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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1897
Page
10
A rhetorical notice touts St Jacobs Oil as a prompt cure for neuralgia. It claims neuralgia ages skin, causes dullness, and that relief restores health and beauty by soothing torment and smoothing the skin’s furrows.
A future of paper bottles is announced with advantages claimed over glass. Paper bottles would not break easily, even with old wine in a bin, unless substantial force is applied, aiming to reduce breakage and waste.
Instructions describe rooting slips in a wet sand bed kept moist but not muddy. Use clear glass covering for rapid rooting, transplant when established, and avoid overpotting small rooted slips. Emphasizes sun in a warm window and gradual potting progress for sturdy, flowering plants.
At the upcoming French Chamber meeting a deputy will propose applying decimal time to daily divisions. The plan envisions a ten hour day ten minutes per hour and one hundred seconds per minute. Aimed at global standard time the scheme divides the day into ten hours and the globe into 7000 degrees of longitude for uniform world time.
The text notes Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken externally with price seven cents. It also lists the world’s longest tunnels led by St Gothard at 48 840 feet and cites other tunnels with lengths such as Mount Ceuis 20 850 feet Hoosie 25 080 feet Severn 22 Wie feet Nochistungs 21 650 feet Su tis 21 720 feet.
Readers are invited to inquire about Sunday outings on the Nickel Plate Road with five or more CAL passengers. Trips must stay within 100 miles round trip, priced at $21.00. The note adds a proverb about value, urging timeliness in choosing a good and timely outing.
A medical warning describes inactivity of the kidneys as forerunner of evils and outlines how Bright disease diabetes gravel and dropsy arise from impurities not removed from blood. It praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for purging impurities and triggering kidney activity to prevent disease.
A discussion on moving large trees notes that transplanting is often unsuccessful. Experts say younger trees survive better, with a five year old specimen costing about five dollars versus five hundred for an old tree, and twenty years may yield a better result.
A promotional piece claims Americans are especially nervous and drink coffee excessively. It recommends a grain drink as a soothing, healthier alternative and promises better sleep and energy with no harm to nerves. The text also makes a tangential joke about a flying insect and a parachute metaphor.
A correspondent recounts a twenty year struggle with drink and details how an unnamed wife provided a “marvelous remedy” advertised by Renova Chemical Co. The note mentions a mail order offer in plain wrapper and cites exotic comet speeds for contrast.
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Base powder pledges to cure painful swollen smarting feet and instantly ease corns and bunions. It helps tight or new shoes feel comfortable and treats sweating calluses and tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 25 cents by mail. Trial package free. Allen S. Ohmsted Le Roy NY.
The note mentions extract of beef produced weekly in Fray Bentos South America and offers capsule health tips including hair regrowth and insect defense. It also advertises summer homes on Lake Erie near Nickle Plate Road, with a sales agent in Cleveland and a request for a two cent stamp. Additionally it notes steel pen usage worldwide.
An old time health advertisement promotes Glenns sulphur soap as a disease eraser for rainy days. It mentions Mills Malt and Whiskerize, Piso a Cure for Consumption and a Chicago address. It also advertises Nickel Plate Road Sunday fares for groups of five or more, offering a $1 round trip within 100 miles.
A list of Country homes along the South Shore of Lake Erie open to Summer Boarders will be mailed to any one sending a two cent stamp to B F Horner General Passenger Agent Nickel Plate Road Cleveland Ohio.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition on the Louisville and Nashville main line far exceeds prior fairs in size beauty and exhibits. It offers cheap travel and expects to attract visitors from across the country with extensive attractions and low rates. Visitors should contact C P Atmore Pass Agent Louisville Ky for more information.
Grain-O the new grain drink touted as a coffee substitute is advertised as gentle on children and adults and priced at 15 cents per package. The Nickel Plate Road touts its passenger service with solid through trains between Chicago and New York, luxury sleep cars, dining service, and low rates, plus Sunday excursion tickets for groups of five or more.
An article extols Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound as superior to family doctors in treating female illnesses. It claims women suffer with secrecy and embarrassment, and cites widespread testimonials about Pinkham’s success from Lynn, Massachusetts, urging readers to seek her advice.
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