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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
8
A speaker recalls a pedestrian being offered a lift and comments on various product names and jokes. The clipping blends humorous quotes, ad snippets, and light observations about manners and language from a Cleveland Leader style miscellany.
A southern railway foreman overhears workers quarrelling over defiance of the dawes and loyalty while two laborers joke about fitness for the dawes. At Princeton a class questions list asks Are you engaged and one member replies Do not know Am awaiting letter, showing uncertainty about commitment.
A farmer and his wife debate how to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. She suggests a grand banquet after keeping sentiment for years, while he notes the pig’s fate is not to blame for past events.
Rome reports Pope Pius X died at 1 20 am after bronchial pneumonia from wartime stress. He reigned nine years and was beloved for his simple piety and reforming measures including the Sapient Consillio. His death ends a brief pontificate marked by fervent Catholic leadership during Europe’s war crisis.
The future pope lived under Austrian rule in his youth and rose through church ranks in Treviso. Giuseppe Sarto became bishop of Mantua in 1884, joined the Sacred College in 1892, and was elected pope in 1903. His tenure emphasized church gains in Italy and cautious diplomacy abroad.
Belgian hare Peter Rabbit belonging to Eugene Warndorf causes no more lawn chases on Retreat street Bellevue Kentucky. The rabbit digs up a long lost wedding ring 20 years missing from Mrs. Nagel whose son died since the ring was lost. The inscription confirmed the find.
Smithson recalls a thunderstorm that reminds him of a grave incident in his early marriage when their baby was two months old. He rushed home to find his wife distressed on the porch and learns with relief the danger is only moths in the house.
A San Franciscan hunter near Lake Tahoe buys a wildcat from a mountaineer for five dollars. The man instructs to tether the cat to a tree, then opens the cage. The hunter shoots, the rope is cut, and the wildcat bolts into the forest.
A Chicago man reports a year of pimples and itching. After trying many salves, he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment from a free sample and saw drying and healing in two months. He signs the note on May 7, 1914, noting Cuticura’s worldwide sale.
The London Chronicle reports Irish volunteers marching through an Ulster town encounter a friend asking whom they will fight. They reply they will fight no one and quote the line The Lord will provide while asserting not fighting Nationalists police or English soldiers.
Hemmandhaw asks if gender can be applied to volcanics and Mrs Hemmandhaw replies they are masculine because they sputter grumble and smoke in a light conversation noted by a writer.
A humorous exchange mocks a student athlete’s college debut. The comment about being “batted out of the box in the third inning” highlights a shaky performance and reputational jab during a recent game.
The dialogue plays with word choice as a witty exchange centers on pre empted versus pre emptied. The reference to a Hearer Deceived and Hewitt Money suggests social satire and playful misdirection in an apparent literary snippet.
A Plover Iowa mother says her 13 year old daughter cured of menstrual weakness after five bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She was weak and run down but is now regular and strong. The ad urges women to seek the remedy and writes of confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
An old advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a permanent liver relief while a humorous fiction piece centers on a bookkeeper who rejects a salary raise amid a prosperous firm. The dialogue underscores tension between profit and fair wages, ending with a firm refusal to raise pay.
A reader notices advertise Castoria urging careful use for infants and children and to check for the signature. The clipping also includes unrelated quips about social banter and beauty tips, mentioning Fletcher's Castoria and Ball Blue laundry ads as era prompts.
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