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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
3
A Thrift Magazine piece advises visitors to bring cheer to patients. Keep conversations hopeful, share outside news, and avoid pity. Flowers, books, and magazines brighten the bedside, helping the sick forget their isolation and feel supported.
A busy businesswoman hires outside help to scrub her house. In the kitchen the helper, described as a jewel, tells the mistress the kitchen is in a terrible state and uses a racial remark showing tolerance to white people.
A pair of new recruits debate army life with humor about guard duty. One prefers relief from guard duty, while the other insists being on duty is the core hell. The anecdote ends with a private failing to recall where his rifle is left during relief.
A Cincinnati Enquirer snippet shows a rummy pouring wood alcohol into seltzer and asking if the barkeep can call a love letter a written attachment as he confronts him with a drawn gun.
Indiana notes report population shifts in Whiting and Richmond, school pay hikes in Gary and South Bend, a Elwood tomato canning factory fire, and Indiana coal industry wage changes. Purdue syllabus, Panama Canal engineer Decker’s death, and tobacco and potato farming plans fill the page along with election commissions, bridge work, insurance rates, and weathered tornado relief in Jay county.
An old advertisement promotes four ounces of rad Salts to relieve sluggish kidneys caused by meat digestion. It claims the remedy cleanses the kidneys, neutralizes urine acids, ends bladder weakness, and offers Jad Salts as a life saver for regular meat eaters.
A doorstep encounter recounted by the Indianapolis News shows a hungry tramp telling a Munroe household he is out of work because the war ruined his lifelong occupation. He says he followed a trade his father taught him until the war disrupted it, and he is now seeking pity and sustenance.
The statue named The Disk Thrower features a lifelike pose as observers remark on the disk’s resemblance to a jazz record. The Other Fellow comments with a light joke about the throwing action and significance.
A trio of humorous vignettes mix domestic mishaps and social comment. A burglar is thwarted with only 60 cents retrieved. a husband laments lavish memorials while misunderstanding his wife. a man misreads a widow’s praise as affection for him.
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