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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1902
Page
3
A travel image notes cream colored porous jars used as water coolers across Greece. The jugs exude moisture, cooling contents when placed in drafts, with widespread use by rich and poor and many produced yearly.
The Buffalo life saving keeper W W Gleser wins a Gold Medal for a daring rescue off Buffalo harbor. Amid heavy seas a man clings to piles 400 500 feet offshore. Glesser swims with a line despite peril and prevails after a long, grueling fight.
San Bernardino reports J A Adams deputy surveyor and grandson of abolitionist John Brown died after aiding a trapped Indian in the Colorado Desert. Fay recalls Adams saving the Indian from a runaway horse, walking badly hurt yet refusing aid as he rode toward Yuma. The narrative notes Adams died following a late search for the missing man, highlighting his bravery amid harsh terrain. Also recounted is Fred Harris’s rattlesnake incident on train No 22 between Centralia and Chicago. A closing note mentions the labor behind making matches.
A fragmentary quip from Life asks why Bet should not dress with armamenta and enjoy reading while aging. It compares a man digging at work to seeking the root of all evil, a joke echoed by the Chicago Post.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from New York Journal Cincinnati Commercial Tribune New York World Chicago News Boston Transcript and Moonshine. The quips cover marriage proposals eco nomical versus stingy and a dinner habit along with playful anecdotes about family and social quirks.
Britain burns deep coal with high fire damp risk and costly pumping. American shafts reach shallow depths compared with British mines. Ventilation, fire damp, and stringent safety rules drive high costs and frequent deadly explosions. Restoration after accidents drags on for months.
The article notes trousers celebrated their centenary in fashion once linked to England's high living and gout. It recalls Almack's rejection of the new style, contrasting with how the Duke of Wellington faced similar snubs for wearing trousers. Over time the style gained royal favor and broadened its appeal, even challenging the Scottish kilt.
The chief of ordnance orders 100 bolos as a tentative substitute for the regulation army bayonet. The bolo of the Philippines and the machete of Cuba share deadly effectiveness against guerrillas, reducing fear of improvisational rifles. The lance and saber fade. the bayonet is under review. The bolo serves for cutting, thrusting, camp use, and trench jobs amid Ghurkas and other British troops armed similarly.
Growing demand for horseflesh among Berlin’s poorer classes has led to a private Greifswalder Street establishment slaughtering about 18 000 horses worth £125 000 last year for steaks and sausages. The Berlin Town Council discusses building more facilities at the public slaughterhouse to handle hundreds of horses destined for the city butchers.
A male brown owl nesting near Milford Haven attacked dogs passing along the road and in daylight swooped on a man injuring his face and tearing a boy's ear. The bird has been shot.
Upon the accession of the new Earl of Chichester and other peers, several British secular titles are held by clergymen including the Marquis of Normanby the Earls of Chichester Devon and Strafford Baron Ponsonby also Irish Earl of Beesborough and Baron Scarsdale. The Hart of Devon aged 97 is noted as England's second oldest peer. A whaling ship sighting near Cape Prince of Wales is reported with 144 aboard the Portland blown into the Arctic ocean, and the revenue cutter Thetis stands by to assist.
Mrs Louise Gipson of Chicago testifies that six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and her Pills cured her kidney trouble headache and backache. She praises renewed health and youthfulness and invites others to seek guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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