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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
4
A San Francisco Examiner tale contrasts a bachelor lawyer and his devoted Chinese servant Sam, who vows to leave and die in China to aid his brother. A new servant arrives as Sam departs, and the lawyer’s household resumes as normal. Interludes include suburban gossip and a Bastille-like exchange on a woman running for office.
The West shows large gains in wheat and other crops with near 100 million bushels, expanding farmed lands for next year. American settlers rush to Saskatchewan and Alberta as railways open new free homesteads, while dairying and cereals advance.
The Pilgrim describes Gypsy camps in a valley near open wagons with families sewing and selling Lombardy poplars. Gypsies travel with horse trains and itinerant smiths, many beg or steal in villages, while men and women smoke pipes and chatter in a distinct tongue. The scene includes Magyar castles and soldiers in uniform, and notes Gypsies pay no taxes but face military service. Population grows yearly, with uncertain futures as they drift between lands.
A publisher notes that confinement often spurs strong writing citing Wilde in De Profundis and others. Bunyan, Cervantes, Robinson Crusoe author, Leigh Hunt, Sir Walter Raleigh and more produced notable works during imprisonment or con finement.
Jol M Lloyd of Alliance Ohio recounts a four year struggle after a foot injury left him with exposed flesh. He credits Cutuiura products for healing the limb after seven months of use and notes doctors’ bills exceeded six hundred dollars. He reports returning to work and mentions the six dollar product cost.
A woman returning from England notes colonuts served with brown bread and butter and a salad as a tasty English snack. She observes Kent as a source and remarks England uses other products. A prankish bath invitation by English guests ends with them leaving after overstay.
A jumble of short lines includes social chat about a piano recital, an accident delaying a performer, an advert for PAZO GINTMENT promising a cure for piles, a tale of lovers who wed and divorced, a Kansas farmer buying a typewriter, a patent medicine pitch, a population stat, and a Buckwheat flour promo with a call to thank the grocer.
Rockford Register Gazette reports Dr William Langhurst treating O A Leach of Beach County whose partial optic nerve damage is blamed on coffee use. Leach, who drank multiple cups daily, faces incurable blindness with side vision intact. Doctors urge quitting coffee and using Postum to rebuild nerves.
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