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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1893
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR reveals a dreamy plea about lips and eyes, a perverse maid, hopeful prayers, and a promised happiness. The passage blends phrases about eyes guiding desire and life blessing, with incomplete lines suggesting a romantic, reverent tone from a Rehoboth Sunday source.
Jim Bailey recounts a 1851 wreck near the Gulf of Nicoya, where he and Jack Davis explored Toltec era ruins on a small island. They found a copper box and a hidden vault filled with silver and gold coins, but a collapsing entrance trapped them. After days of digging with knives, rescue came aboard the Petrel, and Davis later sailed with the treasure aboard the Equinox, leaving Bailey unknown action and treasure fate.
A Chicago street scene shows a weary actor on a downtown corner enduring a snowstorm. He clings to dignity as a fellow artist, rich in fur, offers help, but the tale reveals a past cash loss where the overcoat ticket was kept in a sold vest pocket, leaving the coat inaccessible.
A physician warns that too many oranges can upset stomachs in some families. A twelve year old’s winter stomach troubles were linked to a Florida orange barrel, stopped eating them and the ailment ceased. Other notes cover a sea captain’s hunting tale, a strange honey hive, a carved spoon with the Lord’s Prayer, language struggles, and growth of socialist press in Germany.
In Aikens Georgia a recently offered probate will reveals Julia Phinizy, once a slave of Ferdinand Phinizy, freed just before emancipation, left her savings to Marion Phinizy of Atlanta. He is a son of the late master and wealthy. Her deed honors the family she valued.
A historical note on Dr FE A Grous of the Twenty-eighth New York regiment who died in 1878. Born without a sternum he could suppress heart pulsations. Post mortem at Williamsburg exposed a forked sternum and right ventricle as the source of pulsations. Only one other similar case is known, Mr Thompson of England.
A Norwegian tale explains Thorghatten as a mountain with a hole through it and recounts a myth of lovers and a fatal arrow. A giantess petrified her lover and sister, while Thorg perished when an arrow struck his hat and skull, leaving a stone monument where his hut once stood.
German Emperor hunting near Austria visits a peasant hut three miles from a lunch basket. He asks for food and finds only milk bread butter and wurst. The empress orders more bread and wurst with pay. he gives a coin and jokes about a twenty cent Kaiser portrait.
The article recalls Robert Burns devotion to Mary Campbell, Highland Mary, daughter of a shipmaster, described as the most spiritual of his loves. It notes her beauty and modest demeanor in Tarbolton church, her blue eyes and Gaelic background, and Burn’s lifelong susceptibility to beauty reflected in his poetry.
Professor G. B. Wilder of Cornell recounted Louis Agassiz’s view of Harvard’s museum as a trust for science. When a former student who later criticized him asked to inspect specimens, Agassiz replied that the devil himself would be welcome to examine them.
Official Paris records show 890 deaths by self harm last year. Among 2413 hangings five of six victims were men. 205 drownings, 194 suffocations, 138 shootings, 65 falls from height, 43 poisonings, 24 stabbings, 5 train runovers, 13 other methods. Women predominate in drowning and jumping cases. 130 gun cases involved a weapon.
An American in the Plaza Mayor was relieved of a glass by a thief. Police quickly arrested the culprit. The thief was brought to court and sentenced to five years in the Mexican army within fifteen minutes.
A young man buys a cornet to learn music. His seller asks about Charlie’s progress, and the boy says Charlie has been practicing nightly but a neighbor warned him to switch to the harp, implying trouble ahead and likely quitting music.
A robber pleads for leniency, saying he is akin to Lord Bacon. The judge replies that they are not kindred until the hog is hanged, noting Hog is never good Bacon until it is hanged.
Robbers in many districts of Northern Chana are described as a regular winter occupation for a large portion of the population. Travelers avoid these regions as bands prey on locals and visitors alike. Families keep a member awake at night with a light to deter thieves, though the robbers are well organized and overpower watchmen in many instances.
Edward Hanesmead of Leominster kept a skull found in the priory churchyard after the sexton unearthed it. The skull was later washed and allegedly kept in his office before authorities intervened. He was convicted of unlawfully removing remains and fined one shilling with costs charged to the prosecution.
A sharp social note on boarding house gossip. Women with little to do fill hours with earful chatter about neighbors and boarders, risking scandal and misjudgment. The piece warns readers to mind their tongues and avoid baseless gossip.
During construction of the National Pike Bridge west of Richmond workers reached quicksand at Whitewater river. Engineers filled the foundation with wool collected from several counties to create a compressible bed. Wool packed into the hole sank partly then supported the rocky abutment, forming the west end of the bridge.
The territory reports general prosperity for Oklahoma farmers with estimated real and personal property at 10 million dollars. Banks include five national banks at 150 400 each, four incorporated banks with 50 000 and 30 008 capital, and fourteen private banks averaging 15 008. A discussion on physical education in schools contrasts farmers’ gymnastic activity with other views.
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