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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
6
A slender, pale faced boy known as Rubber Ramp saves 500 Sunday school riders when a way freight crashes into an excursion train near Belair. He opens a switch in time, derailing the wreck and preventing loss of life as his peers watch in awe at the boy they deemed a quiet, poor "country cracker."
In a Sunday school backed gesture a railroad official and the superintendent visit Mr Ramp to announce a promotion the excursion train helper known as Bubber receives a bicycle and a gold watch for his faithful switch-key work since childhood. The young man expresses astonishment and humility at the reward.
A Philadelphia Inquirer reflection on the everyday unkindness and control within households. The piece laments how affection binds people to unreliable partners, who abuse trust as workers quit and couples endure mistreatment. It contrasts courting charm with married habit, noting endless small cruelties at home.
At 3 PM on Aug 16 Mauro Gruenbaum lacked money home or clothing. By 4 PM he learned via letter that his uncle in Turin left 15 million to two nephews, making Gruenbaum heir to 7.5 million. A Budapest acquaintance sent the news. Gruenbaum arrived in New York five months ago penniless and owes his benefactor Schwartz a share of the fortune.
The piece notes a tragic custom where a native wades into Lake Nyassa and waits for a crocodile to swallow him. It also observes substantial spending on cake frosting at weddings despite a long future for plain bread.
A scattered survey notes early electric light experiments by Davy and France before 1853, Edison’s commercial use, and global efforts in match paste, Antarctic kites, and volcanic heat. It discusses the deep earth’s heat, steam pressures, and a customs practice in India where a creditor starves to death before a debtor, causing the debtor’s family to retaliate, framed as a murder liability.
A fragment from Our Youth's Friend recalls Franklin raising a toast to George Washington as the one who made the sun and moon stand still. The page also offers a quip: some fear being fooled while a busy man speaks business and an agent is not a business man.
A Washington Star tale recounts a boy lured by bad company who, after a father’s tale and a trunk with the boy’s name, rejects crime. The boy later becomes a Southern state governor and aims for the U.S. Senate, valued at about half a million.
A Maltese resident writes to a Pacific queen seeking marriage and funds for passage, offering to repay with love. The letter never reached the queen, being intercepted and routed through a chain from a head chief to a Sydney trader and then to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
The text explains that a snake sheds its skin regularly about every four to five weeks and that the eye skin often comes off with the rest. It notes the eye covering is usually transparent.
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