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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
2
Whitson writes in the New York Sun about returning to a gray-roofed home and the ache of faded childhood, the gate and vine door silent, as memories of loving voices from long ago linger in a summer twilight.
Abel Mitchell contemplates a will as Jim Mitchell plans to marry a poor girl Emma Morris and a young woman, Sam Alice Mitchell, reveals her identity and confronts the old man. She defends her father and reveals Jim and her own sacrifice while Abel regroups, torn between pride and kinship, and prepares to confront Jim.
A satirical piece mocks the idea that milk is dangerous while recounting absurd claims that milk mixed with cherries, pickles, or ice cream can cause death. The essay cites sensational anecdotes about poison milk and a Paris restaurant death, lampooning pseudoscience and sensational journalism.
The Telegraph Plant of India exhibits a unique self-preservation mechanism with three leaflets. The main leaflet raises during the day and bends at night while the two smaller leaflets rotate in complete circles, ensuring all leaf parts receive sunlight.
Dr Sellim a Vienna university professor exploring in Palestine for the Imperial Academy of Sciences has located walls and gateway of an ancient Solomon temple near Jana bah. He drew an exact plan of the discovery, described as the fortress of Solomon plundered and destroyed. Selim had earlier located a pre Israelitish Dunganitish fortress and other antiquities.
A collection of curiosities notes 1797 lighting with coal gas, wireless telegraphy on Italian trains to prevent accidents, a Jackson Mississippi building fire from icicle and lime, long cork trees in Iberia, Leibniz skull hints of a small brain, Chinese officials blamed for floods and famines, camel teams on Western Australia mining gear, a Newark area radish record of 23 inches, the Lion Bridge in China claimed five and a half miles long, a doctor in Eylan les Bains using pigeons to deliver prescriptions, and a Kansas farmer planting a 25 mile corn row in a circular pattern for novelty.
William S. Rossiter reports on U S printing and publishing in the last decade noting no major shift in news gathering but a surge in total news output. In June 1900 there were 22 312 establishments with 292 617 072 capital and 347 055 050 in annual output. Newspapers accounted for 168 930 707 of value, 48 3 percent, with publishing at 175 789 610 or 51 7 percent. The census shows newspapers rival all other publishing combined, U S readers pay more for newspapers than books, and average per family readership includes four dailies in New York City and one daily per family nationwide. The total newsprint used was 625 000 tons, with 77 6 percent for newspapers, 10 4 percent for books and periodicals, and six percent for job printing. Newspapers provide about five sixths of reading matter, supporting heavy reliance by advertisers.
Forest and Stream reports about a twenty six buffalo herd on Antelope Island Great Salt Lake. Owner Mr Dooly is open to selling the herd and the island to the Government to establish a national buffalo reserve. The island spans about twenty miles by three to five and has ample water. The herd is healthy and self-sustaining through seasons. exchanges with the National Zoological Park aim to refresh the stock.
A toy store novelty shaped like a telephone costs $6.50 and includes two hello ends, two dry cells, 150 feet of wire, staples and screws. Designed for house to doll houses, nursery, play room, or stable, it is described as a clever high class domestic toy.
The New York Herald reports a French doctor notes every pupil weighed before and after exams loses weight, up to a pound and a half in stiff exams, suggesting hours of exam strain harms the nervous system. The piece also notes Bohemia’s large estates, with 63 nobles holding the majority of land, none under 12,000 acres.
Rev H N Hutchinson notes the Russian crown yields at least seven and a half million dollars a year with imperial appanages totaling ten million and covering two million acres larger than Scotland. The prose recalls serf bondage before emancipation and counts vast jewels treasured by the dynasty and courtiers.
A New York City apartment house adds a basement swimming pool in Good Sight. A person with good sight can see another's eyes at eighty yards. Belgian railroads create ladies smoking compartments to allow women to smoke without male intrusion.
The article notes that incandescent lamps emit only six percent light, and cites a 100 volt 16 candlepower lamp heating ten ounces of water in an hour. It discusses a proposed Government biological station on the Great Lakes to study fisheries, a New Orleans smoke stack lit with lamps, meat cooking losses by weight, and a shift from coal to crude oil for engines with delivery logistics and cost savings.
A nostalgic ode to the vanished old time printer and his encyclopedic craft, contrasting with modern typesetting and changing journalism. It also describes an automobile clock held in a black patent leather case, large crystal face, and a price of $21 while noting high trolley fares and electric record-breakers.
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