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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
2
The Freeland Tribune lists rates and instructions for payments and subscriptions, noting pay dates on address labels and urging prompt remittance. It mentions regional forest depletion forecasts, a joke about a man with three lungs in Canada, and compares 1890 world railway costs and shipping tonnage ledgers among England Germany and the United States.
A 19th century reflection notes words once deemed low and mocked with lines from Pope and others. Indiana farmers consider naming country roads and posting guide signs at crossroads to help strangers reach unfamiliar farms, with some oil regions already painting owners’ names on red barns.
Early open air treatment for consumption is praised as most effective, advocating pure cool air and outdoor living. The natural outdoor life is stressed with sleeping indoors and wide open windows. Some doctors reject sanatoriums and urge hygiene education for the young to prevent the disease. The heredity of consumption is denied, though germs may be carried, and proper healthy living may lessen or destroy this tendency.
Observation notes that trolley telephone and bicycle boost suburban growth. They enable moderate income families to live near cities, balancing preference and economy. Whitegar draws people to open spaces, easing crowding of blocks and tenements, a sign of wealth in the New York Post view.
Official figures show Tedia with a surprising surplus of £2,553,000 against a prior estimate of £2,622,000. Losses from famine reach £1,187,000 but gains from railway receipts £824,000, post office telegraph and mint receipts £423,000 and opium revenue £401,000 offset the shortfall.
In southeastern Texas a Trooper of D Troop, Third Cavalry, becomes lost for two days amid dense chaparral while pursuing Garza's bandits. Struggles with thirst and disorientation, finds water in a cistern, and is aided by two Mexicans who guide him back to camp, revealing he was never far from his starting point.
Eli Perkins explains to Cornwall University journalism class that the path from journalist to editor is a descent into decay and dullness. He contrasts a callow reporter with a true newspaper man, noting the editor’s role to kill bright ideas and sensationalism. He fears aging into an editor who loses vitality and harms the paper.
An experienced shoe maker explains that ready-made shoes fit better after the wearer stands and moves, as feet swell with blood flow and muscle expansion. He notes many people have one foot larger than the other and should have both feet measured for properly made shoes.
The last relic of London’s first railway, a stone-sleeper line from Wandaworth to Croydon completed in 1801, has disappeared from view as the wooden crane at the Wandsworth dock plunged itself into the Wandle. The mood is one of historic melancholy at the once grand scheme’s fading memory.
A detailed critique of pneumatic theories of bird flight. The writer rejects gas buoyancy in birds, argues weight and wing leverage govern flight, and questions muscular and nervous limits in prolonged avian endurance. The piece analyzes bone cavities, body mass, wing strength, and metabolic demands in vultures, geese, and hawks, with comparisons to human lifting.
The passage laments premature scientific certainty about bird physiology and magnetism while recounting English sportsmen in Norway. It highlights brook trout fishing, noting the pristine landscapes, absence of tourists, and primitive farm hamlets. It ends by praising the trout and the angler’s rustic, invigorating experience.
In Patrick County near Stuart a nine foot five inch circumference apple tree stands at the foot of a Blue Ridge spur. It is fifty two feet tall and seventy one feet wide, about seventy years old, and bore a large crop last year. It has produced up to 110 bushels in a season on rich soil. Nearby a tree eight feet five inches around yielded eighty five bushels in 1880 and continues bearing at seventy five years. The Robertson tree two miles from Stuart on J W Robertson’s farm is the progenitor of all Robertson apples in the U S, bearing a large red apple and eighty five bushels in one bearing around eighty years old. A farm near Stuart once produced 130 bushels in a single bearing. The author notes shading across ninety feet of ground at meridian.
The article argues that a tallyho style auto with roof seats could win suburban and long distance use as prices drop toward streetcar levels. It cites an English run Coventry to London at 92 miles in four hours and predicts autos will encroach on municipal transport, including mail and farm product routes.
Allentown's mayor urges council to curb street litter by handbills as a modern governance move. The note cites a prominent dental supply maker stating 40,000 ounces of pure gold are used yearly in dentistry with a value near $1,000,000.
A miscellany of clipped comedy and quips from various newspapers sketches jokes and captions. The piece weaves playful banter about love nerve and social scenes with quotes from Detroit Free Press Harper's Bazar Puck Chicago Record Judge and others. It samples humorous exchanges on romance fashion and daily life.
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