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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1894
Page
5
Fragmentary verse explores inner conflict of love faith doubt and mortality. Refrains question if anyone understands the heart or hears the echoed prayers to the beyond. Imagery blends light and dark tones with religious and romantic longing.
Mrs Campion and her husband stand accused after emeralds valued at £2,000 vanish from a Brighton hotel chest. A maid Celeste Bardel confirms the trunk key and witnesses place Mrs Campion wearing the gems at a party. A detective links the couple to prior swindles in Berlin and Vienna, with extradition pursued for Celeste and the couple remanded for trial.
Old engravers including H E Sylvester reflect on wood engraving’s decline due to mechanical processes. Prices once paid, career changes to drawing, painting, or restaurant work are noted. Some engravers still find work making hand cut advertising cuts. half ton es and photogravure discussed as alternatives. The piece ends with a cautious look to future summer prospects.
The piece explains that one cent coins remain legal tender for debts of twenty five cents or less and that a debtor cannot be forced to take more than twenty five cents in cents in any single settlement. It notes the myth of Western traders refusing pennies and urges complaints to postal authorities if needed.
An 19th century Baltimore Sun excerpt recalls Daniel Webster's last Washington speech after his nomination loss, his grand praise for Gen Scott, and a later Civil War vignette where a trooper named Jim keeps a mule bound to duty. The tale blends political heartbreak with a humorous animal episode.
KE. W. Creecy retells a Baltimore tale about Mike Dooley a former driver who started posing as a doctor. A patient seeks help, pays twenty dollars and endures a pompous display before Dooley detects a wart on the patient’s heart indicating the ruse.
A commercial traveler, hoping for a large order, finds the shop closed on fete day. He follows the proprietor to a balloon ascent and, by bravely asking to ride, secures a seat. The pair humorously exchange a demand for future discretion and the traveler earns a big order. In a separate anecdote, G L Cramer recalls a Chicago laundry opened a week prior whose owner vanished leaving a mountain of unmarked clothes.
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