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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
4
Otto Worner argues the nation underfunds public roads while rail, canals, and steamboat lines receive subsidies and support. The League of American Wheelmen seeks farmer aid to fix road neglect and rebalance public works funding nationwide.
An Owen County correspondent describes stone crushers at work along county roads. Men operate, break and load rock into crushers with elevators and wagons, feeding crushers to produce paving stone and screenings as roads improve. About a hundred miles of macadam road are under contract at roughly $1,400 per mile, increasing county debt and taxes.
The Chicago News reports scientists manipulating kites for research encounter curious reactions from birds. Large birds hover near the devices risking entanglement as one kite shows a silver tipped date-like object and others drift in the air. One observer notes a stork in New Jersey veering toward the object, while scientists struggle to interpret the curious signals from the sky.
A bird darted through a gap and then maneuvered around and under an object. It flew over and beneath, glancing at the intruder with a comical eye. The creature then circled back several hundred feet before retreating, puzzled by the unexpected visitor.
The 1823 Munich Residenz Theater blaze tests Duke Charles of Bavaria. He declares there is time to exit in order, sits unmoved, and ensures the audience files out calmly before the fire consumes the interior. He is the last to leave as the house burns.
A wood wear dealer reports wooden shoes remain seasonally popular especially in winter. Dairymen farmers and other laborers wear them for warmth and foot protection, including drivers and street workers. Most are imported from Holland and Maine, made of birch ash and boxwood, selling 50 cents to 1.25 dollars per pair.
A garbled 19th century style report describes a public yet confused stance against whistling on streets. It mentions Clint and Powis, a whistling reform, and references a destroyed site, a pipe incident, and a court-like misquote about keeping up with arguments.
Mrs Ellen Reilly, wife of Thomas Reilly, reported two dreams predicting her husband’s death in the New York Central wreck near Garrison. She identified the body at the Hudson wreck site after traveling with hotel manager Waddell to Grand Central and the morgue. The couple had recently moved to St. Louis. Reilly was fifty five and had sent for his elderly mother Rachel to join him.
The New York Press reports a snake farm in the Deep Hollow area of Great Bend township Penna. Twenty earth mounds hold about a dozen nests each yielding roughly a dozen rattlesnakes annually. A Philadelphia firm supplies rheumatism cures priced at 82.75 each and otters are sold to New York menagers for circuses. Newly hatched snakes are fed with caneht bags and sometimes kept under stove heat. The proprietors roam the farm wearing boots with little precaution toward reptiles.
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