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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1893
Page
7
The piece argues malaria causes many bodily diseases and reappears after treatment. It claims common remedies only mitigate symptoms, while Gesundheitsier’s Stompered Bitters cures the root cause, protecting nerves, heart, liver, kidneys, and digestion.
A man wanders through stores failing to match goods for his wife and jokes that he must go to Heaven because matches are made there. A passerby asks if he is sick, and he quips about heaven and the lack of well made matches around.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a permanent cure for constipation from a sedentary life. It promotes a tiny sugar coated pellet as a gentle natural laxative preventing headaches indigestion and bilious attacks.
The Pueblo Colorado flood washes through the city causing seven known deaths and widespread destruction. Water breaches levees, crippling water works and flooding City Hall while rescuers struggle to save people and belongings as bodies and wreckage drift the Arkansas River. Roof promenade plans at the Manufactures Building and a Yerkes telescope emerge as new attractions at the World’s Fair.
Ex congressman William Van Dever dies at Ventura California from heart disease. A windstorm demolishes a dozen buildings near Concord New Hampshire. Canadian stock speculators lose five million dollars in a market decline.
A tall blue clad girl recalls confessing to Mrs Wilmarth about borrowing a lorgnette she could not have. Mrs Wilmarth hands over the lorgnette and jokes that momma's judgment may be right after all. The tale appears in the New York World.
A witty exchange from the Washington Star recounts a young woman easing scrutiny with a sharp reply after a man mused on self-study being a bad thing. His remark about self-reflection backfires as she quips that thinking of herself would make her narrow-minded.
The French commander De La Motte-Piquet saluted two American ships with nine cannon shots as he left Quiberon Bay, invoking ministerial orders. Vergennes humorously replied that perhaps the gesture echoed a prior Corsican battle stance acknowledged by the King.
Imaginative Parisian youths mold plaster casts from the waist down to keep trousers knee breeches and underwear in shape. One rich youth fills a room with sixty pairs of plaster legs, all standing in residence without trunks or heads, forming an odd spectacle.
A large factory in a small town near Chivavo employs about 100 workers. It manufactures items from waste animal blood, using up to 10,000 gallons daily at peak seasons. The blood is evaporated into sheets then processed into combs, buttons, carvings, belt-chisels, braces, and more, with tons shipped worldwide each year.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a mild remedy to cleanse the body when restive or bilious, to cure habitual constipation, awaken kidneys and liver, and dispel headaches and colds without irritation or weakness.
A fragment asks about pepper’s value in the Middle Ages and notes Beecham’s Pills as a remedy for bilious and nervous disorders. It mentions Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup and Jamaica Ginger as popular products, with price hints and street vendor credos.
A boastful man shows a new stone house with a veranda to a friend. The guest mocks the stoic, unmoving expression of the home and the stone steps. The owner declares the lack of emotion is appropriate for a house with such a stony stair and laughs.
Johanna Eilers who died in Brooklyn two or three months ago left a will in which she called down the curse of God upon any lawyer who would contest it. The contest is now under way. The average member of the bar is willing to take his chances with a little affair of that kind if the fee is satisfactory.
An editorial observes that a convicted criminal must not rush justice and that the upper branch of the English Parliament cannot be deemed a peerless body. It argues for patient procedure and careful scrutiny in governance.
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