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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1899
Page
1
On a rainy mid October day Matty Rice asks Nora to fetch Mr. Winton at the hotel to borrow the book Recreation of a Country Parson. Nora, donning a waterproof cloak and large umbrella, sets off through the downpour while Eveleen and Matty wait, hopeful for a distraction.
Nora misreads a request to borrow a book as a plea to borrow the country parson. At the hotel she stalls, and Mr Fontaine is sent for, causing comic confusion. Matty and Eveleen laugh, and the cleric becomes a regular visitor, with hints of a rectory to come and a possible marriage.
An upholsterer recovering a large old “sleepy hollow” chair in New Orleans uncovers a trove of small items wedged in the seat and horsehair. The cache includes 1342 pins, 12 needles, 28 burning needles, 4 thimbles, 3 pair small scissors, 1 spectacle case, 2 eyeglasses, coins, medals, buckles, and more. The chair’s worn edges formed a perfect trap for such objects.
The article catalogs U S 1898 postage output. It notes 3 56 billion stamps printed could form a 21 mile stack, with 2 cent issues spanning 39 000 miles end to end and special delivery totals near 5 200 000. Massachusetts led per capita spending while Delaware ranks low. It also includes a royal anecdote about Prince Edward and the Queen.
An article in The Ladies' Realm portrays Prince Edward of York and Prince Albert in humorous scenes from the royal nursery. The two young princes are described as evenly matched in spirit, with Edward showing seniority yet Albert resisting being the younger heir.
A Polish schoolmaster claims to have invented a light beam device to explode bombs and a distant color preserved vision instrument. The piece also notes Prof Shaler’s skepticism about mysterious swamp lights and describes stereoscopic printing using complementary colors. It mentions a prairie dog village victory over a rattlesnake and explains plant bloom on leaves, citing Darwin and Oberlin College research on transpiration after bloom removal.
A Scientific American note describes spiders seeking a pebble and anchoring their web with a tool like an iron anchor. The analogy equates the pebble to an Iron anchor used by humans, and mentions spiders have been seen using nails as anchors.
A garbled OCR fragment offers little readable facts. It lacks clear events, dates, places, or people to summarize into a coherent news item.
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