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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1893
Page
8
J D Cox of Allegheny Pa reports a five month dyspepsia with fullness after meals and sickness. While employed at Thomas McHenry Druggist Allegheny City he used August Flower two weeks and was relieved. He says he now eats freely and has gained twenty pounds.
Advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative improving health and aiding kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims popularity with millions and medical approval and notes 60c and $1 bottles sold by druggists, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Dr Sargent measured over 2000 Harvard students and created two nude clay figures representing the composite bodies of male and female students at age twenty one. The male figure appears robust and runner like while the female figure shows fragility and less erect poise reflecting social and intellectual class differences then discussed by a prominent artist.
The annual Trial of the Pyx tests the fineness and weight of U S and British coins. A federal panel, including the Judge of the U S District Court and the Comptroller of the Currency, conducts the examination in New York with the Mint Director overseeing. England follows Crown oversight with an oath of the demembrancer.
London News describes a vast excavation planned beneath the City around Mansion House and Queen Victoria Street to host a grand underground electric railway station with multiple tunnels and pipe subways. The Central London Railway aims to run west to Shepherd’s Bush, facing resistance from the Bank of Kuyghind yet receiving city backing to secure public interests and rapid suburban access.
A lake near St Dorsk Siberia is described as entirely covered by a crystal salt crust nine miles wide and seventeen long. Salt springs around the lake feed the crust as evaporation previously left salt crystals on the surface which later caked and formed an unbroken salt roof.
A fragment explains how a king was cured by a decoction applied to a polo stick used while playing polo on horseback. The translator notes a term for the stick, and the edition’s illustrations depict the king playing on horseback.
A Johnson & Co. agent in Richmond Va offers Young Men guidance on employment and success. He urges following their instruction for work and notes the firm’s men speak in a uniform saleslike manner.
In Frankfort on the Main South German Bund princes met hosts for a lavish dinner. Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, famed as the wealthiest German house, dismisses Baron Rothschild, saying he owes him nothing. A writer notes iron plate diaphragms transmit voice vibrations beyond mass vibration limits.
An old advertisement claims Hatch's Universal Cough syrup cures sore throats instantly for 25c. A separate moral note warns that no man can be sure of heaven without taking a long step toward it.
The St. Louis Republic reports on hospital and self experiments by scientists who test themselves up to death. Findings include that a dying person can be burned without pain, consciousness may persist near death, and suffering often results from reflex actions. Fear weakens muscles and quickens death while calm may prolong life.
A year old Philadelphia girl shows early curiosity by asking, What is it that things are in, during play. The passage reflects on maturity and the mind’s grasp of space while noting a dime can buy more groceries than a debtor owes.
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