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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1900
Page
3
A collage of era advertisements and brief quotes appears, including a Hood's Sarsaparilla testimonial about renewed energy and improved health for a wife after four bottles. It also references a London foreign legation incident and a light kitchen anecdote about a tenderhearted cook and a stalled stove.
Mrs A Tollee describes severe health decline from thinness and ailments before taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After eight bottles she gained from 95 to 140 pounds, becoming stout and healthy, with neighbors noting improvement. Pinkham reportedly received fifty thousand similar letters.
In a Washington Post style vignette a man admits fault after a quarrel with his fiancée over a matinee with her cousin. She forgives but hints at diminished affection. The scene shifts to a naive new bride in Columbia Heights, followed by a Colonial road anecdote describing a primitive pack saddle and a preacher’s joke about forks.
A veteran coach presents running form rules with emphasis on posture, stride, and foot placement. He cites Randolph Faries and outlines stance, arm-swing coordination, and the use of toes for under one mile and ball of the foot for longer distances. He warns against overstride and heel kicks, urging light footfall and controlled energy to reduce fatigue.
Daniel Webster born January 18 1782 in harsh winter and log cabin days. He faced early illness and doubt yet developed a robust constitution and love of nature through school and rural work. An old sailor mentor taught him angling and rough field sports shaping his lifelong pursuits and later notoriety.
A brief scene shows Lord Roberts pressing a colonel to complete a mission quickly. The colonel commits to a fortnight, then Kitchener presses if it is not done within a week. The exchange ends with the mission being completed.
An array of natural science notes cover weather by cloud movement indicating dual air currents and rain, soil damage from floods, typhoid linked to celery fertilized ground, and new density-measuring hydrometers. It also surveys deep sea life, Australian insect diversity, dragonflies, cicadas, bees, sand flies, spiders, butterflies, and a humorous quip about moths.
A quotation on tools and progress argues that even with many attacks on machinery civilization advances through tools. It cites Watt reducing work hours and credits steel tools for modern comforts, asserting society would regress without tools and referencing Newell Dwight Hillis in the Woman's Home Companion.
Artificial coal from ordinary earth heated with secret ingredients forms hard brittle bricks highly inflammable. German inventor George Montag claims large manufacturers plan to replace pit coal with his product, using sand and grave excluded from the mix.
A Baltimore Sun summary notes parrots in a zoo imitate sounds from lions, elephants, and trainers with some parrots repeating phrases like those of Lecturer Rollins. Alexander Day says parrots show early talking aptitude, best trained in a quiet room with the cage covered. Gray parrots top talkers. Amazonian parrots, rosellas, and macaws from the West Indies also noted for limited speaking ability. Cooper Union in New York reports last year revenue of 58489.78 dollars and expenditures of 59087.09 dollars.
An OCR fragment lists various claims and products. It mentions tax-like dating for dogs, a Toledo company, Fall’s Catareh Cove with a $100 reward, Hall’s Catareh Cove, testimonials, a Pragwists seller, a graduate from a Lawrence Kansas school, a San Francisco reference, and an Australian native life remark. The text is garbled and incompletely readable.
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