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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
9
A reader notes thousands of letters asking about delicate female ailments and replies from an own-sex confidant. The column touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a rapid relief, sharing a testimonial from Mrs Gronez NeuEsoss praising its effect on painful menstruation.
The article reviews recent Senate and House actions with pensions, mail, and Cuba related debates. It notes threeHouse bills on private mailing cards indemnity for lost registered mail and mail delivery duties at one cent per letter, plus pension funding of 141 million dollars. It covers Cuban independence resolutions and immigration language proposals, and House actions on copyright and liquor in the Capitol.
Iva Marlatt, infamous at Ohio State prison, attacked Warden Cot and four guards with a knife. Dr. Charles J. Laffini of New York is said to be driven insane by African fever contracted with Bishop Taylor in Africa. Mrs. Casper Laboy of Neaquehouling Pa was stabbed to death. her husband injured during a robbery at their home. A head on collision on the Southern Pacific near Waelder Texas left two brakemen and two firemen dead or injured.
An 19th century advertisement extols catarrh as a constitutional disease and urges Hood's Sarsaparilla as the sole remedy. It claims impure blood causes catarrh and promotes purification to cure, promising improved appetite, stomach tone, and blood quality with long lasting relief.
The passage traces ancient Israelite kings from Saul to Rehoboam and Jeroboam I, noting twenty-two rulers between 975 and 699 B C. It also promotes Nickel Plate Road travel with a through tourist sleeping car each Thursday and invites inquiries to agents in Cleveland Ohio for low rates and fast service to California.
The early American edged tools industry began in Hartford Connecticut with axes hatchets chisels and cutlery in 1826. Before that time rough butcher and hunting knives were locally made by blacksmiths and finer cutlery came from England. Kemp's Balsam is advertised to stop coughing at once with sample bottles free and large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
A servant girl boasts she can complete a difficult hairdress in half an hour. The lady refuses, asking how she would fill the forenoon if hairdressing took only thirty minutes. Matyas Diak.
A notice solicits names and addresses to send a Phillips-Rock Island representative to explain their personally conducted tours to California. It lists A Phillips & Co Chicago and J Sebastian as contacts and notes holiday travel via Nickel Plate Road with tickets on sale December 24 25 1896 and January 1 1897 return by January 4 1897.
Timetables note travel via Chicago Buffalo and New York City with through sleeping cars to Boston. Wabash connections from St. Louis depart weekly on Wednesday and Saturday evenings arriving in Los Angeles on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Rates advertised as lowest. Also brief ad for Winslow's soothing syrup for colic.
A fragment from the Boston Courier shows a playful exchange about a treat. Whippie praises it as a great treat while Tippie doubts, followed by a line about feeling thirsty after a long listen.
The North-Western Limited departs Chicago daily at 6 30 P M for Chicago and St Paul Minneapolis Superior and Duluth. The wholly new equipment includes compartment sleeping cars buffet smoking and library cars standard sleeping cars and ladies coaches. Tickets via Chicago and North Western Railway. For details contact agents or W B Kniskern G P and T A Chicago Ill.
A brief humorous note from the Texan Sifter on fashion, featuring a mock exchange about a suit becoming to a career marked by ich and stripes. The dialogue parodies style and appearance without concrete events or names.
Travel at 2 Cents per Mile offer for a 1000 mile interchangeable book valid one year from issue. Nickel Plate Road agents listed for details. Also assorted ads for dyes, cosmetics, remedies, and travel lines citing testimonials and promotions.
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