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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1895
Page
4
The piece surveys current women’s wear highlighting alpaca comin and black satins in demand. It notes dresses as puzzling blends of elegance and expense and observes shoppers quickly seek affordable items only to abandon those they dislike.
A fashion overview highlights black and white gowns with narrow stripes, velvet trims, and elaborate bodices plus new accessories like small fans inspired by Napoleon era. The article also discusses electric traction for trains, favoring a three wire direct current system and independent motor cars for frequent stops.
Fashion highlights chant elegance with accordion plaited chiffon and lace butterflies. Jet spangled butterflies decorate satin skirts and sleeves. Small lace butterflies brighten black satin capes with pinked ruching at edges and neckline.
Glittering trimmings adorn dressy gowns capes and hats as spring jackets display varied silhouettes. Styles range from double to single breasted with high or wide lapels and tull skirts or plaited fullness. A biscuit colored model with wide white revers and jet stripes leads the parade.
The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad signs a contract with a leading electrical company for the first stage of electric traction with motors. This marks electricity overcoming steam in railroading and turning theory into practical, startling possibilities for future service on longer lines.
The architect of a Broadway and Pine Street New York skyscraper argues height is bounded by tenant convenience and elevator speed. He suggests thirty four to thirty five stories as a practical limit, noting material strength is not the constraint and thrusting a moonward ascent as a hypothetical.
A speaker touts steel construction as simple, strong, and faster to raise than masonry. He notes girders thirty inches across, earthquake resilience, lower base walls, and cost savings. Elevators advance with the steel era, while streetcars outnumbered.
A playful scene unfolds as two women trade witty refusals and compliments at a social moment. One gushing young woman is matched by a poised friend, ending with the gusher retreating in lighthearted confusion.
Spring cleansing promises purer blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla a seasonally pitched remedy claimed to cleanse blood of impurities from winter and indoor air boosting vitality and endurance along with Hood's Pills for headaches and bilious symptoms at 25 cents.
Early city rules barred wandering pigs and firing firearms and forbade stealing timber from bridges. Officials warned against dangerous acts such as red hot stovepipes through walls, racing horses on main streets, exposing stallions, leaving lumber loose, and throwing dead animals into rivers.
A dyspeptic man hears the dinner bell but cannot eat. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters changes his condition, enabling hearty eating, digestion, and assimilation. Jalaria rheumatism constipation and biliousness are claimed conquered by this medicine.
In the sixties at Dunrobin Castle Queen Victoria walked with a lady toward a cottage. An old Highland mother told of her son Donald joining a regiment and the queen noted his name, later promoting him to sergeant after a knitting mishap. The mother quipped about ready-made stockings.
The excerpt records Franx J. Cheney swearing to a firm's claim offering Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar guarantee for catarre cures. It mentions a Toledo company testimonial and a public-notary seal, followed by a moral quackery quote about puffers impostors and overstatement of remedies.
Regional rail notices describe onboard dining on Express No. 2 eastbound and No. 5 and 6 westbound, with breakfast and dinner offered on the New York and Boston route. The new arrangement aims to improve passenger comfort and streamline meals aboard the line.
After a musical performance OnOR was surprised to hear the preacher announce his text as "When the uproar had ceased." The moment highlights a ceremonial or sermon-related revival tone.
A fish in Lake Nyassa builds a mud house at the lake bottom forming a basin about fifteen to twenty inches deep. It creates a wall around the hole two to three feet wide, with a fourteen inch bottom, forming a broad cone shape. A four inch opening on the south side serves as the entry and exit. A Berlin Royal Museum specimen shows two doors and a partitioned two room dwelling.
Special to Our Lady Readers reports a testimonial claiming the Vegetable Compound has cured painful menstruation and backache for a reader. The brief note expresses gratitude and encouragement to others seeking relief.
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