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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1901
Page
2
The article notes plans for an endowed theatre in London devoted to staging old dramatic masterpieces. In Oregon, authorities issued warrants totaling over 100000 dollars in the past year for bounties on predatory wildlife. Bounties are paid for scalps of coyotes wolves mountain lions panthers and related species within the state.
A New Haven paper questions half of the proposed Connecticut trolley routes, warning pasture land would rise sharply in value. It notes the state has ample pasture, fearing a boundless rise akin to an earthquake. The piece also covers a Turkish student at a Philadelphia college claiming disgrace for having his mustache shaved, remarking irony in values and violence.
The Historical Committee of the Society of California Pioneers confirms January 24 1848 as the exact date of gold discovery by James W Marshall at Coloma near the Sutter sawmill on the American River. The committee reviewed several statements and reached a unanimous decision.
The Chicago Board of Education approves plans for a parental school system on a fifty acre tract near Bowtanville. Ten acres become playgrounds, thirty acres for gardening and farm work. The experiment, tried in Massachusetts and elsewhere, aims to keep eighty percent of youths from returning to penal institutions by pairing schooling with juvenile court work.
The New York Sun asserts we may call the frock coat a Prince Albert, arguing the garment was named for Prince Albert the father, not Albert Edward. It notes similar name retention for Raglan, Cardigan, Havelock, Spencer, and Talua coats, and that in England the term is unused. Wellington and Blucher boots remain.
A year after winning a top Paris prize a dressmaker paid a demoiselle thirty thousand francs annually to wear exclusive designs. A rival offered a higher salary if she claimed the first dressmaker owned the claim, prompting a lawsuit in which she seeks no payment. It’s described as a hard world.
France has completed or launched 14 submarine boats with eight more under project. Officials say the fleet expansion strengthens naval capacity while inviting international scrutiny of arms programs and defense spending.
A March wind and April sun frame a New York Central Park afternoon where a factory girl and bricklayer drift toward a spring romance. He shields her with his arm through peanuts and cage visits while she tests his resolve about care, marriage, and steadiness as onlookers vanish into their private world.
French army and navy have tested carrier or homing pigeons for reconnaissance. Pigeons ride in baskets on cavalry and infantry, protected by wicker tubes and a light mesh bag for comfort. Birds return to portable houses, even when basing shifts. In maneuvers off France’s west coast, most pigeons reached home. guns did not disturb them.
A roundup of curious items notes animals and inventions. A horned beetle can carry 315 times its weight and one walked away with 214 pounds. A dishwashing machine promises scratch free results. Middle England canal work is largely done by women. An oak log yielded a centuries old steel axle head. An Oxford professor recalled jellyfish anecdotes. Fireflies provide surprising light, used in Havana and elsewhere to illuminate paths and ward off snakes.
A mosaic of jokes and witticisms from various papers such as the Washington Star Culver, Chicago record, and Philadelphia Press. The items mock fortune tellers, dating, weather talk, and social quirks with quips about marriage age, rent periods, and dry humor about blues. Named papers, column tidbits, and cartoons appear through brief gags and lines.
A Mother shares a method of giving Tommy first choice to teach Johnny a rival lesson. The Indianapolis Press and Washington Star fragmentary excerpts discuss criticisms of business practices and how money and security influence employee bargaining and satisfaction. The excerpt ends with an incomplete line.
The New York Sun recalls two Louisiana pedlars Julien Poydras and Leon Godchaux, both facing prejudice yet amassing wealth. Poydras funded dowries and an orphanage in New Orleans after a life of frontier poverty, while Godchaux, who endured slights, acquired a plantation named Souvenir, reflecting their rise from exile and hardship to prominence.
The final phase of the 1877 78 Russo Turkish campaign featured a dramatic mirage over the Black Sea near Constantinople. A officer identified distant Sebastopol fortifications mirrored in the sky about 380 miles away, seen by wary Russian troops. As the mirage faded, the British fleet began a gun salute near the Dardanelles, underscoring British opposition to Russian occupation.
Naples correspondence reports emotional scenes as amnesty frees inmates in Portoferraio after 22 years. One man claimed guilt for untried crimes to stay imprisoned, then walked free. In Bologna a prisoner leapt from a third story window crying he could not endure life outside.
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