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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1894
Page
5
Two men discuss age and looks after meeting a new partner, debating who seems older. They conclude the talk in earnest but part as friends, leaving questions of aging and gender implicit in a brief exchange.
The report notes multiple cocoanut butter factories in India and at least one in Europe, located at Mannheim, Germany, where butter is produced from coconuts. This highlights the growing international production of coconut butter across regions.
A fragment heavy with sensational and testimonial claims for medical cures. Anecdotes praise St Jacobs Oil for back pain and other products like Winslow’s Syrup and Dr Bilmer’s Swamp-Root. Includes a claim of a $100 reward for a Catarrh Cure and references to druggists and wholesalers.
Poem fragment reflects on birth, wealth, and the measure of a man through integrity and charity. It contrasts worldly status with inner virtue and compassion toward the less fortunate. The speaker asks whether death finds him worthy, not where he lies after death, ending with a note of Swedish origin.
In Adirondack lodging Joyce Renwick and her mother fear a pneumonia scare. Captain Kenneth Renwick resists doctors until Miss Perry, actually Doctor Pernella Barton, arrives with calm competence. She orders rest, cautions, and follow up care, earning the captain’s reluctant trust.
In a tale from Saturday Night, Captain Renwick suffers a heart ailment after a bout of cold. Doctor Barton proves prescient, dispelling the pneumonia fear and becoming engaged to the captain’s life through continued care and visits. Mrs Renwick commends the young woman’s talents and self reliance. Doctor Barton will be physician advisor to one patient after November.
W L Slocum of Manchester New Hampshire recalls a pet kitten that crawled into a factory fly wheel. The wheel ran 250 revolutions per minute for 890 minutes, the kitten covering about 300 miles before being rescued. The creature recovered and avoids the wheel afterward.
The Philadelphia Press describes Chinese music as based on eight primitive sounds hidden in earth and objects like stones silks woods bamboo pumpkins animal skins and air. It notes orchestral instruments reflect these materials and that audiences hear sacred tones in gongs pipes and winds.
A Dubuque man recalls a Minnesota hunting trip where a wounded sand hill crane and its parent fled the gunfire. The mother crane carried the injured chick on her back, alighting repeatedly to support and guide it to a safe location, amid birds taking flight.
A Detroit Free Press traveler notes the value of money in Egypt by recounting a native’s request to leave funds with his family for six months. The journalist asks the amount. the reply calls it large, but he finally pays and laughs at the idea of supporting a family of six on ten dollars.
Mrs Botherwell recalls how minor incidents wrecked young romances. A buck board party, seasickness, and a near train scare split lovers like Fred Clark and Maud Atherton, proving how trifles can sever young affection. Levity in politics is blamed for eroding public seriousness alongside a spoof on the watermelons remark in Congress.
During a retreat a Scotch volunteer became stuck in a hedge while ducking through bushes. An advancing foe charged with bayonet fixed, but the trapped man yelled to stop the scare, saying it is all in fun.
A tale explains whitening sugar by a hen wandering through a clay puddle and leaving whitish tracks, leading to a clay bleaching method in the sugar house. A wry closing line notes fashions are not made by fools but for them.
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