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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1894
Page
8
A wartime tale recounts Prince Bismarck halting Prussian soldiers from flogging an Austrian peasant who claimed he only called Bismarck names. The Count smiles, noting many others have done the same, and orders the beating to stop.
Handel and Bach, two towering contemporaries, lived near each other for most of their lives yet never met. It seems natural to expect curiosity or interest to push them to seek a meeting between these eminent rivals in the same profession.
A London Figaro anecdote reports a car driver in County Clare answering a passenger’s query about hedge berries. The driver says they are black berries, while the passenger insists they are pink. The driver retorts that blackberries are always pink when green, capturing a humorous exchange.
The text argues that baking powders other than Royal lose strength after opening, causing heavy food and waste. Royal Baking Powder is portrayed as uniformly strong, economical, and consistently reliable, delivering wholesome food and full leavening power until used.
In Germany India rubber is being used instead of carpets or wood flooring in many experiments. Sheets one metre broad and five centimetres thick are laid on a beton-coated floor. The rubber floors are washable and allow easy rolling of heavy objects, so breweries and similar places will adopt them.
The advertisement promotes B4 sleeping car rates on the Rock Island routes to California from Chicago. It highlights two personally conducted tours with Phillips as guide, leaving Chicago Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a daily tourist car service via the Southern route through Indian Territory and Fort Worth to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Apply at Rock Island ticket office, 104 Clark Street.
In a western penitentiary a confined inmate named Ld Wonderful Cane has carved a remarkable crane. He carved accurate likenesses of all U.S. presidents from Washington to Harrison, with a gold head atop and an American eagle beneath, displaying delicate pen and ink style craftsmanship.
Mr. Lawson Tait exonerates mankind by noting wasps share a drink habit. He observed wasps attacking overripe fruit where sugar ferments into alcohol. The insects compete around rotten plums and grapes and later lie torpid, hiding in grass until they recover.
A humorous excerpt notes a youthful hypocrite fearing the dentist chair as a test of conscience. The live boy’s mother asks if it hurt, and the boy reveals he avoided a real extraction because two others were ahead and he feared they would be embarrassed by his noise and the others’ hollering.
A reader describes a crude shotgun cartridge cut around the shell to bore holes in targets at fifty yards. The experiment bored holes through a coal oil can with no spill from the cartridge, illustrating a reckless shooting idea.
A new key ring uses a double clasp with an inner receptacle to hold a friend’s name and address. This allows the owner to be traced if the ring is found, avoiding placing the owner’s own name in danger while remaining identifiable to those seeking the owner.
Manila rope enters household decor schemes with baskets and tassels gaining favor. It may be used to craft portieres curtains or lambrequins, knotted and fringed, offering artistic decorative possibilities in many ways.
Velvets and insertions shape fashion as ribbon velvets lead trims in millinery and dressmaking. Both black and ecru lace see rising use, applied not as separate insertions but laid in rows like velvet braid for summer wear.
In a Paris cafe a waiter offers two tiny care items. The customer replies to bring them and orders a rabbit stew. The brief exchange highlights a quaint, humorous dining moment in a cheap restaurant setting.
Advance Agent Clark notes a melodrama villain shows his trait by patent leather shoes. He claims this footwear marks the stage villain globally, replacing the old cigarette as the signature prop.
Following a bomb outrage, strict measures restrict access to chambers. In Rome only forty eight men may enter at a time, while in England no stranger with a bag or parcel may enter Parliament.
A dialogue notes a missed chance as Berkey presses his wife about revealing a secret told the previous night. She insists she did not realize it was secret and says she never mentioned it to anyone. The exchange highlights regret over a lapse in communication.
A claimed tonic, Shilohs Consumption Cure, promises to cure Incipient Consumption and is touted as the best Cough Cure, offered at 3 cents 50 cents and 81.00. Repeated endorsements emphasize its guaranteed effect. The text notes France allocating potato land nearly equal to the combined potato areas of the UK and the US.
An OCR fragment mocks a gendered beauty claim for an unnamed girl praising skin fairness and rose cheeks due to Glenn's Sulphur Soap. It also includes a stray line about a boy past sixteen scratching his head without arousing suspicion, indicating ad and stray text remnants.
A vintage pitch extols a laxative claimed to aid health and cleanse the system. It touts popularity with physicians and millions of satisfied users, noting its taste, gentle action on kidneys liver and bowels, and availability in $1 bottles from California Fig Copy company.
The Rev Char Frese of Carmel Northumberland County testifies to a long illness relief after using Dr Pierce's Medical Discovery and Pellets. He describes severe dyspepsia and liver issues, claims lasting cure and improved vigor, praising Golden Medical Discovery as an invigorating tonic and restorative aid against digestive and systemic symptoms.
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