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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
2
A poem fragment centered on a man who clings to hopeful promises of fortune and renewal. He endures gloomy days and toil hoping for a future across the sea, while faith sustains him through sorrow, work, and fearsome trials. The speaker notes the author Ss. E. Kiser.
A weary, disreputable engineer Dennis Kenyon volunteers to crew the Scud to Alexandria to win the daughter of rich American Silas Lewison. Romance blooms as Kenyon earns trust, discovers a hidden identity, and faces a witty reveal from Lord Hillmarch and a playful clash of affections aboard the yacht.
In Lippincott's Magazine a mother named Mrs. Smith virulently opposes new school fads. She visits the principal to condemn what she calls muddled studies and odd questions about turnips and pecks during a music lesson. The teacher explains she asked about beats in a measure.
Drawing out the Mean Man Robert Carrick, a wealthy Scottish banker, met a deputation for a new hospital and offered two guineas. Wilson, a major local manufacturer, then pledged £10,600, prompting Carrick to boost his gift to fifty guineas after Wilson challenged him with a bold lesson.
A geography class question asked for the two main human occupations. The expected answer listed agriculture, fishing and hunting, mining, herding and lumbering. A clever boy offered politics, retail work, trolley company labor, and policing as his reply.
A ranch family in New Mexico tells of a six year old Emerson Godfrey who wandered from a corral while playing with siblings. Despite a night of searching aided by 75 Indians, the boy was found three days later fatally exhausted and died after being carried to a cabin.
In Chicago a man named John Walsh risks his life atop a burning building to rescue his neighbor’s two children, aided by another John Walsh and a police officer who guide a frightened terrier from the fire. The rescue unfolds near a narrow court as the ladder reaches the window where the children cling. The dog and children are saved while flames rage next door.
Alfred I Eastman of Tacoma, living in Skagway, nearly died after hunting near Chilkoot when a giant bald eagle attacked. Accompanied by D Stevens, Eastman shot the bird as it fell inert. It sprang to life and mauled him before Stevens seized it, the eight-foot wingspan bird ultimately killed.
A visitor asked a girl if she liked the newborn. She said yes but preferred a lady baby. The visitor suggested exchanging it, but the girl replied they had been using it for seven or eight days, making an exchange impossible.
Report highlights rapid progress in acetylene lamp development in mines from a German firm with lamps burning eight hours per charge. It also covers M. Phisalix’s 1901 dog distemper work using Pasteurella canis and similar studies by Lignières. plus an East River caisson air method for sand removal, Charles Fere on human odors, and a Missouri sand cement brick process enabling rapid hardening and color customization with high compression tests.
A Berlin jeweler awoke to his parrot urging violent action and armed himself, descending to confront a masked burglar he interrupted. Police captured the thief as the parrot’s cries drew attention, and the jeweler hosted a grand dinner to honor the bird for saving his property and possibly his life.
Liverpool writers caused a postal stir by using ping pong balls as postcards. Balls were stamped and messages written under the stamp, crowding pillar boxes and hindering postmen and officials. Authorities banned the practice as a regulation violation.
In Vienna a high bidding auction of Count Falkenhayn’s relics surged as the famous pen used to sign the alliance on September 26 1815 drew intense competition. The pen previously touched by Emperor Francis I Czar Alexander I and King Frederick William III rose from 125 florins to 500 florins before Count General von Lindheim secured it.
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