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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
5
In a scene at a Chicago station a ticket seller explains a ticket description form to a young woman. They discuss blanks for age, eye color, hair, and height as the seller notes the description helps conductors identify riders and prevent ticket resale.
A distorted dialogue reveals a broker pressuring a man to buy life insurance. The agent touts high commissions and claims safe premiums, warning that skipping coverage risks death from sudden illness or accident. The passage depicts fear, persuasion, and secrecy surrounding policies.
A guide on keeping indoor plants healthy, noting that tepid soft water and attentive care are essential. It explains ferns struggle in overheated rooms, rubber plants need steady watering, and suggests watering methods and occasional plant food to prevent yellowing and drying leaves.
In a village tale, a reclusive woman on a hilltop, Hannah, orients herself to seaport news through her antiquated operyeglasses. Neighbors seek tidings, while her room stores keepsakes from her sea captain father and niece Ellen. Salt appears as a luxury and divides social classes in the fragmentary settlers’ world.
A scientist asserts that discovering the orth pole would aid society and likely end costly retlet expeditions. The Washington Star II notes that the average man is busy covering his past and has little time to boast about the future.
A parent recounts severe infant eczema covering the body including the mouth and eyes. After multiple doctors failed, Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent were tried. Within ten days to two weeks improvement appeared and within ten weeks the child was fully well with smooth white skin. I Hohrath, president of L Hohrath Company, South Bethlehem PA.
Congressman Thomas Hedge of Iowa credits Leslie M. Shaw as one of the country’s best campaigners. Hedge recalls Shaw circulating among voters after events and joking about asking for the correct time to avoid missing trains. Shaw believed the votes gained outweighed the worn watch.
Capt S L Crute of Watts Camp Roanoke Virginia reports long kidney distress including back pain frequent urination and renal colic. After using Doan's Kidney Pills he passed gravel the size of a bean and has had no further gravel attacks. He credits the pills for restored health and weight gain. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A peculiar statue in the church at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight commemorates Sir Rydolnes. The carving was originally intended to depict Louis XIV of France but was seized during transport when an English ship under Sir R. Holmes captured the vessel. The sculptor was forced to finish the statue by placing Holmes's head on the king's body.
A physician tells a woman with serious feminine trouble that an operation is necessary provoking terror at the thought of the knife and operating table. The piece notes hospitals are full of women seeking such operations.
Milwaukee woman Miss Margret Merkley writes that medical examiners urged operation but she avoided surgery and used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports ulceration and pain improved, returning her vitality and health, urging others with painful monthly periods or bearing down symptoms to try the remedy and seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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