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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1890
Page
8
An 19th century promotional note extols Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters as a blood purifier tonic and nervine. claims to improve digestion appetite and secretions while arresting chronic decay. A Paris police court case then reports a nurse who dyed a baby with cosmetics and placed a shot in clothes, earning two years in prison.
The fragment mentions a free sample package mailed to an address in New York and includes assorted commentary on business annoyances and a patent remedy claim for Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup. It likewise notes a social maxim about clothes and marriage.
An ad touts Dr. Pierce’s Pellets as the easiest to take and most effective for biliousness and liver complaints. It claims they relieve headaches and digestive upset, with a guarantee and no money required if not satisfied.
Knowledge about Syrup of Figs touts its comfort and improvement as a pure liquid laxative. The remedy cleanses the system, relieves colds fevers and headaches, and treats kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co with building trust in its name.
A vintage culinary note offers strawberry shortcake made with biscuit dough, butter and sugar layered with berries and cream. It also describes a coffee method stressing freshly roasted and ground beans, hot water, a coffee pot, and a strainer for a rich, aromatic beverage.
A London Times report from Panting Fu depicts brutal executions in a Chinese provincial capital. The piece notes public interest, cheering by boys, and casual indifference as carts depart and dust marks the scene.
The United States becomes a gem producer with turquoise mines in New Mexico yielding stones on par with Persian colors. Montana deposits produce rubies and sapphires, though pure red rubies and blue sapphires have not yet been found. Opals discovered near Colfax Washington. Gem City settlement aims to become a payiting center. Wisconsin pearl fishing yields pearls over fifty grains valued at $500 to $1000+.
A French scientist recent table shows yearly growth amounts by age. From birth to one year about seven and a half inches, ages two to three four to five inches, three to four one and a half, four to six about two and a quarter, seven to eight two and a half, eight to twelve two, twelve to thirteen one point eight, thirteen to fourteen two and a quarter, fourteen to fifteen two, sixteen to seventeen nearly two. Growth continues into the twenties but slows significantly.
The article explains the saying putting one’s foot in it as arising from Hindostan land disputes where each lawyer’s leg was buried in a hole, forcing blunders and defeats. It also notes topsy turvy originated from turf drying with the right side down, giving rise to the phrase meaning upside down.
The essay laments that today’s three ring circus distracts from the old one ring spectacle. While watching blue tights athletes, red tights performers break records elsewhere, leaving the reader with regret and a wish for a simpler era. The piece humorously suggests an extra congressional session in July could return that single-ring magic.
A South African tale says geraniums deter snakes due to their volatile oils. Flowers are scentless but leaves emit pungent odors. a missionary claims snakes avoid beds of geraniums, a property attributed to the Kaftirs.
San Francisco report describes Joseph Schiesser’s steam powered sledge with multiple steam arms driven by a small petroleum engine. It includes a cabin for travelers and a large fuel tank. Schiesser aims to reach areas of the Arctic never before explored by explorers.
Charles Hose reports from the Buram River in Borneo where natives keep a corpse in the house for three months before burial. He slept in a native house and woke to find a coffin at the bed’s head containing the chief’s late wife’s remains.
A brief note mentions the electric light bug described as an inch and a half long with many legs and wings, now feared to bite. It also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo claiming constitutional treatment and a $100 reward for failure, with druggists selling it.
A discussion notes that convict labor on roads cannot start because it would violate constitutional rules. A mark cannot travel over the road twice for a single offense, as stated by the Indianapolis Journal.
A large handsome map of the United States mounted for office or home use is offered by the Burlington Route. Copies mailed on receipt of fifteen cents in postage to P. S. Eustis, Genl Pass Agent, Burlington Route, Chicago, Illinois.
Fragment from a dialogue about a son asking his father for a wish. The text shifts to old advertisements for Bile Beans Dobbins Perfect Soap Beecham's Pills Jamaica Ginger and other tonics, with promotional copy and prices, reflecting period labeling and marketing style.
Miss C G McCraver of 753 Park Place Elmira New York relates a spring experience teaching in a country school. She suffers dyspepsia, tries dieting without relief, then uses August Flower and immediately recovers from the indisposition.
Regular feeding and care are essential for poultry success. Do not frighten fowls with noise or bluster as fear lowers egg production and slows growth of chicks. Sadness and worry may also hinder results and reduce yields.
A quotation attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes discusses facts as insolent bullies and the peril of forming a bullying habit of mind from constant contact with absolute, peremptory facts. It notes that scientific knowledge, even in modest men, mingles with this insolence.
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