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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
6
A fashion piece notes lace appears on nearly every garment from gowns to wraps and millinery. It highlights lace collars cuffs and trims, with varying density from delicate fichus to heavy coats. The article praises lace as essential and adaptable across fabrics like voile satin and linen.
Julia Bottomley praises a new neckpiece by Flerret, a lightweight tulle ruff described as daring and dainty. The piece is wide and sheer, with rose buds and a musical motif, praised as joyful and delightful amid its perishable, delicate design.
The New York Herald describes a new petticoat featuring two large pockets on each side. Made of katin with flap covers, it aims to secure valuables during travel as the season shifts to trips from place to place. The item promises practical convenience for women carrying treasures beyond the handbag.
A collection of lighthearted questions with humorous answers about trains, fountains, milk, cake making, birds, stamps, letters, and a razorbill. The verses mix puns and visual clues, offering quick, playful riddles with punchlines.
A humorous anecdote sets a child’s curiosity about a chick breaking free from its shell. Bobby observes the energetic hatch and questions how the chick first entered the shell, prompting a playful moment with his incubator owner father.
A boy named Johnny asks his mother about the superstition of thirteen. He explains he ate one of thirteen little cakes to break the hoodoo, and his mother responds that some believe thirteen is unlucky.
In the playful dialogue children debate peach growth with Little Alice Do claiming trees or bushes, while Tommy humorously asserts peaches come in cans, reflecting a comic misunderstanding about fruit origins.
A historical recipe lists lemon jelly cake components with sugar butter and milk. The batter includes two cups sugar half cup butter one cup sweet milk three cups flour three eggs and three tablespoons baking powder. The jelly part uses one lemon grated one cup white sugar one tablespoonful butter boiled three minutes.
A Pennsylvania designer markets a compact pocket box with a knife blade, pencil sharpener, notebook, pin cushion, oil cap and more. The device resembles a large matchbox and includes a writeable pad, pin tray, pencil slot and a spring operated nail clip. A traveler could carry this box with a change of shirts and undergarments.
A children’s swing uses four pivoting levers attached to a frame. Ropes pass through the upper lever ends and attach to lower levers, so the weight of a swinger draws the mechanism into motion. The design aims to create a unique swinging action through interconnected levers.
A small mouse creeps out for cheese but hears a growl from a Tom cat. She hides behind a kettle lid until the danger passes. After the cat leaves, she returns to her hole with a full belly and safety.
Old muskets remain primary weapons for vast African regions, sustaining demand for gun flints. In Arandon Norfolk a hereditary flint industry thrives with centuries of quarrying and knapping producing gun flints carbine flints pistol flints and tinderbox flints for shepherds in Spain and Italy.
Fremont readers learn that Adler-i-ka mixture from De Caswell’s eases sour stomach and constipation. A single dose is said to drain old foul matter from the body, offering quick relief with simple buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients.
Johnny boasts of twins at his house saying they are alike as two peas. The neighbor asks how to tell them apart. Johnny explains he puts his anger in John’s mouth. if he bites, it’s Tira.
A Lincoln Nebraska man, Yttobael Hessheimer, recovered after six bottles of Electric Bitters, claimed to restore vitality, appetite, digestion, and strength. Advertised as improving blood, nerves, and digestion, offered at 50 cents a bottle from I De Cuswell.
A Vermont notice claims Lt. King's New Discovery cured a dread cough and lung trouble for F. Flint of Braintree. The ad extols the remedy as quick for coughs colds and throat complaints with a 1.00 price and guaranteed satisfaction.
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