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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
3
A California judge ruled no judicial power could stop a husband from making love to his wife even to prevent wife abuse. The case arose after a Los Angeles woman sought an injunction to restrain her husband from in insisting on attention, a decision reflecting cautious limits on curbing personal conduct within marriage.
A dialogue hints at a depressed man living in a town with a floundering baseball club. The exchange suggests gloom tied to the team’s poor performance. no further factual details are provided.
Mrs G A Selby of Redondo Beach California reports her five month old baby won a prize in a baby contest and credits Cuticura Soap for preventing sores and chafing. She urges others to use Cuticura and notes free samples via Cutcura Dept L Boston.
A police quarrel with suffragists outside a window leads to a lenient verdict as officers decide to let the scene amuse the crowd. An accompanying ad features Dr Rothrock endorsing Kopp's Baby's Friend for teething, wind colic, and diarrhoea with three size options and mail samples.
Hard-pressed manager asks why star demands real food tonight. Star replies hunger drives the demand. The exchange captures backstage tension over authenticity and appetite amid the banquet setup.
Vincennes May 12 Two men were killed when passenger train No 94 crashed into a freight train not cleared from the main track. The dead include W L Miller of Vicksburg and F M Hyatt of Shelburn. Several others injured, speed about sixty mph, crash at Smiths switch six miles north. Traffic blocked twelve hours. Also mentions a Lafayette incident with a policial arrest and local obituaries and storm damage in Petersburg with a cyclone causing damage and hail in the melon district.
During a heavy electrical storm the two story frame house of John E. Giltner north of Jeffersonville was struck by lightning and wrecked. The chimney roof and wall suffered major damage but no one was hurt. A heavy rain followed the storm. Well Known Railroad Man Dead In Port Wayne May 13 Wilbur E. Davis a former Pennsylvan ia railroad executive died at about sixty He is survived by a widow and a son Lieutenant Frank Davis US Navy.
Richmond May 13 Reverend Morton Hobson, previously pastor of the United Brethren church here, was killed in an automobile accident near Springfield Ohio. He left Richmond over a year ago to lead a church near Cincinnati.
Lebanon May 1. Rev William Manford Walker a retired Methodist minister of Boone county died near Lebanon from consumption. He was fifty five years old and left the ministry at Vanilear Kentucky to move to Boone county. He was a Mason.
In Danville on May 13 the London family refuted a claim that Robert London, who died by his own hand, was part Indian, with Mrs. Kate Jones insisting he was all English. A telegraph operator in Muncie died from likely brain concussion after a fall, while Thomas Voss of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad reportedly died in jail, believed insane. In Elwood Geneva Davenport, three, was fatally struck by an interurban car while playing on the tracks.
Attica May 13. County officials recovered twelve thousand dollars in back taxes from the Sampson Reed estate as a compromise to avoid a lawsuit. Reed, once Fountain County’s heaviest taxpayer, left unlisted real property revealed in his will. Sleepwalker incident in Lafayette May 10. John Sheehan, afflicted with somnambulism, walked from his bed, shattered a second story window, and nearly fell after hanging in the broken frame. his father woke to the alarming scene and saved him.
Indianapolis May 10 Robert Clair borne 19 fined 25 dollars and costs for beating and ejecting his father Leonard Claiborne 84 from his home while his wife stood by and laughed. Mother and son bound the elder Claiborne hand and foot and forced him to sign a 100 dollar check.
Logansport reports sixty eight graduates for the year per superintendent A H Douglass. Commencement exercises are set for Tuesday May 28 in Logansport.
In Richmond Mrs Ellen Kettelforder was badly hurt after a fall downstairs. Greensburg John Jr Bobbitt, a newspaper man, was declared insane by a lunacy commission. Rushville J L Stone sixty five, ex hotel owner, drowned at a Florida resort. Tipton Harry Kimball a fish merchant is sought for selling liquor to a chronic drunkard and forcing his daughter to wear men’s clothes. Linton a three year old girl injured by a shoe button in her nose. Wabash saloon keepers warned they will be prosecuted for liquor sales to drunks. Brazil eleven men including the proprietor fined after a basement gambling raid. Milton fire destroys Mrs Freeman’s farm home near Bentonville. Mrs Freeman rescues her mother-in-law. Hrazil body of Thomas Stites recovered from city reservoir. suspected suicide linked to mother’s death. Vincennes Adia Stanley pleads guilty to robbing Economy grocery of 190 and John A Louis store of 40. Sherman Waggoner pleads not guilty. Princeton Daily Democrat office robbed. 22.50 taken from Miss Anna Turnage’s cash drawer.
The article describes colossal bells including Great Paul at St Pauls weighing nearly 17 tons and 30 feet around, Westminster’s Big Ben once over 14 tons, now lighter after a crack and clapper reduction, Peter of York at about 13 tons with 22 foot diameter, and the world’s largest hanging bell in a Buddhist monastery near Canton. It notes eight monster bells cast by Emperor Yang Di around 1400, with eight men killed in the casting.
A man asks if the new tenants are desirable neighbors and a woman replies she watches what comes from the moving van, noting they have nothing worth borrowing. The exchange hints at cautious judgment of new residents.
A fragmentary dialogue hints at a feud over a North Side wedding. One man laments being jilted by the bride, claiming Wombat cut him out, and jokes about crashing the ceremony to confront him. The terse exchange suggests underlying tensions and a possible physical confrontation.
Barber jokes about thinning hair. The Chair quips it was not the product that did it, a judge comments on the outcome.
An inhuman couplet scene in a department store ends with a man dying on the first floor as a clerk directs the widow to the Undertaking Department on the fifth. A lawyer questions grounds for divorce while the woman insists non-support and cruelty, joking that lack of diamond support is cruelty.
A Punch cartoon caption contrasts a house owner debating letting a furnished home after measles with a friend’s cautious approach. The second line notes a man demanding immediate right of way, implying conflicting perspectives on risk and speed.
In antiquity high fees greeted famed surgeons. When Darius son of Hystaspes sprained his foot, Damocedes, renowned for success after another failed healer, cured him. The king then presented the doctor to court ladies who poured gold and pearls into a vase for him, later dropped by a eunuch as slaves gathered the riches.
Mary receives a ring from her beau and takes it to tea with twenty three girls who gossip about it. Mrs Weed answers a reporter about widowhood noting time flies and a year will pass on the next month’s fourth.
A witty remark from a female humorist contrasts women’s roles with male authors. She quips about perennial male gatekeepers and self-deprecatingly notes her own writing prowess, likening it to historic humorists and popular wits.
An analysis of brain minerals and the role of Phosphate of Potash is cited to defend Grape-Nuts as brain food. A Philadelphia editor reports personal benefits from using Grape-Nuts and Postum, noting improved digestion, steadier nerves, and claimed health gains, with the brand named to Battle Creek, Michigan.
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