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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1894
Page
8
An advertorial discussing stomach strain from heavy work and poor meals. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets to relieve bilious stomach and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to purify and vitalize the blood, claiming improved digestion and energized nerves. It touts the products as cures for indigestion dyspepsia nervousness and related ills from impure blood.
London Truth reports a new method to bypass the Sunday closing law in Scotland. A man books a bedroom at an inn on Sunday night pays a fee, departs, then returns Sunday morning with companions to drink all day, straining hotel capacity as travelers are deemed bona fide guests.
Three Chinese men in New York were ordered deported after deserting the army. They say Chinese law allows a wealthy condemned man to hire a poor substitute to face execution. The substitute serves until the appointed day and is watched, or the employer faces the death penalty. The men condemn China’s backward civilization and imagine rich criminals profit from such a system.
The Milwaukee Journal notes that birth weights vary by gender and plurality and that growth is fastest in the first year. It cites averages: boys born about 6.4 to 7 pounds, girls around 6 to 6.5 pounds, and twins lighter. At twelve months infants reach about 27 inches and 19 pounds, with slower gains in the second year.
A Maine doctor recounts a telepathy like incident. He rode home after a distant patient visit when his horse stumbled but he was unharmed except for a broken bit. At home his wife woke suddenly sensing danger to him and waited up. she awakened exactly when the accident occurred.
A Paris report notes Meissonier’s house, designed by the artist, is being torn down to build a six story residence. The Renaissance courtyard and narrow street loophole windows gave the home a secluded, solitary impression. Meissonier hoped the site could become a public museum after his death.
The Nickel Plate road invites inquiries for winter travel to California or the South. Readers may request rates and route maps via postal contact. Stored rates are currently in effect, though a note warns against insults.
An old pamphlet touts Ripuns Tabulea as a remedy for headache dyspepsia and other stomach disorders though not guaranteed to work. It promises cash on sending name and address to a soap company in Philadelphia for a coupon and urges prompt action. The ad praises Glein's Sulphur Soap with a rosy complexion claim.
Advertises Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that benefits health by cleansing the system and easing colds headaches and fevers. Claims appeal to taste and no weakening effect on kidneys liver and bowels. Sold in $1 bottles by druggists and made by California Fig Syrup Company.
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