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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
5
A London conversation reveals a nurse’s past and a scheme to return a lost purse. Debenham plans a feigned thief letter to win a dressmaker’s sympathy, but the letter backfires when the intended recipient proves honest and he reforms. The tale ends with Debenham’s engagement to the sister.
In Cornwall a parrot plagued a maiden lady by wishing she would die. Her curate lends his own parrot to reform the bird, but the rival bird echoes the sentiment and then prays aloud. The tale spreads, and several Sundays the Litany is omitted at services.
A reflective line suggests hope as a guiding dream a man maintains while awake, portraying aspiration as a constant inner motive driving action and meaning.
A New Orleans man recalls a failed opal smuggling bid and a shadowy roadside pursuit, later revealed as a public official's embezzlement case. The column then shifts to natural history noting a 46 percent native bird decline, causes from plume hunting to sparrow spread, and plant growth under red versus blue glass. It reports cloud elevations in Sweden, then enumerates world deepest wells including Sperenberg near Berlin and U S sites in St Louis Louisville Columbus and Charleston.
A Montreal dispatch notes arsenic abundance in North Hastings Ontario with Saxony as the main export source. Harvard Observatory researchers report bright stellar lines prove variableness and Beta Aurigae is binary. Dr Luigi Sambon argues sunstroke is infectious, tied to soil layers, with no germ yet found.
Jurisdiction limits on suspending criminal sentences are upheld in Neal v State Lan. Cases discuss death by own act clauses in insurance. Misrepresentation to a commercial agency insufficient grounds to rescind a sale. Public resort owner not liable for ballooning injury due to balloonist negligence. Bloodhound trail evidence must show discriminating scent ability. Building and loan associations cannot void withdrawal payment conditions by noncompliant states.
A lore note explains the saying and traces it to the old whistle tankard. When emptied the tankard’s whistle signaled the waiter for a refill, giving rise to the expression about cleanliness or emptiness.
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