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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
3
A mixed page fragment lists playful dialogue about marriage and kissing, then markets quack products. Ads tout Gnatx-O grain drink as coffee replacement, Jell-O desserts, Allen’s Foot-Ease, Grove’s Catarrh Cure, Piso’s Cure, and a tree of various cures and novelties. The clipping also notes Scottish plowing matches and a West Africa malaria expedition. Contains dates, prices, and vendor names such as M.L. Thampeor & Co and J. W. O’Brien.
A 19th century account traces the seedless navel orange from Brazil to Riverside California. It explains how Horatio Tibbetts propagated the trees by budding on seedling stocks, launching a vast industry that turned Riverside into a major orange center and spurred state wealth growth.
Russell Sage, the New York financier, was jokingly double checked by newsboys on Forty-second Street as he bought a paper. A streetwise boy attempted to cheat him for a cent by switching editions, prompting Sage to demand his money back. The episode ends with Sage securing the correct paper and continuing home.
A crack regiment incident shows a volunteer stepping out to light his officer’s cigar. The officer comments that in the regular army such an act would be impossible toward an officer, and the private retorts that in the regular army he could not be an officer.
A fragmented line from an OCR source hints at a domestic or personal dispute moment. The readable portion references affection and a conditional complaint about kissing, with no clear names, dates, or locations to anchor a specific event.
In the Church of All Saints Cairo an infant memorial of the Sudan overthrow was christened before a large English gathering under Queen Victoria’s auspices. The daughter of Col Sir Reginald Wingate and Lady Wingate, named Victoria Alexandrina Catherine, received gifts from Queen Victoria’s representative and notable patrons, marking a historic royal connections ceremony.
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