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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1896
Page
6
A plea for tree lined roads to cool dusty routes and reduce dust. The author argues highway commissioners should ride or pull a cart to feel sun blistering heat and realize shade along roads is beneficial and gracious.
A nostalgic piece argues that poor roads show human selfishness and harm horses. It calls the bicycle a catalyst for road reform and praises ongoing demand for broader tires and better highways.
An old Vancouver Island town facing a dramatic shortage of 8,000 women seeks brides in a widely reported auction. The piece paints a cheerful, well paved community perched by the Pacific, with favorable climate and inviting surroundings.
A mayor raises funds to import a hundred marriageable women from the East to relieve local gloom. The auction like sale of wives boosts spirits, with bidders competing for brides, some securing partners for modest sums. The experiment spurred a wave of marriages and dull town life turned festive.
A Gambier, Ohio, man who is deaf and a clergyman writes upside down by habit. He entered the Ebbitt House in Washington and the clerk turned the register, but he inscribed his name inverted as A. W. Manon Gambler. He says the skill is easy to learn and that he originated the method.
An old man laments a dry fishing season blaming the bicycle for poor luck and fewer catches. He recalls riding long distances, spending money on fares and meals, and says fishing has suffered as bicycles supposedly knocked the spots out of fishin. The piece attributes the claim to common talk in the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
King Khama of Bechuanaland traveled to England last summer to protest Rhodes chartered liquor sales. He then held a modern wedding at Palapye with his 20-year-old bride in white satin. An English missionary officiated as a wedding cake was served at 9 AM.
Humboldt recounts a remarkable 1000 meter tunnel in the Andes called the Desague Heat. A Flemish engineer forced a four mile long passage through a mountain to drain a mounting lake. It measures eleven feet wide and fourteen feet high and required one year of work by 15 000 Indians using picks and spades.
The article notes country residents wary of town folks as spring approaches. It suggests locals know too much to harm the spring poultry trade, highlighting tension between rural and town communities.
A Denver Field and Farm piece surveys Cheyenne saddle makers and their wares once famed across North America. It highlights hand strapped saddles, tapaderos, lariats, bits, spurs, and cowgirl sidesaddles, noting prices from 13 to 55 dollars and a lasting trade from Montana to Texas.
A veteran trainman warns of the dangers and disorienting maze of railroad yard tracks in Jersey City. He recalls Thomas Booker’s fatal-crossing incident and cautions commuters and workers about the risk from moving engines, bells, and headlights.
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