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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1899
Page
6
In January 1871 a 16-year-old narrator describes a brutal winter siege in a French town held by Prussians. He joins his father in a risky sortie, faces heavy fire, and endures loss as civic guards persevere under encirclement with dwindling numbers.
A wounded sergeant recalls captivity after a squadron’s defeat where Prussians seize prisoners. His father hides a sacred banner and risks execution to save it, guiding a flag of truce and sparing his son from firing on him. The scene ends with a quiet dawn over a besieged city.
The text summarizes case law on invalid marriages conducted abroad to evade home laws, limits on using force against fleeing suspects, dangers of overly broad traffic restrictions, unlawful picketing to disrupt trade, and related civil rights questions as decided in Norman vs Norman Cala, Brown vs Weaver, Henneberger, Beck v Railway Tewmsters’ Protective Union.
The government dockyards produce all flags for British ships of war except royal standards. The scale is vast, with about 18 000 large flags left at Chathaw each year.
A newspaperlike reflection notes that luck varies among women. One is deemed unlucky due to an ornery husband clinging to life while another has suffered through burying two good husbands, illustrating social folklore about misfortune and marriage.
A humorous column blends local quips with notes on life ambitions and social mores in Atchison. It jests about funerals etiquette, milk disputes, stage dreams, and petty swindles while musing on weather, milk accounts, and a Spanish American War era stopper device for stopping leaks on ships.
Dr. W. C. Krauss argues humans do not degenerate and Americans show few signs compared with foreigners. He notes earth gains matter from meteors, and discusses naval camouflage, animal coloration as concealment, and a Wyoming dinosaur find with a 180 foot length, 60 foot tail, 30 foot neck, and a 16 inch vertebra, with a femur eight feet long.
Boston Globe reports Professor Pupin of Columbia College boiled a 1-cent piece in a tiny carbon cup of an electric arc lamp. The dime melted and boiled to vapor within about two minutes, with the process witnessed on a large screen.
In a Chicago家庭 setting a father endures a teachable moment as his young daughter quizzes him about science and facial perception. The child asks if looking affects which side of the face appears left or right, prompting a lighthearted exchange on orientation and perception.
An Old remark portrays W S Gilbert the librettist as unable to tell harmony from discord and suggests he rarely regards life as a lottery, except by men with blank draws.
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