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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
2
A nostalgic poem recounts a boy guiding a narrator through a tangled blackberry patch near a garden fence. They uncover tiny wonders from ant tunnels to a dog Towser and a spider’s web, reliving childhood hideaways. The piece evokes memory and the mood of make believe from dawn to night.
A dialogue unfolds between a notorious criminal and a wealthy philanthropist who debates crime and reform. The philanthropist advocates humane prison reform and education, while the criminal argues that inborn nature makes genuine reclamation impossible, challenging the ethics of rehabilitation. The exchange touches on punishment, environment, and social myths about criminals.
A philanthropist debates criminal psychology with a guest who cites hypnotic suggestion and science as keys to reform. They clash over responsibility, brain science, and possible methods from blood to surgery, ending with the philanthropist recalling a missing watch in a tense, reflective exchange.
In Toledo a street in the city hosts a rent free passenger station provided by local merchants. The facility, with a newsstand and parcel check room, serves five car lines and about five thousand daily riders. Merchants rented a store for three years, installed benches and lockers, and offer five cent lockers for packages to ease shopping trips downtown.
A Welsh correspondent reports a Tenby area inscription claiming John Rees died in 1824 at 249 years old. The item contrasts with a later letter noting Dennis Grady aged 480 at Bally-Sallagh Cork in 1727, underscoring skeptical views on longevity records in a distressed land.
The sixth annual reunion was held in Noel's Grove at Lagrange Indiana with a very large turnout. The association includes hundreds of couples married by Rev Meese, who keeps exact marriage records and boasts no divorces among his marriages according to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Reports on flour mills switching to Texas oil as coal substitutes for railways in Minneapolis and St Paul, rubber substitute from corn germ, a powerful new explosive hathamite with demonstrations, Nova Persi parallax studies, a device to study sleep induction, a New Orleans artificial stone block mold, and remarks on Gall and Grit as motivators with a French oxen singing custom.
Dr George J Engelmann of Boston reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that American families show a steady decline in births since 1600. Based on 1700 St Louis cases and 2088 Massachusetts records, childlessness runs about 21.2 percent among laboring class American-born married women and 23.6 percent among higher classes. The average children per family has fallen from 6.7 in 1600 1650 to about 2.0 in St Louis laboring class and 1.8 among other Americans. Massachusetts census estimates show 20.2 percent childless among American-born married women and 11.02 percent among foreign-born married women.
The text explores rest as a relative shift in activity rather than absolute stillness. It cites examples from a pugmill mule and a swinging child to show how changing muscle use or motion can create a sense of relief. It suggests color, light reading, and light vaudeville as accessible rest from intense mental work.
A teacher notes Angelina’s perfect attendance but she quits before exams. The class Mercury is sent to the mother to insist Ange attend. Angelina’s eighteen birthday and marriage by her mother leave her with limited choices, as the teacher recalls a bright girl deprived of girlhood.
About thirty million gallons of mixed paint were sold in 1901, mostly in towns and villages with wooden structures. United States led in paint production, using lead, zinc, and linseed oil. oxides of iron and other pigments formed the darker shades. Water is lightly used, rarely adulterant, and lime water forms a calcium soap that thickens paint for easy stirring.
A London newspaper reports that a fashionable society health risk arises from a drug touted as a substitute for sleep. It avoids naming the substance. The piece compares its effects to tea, noting early promises then long-run dangers of reduced natural rest and possible nervous breakdown.
A Washington Star fragment notes Shehi studying languages and an admiration for Greek while contrasting small acts of progress. It juxtaposes lines from the Philadelphia Press and New York Press about a man’s stubborn standstill and a playful query about a father’s hair.
A collage of humorous dialogue snippets and cartoons from early 20th century papers. Quips about mud baths wealth and marriage pair with children’s mischief and light social satire across multiple city papers. Notable lines include exchanges about business, perfection, and courtship.
The article discusses whitewashing trees for season-long effect, and praises petunias for continuous bloom from June to fall in home gardens. It covers training methods, single variety use, and ideal arrangements for trellises, pots, and borders. It also debates insoluble phosphates in soil, notes cicada emergence, and mentions sparrow predation in parks.
A college athlete in an outing suit invites Miss Gloriana to share a meal and an oar, proposing co education in rowing. She objects that the act is segregation, turns the boat, signaling a clash over social boundaries in a Chicago Tribune note.
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