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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1896
Page
5
Special reader note extols female steadfastness in suffering and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a safe cure for womb inflammation ulceration and related disorders. Testimonial from Mrs William Howe of Detroit claims dramatic relief and urges others not to suffer.
Italian bark notes of various sizes and colors include five and ten lire notes on white paper with pink blue and carmine inks and a vignette of King Humbert. In China large silk pieces with sacred inscriptions are burned in temples, with about thirty thousand yards of silk burned in Confucian temples.
A patent medicine promotes a liquid laxative on the market claiming relief from headaches and joint pains, acting on kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It emphasizes natural freshness, professional approval, and urges customers not to accept substitutes.
An article details Mr. Autenreith's Hackensack River horse processing business. Dead or dying horses are converted into cordovan leather, gloves, shoes, baseball covers, hair cloth, and fertilizer. He processed about 1,000 horses last year and holds a practical monopoly in disposing of Jersey City's worn-out stock.
In Kerry a matchmaking arrangement between Thomas Marshall and Tom McEllestrim led to a marriage for Marshall’s son and a £100 payment from McEllestrim. After factions met in a public house to settle accounts, Marshall claimed £10 was kept back. Judge Shaw at Tralee Quarter Sessions ruled for Marshall and ordered £10 against McEllestrim.
A 1890s paper item notes world output surpassing one million tons. It mentions New York City police testing bicycle patrols. It cites daily steel pen usage at 5.5 million, prune production around 40 million pounds in Santa Clara Valley, Bulgaria covering about thirty seven thousand square miles, roughly Indiana’s size.
The author notes that Germans are not the greatest smokers. Americans and Swiss smoke most per person. He adds the United States and Switzerland lead in tobacco consumption, while Britain India and Germany manufacture tobacco, with the U.S. and Switzerland three times higher usage than Germany.
The passage extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a supreme tonic enhancing digestion and assimilation. It claims the remedy strengthens the body’s functions and is endorsed by dyspeptics and weak persons, as well as those with biliousness malaria rheumatism constipation and kidney inactivity.
The term bankrupt comes from two Italian words meaning broken bench. Merchants and bankers once counted money and wrote bills of exchange on benches in the street, and when debts could not be paid, the bench was broken.
An 1880s ad fragment describes Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming blood and mucous surface effects. It notes F J Cheney and Co as makers in Toledo and that druggists sell it for 75 cents. The clipping also includes unrelated items on social dances in El Toro, Jayne's Expectorant, and aphorisms.
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