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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1894
Page
3
A Harper's Bazaar essay argues that at 35 a woman remains at peak charm, gaining depth of spirit and intellect. It describes a shift from youthful beauty to a poised social influence, where maturity attracts younger, intelligent suitors and conveys comfort and atmosphere. The piece closes with a Robert Burns inspired verse about the bobolink.
A fragment highlights the secretary bird of South Africa grabbing snakes and causing them to flee its shadow. It also advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums reducing inflammation and colic for infants. The snippet ends with a misprint about the bottle.
Eben Hallet, a Texas cattle baron, foils a wreck aboard the New York and Chicago Limited. He rescues a train-boy clinging to a sheepfold apple, helps survivors, and later reunites with Annie Davis, the love he believed lost, promising to graft sheepfold apples onto his Texas ranch.
F W Coville notes from Flora of the Death Valley Expedition that desert herbaceous plants use underground trunks to endure droughts and that foliage is sparse. He compares woody species, finds mostly small leaves, and discusses dry fruits and theories on desert flora origins amid environmental versus geological factors. The piece cites New York Independent.
Washington plans a tunnel from the Capitol crypt to the Congressional Library vaults to move nearly 1,000,000 books. A temporary railway may haul books, with a pneumatic tube considered for direct access. Removal work may begin before spring 1895.
The raft spider is described as an extraordinary insect that builds a raft from leaves and wool to chase prey on water. It travels in fours and rows with oarlike twigs, typically delivering thirty-two strokes but sometimes thirty six, as noted by the Chicago Herald.
A collage of curiosities notes odd measurements and facts from history. It cites a mile of piano wire, a Boston eel, copper plate engravings inked in 1470, a Hungarian inventor’s fabric claim, Scots Guards height averages, Colorado cotton trees, and a Lexington lawsuit over dog-caused damages. It also mentions the Sierra Nevada’s size, Pan Ham’s towering height, rock salt near Ithaca, Daniel Lambert’s weight, bee and bird battles, cocoanut leaf length, and early Greek inscriptions around 600 B C. Finally it details a seven teen year old sea captain and bird feeding, ending with Lancaster sisters’ combined ages surpassing the Winter brothers.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt recounts a traveler’s frightful London to Liverpool journey. An elderly fellow passenger, acting as a phrenologist, investigates the traveler with a knife, muttering about life and danger, until the train stops and the narrator escapes. The account ends with a vow to avoid English railway carriages.
A centuries old elm on a farm near New Windsor ML, with a 30 foot trunk and 28 foot nine inch girth, burned slowly for three weeks after lightning, its hollow limb honeycomb harboring bees. Rain later extinguished the blaze as remaining limbs fell.
Four prospectors, weary of barren diggings, struck a nugget while drinking at a stream on July 1 in the site of what would become Helena Montana. News of the find drew hundreds of miners, creating a booming camp and a city that would host one of Helena’s first banks.
A wise old gentleman answers two young ladies debating beauty by saying the measure lies in the generous hand. He notes the poorest people would tell them the most beautiful hand is one that gives without restraint. The tale emphasizes charity over appearance.
A brief notice notes a late invention concept described as a scheme to illuminate keyholes. The remark labels the idea under a knowledge heading without further details or context.
Readers offer criteria for stopping ads: when population stops growing and future generations forget you. when everyone touched by your life knows you offer better goods and lower prices. when nonadvertisers outpace rivals. when fortunes are built by direct advertising. when you ignore advice from shrewd business leaders on prosperity’s cause.
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