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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1914
Page
2
Editorial urges farmers to support country merchants to curb rising living costs. It notes farmers buy from distant city suppliers despite farming communities housing over half the population and warns that 30 percent of rural trade goes to larger towns with higher prices. Readers urged to compare prices and keep purchase records to avoid trade exodus.
The Lake Shore railroad reports a prosperous 1913 with almost 25 percent return on its fifty million capital and a 1s per cent dividend. The piece calls for improvements at the Fort Wayne station for patrons. It also notes a Fort Wayne hotel waiter’s murder linked to a drunk man with a concealed weapon and argues for stricter enforcement of weapons laws.
A narrator in a workshop recounts Viola, a stylish young woman serving as secretary to her father Mr Gray, who advises her on work and marriage while she is being entertained daily. The account contrasts ideas on upbringing with Viola’s status as daughter and fiancée.
A narrator recalls Viola Grey who, after college, pursued a stenography career despite family pressure. Viola rejects social movements and marriage, choosing to stay in the office to support Mr Gray and continue her work, challenging traditional expectations for women.
A quirky passage describes a fox terrier mother, a keeper, and various animals in a domestic setting. It mentions names like Hlatisha and Mocha, and notes odd interactions with a dog and quivers of trees as sounds follow.
Paris stands as a wartime wireless hub beneath the Eiffel Tower area. A hidden subterranean plant houses machines and engineers achieving timing accuracy to a hundredth of a second. Prof. Henri Abraham notes recent cooperation with American colleagues to synchronize Washington and Paris time.
The speaker describes using photography to register Eiffel Tower signals to fix Washington's longitude. A film rotating at a fixed speed plus a luminous spot influenced by wireless messages yields accuracy of one hundredth of a second. He claims radio waves travel at light speed, equating the two as the same phenomenon.
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