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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
4
A poem describes waking alone at night feeling unseen with darkness and quiet. The speaker hears only the beating of the heart while imagining sounds of the sleeping world and growth in the midnight hours. The piece conveys a childlike perspective on isolation and night.
In a London flat, wealthy bachelor Alexander Freer plans to abandon his seven year routine to avoid a new female boarder. Jean Wallace appears as the housemaid, sparks fly, and a misread scenario ends with both deciding to stay and pair up. The scene shifts to a rainy afternoon as their future unfolds.
Wallace exits through a rain soaked doorway with an umbrella as Alexander Freer walks beside her. She jokes it is rash to be taken to lectures and notes she has not yet given worsted slippers or a birthday edition of poems, while Freer hints he desires a gift from Jean.
A Boston Herald tale recounts a census visit at a house near the State House where a wife quarrels with her husband over age records. The wife, hiding to listen, pleads to appear younger than she is while the census man, unaware, records dates that lead to tension and a dramatic after effect in the neighborhood.
A New York Herald report notes sharks are cowards toward splashing and will avoid swimmers. It describes natives in the South Seas bathing in groups to create noise and deter sharks, while a lone improvident swimmer can be seized by a maneater in a flash.
France holds an annual mushroom crop worth 2 million dollars with sixty Paris firms specializing in the trade. In the Seine department about 3,000 caves cultivate mushrooms, employing roughly 300 people who mostly remain in the caves.
A fragment expresses social judgment within a church about preachers taking vacations and a proud woman described as full of airs, using vivid similes to critique ego and earthly vanity.
A collage of light verse and jokes from late 19th or early 20th century papers. Anecdotes include reactions to revolutions, domestic banter, and social quips about fashion, travel, and manners. Names and places blur amid puns, pithy exchanges, and quick setups designed for a general audience.
A fragmentary humor piece presents clipped dialogue with characters Eaton Shabbelong Tuff ord Knott and Mrs Brown Jones and Mrs Smith trading quips about change for a quarter seeking tobacco and plans after a husband’s death with a wry judge’s aside.
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