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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1894
Page
2
A collection of scattered notes including paper subscription reminders, moral quips, scientific curiosities, adages, and brief local color. It mentions Grover Cleveland’s payment date, cautions on arrears, and a mix of quirky facts about anatomy, metals, seas, and Sitka Indians with references to polar bear and blubber dishes.
A new bronze slab in Westminster Abbey covers the grave of poet Robert Browning in Oriental porphyry set in sienna marble. The design reflects Browning’s Renaissance era interests and his view that artful, dignified memorials suit the dead. The piece echoes his poem The Bishop Orders His Tomb and signals medieval tastes in final adornment. The passage also notes farming pest issues like the fall web worm and orchard pests impacting farmers and fruit growth.
Lighthearted comic snippets and witty quips from various newspapers recount playful exchanges. The collection includes jokes about reporters, editors, love, social customs, and babyish misunderstandings, featuring unnamed narrators and humorous misunderstandings across multiple papers.
Harold and Clara share a tense exchange about perception and honesty as she reveals his unspoken illusion of being a poet. Later a new boarder challenges the table fare and faces the landlady’s sharp rebuke, learning manners in the Judge column excerpt.
The European edition of the New York Herald reviews asthma triggers from scents to hay dust and ipecacuanha, notes regional variation, and describes treatments. It highlights sniffing Cologne water and a compounded powder by M Naguet to provoke mucous membrane irritation and halt early asthma symptoms.
An old Baltimore Sun note laments the decline of diamond back terrapins and urges propagation. It recalls drastic drops in catch rates, price inflation for terrapins, and cites a Crisfield pond housing about 15,000 terrapins as a remaining substantial population.
The narrator describes midway between Corte and Vizzavona as workers including women and young people haul dirt and stone in baskets on their heads. Contracts bind builders to finish the road within the agreed time, and completion is anticipated despite slow progress.
Two Americans, Alen and Sachtleben, recount their arduous bicycle traverse of Asia, detailing the Gobi crossing, desert hardships, and frugal preparations. They describe currency woes, rationing, improvised gear, and mosquitos, floods, and scoured roads from Kuldja to Pekin, with long treks through heat and sand.
A collection of maxims on individuality, self restraint, love, work, and time. Observations note that virtue endures beyond vice, beauty arouses but cannot sustain affection, and procrastination robs opportunity while people either master troubles or are mastered by them. Principles compare permanence of character with fleeting trends.
A self help note urges contentment and self improvement over envy. Do not covet others lives but learn from their progress. Great works arise from those who stay steady at home and perform their duties gladly, for your own world depends on your efforts.
In Brooklyn Dr Alfred Springer of Cincinnati presented an aluminum violin before the American Science Association. M Schuele played it yielding a very large tone volume. Opinions differed with some saying it suits orchestra work though solo performance may lag behind wood violins.
A historical overview traces timekeeping from sun dials to hourglasses and the candle method of King Alfred or similar schemes, noting early devices as precursors to the modern watch and the evolution from royal to universal ownership.
Ancient water clocks with graduated jars and a sunless daily tiling gave way to water and weight driven toothed wheels. In 1477 Peter Hele of Nuremberg created the first pocket watch, the Nuremberg Animated Freg, costly and with accuracy far from perfect.
A New Orleans Picayune excerpt discusses household hygiene and cooking water. It contrasts fanciful household polish with practical cleanliness, and cites a physician urging fresh water boiled briefly in a clean kettle before use to avoid illness. It advocates hot, freshly drawn water and immediate use.
Practical household notes advise mixing soap and starch with lemon juice for stains, avoiding silver closet storage, and using camphor to deter tarnish. Instructions cover drying glass jars, caring for oil cloth, and a large versatile apron bag with pockets and ribbon trims for large sewing tasks.
A list of home remedies for invalids includes Toast Water Jelly Water Flaxseed Lemonade and Beet Tea with instructions and serving notes. An aside notes that famine caused parents to eat their children in Italy in 450.
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