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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1903
Page
2
The poem reflects on aging and the passage of time. It notes crow's feet, thinning hair, and the realization that we are no longer young. The speaker recalls lost opportunities and the quiet truth spoken by time as youth fades.
A drama of Soo Tokion, a diminutive Japanese student at a large university, and Helen Sturtevant, an American actress-in-training. Their unlikely romance unfolds amid campus gossip, class separation, and a sacrifice ending with Soo’s death and Helen inheriting his $25,000 fortune and funding a chapel in Yokohama.
A humorous aside explains frog deaths affecting the overland telegraph in Central Australia. Frogs climb insulators, touch live poles via wire droppers, and die, briefly interrupting lines and delaying dispatches from England.
The London Chronicle traces the word navvy to Inland navigation era canal workers named navigators, shortened by usage. It notes the term later applied to railway workers and, in colonies, to any able-bodied laborer regardless of job. The piece highlights linguistic evolution from canal building to imperial labor usage.
The list presents state nicknames for several regions and groups including Badgers for Wisconsin, Nevadans Sage Hens Texans Californians Gold Hunters New Yorkers Jnickerbockers and West Virginians Panhandles tea. The phrasing reads as a compilation of local demonyms and regional monikers from various states and cultures.
A cryptic tale from St James's Gazette describes an unknown man who infiltrated the Bank of England strong room at midnight. He warned directors of danger, invited secrecy, and later sent papers to prove his claim he was neither thief nor fool. He claimed mastery over hidden entry points and the ability to join officials by night.
In January 1844 Boston Harbor froze over and merchants led a public effort to cut a ten mile ice channel. Using modern ice cutting tools and horse power, they cleared the way within three days. The Britannia finally sailed through February 3 amid cheering crowds and ice festivals on the harbor.
A humorous exchange shows Jinks resisting a boastful father’s claim about his four year old daughter’s precocity. The man Binks teases him with a bright child remark, prompting Jinks to duck an engagement and propose buying toys instead.
The article notes King Edward VII’s famed memory linking faces to places or incidents. It recounts Queen Victoria’s influence, teaching the young prince to recite daily the names and circumstances of those met and to recall conversations with precision.
A Kansas City Journal note reports a Chicago effort to raise language standards in stores. Purists ban terms like customer and clerk and promote patron, section, madame, or usher. Stores also discontinue colored stocks and bright neckties and urge quiet calls to customers.
The Ram’s Horn children section urges avoids Put-Off Town with shabby streets and ragged residents. It personifies Old Man Wait and two boys Linger and ey, plus a sister Don't Care, warning that idling leads to delay and neglect of errands.
A frightened hen recalls a visit to a schoolyard where her chicks were examined by children. The tale describes anxious handling, a child’s whistle game, and a wary mood toward schooling, attributed to a Brooklyn Eagle excerpt.
A famous French chemist named Callletet outlines a simple glass engraving method. Coat tambler or bottle with a thin smooth glue layer such as cabinet tinker's glue or fish glue. Ensure no bubbles remain in the glue after application.
A nostalgic Chicago Record Herald excerpt recalls a child’s tale of a runaway chick and a sly chalked lesson about chickens in a coop. It then explains a party trick: attaching a small whistle to a blindfolded hunter, revealing the game’s secret after play, followed by a vivid tutorial on glass frosting using glue salts and salts such as saltpeter and alum to produce frosted patterns.
A general advertiser notes that thorough advertising in England reduces the need for reminders, while in America people quickly shift to competing products. He concludes it is necessary to maintain advertising in the United States to retain attention and market share.
A compact aphoristic collection on virtue and selfhood. It contrasts internal integrity with external appearance, urging patience, mercy, faith, hope, and proper work ethic while warning that comfort, fashion, or opinion dominance cannot replace true ethics. The saying notes solitude, innocence, and habit as deep roots of character.
A Longman’s Magazine excerpt contrasts starvation in sea birds with animal cunning. It notes gulls and gannets fast until food appears, risking collapse when a catch arrives, while a snake that slips a frog through palings regains balance by withdrawing the prey.
General Andre introduces two changes: officers may dine with their comrades as they prefer, ending fixed mess separations, and the movements of advancing and presenting arms are being suppressed. Arm salutes to officers and high officials disappear with the arms presentation, though general salutes remain.
Glasgow printer R B Johnstone has completed copying the Old Testament in a unique hand print. Each chapter starts with florid initials and pages feature illuminated decorative borders. The seven years of leisure time produced 200 pages of large parchment with uniform hand lettering and a London firm paid him fifty pounds for his design.
Dr Nansen favors bright colors for his ship Fram painting it green gray scarlet and white with gold. He is a clever artist and music lover though not fond of artistic furniture. His work desk at Lysaker near Christiania is a large kitchen table.
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