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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1903
Page
2
A fragment of a lyricry plea seeking eternal echo of love. The speaker longs for renewed assurance and silent, enduring affection as days pass and partners drift apart. The imagery of birds and ocean underscores a deep yearning for shared soundless devotion.
An older officer recounts Charley Haughton and Barnet’s deadly duel sparked by Milly Pritchard at Ghaznipore. Haughton dies. Milly’s grief endures as the narrator later shelters her during the Mutiny, seeking to atone for past harboring of jealousy and murder.
A Delhi Durbar feature highlights Eastern art where the collective nation gains the honor, with shawls from Cashmere, rugs from Anatolia, brasses from Persia, ivory from Siam, and crafts from Japan, China, and India. Venezuelan voters: men can vote at eighteen and run for office at twenty-one.
Lord Charles de la Poer Beresford and his younger brother Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, famed for bravery and sport, were celebrated for a Zulu rescue. During a retreat, Beresford rode back, protected a wounded soldier, and ensured his escape, sharing credit with Sergeant O'Toole when honored by the Queen.
W A Smith, Roebling Company timekeeper, narrowly escaped a 500 foot plunge into the East River during a tower fire on the Manhattan bridge approach. He crossed to the north side as the south end burned, rode a cable, and witnessed a footbridge collapse while seeking safety with engineers.
Dr. T H Bean of the United States Fish Commission treated a Kanaka sailor aboard the Baer off Unalaska after a hogshead crush injury. With no anesthetics, the doctor performed a tedious amputation using bird-knife tools. The sailor endured with no facial quiver, thanked the doctor, and walked to the fo'c'sle whistling.
Jesse Abbott of North Sullivan Maine, an experienced hunter, shot a large buck and believed he killed it. When the deer charged back, Abbott grabbed its neck and clung on through a rugged four mile chase. A final knife slash killed the animal, a 314 pound Maine record, after a brutal struggle.
A New York Times report quotes a Post Office Inspector describing a fraud against the public that nets two-cent stamps from fake job advertisements in reputable newspapers. Applicants mail stamps in reply, with eight hundred stamps worth sixteen dollars taken from letters or packages and sold at a discount.
An Indian vernacular newspaper blamed two blank columns on the most important page on a delay, saying a powerful universal-appeal article could not be compressed into the reserved space and would appear next week. The note preserves the paper's sense of humor while explaining the postponement.
A survey of 19th century innovations cites German patents boosting aluminum toughness with 7 to 15 percent phosphorus for forging, 3 percent for horseshoe metal, and 2 percent for easy rolling. It also covers a Virginian smokeless sparkless stack with water-jet purification, oil coatings to prevent rust, and leather deterioration from rapid tanning chemicals raising museum rebinding costs.
A Chicago News report highlights Robert Houdin’s memory culture teaching his son to memorize shop window details and room layouts. In a royal Tuileries performance the boy, blindfolded, described the chamber and read shelf titles, astonishing the French court.
A collection of maxims notes that no one is too wise to learn from fools and that self love blinds judgment. It contrasts bravery after danger with preexisting character, warns against buying unnecessary goods, and critiques laziness and the blunt truth. It questions poverty as both hardship and ease.
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