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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1889
Page
6
A historical price list announces first class drugs, dental and general surgery, and rational animal care. It notes domestic animals treated with regular rates and offers a special work price list on request.
The Christmas arch and exercises at the A. P. Church were a success. James Mitchell is improving and can be up and around. Jud Welker is recovering slowly after a foot injury with two doctors called to stop bleeding. Visitors from Coldwater Detroit and Arctic enjoy holidays here. A wood bee for Mr Clark added eight loads. Carrie Handy returns to Pleasant Lake school. Town store room available for rent. Mr and Mrs McLouth attend a Bay View wedding anniversary.
A social party at Michael's Hall proved a great success with twenty eight couples dancing to lively music. Out of town guests included Messrs Shiley Spaulding and Misses Shiley Campbell of Reading Michigan. Locals discuss forming a winter dancing club pending community effort.
As we go to press we learn of the death of the infant child of J P Allbright. The parents have our sympathy in their bereavement.
A Cheyenne Leader tale recalls a Nebraska court feud between S F Nuckolls and rival client interests. Lawyers A J Poppleton and J M Woolworth clashed as clients sought penalties, then a note asking What will we charge these two folk led to settlement and shared victory over big fees.
A Pall Mall Budget note describes a London soiree featuring Boissonnas telephotography showing a meat blaze from fifty six miles away. The image uses a sixty inch lens with seven minutes exposure at 6 15 p m on August 27 in windy weather. The display also covers Mont Blanc views and rapid modern photography advances. Captain Abney is praised for compiling the exhibit and the rocket in flight from shore to a distressed ship is highlighted.
On the Baden Grand Duke's birthday three steeplejacks climbed the 400 foot minster tower exterior. They leaped between stones high above the ledges, risked death with each step, and signaled success with pistol shots from the pinnacle. Each man won five marks plus a banquet amid thousands.
A London Spectator note recalls a sick dog hiding in a field receiving food milk and water from a kind neighbor. A small pug guarded the ill animal barking at their helper then allowed water for the patient and appeared to be reassured, wagging its tail before departing.
In Japan, Saito Tara-no-suke boasted he could swallow a three foot snake for four dollars. He succeeded but collapsed and died minutes later as onlookers watched in horror.
A candy dealer discusses changing tastes in treats among adults teachers and children. He notes opera caramels ruin gloves, peppers and mints clash in school meals, and shifts toward French mixtures and dainty boxes. He asserts his own insight into consumer habits.
The article argues that modern detectives differ from old dime novel sleuths, noting fewer glamorous roles for real investigators. It describes how urban policing blends with routine duties, limiting travel and focusing on local, emergency assignments rather than grand nationwide hunts.
The piece argues young children should not disrupt meals with loud demands or impolite behavior. It urges teaching quiet requests and patient turns, formality at table, and consistent good manners to avoid rude habits when guests are present.
A condensed chronicle of steam propulsion milestones from the 1830s to the mid-1840s. It notes Nasmyth's steam hammer of 1838, Alban's 1843 boiler, Cunard steam adoption, and early screw steamers like Archimedes with speed claims, plus rail and locomotive advances across Britain and America.
The text surveys 19th century developments including Faraday and Day reactions to electricity, Bunsen’s carbon use in 1842, Amadée’s line trace, the Calais Dover cable, Spencer and Jacobi’s electrotyping, Faraday’s 1640 electricity notes, Woolwich’s 1842 magnetoelectric plating, Wheatstone’s clock and chronoscope experiments, and Brazgeen’s iron current experiments from 1837.
A garbled column lists scattered facts and phrases about places, people, and items including Burrup men tuning pisnos, a buckwheat trust, aluminium, telephones, ships, and canaries, interspersed with a clipped anecdote and stray errors. The piece reads like a miscellany of unrelated facts and mock facts from a late 19th or early 20th century page.
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