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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1900
Page
5
The Fazcott Excox office touts its superior sale bill printing claiming the county’s largest output and best work. It praises G. L. Wilkinson as the state’s finest auctioneer residing locally.
Men in the field say seventy five percent of the patents taken out by women in the last five years are profitable. A Rhode Island inventor of a buttonhole cutting machine profits garment makers, and a department store clerk’s parcel delivery idea yields returns. The piece notes education, practice, and practicality as keys to success for women inventors.
The New York Press recalls Colonel John 8 Mosby’s defense of General Grant in a Richmond letter. It notes Mosby’s rangers carried four pistols per man and fought with speed rather than sabres or carbines, and that Mosby’s men instilled fear even in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry. Sheridan ordered a patrol to Muddy Branch to curb Mosby’s forces.
A businessman recalls receiving a customer’s payment by check for 4 cents less than the bill after deducting stamp and war tax. He returned the exact amount with the same deduction, leaving the sender still 4 cents in debt, claiming personal satisfaction from the petty reproof.
A New York City shoemaker working in a basement shop turned his head left each time the door opened for a decade. The habit became automatic and he spent all his earnings trying to cure it, but his head still jerks to the left whenever he looks over his shoulder.
A post graduate student recounts a Patagonian expedition to a captivated audience. He describes nine days without food after their boat was lost, leaving the group with only their college yell to sustain them.
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