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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1895
Page
5
A city council defeat hindered a wide tire ordinance, with critics arguing higher repair taxes and farm wagon expenses. The piece also notes women leading road reform efforts and recounts consumer misdirection in retail change disputes as examples of public-spirited action and exploitation.
Bleeding the Granger describes the traveling quack who headlines in city papers with a self styled London London Imperial claim. He targets all classes by canvassing houses and using local insiders to endorse him while promising medical miracles and free consultations.
Andrew Spence, a 63 year old Canadian in California since 1884, tours on a 70 pound wheel rigged with a sail and religious charts. The Ten Commandments are printed on the nail for sinners while masts display charts predicting the end times and divine rewards. He has traveled about 600 miles, though wind changes hinder progress and horse reactions alarm onlookers.
The 1864 episode shows Theodore Roosevelt sparing a 1200 pound grizzly while a cowboy spoke up about the danger. Roosevelt apologized afterward and gifted the cowboy a silver knotted Winchester rifle, holstered pistols, and corduroy breeches.
A farmer's wife keeps a nightly lamp in the front window to guide her prodigal husband home from the village club, explaining she has no prodigal son but a wayward husband who would not find the lane without the light.
A distant republic on the Pyrenees border has no newspapers. Andorra, about thirty six by thirty miles, speaks Spanish and is under French protection. Its fourteen thousand residents live quietly, famed for skill in shooting cows at a hundred yards, a paradoxical land in Europe. Mme. de Cormel visited Versailles and remarked on ambitious ministers and aging Mme. Maintenon noting she witnessed love in its tomb and the ministry in its cradle.
A Lewiston household reports a pug swallowed a spool of twist. The boy freed fifty yards of No. B from the mouth, leaving the spool inside while the dog watched in astonishment. Adolphe Carnot, brother of ex President Carnot, is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
Fremont Mills markets special facilities for farmer patrons promising best results and swift completion of their work on short notice.
A brief note questions whether farming is profitable in the Northwest with wheat under 60 cents a bushel amid calm weather. It suggests the topic is worth examining.
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