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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1893
Page
8
A French trend toward employing women as street shoe cleaners spreads rapidly, especially in Toulon and select towns. The women present a coquettish appearance with nurselike caps and frills and often polish in gauntlet gloves. In cities with many English and American visitors the venture proves financially successful, aided by marriages to affluent patrons impressed by their shine.
The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an all purpose remedy for malaria and related ailments. It claims the tonic eradicates malaise from stomach to nerves, acts as a safeguard against malarial poison in air and water, and is essential for outdoor workers and those facing rough weather or stress.
Nancy Mann Waddle advises in Ladies' Home Journal on fern care. Most ferns need shade and moisture, sun harms fronds and recovers poorly. Potting uses crock fragments, sand, leaf-mould, loam, and charcoal. Ferns thrive in open soil and should not be sprayed with water on gold and silver varieties.
A compact quotation asserts that labor forms healthy thought and thought sustains happy labor, stressing a mutual dependence that cannot be broken without cost. The line emphasizes the interdependence of work and thinking as a moral or practical ideal.
Justice of the Peace George Wilkinson of Lowville Minnesota filed a deposition detailing a severe cold that settled on the lungs in spring 1888. He credits one bottle of Boschee's German Syrup with ending the night sweats and restoring health, giving it his earnest commendation.
The silver faction in the Senate delays action on repeal as talks to compromise fade. President Cleveland rejects concessions, angering silver leaders who vow to filibuster. A cloture vote seems unlikely with a large but not unified majority favoring repeal. no vote anticipated before October.
The Senate discussed silver questions and repeal measures with the House pushing a sinking fund repeal bill to a joint select committee. Nominations were sent to the Senate while the House waited on committee reports and adjourned amid debates over the Sherman law repeal and territorial admission.
A Scottish Unionist critique denounces English dominance and calls for honoring treaty obligations. It asserts Scotland’s separate identity within the United Kingdom, honors Scottish regiments, and rejects being labeled English. The piece claims loyalty to the British Crown, condemns attempts to merge Scotland into England, and argues the union has not denationalized Scotland.
A farmer wife in The Indianapolis Journal quips that her husband fled early with a shotgun after a confrontation with a mowing machine agent. She muses whether he is heading to a white-capping or to meet a green-goods man, reflecting frontier humor and rural tension.
A Rochester man devised a lever operated steel shoe device for trolley street cars. The shoe rides under the rear wheels with a corrugated underside to create rail friction. When the wheel climbs the shoe the mechanism clamps the wheel rim and rail edge, instantly slowing the car with a single motorman action.
The second anniversary of marriage inspires a paper wedding with paper dresses, flowers, plates, and decor. Guests are urged to come giftless, but crepe paper gifts like lamp shades and table spreads are charming. Photos, etchings, books, or magazine subscriptions offer lasting pleasure at low cost.
A large industrial project rises in Barrow England to produce steel petroleum barrels. Barrels are formed in halves by hot compression in a mold and welded together by electricity. They target oil carriers in the east where cold temperatures ruin wood casks and cause leakage.
A historical note describes a whitewash mix using a half-bushel of lime, eight quarts of salt in hot water, two and a half pounds of ground rice boiled to paste, one pound of glue dissolved in hot water, and half a pound of fine whitening. After combining, add hot water to achieve brushable consistency and let the mixture rest a day or two before applying hot.
E A Rood of Toledo reports his wife was cured of catarrh fifteen years ago by Hall's Catarrh Cure and has had no return. The product is available at Druggista for 750 units of currency.
A terse exchange between a teacher and a singer over vocal method. The teacher claims the forehead and scalp muscles are not being used to best effect, prompting a brief question from the singer and a concise reply.
Emma M Hooper writes in The New Colors and Materials about colors. Green is the key versatile color matching with many shades and tones. Green blends with brown tan black gray purple and even blue while yellowish greens can jar and grayish greens harmonize. New old rose shades pair with brown gray green black and purple.
The modern beauty thrives on good food and sunshine with ample outdoor exercise. Her glowing health shows in her face as she follows a regimen that includes a gentle laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, for cleansing when needed.
A short exchange imagines masculine and feminine traits in trees. A teacher asserts plants are gendered while a child questions the idea, referencing California trees with trunks large enough for a house as evidence of feminine traits.
Low rate harvest tours will depart from Wabash Railroad stations on October 10 at very low rates to towed Minnesota Kansas Nebraska Orado Wyoming Utah North and Ma nakota Manitoba Tennessee Misatsa Alabams Louisiana Arkansas Indian H ictory Oklahoma Texas and Arizonia. Tickets valid twenty days for return. For details contact the nearest Wabash agent.
A quirky mix of dialogue captions and ad blurbs appears, noting a courtroom quip about love and marriage, several patent medicine pitches from Beecham's Pills and Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup, and a wartime style proverb about Sunday importance. The fragment hints at a periodical page with satirical lines and commercial notices.
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