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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1903
Page
4
A house project describes sourcing uncut stones on foot to avoid cartage and preserve lichen. The author details cost, dimensions, and labor for a center room fireplace. Ancestor worship critique follows with satirical notes on trends in society and labor.
The piece traces early American unions such as New York journeymen shipwrights and Boston Charlestown shipwrights with dates from 1803 to 1822. It highlights the rise of Chicago teamsters, noting coal wagon drivers as the oldest among them, with the national union reporting over 85,000 members in Chicago and ongoing growth. Milk Wagon Drivers union, founded Sept 14, 1902, has over 2,000 members and ranks third in size.
An excerpt relives a Civil War artillery duel led by Colonel Thomas Crenshaw shared with veterans. The narrative contrasts long range shelling with musket fire, describes a Confederate cavalry charge, the storm of canister fire, and a decisive Union volley that breaks the opposing line as the crowd cheers, ending with war as a brutal test of nerve and endurance.
The Kennebec Journal notes General Frank G. Nickerson of Cambridge and ex Governor Selden Connor both rose from private to brigadier general in the Civil War. Nickerson, a Swanville native, enlisted in the Fourth Maine and became brigadier general in 1862. Connor enlisted in 1861, earned rapid promotion, and was brigadier general in 1864 before mustering out. Both are Maine men with Civil War legacies.
Prominent among two year regiments from the Empire State, the Tenth or National Zouaves raised in New York City, formed a working Master Masons lodge within their regiment. Meetings were held in a casemate at Fort Monroe attended by brethren from nearby camps, and the lodge raised thirty four members. Often gray clad southern officers and prisoners within the lines sat with their northern brethren in lodge.
The Eighty third Pennsylvania and Forty fourth New York were seen as twin regiments in Butterfield’s brigade and Morell’s division. McClellan praised the Eighty third as among the army’s best. They faced heavy combat and suffered more casualties than any other Pennsylvania unit, yet their losses stemmed from battle not blunders or routs.
A fashion preview notes small girls hats with white mull and flowers, pleated frills, and ribbons. It highlights blue serge as fashionable for summer, offered in varied weaves for costumes and gowns, with styles from yachting outfits to short walking dresses and Norfolk jackets.
The article extols amber ribbon work for its fine relief and intricate double flowers. It highlights pink tipped double daisies Noisette roses snowball and other varieties such as the double May pink and white and the red hot poker. Also mentions lovely Lowers formed as dangling ribbon pieces.
The guide stresses coordinated attire for miladi with a hat, gloves, parasol, and footwear in harmony. Footwear options include black openwork lace hose with patent leather shoes or white silk hose with white kid or canvas ties. Black shoes are avoided to prevent clinging edges to the skirt. White silk gloves or lace mitts complete the correct ensemble.
The Tribune suggests to local school boards canvassing the borough and nearby towns to learn if enough boys will attend school if provision is made for them and that schools for working boys out of employment be opened.
Round the Region reports Squire Donohue of Wilkesbarre jailed for assaulting by a wife after resisting arrest in bed. Plymouth man Thomas McDonald suffers fractured ribs from a hiccough induced wrenching. A colored theatre troupe faces lodging refusals in Pottsville. Scranton civic shift closes Sunday shops and stalls while Plymouth trustees resolve leadership posts. X rays link stomach catarrh to indigestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure advertised. Mountain Park Decoration Day excursion details offered by New Jersey Central with special trains from Scranton.
An assortment of items including DeWitt's Witch Haze Salve advertised for quick cures on skin ailments and piles, a French doctor’s harmless marking bullet for duelists, a caution on Clydesdale horse gait, a note on the dahlia plant named after Dahl, and Professor Langley urging twin equatorial laboratories to compare altitude effects for scientific observation.
Fred B Eveleth Jr a Lewiston Maine postal clerk says he could not obtain life insurance for over twelve years yet after two medicals for policies he trusts Father John’s Medicine cured a catarrhal trouble twelve years and restored him to health He gained thirty pounds and endorses the remedy as a grand medicine with a money back guarantee Fifty years in use
A fragmentary 19th century advert describes waste of body tissue and a patent medicine claim for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure from Grover's City drug store. It notes a Laurytown almshouse fair on four Thursdays in June to aid amputee inmates Andrew O'Donnell and Patrick McCole. Also promotes Little Early Risers laxatives and a Niagara Falls excursion on May 2 with Lehigh Valley tickets.
An old advertisement promotes Kohol Kodol as a complete digestant cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims disordered digestion improves, foods are fully assimilated, and health restored. Mentions bottles priced at 1.00 and trial size 50 cents, prepared by E DeWITT & CO Chicago.
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