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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
4
Harper's Weekly presents a meditation on endurance and sacrifice, praising those who endure illness and hardship with quiet dignity. The poem honors the unbowed spirit of the afflicted who persevere to serve, forgive, and endure toward a higher purpose.
Lottie Armstrong travels with Grandmother Eton to the Profile House area for a Bar Harbor visit. She hides a crush on hired man Edmund Roberts while navigating family plans and a late storm in the New Hampshire hills. Robert Roylston discovers Lottie’s feelings during the trip and a reconciliation hints at future marriage.
Louis L. Troy of Chicago, superintendent of the railway service division, claims photographs show the most complete wreck in the service's history near Boone, Iowa. The piece notes Austria Hungary’s multilingual parliament interpreters and remarks on popularity and busyness as a social observation.
Oklahoma farmers abandon horse labor for binders and reapers as machine efficiency and horse prices push ranches to hire tramp gangs. On the 101 ranch in Cherokee Strip, owner Joe Miller reports hiring twenty tramps to pull machines, cutting harvest costs by half.
The Cosmopolitan notes electricity is moving into home cooking for tea kettles coffee pots and chafing dishes. Electric griddles provide crisp results but need extra attachments. kitchens are becoming compact compact electric setups in urban apartments once not designed for housekeeping.
Miss Mary Enen Sigsbee daughter of Captain Charles D. T. Sigsbee commander of the Maine was secretly married in New York City on November 26, 1898 to artist Balfour Kerr. Precautions included identity masking and distorted reporting. The bride, a Washington resident, had just won an art life class prize before the marriage surfaced in unexpected fashion.
From humorous quips across papers, a collage of wits covers puns on heredity, love, secrets, mispronounced names, social faux pas, wedding anecdotes, and aging. Notable quips reference actors, doctors, tramps, and city life, with a playful, light newspaper tone.
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