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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
3
The piece recalls Lincoln's birthday and the Civil War ending after four years of fighting. It notes emancipation freeing four million enslaved people and the end of slavery as a moment of national happiness. It mentions a gunshot that echoed through the land and four hundred thousand lives sacrificed for victory.
A group of girls plans a Valentine party with a playful Cupid game. Lottie Meredith discovers Tom Prince has arrived, faces old feelings, and ends reunited with him as the party continues with music and mischief.
A poem recalling Abraham Lincoln and his humble birth, praising his virtues and national impact. It notes February twelfth as a date calendars mark in red to revere his memory and calls for youths to honor him on his birth anniversary. John McComb is referenced as the grand figure of reverence.
A Syracuse Standard excerpt recounts Abraham Lincoln's 1859 60 Kansas visit with speeches at Troy and Atchison. At the Maesasoit House he met Gen Stringfellow and John A. Martin, and Lincoln challenged Stringfellow on slavery, remarking on breaking prairie sod and asking if he is a white man or nigger.
A barefooted boy named Folks approached the White House door and Lincoln, busy yet kind, corrected his name with humor. The president shook hands and told him that Folk implies more than one, bidding the boy to tell his father.
Maggie Clarke struggles beneath endless chores while her sister Kit seems carefree and healthy. John urges Maggie to take time for air and the baby, visiting Kit's well-kept home, where Maggie's fatigue and pale appearance contrast with Kit's vitality and busy park outings.
Kit extols Bapolie as the easy solution to Maggie's woes promising better health and more free time. The exchange emphasizes simple store bought aid as the key to easier tasks and improved well being.
A Cleveland Leader report shows a lawyer failing to extract a meeting detail from a female witness during cross-examination. The judge notes the witness cannot answer while insisting on precise dating and location. The exchange ends with the next witness called.
The Eskimo count by fingers and toes with phrases like six as the first finger on the other hand and eighteen as three toes on the second foot. Twenty is a whole man and counts extend to about one hundred as the whole of the fifth man, per Dr Nangen.
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cuanty & Co Toledo offers one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by HaTe’s Catarrh Cure. Notarized December by A W Gleason. Cheshire Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken internally, testimonials free, Toledo druggists sell for 75 cents.
The article warns Hudson Bay may dry to land within centuries as shoreline driftwood beaches rise twenty to seventy feet and harbors shallow. Separate ads promote St Jacobse Oil products claiming cures for rheumatism neuralgia sciatica sprains backache and muscular pains.
In the British household cavalry the broad headed horses prove the cleverest as they learn their drill faster than other mounts.
Florida bound service from Cincinnati to Jacksonville announces two fast vestibuled trains daily with cafe and observation cars and excellent through-service.
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