Phrase of Charity and Wealth in Hard Times
A terse exchange weighs money and mercy as a philanthropist questions the soul of wealth in poverty. The dialogue centers on endurance, finances, and the moral pull of giving amid hardship.
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1895
Page
6
A terse exchange weighs money and mercy as a philanthropist questions the soul of wealth in poverty. The dialogue centers on endurance, finances, and the moral pull of giving amid hardship.
1 000 Ba. Potatoes Per Acre. Wonderful yields in potatoes, oats, corn, farm and vegetable seeds. Cut this out and send Se postage to the John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis for their great seed book and sample of Giant Spurry. CNU.
Charles Mathews in Edinburgh tells how his landlord, who rarely attends public meetings, asked for a pass to the playhouse after Mathews’ two hits, Sir Charles Coldstroom in Used Up and Plummer in Cool as a Cucumber. The landlord's cordial praise ends with a hearty laugh at the show.
An 1890s style advertisement warns of irregularities in girls and women and cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the speedy cure. It features testimonial by Mrs. Chas Hines of Duncannon Pennsylvania and urges immediate treatment to prevent lifelong harm.
A claim of a universal remedy found in yard weeds is touted as curing humor from scrofula to pimples. The seller reports trials in over eleven hundred cases with only two failures and offers a book by postcard request. The remedy supposedly aids lungs liver and bowels, with initial relief and a guaranteed cure in proper dose.
Printer James Gordon Bennett visits Paris and London offices unannounced to audit records. In Utica he spots a pressman with a black eye, then praises the worker who cleverly hides the bruise with ink. Bennett praises the man as the only one in the room who looks like steady work, awarding him 3 extra dollars weekly.
A mother scolds herself for not shaking a medicine bottle before giving it to her son Johnnie. She quickly shakes the bottle with strong arms and jokes that next time she must not forget to shake it, then settles him calmly.
The article traces salt cellars from ancient use to luxury pieces in silver and gold. It notes Benvenuto Cellini bought some for Francis I, mentions Faience examples, and the Louvre’s Orion creator works for the Diana of Poitiers service. It also describes humble bread hollowed for salt at ordinary meals.
In a small railroad station two Mexicana stand near the door exchanging taunting and inflated bows while a tourist woman is amused. A resident chides that the display is not politeness but a rule among Greasers to keep a rival behind by no Greaser wants another Greaser to get close behind.
Senate debate over the Nicaragua Canal is noted with remarks on deadly climates for foreigners and laborers. The piece criticizes carelessness and promotes St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatic pain and muscular aches among workers, likening a fever to breakbone illness and touching on whisky and forgotten inventors.
A fragment describes Snyder of Carter Colorado writing to Sterling Remedy Co Chicago after taking one and a half bottles of No-to-bac purchased from a druggist. He claims absolute cure of tobacco habit and states he has no desire for tobacco. The piece shifts to generic medical ads and a concluding aphorism.
Fifty years ago Protestantism was nearly unknown in South America and faced scorn. Protestants faced boycotts by professionals and natives, and Bible distribution met fierce resistance. Now churches multiply across the continent with mission schools aiding acceptance, though Ecuador remains least influenced.
The New York Sun reports Branch Post Office Ohio moves to the D Appleton building on Thirteenth street between Fifth and Sixth avenues by November 1. Fifth avenue from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets now hosts extensive Michigan made furniture sales as the state’s mills produced over five thousand million feet of lumber, with capital in milling and furniture over 60 million dollars.
The advertisement extols Hee tetter's Stomach Bitters as an effective laxative that avoids forceful bowel action and does not weaken the intestines or stomach. It claims improved digestion, liver and kidney function, protection against malaria and rheumatism, and benefits for the weak and aged. It notes medical endorsement and reports of appetite and sleep improvement.
Tinware is produced by dipping iron in molten tin to coat with a silvery layer. The process is technically difficult in practice, though easy in theory. It originated in Holland and was zealously guarded for over 50 years before James Sherman, a Cornish miner, learned the secret and returned to England.
A damaged OCR fragment promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy for catarrh. It claims direct absorption and systemic benefits via the bloodstream, citing an advertising claim of one hundred dollars per case and listing Toledo, Ohio as a location.
A casual exchange frames frustration and curiosity about St Anthony. The speakers weigh opportunities missed and lingering questions in a concise, reflective moment.
An archival fragment notes serving and game supper after a card party. The text mentions a Fort Wayne Business College and references a crick in the neck as a quirky aside. The wording is unclear but preserves era tone and local color.
A fragment presents a dialogue where St Peter and Gabriel discuss vacation wishes and the burden of recording lies told in summer, noting the pursuit continues after Lent. The piece hints at tension between desire for rest and moral accounting.
Advertisers claim Syrup of Figs permanently cures habitual constipation and warn that other laxatives only work temporarily and harm the system. The text also mentions personal life notes including Ricci's marriage and Riggs's divorce and remarriage.
A humorous farmer boasts he earned 1200 by not sowing Salzer seeds, claiming their oats wheat carp potatoes grass and clover would double barn needs. He offers a free sample grass and clover mix and seed catalogue from John A Salzer Seed Company La Crosse Wis.
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