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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
7
A collage of short anecdotes, memories, and social witticisms recounts 19th century manners and humor. Tales span census curiosities, a conductor’s quip about paying, sharp retorts at dinners in Washington, Klondike rushes, a small boy’s barn loss, a hotel parlor chat, and a Chicago mathematician’s puzzled multiplication by a fraction. It closes with reflections on common sense and a temperate caution on fashion and virtue.
The article notes world peanut production around 600 million pounds with U S output about 44 million and Africa and India exporting near 400 million to Europe. it then shifts to a Virginia law from a century ago about punishing slanderous women and reports a strange religious service, a Chicago murder case of Luetgert with sensational details, a bank burglary in Napanee Ontario, and weekly flour production figures for Minneapolis and nearby cities.
A dog named Peter, famed from a New York Fire Department arclette, rides along in a tale where he breaks a baker’s window to reach a fire scene. The dog helps clear a path as the fire crew responds before being put on probation and the window repaired. Also noted are contemporary snapshots of German social customs on paying for refreshments and a widow jailed for milking other people’s cows in England.
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