
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