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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1890
Page
3
A collage of jokes and quips from Chicago Tribune and Washington Star styles. snippets feature a fishing trip, a valet misplacing a uniform, a thunderous library scene, a cross examination gag, and a bemused visitor in a store. Multiple named papers and playful vignettes anchor the humor.
A collage of quips and cartoons from New York and Midwest papers. Snippets mock social mores, lovers, and public life with humor about marriage, aging, singing talent, hair origins, and idle chatter. Names tag remarks, revealing era attitudes in brief jests.
Describes white blood cells as scavengers that ingest disease particles and keep the body clean. Warns that germs in dust can cause illness. Highlights the bacillus of consumption attacking lungs and compares mortality from consumption to cholera in Europe and the United States.
A collection of oddities and vignettes from 19th century life, including a tall twelve foot sea plant, a conjoined multicorpse-like creature, a giant Mississippi alligator, dancing mileages for a waltz, a long tale of sixes and marriage dates, and tales of a mysterious eye on Rag Ridge with no proven explanation.
A genial absent minded professor arrives in a western town to visit an old college chum. He slips into a room where a fire burns and a figure sits in a chair. He pats the occupant on the head and greets him, only to discover the person is his friend's wife whom he has never met.
Two Frankfort reporters argued over a legislator’s name spelling during coverage. One claimed it ends with an a, the other bets an e, as they joked about the official spelling and the speaker’s handwriting.
The piece claims the world’s fair awarded Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for efficacy in malaria rheumatic and kidney disorders dyspepsia liver complaint constipation nervousness and debility citing positive facts and physician testimony urging a fair trial and verification.
In a Lexington land boundary traced to a stump and stones marked where Daniel Harrington licked William Smith the old deed hints at a boundary monument dispute. The 1786 document, recorded at Cambridge, leaves whether the stones or stump serve as the boundary monument unclear.
A British farmer aboard a steamer endures heavy rolling and quips that the captain does not understand his business. The humorous aside is followed by an advertisement for Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup, claim ing wide sale at two pence.
A user from New York states the product has done more for them than all other medicines, praising Mas I Pararon and chittensage Falla in a brief testimonial style notice.
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