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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
3
In Fort Wayne Journal Gazette style commentary, the piece debates statewide temperance prospects, noting the Senate chances for a prohibition bill, high prices for goods, and the role of merchants in drawing trade. It argues for broader merchant effort to attract customers and improve the town's business health amid rising costs.
Having rented my farm I will sell at auction 4 miles southeast of Fremont Tuesday Feb 6 at 10 oclock. Items include 6 head of horses cow and two heifers Durham bull 4 broad sows Dur0c boar 24 fall pigs binder corn planter walking and riding plows and cultivators mower wagons and buggies surrey harnesses and many other farm implements. Also 75 bu barley cream separator and hard coal base burner. G H Dygert.
The narrator describes Nogood a river town in a valley known for its idle dreams and discarded schemes. It is said to be ancient and wrapped in a fog of idleness while its streets carry useless tears and stories of reckless locals who give up easily.
First prize two dollars. Second prize one dollar in trade. Third prize two quarters. Fourth prize sixty cents. Fifth prize twenty six cents. Sweepstakes offer one bushel of soybean seed worth at least three dollars for best ten ears. Best single ear earns two dollars cash. All undesignated prizes paid in cash. Ribbons printed for all winners.
A city scene in an Indianapolis tale ends with a theft of $60 after a man helps a cold handed woman. The piece then pivots to sharp satire on cheap pork and vivid props, followed by a parade of patent medicine testimonials and a note on prunes stored in California becoming solid mass before shipping.
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