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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
3
Dorothy and her cousin Will chase and trap white butterflies while Auntie Violet scolds and teases them. Dorothy clutches a butterfly hid behind her back but lets it go, only for it to flutter away crippled as Auntie admonishes her for harming nature.
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt follows Dorothy grieving after a butterfly with a broken wing. Auntie Violet consoles her and attempts care, but the butterfly dies. Dorothy asks for forgiveness, and Auntie Violet forgives with a gentle moral about repentance.
A Bay Area youth activity describes making mosaic cardboard pieces of various shapes and sizes to assemble pretty figures. It also recounts a game Rockity Bang where players throw stones at a castle-like rock, chasing winners through rounds and keeping score for daily and weekly leadership.
A mixed clip features witty exchanges and quips from Boston Transcript New York Journal Life and Washington Star. Jests cover marriage money society politics and column humor with lines about soft places in hard worlds and a maiden’s stance on suffrage amid a bustling press collage.
The piece extols King Edward's dignity despite a short stature, noting his courteous bearing and multilingual fluency. It includes a Midland revision court anecdote where a barrister questions a witness about a man’s death, and the witness quips that he cannot know if alive or dead, only that he was buried about a month ago on suspicion.
The United States Army Nurse Corps is a newly organized uniformed unit under the army reorgan ization act with a white uniform and regulation cap. Its badge is the Geneva cross in green enamel with gilt edge worn on the left collar. Nurses follow army regulations and are subject to orders. Japan grows 150 rice varieties suited to American soil.
W F Aldrich congressman from Alabama certifies Peruna from The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio has been used in his family with success as a tonic. Emory of Omaha praises Peruna for catarrh of stomach and head kidney weakness and pelvic-organs debility. He notes it tones the system aids digestion and sleep and urges direc tion to request a summer catarrhal diseases booklet. The ad claims 50000 testimonial letters and promotes Peruna as a safe vegetable remedy for debility.
A business man must keep capital reserves, discipline, and knowledge to survive financial storms. Many fail when banks refuse notes, lacking savings or character. Wise entrepreneurs prepare for emergencies, keeping sails trimmed and ships in order to weather the gale.
British trade commissioners arriving in Johannesburg report massive steel building material demand. They note only one firm, an American concern, with capable representation in South Africa. The American firm secures large orders in Cape Town and Johannesburg at its own prices, offering rapid quotes and American speed in construction for buildings up to 14 stories.
The article discusses flags with long histories, noting China and Japan as ancient standards. It cites Denmark as the oldest continuous European flag since 1219, and tracks changes to Spain 1785 and Britain 1801. It states the Stars and Stripes was planned by Washington and Betsy Ross and adopted June 14, 1777.
Japan faces education troubles similar to the United States with students studying Chinese written language and Japanese speech. Pressure grows to drop Chinese characters and replace them with the Japanese alphabet or Latin. A new women’s school makes English compulsory and Chinese elective.
A new packing method for butter allows carriage from Australia to Europe while maintaining freshness. A box uses six sheets of ordinary window glass, edges sealed with gum paper, then enclosed in plaster of parts one quarter anachthidts, and finally covered with special paper. Plaster reduces heat transfer, keeping internal temperature stable. Modern boxes hold 200 pounds of butter with packing cost of 2 cents per pound.
Parma's famed Palace Library becomes Italian property after an accord with the former ruling ducal family. In exchange, Italy pays debts of Duke Charles III totaling 1,809,000 lire dating from his assassination in 1854.
The blackberry is described as the most profitable bush fruit with strong commercial advantages. It is a heavy cropper and easily picked, lasting many years in profitable production and in good demand, though softness for long shipments is a drawback and it competes with peaches when they are in season.
A historical remark notes a caterpillar cannot see beyond a centimeter ahead and compares its sensory hairs to eyes, while Pearl Street is singled out as New York's crookedest street in the same passage.
Advertising blurbs claim Allen's Foot Ease relieves swollen hot feet and allows wearing smaller shoes. Also touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer as a permanent cure for fits and nervousness with a trial bottle and free treatise. Ends with a quip about love of money.
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