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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
7
The piece discusses seasonal road quality and the economic impact of good roads on farm values and prosperity. It argues broad tire wagons could ease travel when roads are poor and notes factory workers and their harsh conditions, highlighting social critique of industrial labor and women’s labor in forges.
The St Louis Republic explains a method for state road upkeep in Australia where small defects are continually repaired by roadkeepers. Dust and mud are cleared from ruts and filled with gravel, letting passing wagons pack and roll the material. After wear, ballast is replenished in sections, usually in wet or shoulder seasons, with rolling of new layers omitted.
An observer enters a chain factory through a doorway into a square, well-lit workspace with ten to twelve forges. Each forge has a blower and worker, while hammering and clattering fill the air and heat rises from the forges as chains are bent and welded. The workers continue without pause as the narrator receives instruction from Mr. mith.
Chambers' Journal notes Paris per head wine and spirits use, with 840 pints of wine and 12 pints of spirits annually, Scotland's whisky rate at about 12.4 pints, and Cherbourg residents drinking far more spirits plus cider and beer, while many men drink none. It questions British views on drunkenness.
In Europe only one species, the Danubian siluroid, thrives east of the Rhine. The huge, ugly silurug inhabits the Danube and similar rivers, with monstrous mouths, six barbels, and slippery skin. Legendary claims of enormous sizes and a buried wedding ring tale are noted with skeptical humor.
A Cincinnati Tribune anecdote recalls Nellie on Colerain Avenue. A bill collector asks why she is home and she answers she is married to Horace Plunk to end his dictation. Nellie smiles at the youth’s puzzled reaction.
The remark compares emotional shifts to changing tastes like olives, suggesting a woman can develop affection or aversion toward a man at will. It frames love and dislike as cultivated preferences rather than fixed traits.
The copy touts Virginia land as affordable with perfect year round climate and cites an example where one acre yielded up to 2000 dollars in a tidewater farm, claiming high profits for buyers and urging readers to ask locals who know the market.
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