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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1893
Page
4
Comments on daily events note the Geary act worries and Uncle Sam. France plans $2,000,000 in ammunition for cavalry next year. The leather trust valued at $120,000,000 dominates many trusts and will be challenged by the public. Wealth and virtue ethics are debated as social commentary.
The report notes that only forty three candidates passed the West Point entrance examination out of one hundred sixty six, suggesting issues with candidate quality or selection.
The piece notes the Spanish government paying Cuban rebels as a cost cutting move and hints Uncle Sam could buy influence similarly. It adds that Emperor Wilhelm visited a German transatlantic liner and quipped about class on a trip to America, then warns of further German threats.
The piece notes that as Africa is partitioned, natives may lose land and autonomy just as North American Indians did when the white settler seized all in sight. It argues Africans could suffer a similar dispossession and erasure of their ways and lands.
A morphine eater is quick to accuse others of the habit. When you hear people blaming others for any sin, watch them. Their minds may be fixed on that sin because they are guilty. The worst people are often the most persistent gossips.
A Cogswell fountain from the common is to be moved to a cemetery. Local pride in Boston keeps the move low profile, and authorities expect those near the site to accept the change without protest.
A Denver man died after grasping an electric wire on his roof with one hand. The incident raises debate as scientists claim electrocution for murderers is nonlethal, leaving some to question whether science errs on the effect.
The rise in Dante study reflects less belief in Hell as a real place and more acceptance of secular analysis. Readers may study his works without fear, attributing his imagery to psychological or medical explanations rather than prophecy.
The passage praises a sincere admission of fault as a pledge of truth and regret. It argues that such acknowledgement promotes improvement, reduces conflict, and upholds social happiness when offered in good faith.
A Minnesota man named Fish has filed a lawsuit against Ignatius Donnelly, a noted critic of Shakespeare, alleging defamation and seeking redress for damages related to Donnelly’s public objections to Shakespearean scholarship. The action targets Donnelly’s statements and asks for legal remedies.
The clipping references a $25,000 defamation claim beside remarks on Donnelly and Fish, compares American and foreign watches, notes gun design controversy over Krag Jorgensen tests, and cites Harvard secretary Mr Frange Boies. It ends with a reflection on nerve and resilience in readers.
The article notes that longer steam entry ports in new locomotives improve flow at high speed. It cites the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway increasing port length from 18–19 to 23 inches and the Big Four placing about forty locomotives into service with 23 inch ports.
The New York press claims Gotham leads in opposition to drunkenness yet practical sobriety seems limited as saloons curb a drinker’s intake only when winded. Outsiders may drink more abroad, but visitors’ habits suggest home consumption boosts local saloon profits.
Jeffersonville, Indiana, draws eloping couples from Illinois and Kentucky. Six weddings in one day reflect a trend: many cite cost savings as the motive, preferring a frugal approach over traditional home weddings. The piece laments the shift from romance to material calculations in modern elopements.
A World’s Fair guide weighs costs from 10 cent trips and 25 cent guides to 50 cent meals and 25 to 50 cent shows. It contrasts frugal pacing with lavish spending, noting transportation, admission, lunch, and luxuries shape a day’s total while urging balanced budgeting for a full but reasonable visit.
The article estimates daily expenses for fairgoers at Jackson Park, detailing cheap snack costs, transit, meals, and amusements. It contrasts frugal visitors from modest towns with wealthy guests, arguing a total daily outlay around 25 dollars suffices for full exposure to the Exposition’s sights and activities. It also notes the United States has 43,000,000 sheep.
Experiments show toughened glass has more than double the elasticity of ordinary glass and bends more readily. Single toughened glass resists 25 times, demi-double 3.1 times that of ordinary double. Polished toughened sheets 0.006 to 0.013 m thick resist 3.67 times ordinary sheets. rough toughened sheets resist 5.33 times ordinary rough sheets.
An English inventor has devised a balloon signaling system using electric lamps connected to Earth by a flexible cable. Ground power via a switch lights or extinguishes the lamps, allowing a small portable balloon to be used since it carries only the lamps and cable.
An appeal to invalids to maintain hope as vitality may be rekindled. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as a powerful tonic that revives strength, improves appetite and sleep, aids digestion, nourishes the blood, and restores flesh and color, described as safe and disagreeable to the feminine palate, urging readers to try it to regain vigor.
Practical guidance for horse handling notes adding corn to oats for easier feeding and bone building with wheat bran daily. Warns against unnecessary whipping, urging that a colt should know why he is struck to maintain humane training standards.
A brief quote from an Indianapolis Journal item notes a man praising Sam Jones’s religion for not interfering with the stride of work. He says the preacher’s faith fits even a mule driver’s speech and routine. The remark highlights practical acceptance of religious talk in daily labor.
A garbled ad fragment lists wallpaper samples with prices 2c to 5c, embossed and ingrain varieties, with references to Reed Wall Paper Jobber Rochester Pennsylvania. The piece includes stray dated lines from Winfield Kansas February 18 1890 and testimonial blurbs about bile beans and a quip about women and baggage.
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