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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
2
Entry at the Post Office Freeland Pennsylvania notes second class matter status. It directs money orders and checks be made payable to the Tribune Printing Company Limited.
The piece extols Robert E. Pattison as Pennsylvania’s reform leader returning to the political scene. It lauds his past mayoral and governor reforms, calls for a united front of patriots and independents, and urges readers to support Pattison’s bid to restore honest, economical government from Reading to Harrisburg.
Reading Pennsylvania marks a day of Democratic unity as Governor Pattison and nominees Guthrie and Nolan receive formal notification. Speakers denounce political bosses, demand ballot reform, and vow honest government, urging cross party support to cleanse state administration. The address cites past corruption, calls for reform of taxation and party integrity, and appeals to civic duty.
The London sewer hunter uses a bullseye lantern, a canvas apron, and a seven to eight foot pole with an iron hoe attachment. Lantern fixed to the right shoulder shines ahead and downward to the feet as they probe mud walls and crevices for any item of value, including old iron rope bones coins and jewelry.
The story links J Hollingsworth Andrews with a push to enforce strict height rules for applicants. An unseen tension between politics and policing emerges as backers of short candidates are steerable toward medical examination and possible rejection.
A schoolteacher in Pickaway County Ohio asks pupils to define geographic terms cataract cape and strait. A student answers a riddle comparing it to a poker hand, remarking it beats three of a kind, illustrating a humorous misunderstanding from a Washington Lost item.
A Ruppert of New York City tours upstate along the New York Central line and asks a conductor about vines that prove to be hops. George Fletcher, a vaudeville imitator, performs Ezra Kendall in New York and quips Kendall’s sharp reply about their likeness.
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