Thoroughly Refitted Outfit Adds Horses Vehicles Harness
The outfit has been thoroughly re-fitted with new horses, vehicles, and harness added to the outfit. Boarding and feed are available.
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
7
The outfit has been thoroughly re-fitted with new horses, vehicles, and harness added to the outfit. Boarding and feed are available.
A critique of neglected road repairs linking dry autumns to muddy springs. Col. Pope cites 75 million horses and high costs of macadam roads, arguing railroads and funds could fix 1.4 million miles of US highways to European standards, saving billions in feed costs. An effigy protest and a water-logged body confusion near a dock are noted.
An early morning sighting near West Fourteenth Street led an engineer to alert police and a bridge tender to a drowned woman found in the water. A rope tow and quick probing revealed the “body” was a bundle of sticks wrapped in raw cotton, a crude ruse hidden near the water.
Matilda Mousel, a New York servant girl, challenged her employer Mrs. Davis on a Monday beef request. After a dispute over cooking beef versus game, police intervened, and in Yorkville police court Magistrate Brann fined Matilda $3 as she learned others have rights too.
A historical anecdote recalls Commodore James Barron at the Philadelphia navy yard enforcing a ban on theft of copper sheathing and wood chips. He catches a boy with a basket of scraps, scolds him, and the boy quips that it may be the commodore’s first prize ever taken.
A suburb Paris cemetery holds a tombstone inscription from a husband who asked “Tam anxiously awaiting you. July 30, 1827” to mark his name and a widow’s later line “Here I am. Sept. 0. 1807.” The quaint epitaph reflects 19th century humor and devotion.
The Chicago Times-Herald reports a Western gentleman's cook startled by live red herrings in the drawing-room aquarium, exclaiming their rare beauty with Irish flair. A quip about ants and butterflies hints at grudges, while a grim line notes some people prefer life easy behind the gallows.
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