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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1897
Page
8
Try Grain-O. Ask your grocer for Grain-O the new food drink replacing coffee. Safe for children and adults, it has a mocha like color but is grain based. Priced at 15 and 25 cents per package, sold by all grocers.
An English university math tutor dismisses poetry as unpractical rot. His literature-loving brother tests him with Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade. The monkish joke ends with the mathematician insisting the poet should have stated the league clearly.
Jim and John, townsmen and chums, attend a hot game. A stray ball strikes Jim’s bald spot, and John’s back is hurt. Jim cures both with St Jacobs Oil, stored in Jim’s room. They laugh then sleep, awakening to laugh at John again.
A sentimental vignette depicts a mother and daughter rejoicing over a fiancé who expresses devotion and carries glowing references from his previous marriage. They discuss future plans such as trousseaus as tears of joy mingle with hopeful chatter.
An 19th century style advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents and Allen's Foot Ease powder for feet. It claims rapid relief for catarrh and foot ailments including swelling, pain, sweating, bunions, and tired feet. The ad touts universal drugstore availability and a trial package free by mail from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York. It also notes ocean steamer speeds surpassing Italian express trains.
One member reveals the policy of Spain's new premier, amid threats if the United States demands. The Madrid ministry forms with Sagasta as President of the Council, Gullen foreign affairs, Groizard justice, Correa war, Bermejo marine, Puigcerver finance, Capdevon interior, Niguena public works, Moret colonies. Ministers take oath, cabinet seen as strong yet with some disappointment over Yamazo Mania Armijo.
A Madrid cabinet reshuffle places Senor Amos Salvador as finance director of the Bank of Spain and Count Romanones as Madrid mayor. A London-dispatched interview notes a Sagasta pledge to push Martinez Campos era autonomy for Cuba, with debt settlement conditions and a stance against a US Cuba customs union. Spain hints at privateering if needed and rejects recognizing insurgent debt.
A blaze in Weed's livery barn on Turner Street in Austin Pennsylvania started by hay hitting a gas jet razed about 100 buildings, mostly residences, within five hours. Two churches, an opera house, several businesses and livery stables were destroyed. insurance estimates losses at 150000 to 200000. Water supply was cut off as the mill pond drained for repairs.]]
A Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis passenger train struck a wagon carrying seven people at Dead Man's cut three miles north of Willo Springs Missouri. Six were killed instantly and one person fatally injured. Conductor HaflIaway cited proper signals but they were not heard. The crossing is deemed highly dangerous. The victims were traveling from Texas County Missouri to Arkansas to pick cotton.
A Chicago Record item quotes a man about his daughter who left the country for town. He cites her doctor advising she avoid visitors and excitement to recover. The brief remark hints at illness and rest as the motive behind the move.
In Maintaining Good Health the text extols pure nourishing blood for strong nerves digestion and sleep. It claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and offers wonderful benefits, with Hood's Pills as the only remedy.
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