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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
5
A light verse portrays a unruly baby boy who dominates the household with mischief and joy. The narrator highlights his antics from waking early to bounding through chores, leaving parents exasperated yet loving. The poem ends with a note of forgiveness and acceptance.
A deformed boy named Joe Bryan, scarred by infancy loss, saves a runaway locomotive by stopping the engine with his quick brain and brave heart. The crowd, moved by his sacrifice, funds him but he seeks a chance to work and learn to prove his worth, becoming Crooked Joe or Mr Joseph Bryan.
An observer recalls a striking two hour speech that elevates a native city figure to professional leadership, describing the speaker as a wonderful man while recounting the tale of Crooked Joe and the journey home with a friend.
A Washington Star anecdote recalls a West Virginia Kentucky tour during the Spanish-American War era. A mountain girl quips that Jim Short will not enlist until his pride shifts, after quips about his courting history and cowardice.
A New York World note estimates five billion cigars and 3.75 billion cigarettes smoked in the last fiscal year in the United States. With 25 million men of smoking age, about 200 cigars and 150 cigarettes per man imply many non-smokers exist. cigars rose by 6 million while cigarettes fell by 400 million, possibly linked to bicycles reducing demand for various goods.
Archduke Josef of Austria-Hungary, renowned horseman, faced a dangerous challenge with a difficult horse at the school. After sitting firm through frantic attempts, he finally tamed the creature, but the horse collapsed and died from a broken backbone, preserving the duke’s honor as the sole Hungarian rider.
English pickle makers fill pint bottles to hold more than a pint to dodge a law. In Canada any package over a pint triggers a duty on a quart. The practice sparks regulatory clashes and duty concerns across the border.
The remark notes a boy's life has a prebedtime period when sleep eludes him and a morning after period when getting up is hard. It analogizes this to coal as a vein like subject. The tone hints at observational humor about daily routines and energy.
A collection of social quips and anecdotes from the past features Beau Brummell’s sharp tea quip, a Polish Jewish arrestee asked to bathe, the Duchess of Somerset’s missing goods tale, and the French ambassador’s barb about shopkeepers. Other vignettes cover a Vancouver shop clerk, a Chicago prep school professor, Oscar Wilde's epigram, a New York Sun club tale, and Rockefeller humor.
The clerk describes an early conversation with the small, mustached man, who smiles and gives instructions. The young man asks who the gentleman is and learns that it is Mr. Rockefeller, head of the major corporation he works for, marking his first encounter with the magnate.
A Melbourne correspondent proposes that New Zealand kea parots pierce sheep backs seeking a white lichen like wool beneath which small fatty substances reside. The hypothesis suggests misled birds confuse dead sheep with the lichen mass, prompting the new feeding habit.
A Philadelphia Record item describes several boys on Wissahickon drive at Rittenhouse Street forming a push gang. A stout woman seeks aid up the steep hill. a child accepts the job, earns a penny, and jokes that it is not education. The rider’s wheel wobbles as the boy offers to return her for a nickel.
The piece discusses possible migration of Black Americans to Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines as new homes, noting a historical Black belt along the Gulf and Southern propensity to colonize distant territories. It also recounts folk magic practices among Southern Black communities such as root remedies love spells and protective rites, including dog deterrent charms and binding a wife with a hidden image.
An 1890s sentiment argues that with forty five women per hundred men in West Australia, single women should consider emigrating. It suggests New England women would be valued there and claims women discover their power only when few in number. The piece chides flirtation as always fair in love.
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