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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
6
Mrs Mittie Luffaker of Columbia Tennessee writes she suffered years with dyspepsia and bedridden until her husband bought Peruna. After using several bottles she says she was cured and credits Peruna with saving her life and now recommends it to others.
The U S Senate approves the railroad rate bill 71 to 3 after seventy days of bitter debate. Senators Foraker Morgan Pettus vote no with Aldrich absent. Tillman praises Roosevelt while Dotliver and others commend the President. the measure moves toward becoming law.
Fire sweeps upper Michigan and Wisconsin areas destroying Quinassee with 2000 residents, Halpha 400, Cornell 800, Talbot 400, Auburndale 500, Schafer 400, Salvole 200, Woodlawn 200, Saunders 400. Lumber camps burned, workers fled on horses to Cornell refuge, relief train carried citizens away as flames engulfed settlements. Damage estimates reach millions with timber and mills destroyed.
The Winnipeg Free Press highlights strong inducements in Western Canada for immigrants drawn by the wheat belt. Government agents in the U S will provide rates and travel info as vast settlement prospects attract energetic youths seeking economic and social advancement through farming and eventual municipal and provincial growth.
Ex Senator J S Clark of Calais Maine is described in a humorous Boston Herald anecdote. While waiting in a barber shop he repeatedly asked Melvin Noble for matches as his pipe kept going out. Noble quips it would be cheaper to burn coal in a grate.
Newark sailor H. J. Myers reports three years of itching humor on his leg ending after using only Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He bathed daily and applied six to seven boxes, noting a full cure within three weeks with no recurrence since July 8 1905.
A visitor quips about the town being smoky compared to Pittsburg while a resident resists conceding the point. The exchange highlights local pride and a joking regional rivalry in this brief Chicago Tribune item.
Knights of Columbus in New Haven New York and Indiana regions announce low rates via Nickel Plate Road with long return limits and stopovers at Niagara Falls Chautauqua Lake and New York City. Full agent details listed as A Melia T P A Fort Wayne Ind. (389) Sazony initiates seven specialized industrial periods for training Jackemithe and blacksmiths.
A photographer struggles as an infant disrupts a photo session by thrashing in a chair and tearing paper racks. The mother praises the baby while the photographer jokes that the child is “hard to take” and quips about the name Tootsie and Cod liver oil.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment that cures catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. It promotes testimonials and urges readers to bend for a list, noting availability from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
In Good Company a brakeman demands the dog be moved to baggage. The woman insists the dog is educated and should ride in the special car for educated animals, with the horse, but she must pay extra for first class travel.
June 23 4 and 5 offer low return trip rates with step over privileges. Contact local agent for rates and limits or write C A Melin To A Ft Wayne Ind. 887.
Dialogue hints at social stereotypes about Boston girls and diet. The exchange frames intelligence as influenced by what they eat, suggesting beans as a notable factor in perceived cleverness.
A Topeka printer recounts severe rheumatism worsened by swelling and crutches until he tried Dr Williams Pink Pills. He credits marked improvement and claims others shedded pain after his recommendation. Pills advertised as safe, blood building, with no habit forming ingredients, sold by druggists or mail order from Schenectady.
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