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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1902
Page
4
A Philadelphia Union League member denounces relying on endorsements and pledges support for Pattison and the reform slate. The piece calls Democrats to raise funds, intensify campaigning, and distrust Quay and Penrose aligned with coal interests, urging readers to contribute to Harrisburg reform efforts and defeat boss politics.
Deputy factory inspector Jonathan Davis has warrants for W. J. Barry of Luzerne borough and A. J. Ellsworth of Dorranceton, justices of the peace, for issuing permits to children to work in a factory. Six children are named on the warrants at the Blue Ridge canning factory. Offense carries a $500 penalty.
A London Telegraph note recalls Charles Reade alone at his desk smiling as he pens thoughts in large schoolboy text. The scene shows a calm writer masking a fierce polemic aimed at critics, provoking a skeptical observer.
The navy awards meritorious service medals to four officers for West Indian actions including Captain Morison and Lieutenants Ward Buck and Victor Blue. Secretary Shaw expands baggage duty exemptions to personal use items. Government cuts clerical entry by laborer routes and notes a historically significant Black British embassy messenger post. War records on Spain Philippines and Peking relief to be published. Immigration enforcement tightens under the alien contract labor law. Railway bulletins list three months of 1902 accidents with 783 total deaths and injuries.
The historic Huguenot church in Charleston, D C, founded in 1681, remains the sole Huguenot church in the United States with an uninterrupted lineage. Its founders fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and their descendants are prominent across northern and southern families today.
Graham Taylor argues that the public school should be a social and civic center open to all, not just for education but as a social settlement. He says schools can enlighten parents, counteract public abuse, and unite the community without raising taxes, making ethical democratic ideals central to public schooling.
The London Times reports the Newfoundland dog, once the epitome of courage and intelligence, is nearly extinct. In the United States the breed has vanished, and Edwin Nichols of South Kensington is likely the world’s sole breeder. Even in Newfoundland, fine specimens are scarce amid starvation and neglect.
An Indianapolis News profile describes Japan's emperor as a plain host who welcomes guests standing and engages freely in dialogue on many topics. He surrounds himself with distinguished engineers, artists, musicians, writers, and scientists, reflecting impartial favor in his court.
A new building stands on Gerard Street London replacing Dryden’s former house where a tablet proclaims John Dryden lived there though records show he did not. The note cites other false tablets for Hogarth Turner and Byron as similar misattributions.
A copper calendar coin dating to 1797 was unearthed by a workman at old cottages in High Wycombe Bucks England. One side features the Sundays of the year with religious observances such as Septuagesima Advent Lent Easter Holy Thursday Whitsunday Trinity Sunday, the other side shows the daily calendar for the year.
A New York Press note observes Earl Hall at Columbia University and notes that from certain angles its dome resembles the adjacent library dome given by Seth Low. The observer quips that the library has dropped an egg.
A quip from the Atchison Globe notes that grown people will fight months to back up in a pretense they know is unfair while laughing at children for pretending.
A collage of comic snippets from periodicals, including a dining room table sales gag about pingpong feasibility, marital jabs over infidelity rumors, a cremation joke about arrest and justice, a quip on smoking and boarding school, a subtle evasion on choosing a wife, clock ticks as a pun, a domestic strike with a union reference, and jocular lines from Theobald and Miss Mashem.
A tongue in cheek exchange among papers cites Cynicus and Sillicus debating marriage delays and misery without each other. The Philadelphia Record comments on love’s pace while other items joke about romantic missteps and a comic blunder praised by The Cleveland Main Dealer.
An exchange between Rosa and a suitor features a quirky remark about Rosa's father, who reportedly inquired about the suitor and offered a cigar that the suitor found frightful. The brief vignette captures a playful, era-tinged social moment.
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