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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1894
Page
8
A well known Philadelphian shaped his spirited son through boxing lessons after bullying at school. The boy, trained with a retired pugilist, finally defended himself, laying out two of the biggest bullies as the school year closed.
A man seeks return of his umbrella after a mixup at the post office. He leaves a note in the morning paper appealing for the umbrella to be returned to No 208 Chamber of Commerce with no questions. A boy later returns a different umbrella, and the conscience misfire illustrates the wrong man’s guilt.
The Philadelphia Telegraph notes that typesetting allows longer working life than most trades. Compositors and typographers can work into their 50s and beyond, even past 70, unlike blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, or printers. The craft keeps minds sharp as they study the case.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes Columbia South Carolina remains the sole U.S. city with a town crier. Marehall praises the crier who rings the hour from a central tower, calls city conditions, alerts fires and missing children, and once spurred the city to search for a lost child.
The text argues fruit and nuts were mankind's natural foods while flesh and cereals were later additions. It contends cereals contain excess starch that people cannot properly digest or assimilate, leading to weight gain, heaviness, stiffness, pain, and illness.
A beleaguered reader finds relief after years of failed laxatives by using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The product claims to regulate digestion, liver, and kidneys, aid absorption, and counter malaria, with no griping. It urges prompt use when available.
L Turner notes the Marietta and South Georgia line is the only railroad with marble bridges. He says the route runs through premier marble fields and was built before Georgia marble gained fame. Bridges in blue Ridge to Murphy area showcase varied marble piers praised by Turner.
An 19th century health advertisement touts Dr J H McLenns Extract healing cordial and blood purifier to restore vigor after long hours of labor. It promises renewed strength, faster recovery, and protection from lingering aftereffects at a dollar per bottle through druggists.
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An old American doctor in Guadalupe-y-Calvo extols Sierra health. He notes moderate heat not exceeding ninety degrees, cool nights, and no lung diseases amid harsh hygiene neglect. He claims the graveyard tannery and river sewer do not breed disease, labeling the area dis treatingly healthy.
A Massachusetts man who visited a northern mountain two years ago built a ten foot monument of loose rocks on a bare rocky dome at the summit. He climbed daily for months and used skids and pine to erect it, then returned home in better health than when he arrived.
A spirited woman denounces the new handshake style saying she will not tolerate further awkward introductions. She warns the next offender that constant nerve testing can drive a person to madness and vows to end the practice.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad offers special half fare excursion tickets to Michigan points on August 14 for a twenty day return window. Tickets are valid on all trains that day and aimed at vacationers with two to three weeks free time, plus promoting Michigan resorts to invalids and outdoor enthusiasts. For details contact C H AD R R agent or D G Edwards Carew Building Cincinnati Ohio.
An agricultural note extols Winter Rye 80 bushels per acre and claims the new monster rye yields big crops in all weathers similar to the World's Fair winter wheat. John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin offers catalog and samples for 4 cents postage. A quip from CNN Schoolmaster and Mr Dolt about a son becoming an undertaker appears in the same fragment.
Advertises trips to Mackinac Island from Detroit Toledo Cleveland and other points via two new steel steamers. Highlights round trips with meals and berths priced from 12.50 to 18, weekly and daily routes, electric illumination, luxurious cabins and parlor rooms, and extensive service between Great Lakes ports.
Knowledge promotes Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It acts on kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and is sold in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles by the California Fig Co with the genuine name on the package.
A garbled passage mentions Fort Wayne Business College and a person named Ang described with alabaster skin tone. It notes a product Glenn's Gulphur Soap and makes a gendered remark about MAN versus WOMAN behavior. The snippet reads as odd promotional text with unclear context.
A fragment notes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents. The text then pivots to a woman familiar with a dry goods store, drawing a comparison to a man with a joint.
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