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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
7
A digest of global affairs highlights Anglo American goodwill, colonial land sales, Russian famine relief and agricultural funding, large scale petroleum output, debt reduction under new bankruptcy law, and evolving transport and postal practices. Also notes Wisconsin railroad pass law reach, German-Spain letter routing issues, and postal worker pay concerns.
The legislature calls for a commission to negotiate surrender of special charters and their incorporation under general law to create uniform railroad legislation across the state.
Danish authorities give severe treatment to disreputable poor with workhouses. Refractory paupers may be sent to houses of correction where confinement lasts up to six months.
The passage praises Admiral Dewey for preferring to aid sailors over personal gain and notes his wish to fund a sailor’s home. It also discusses looming natural gas shortages in Indiana and their impact on manufacturing, highlighting historic growth in manufactured product value and the role of coal nearby.
The text notes New South Wales voter approval for federation, predicting a strong new nation rivaling the United States. It highlights moving gas plants as costly, while Australia’s federal setup will centralize postal, telegraph, military, naval, lighthouse, quarantine duties and customs collection. Railways stay with their states.
Arthur MacDonald reports a Washington study of schoolchildren showing girls from eleven to fifteen outgrow boys in height and weight, boys exceed girls in sitting height until age twelve, then girls surpass at fourteen, with shifts by seventeen. Non-laboring class boys are taller and heavier. American boys lead in height, lag in weight, while American girls outheight peers but have lower sitting height and weight. White boys are taller than colored boys. girls show steadier brightness, while boys show more dullness and unruliness peaks at thirteen and seventeen.
The Department of Agriculture nears rights to use a mutascope camera that photographs a corn stalk hourly for six months then prints the reel at thirty frames per second. Sample shots include an apple tree budding and flowering, a sunflower from sunrise to sunset, and a full year’s sequence viewed in minutes. The system produces steady, nonjumping images and projects a year’s growth in a theatre.
New trade commentary extols American hickory as wagon material superior to other woods for moisture control in tropical conditions. The report highlights its salt resistance and practical advantages for slyaaton applications.
Dr. Sweeney recalls meeting Geo. W. Carmack and gathering details on Yukon Indian and trapper life. He describes seasonal food sources, including berries roots tree bark and winter bulbs from squirrel hoards, and notes how salt was conserved by reboiling meat broth to reach saltiness.
The C and E L railroad once known as Dolly Varden extended to Yeddo and curved around a farmer’s land to pass, then back into line. Locals note the unusual bends seen by southbound riders and some say the circles aid northbound freight by letting crews gauge a train’s integrity on the steep Veedersburg grade.
A coal yard at Thirteenth and Chestnut streets houses Fitler the horse, notable for a blond moustache shaped like needlepoints. After work the moustache is wild and four inches long each side, while in the morning it dries fluffy. Fitler enjoys pride and friendship from coworkers and even frightens pigs, who fear a razor-back.
In Yetholm Scotland one man named Fian was crowned King of the Gypsies succeeding his late mother Queen Gather. The tin and tinsel crown was placed on his head by the village blacksmith whose family is said to be connected with the local tradition.
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