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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1904
Page
8
Mrs. Almira A. Jackson of Traverse City Michigan reports twenty years of illness with liver misdiagnosis and kidney symptoms. After seven boxes she claims reduced bloating weight loss improved sleep and circulation. a free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY urged the public.
kK G Dun and Co reports little net change in trade conditions last week with storms and floods damaging property then easing. Spring trade expands yet remains backward. labor disputes add to unemployment though an amicable settlement of sheet and tin plate scales. Building activity could rise with wage talks, structural material inquiries exceed new permits, and rail earnings in March remain 1.4 percent below last year. Freight and merchandise shipments recover while prices show mixed movements across regions and sectors.
A Boston Record item notes humorous misreadings from students spelling and defining terms. Examples include mathematics defined as all studies, radius misspelled as radius and radious, and equilateral misread as pearly half, illustrating playful misinterpretations.
March 28 reports a dramatic claim from Q. W. Gray of Bright's Disease being cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills after three months of treatment. Gray says his wife urged the pill, and he recovered enough to leave bed and regain strength, praising the remedy as the era's greatest medical discovery.
Curious ceremonies unfold in Siam when a sacred white elephant dies. A grand funeral follows with Buddhist priests and thousands of devotees escorting the animal to its grave. Jewels and offerings worth thousands are buried with the elephant.
Dialogue humor shows two women with distinct roles. Mrs. Bricabrac performs cooking and chores while the other girl mends items that her companion breaks. The exchange highlights humor about domestic duties and efficiency.
An advertisement warns against ointments containing mercury for catarrh and urges prescriptions from reputable physicians. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is claimed mercury free and to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills praised. A medical journal notes milk source affects consumption risk.
The John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes a 1.05 dollar money order offer for 15 trees including Apricots Apples and Pears plus 1.65 dollars grants seed packets for Celery Carrot Cabbage Onion Lettuce Radish and Flowers with a catalogue. A side note states India has 300 million population and 200 million farmers.
An ad prompts readers to try Allen’s Foot-Base or Q powder to ease tight shoes and treat corns bunions and swollen feet. It touts availability at shoe stores and grocery items like Red Cross Ball Blu. The fragment includes quotes from Thomas a Kempis and others.
The Nickel Plate Road announces daily low fares to the West and Northwest through March and April. Send a postal card with your name address and likely destination to the nearest agent 7 C. A. Anteriin T. P. A. for Wayne to receive full details.
The article extols Western Canada climate with 1800 foot elevation and a long growing season. It notes Prince Albert and Winnipeg July highs, ample yearly moisture around 18 inches, and that 75 percent of rain falls in crop months. It claims rapid crop maturity and few severe storms.
A historic stone stored in British naval offices at Portsmouth reportedly saved a Queen's Navy vessel in the 1850s. The frigate Pique ran ashore on the Japanese coast, was refloated undamaged, but docked at Portsmouth where the stone wedged into the hull, preventing leakage and almost surely averting loss on the homeward voyage.
Promotion from John A. Sutter Seed Co offering Tepainte and Victoria Rape as high yielding fodder plants. Claims 14 tons hay per acre for Tepainte and 60 000 lbs of green fodder per acre for Victoria Rape. Readers urged to send 10 cents for catalogue and samples to La Crosse Wisconsin.
A mixed page fragment blends literary quips with consumer ads. It notes a Chicago Post joke about historiography, promotes June tint butter color, cites Piso's Cure for Consumption, lists a Neutoria Ohio address, joke about Emer son inspiration from cranberry pie, urges Red Cross Blue laundry use, advertises Nickel Plate Road low rates to western territories, and markets a self inking dating stamp from Fort Wayne Indiana.
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