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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
8
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece explains piano detectives in Philadelphia who guard installment purchases. They watch buyers suspected of stealing pianos, timing their intervention over a few weeks to confirm or dismiss fraud, with detectives kept on by dealers if suspicions persist.
As nature shows improvement, change follows from candle and horse to electricity and automobile. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has sold for over fifty years, claimed to be unmatched for stomach or liver trouble and a sign of enduring value.
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad plans to equip its system with a telephone service as an auxiliary to the telegraph. Officials say the new method will save about 40 percent and may allow doing away with telegraph use if necessary.
Letter from Clara Makemer housekeeper at Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission in Chicago extols Peruna as a superior heat tonic. She claims it cures liver complaints dyspepsia and supports female health from youth through childbearing. The firm offers health guidance and free literature to women while advocating Peruna as a preventive against malarial infections.
Medical journals advocate testing railway employees for defective hearing and color blindness. A European study found only three of eighty two train crew members had perfectly normal hearing, prompting calls for a standard hearing power for examinations to be adopted.
An advertisement praises Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Company as a world famous, ethical laxative. It highlights physician approval, pleasant taste, quick benefits, and absence of unpleasant after effects, noting only the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company is effective.
A pompous member of Parliament arrived late at a Dublin agricultural show and tried to push through a crowd. A burly coal porter challenged him with Who are ye pushin. I am a representative of the people. The porter replied We’re the bloomin people themselves, refusing to yield. Also includes an advertisement for Swanson's Five Drops cure for rheumatism and related ailments with price and mailing terms.
A humorous dialogue shows a husband and wife discussing a quarrel, revealing the wife ignores him and the husband speaks in his sleep as a communication quirk. The exchange centers on domestic humor and miscommunication.
The passage promotes Grain-O as a nutritious coffee substitute for children, claiming it costs about the same and tastes like coffee when prepared properly. It also notes a colonial kettle drum of Palestine and includes a Laxative Bromo Quinine cold remedy with a money-back guarantee and E W Grove signature. It ends with Napoleon's quote and a note on Eagle Linen stationery.
An advertisement from The Piso Co. of Warren Pennsylvania touts Hall's Onsured Cure Ig as an internal remedy priced at 75 coats. The copy includes dubious claims and a promise to forfeit $1000 if any published testimonials prove untrue. It references ocean cables and grain coffee products in garbled wording.
The most venerable furniture piece, the throne of Queen Hatsu who ruled the Nile Valley about 1,600 years before Obsist, is now housed in the British Museum.
Women praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing female ills and relieving headaches and weakness. Letters from Mrs Goop correctionville Ta Mrs Stanley Campbellsburg Ind and other supporters recount recovery after using the medicine and urge others to seek Mrs Pinkham’s advice.
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