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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1893
Page
2
A 1893 Freeland page lists subscription terms and due notices, urging customers to check paper labels for paid status. It includes Democratic ticket names, county and city officials, and brief notes on tariffs, canal propulsion trials, immigration policy critique, and a patent remedy advertisement.
Capta in Healy of the Bear pursues reindeer introduction to aid Arctic natives, arguing the herd can provide food shelter and clothing. He lobbied Congress for 15000, raised extra funds, faced native superstition, and coordinated with Dr Sheldon Jackson to transfer about 200 head to Port Clarence, aiming to shift livelihoods away from fisheries and hunting pressures.
An aged tidal mill from 1789, Reid's mill near Mount Vernon, faces ruin as modern expansion floods its low grounds. Once ground local wheat under various owners, the three-and-a-half story structure now shows wheel ruins and torn shingles while an oysterman uses its ground floor. Seaweed, marsh hay, and high tides still surround the scene along the old isthmian road leading to the door.
A Sioux princess called Princess Pretty Voice inspires a tale in which an army officer stationed near Indians sends a photo, marries not, flees, and is later accepted as a son-in-law by the chief, while the princess mourns the unconsummated match. Separately, 600 flat cars carried twenty two trusses for the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building roof in Chicago.
A lengthy profile of John Fiske outlines his early intellect from reading Shakespeare before age eight to mastering multiple languages by adulthood. It details his education at Harvard, shift to literature, major works on American history, and role at Harvard and Washington University as a lecturer. It notes his Cambridge home, family, and connections with English scientists and writers, ending with a digression on a tobacco linked color blindness theory.
In Sullivan County New York a famed rocking stone sits on Joseph McLaury’s farm two miles west of the county seat. Weighing about forty tons it rests on a hard limestone table and can be moved by finger pressure from either side. The stone sits in a wild valley between two mountains at roughly 1300 feet altitude, with pebbles of diamond hardness embedded in its soft limestone body.
The Interruption Screw breech system and gas checks dominate early heavy ordnance design. A 13 inch rifle nearly 40 feet long and 49 inches bore will be tested in Maryland for use on Indiana Massachusetts and Oregon class battleships. Future plans include 16 inch guns weighing 110 tons.
Edmund Gosse argues poetry may survive by probing deeper into emotion beyond prose, predicting lyric verse will illuminate elusive feelings prose cannot. The article also outlines Moresnet, a small European state between Germany and Belgium, with 2000 residents, a ten member senate, a two square mile territory, and a mayor chosen by German and Belgian delegates. The piece notes steam engines employing vast global labor, exceeding a billion workers.
James McCool of 189 North Wyoming Street Hazleton Pa testifies that after years of misery from catarrh headaches and breathing problems he improved under Dr Riegel’s treatment. He notes prior failures with several doctors and announces Dr Riegel will practice at the Central Hotel Freeland three days a week for chronic ailments.
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