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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1895
Page
1
A narrator reflects on love, beauty, and a proposed social contract inside a courtship. He argues marriage should be a strategic bargain for companionship, with partners who remain mostly unknown to sustain revelation and independence. The woman engages another, while he contemplates polygamy and modern relationship dynamics.
The text notes gifts from the country to military and naval heroes including the Duke of Marlborough and Trafalgar Park at Earl Naleon’s seat. It hints at broader civic honor but then devolves into garbled content about women and a stray insert mentioning sausage, offering no further clear facts.
A six inch black robber doll named the New Woman arrives at Superintendent O’Keefe’s office on September 19 1895 and travels the West visiting post offices. Postmasters attach tags and write humorous inscriptions as the doll moves eastward, with many verses praising her adventures and fate. The tale, recorded by the Boston Journal, shows post office humor in the late 19th century.
A Ransomville New York undertaker Albert B. Thompson promotes his business with a printed circular sent to physicians and residents. He claims to own a thousand dollar casket set and offers free funerals to the first customers and a 60 percent cheaper rate than any other in the county, pledging 90 for every funeral.
A Maine jailer, facing three months for a prisoner named Mr H, offers fifty cents a day to have him work in the yard and plant potatoes. The jailer notes the arrangement saves county costs, keeps the inmate busy, and even eases his own duties while keeping curfew. The prisoner accepts and adheres to a 7 pm lockup, with the jailer content to manage him.
Describes an ancient underground Bokigran city near Kark in Tzerkestan on the Amoq river. Effigies and inscriptions suggest a town dating two centuries before Christ, with a mile long passage labyrinth, multi story houses, and evidence of long habitation despite collapsed passages.
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