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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1890
Page
8
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative benefiting kidneys, liver, and bowels without weakening them. It highlights pleasant taste, universal medical approval, and claims of curing constipation, with bottles at 50c and 1.00 from the California Fig Syrup Co. only.
A claimed universal cure is offered for humor disorders and scrofula with more than a century of testimonials. The formula is said to work in 11 hundred cases, with two exceptions, and provides relief from first bottle. Lungs liver and bowels pains are described as signs of duct blockage that disappear within a week. No diet change needed. dose is one tablespoonful in water at bedtime. readers urged to read the label and request the book.
James Mundie of Carscaden and Peck returns from the West with startling news of wood buffalo numbers. Traders say 200 robes will reach Edmonton this summer and musk ox robes sell for 40 dollars. A second item describes Naples church rites where orphans may be chosen in marriage each year.
The Boston Home Journal quotes Daniel Dougherty at Narragansett Pier, asserting that the charming young man there is either poor or inheriting wealth. Dougherty calls him too refined and cultured to have earned a fortune, a view revealing his sharp view of social luck and money.
The article explains search lights' vital role for steamers and military ops, enabling night visibility across miles. It notes the Suez Canal's new rule starting Oct 1 requiring vessels to use a projecting light splitter to emit two divergent rays, preventing glare as ships pass closely.
The article describes traditional Chinese bone setting where a fractured limb is wrapped in red clay with bamboo strips and a live chicken head in the outer bandage. After securing the bandage the chicken is beheaded and its blood is allowed to soak the fracture, claimed as nourishing medicine.
The text contrasts crosses of the present moment with anxious foreboding crosses. It argues grace comes with present crosses and faithless spirit saps it. It urges self abandonment and submission to God’s will to find consolation in every moment and in discipline.
The article describes English jail punishment chiefly by a weighted crank handle inside a box marking revolutions from eight to eleven thousand as a daily task. It notes mechanical labor includes pumping water, grinding meat, and corn grinding allows rest only to finish the set workload.
Persian peasants cling to ancient rites to ward off cholera. Two elders hold a Koran scroll between them as villagers pass under the silken shield, believing the rite protects them though the epidemic ravages the land.
In this quotation Joseph Cook argues that partnership between men and women builds both home and state. He suggests that broader suffrage strengthens society, reducing corruption as power becomes more distributed.
In San Bernardino County California a five dollar bounty on coyotes disrupted balance with jackrabbit overrun. Rabbits devastate farms while coyotes attack few lambs. Supervisors vote 20 cents per pair of rabbit ears to curb rabbits though county treasury may strain.
The piece traces mirror use from brass from Moses’s days to polished black stone seen by Spaniards in South America. It notes fifteenth century convex glass mirrors made in Germany, Venice's early sixteenth century glass mirror factory, and James II era public displays of looking glasses as brooches and girdle ornaments.
An old description links a jaundiced face and yellow eyes to biliousness. It cites headaches, coated tongue, liver pain, right shoulder blade ache, and dizziness when standing or arising as symptoms. Hostetter's Stomach Bittern is advertised as a sovereign remedy. It also claims help for chills, fever, dumb ague, kidney and bladder inactivity, rheumatism, and nervousness, aiding digestion, sleep, and age-related infirmities.
A curiosity worthy of a museum sits in a bird nest woven entirely from long spiral steel shavings with no vegetable fiber. It was discovered in Switzerland in a center of a major watchmaking region.
Tommy asks if matches are made in heaven. Mrs Com replies affirmatively. Papa confirms, noting mamma’s wisdom. Dialogue touches on belief in heavenly origin of matches, with a Detroit Free Press attribution.
Low rate harvest excursions to Iowa Minnesota Kansans Nebraska Col orado Wyoming Utah North and South Dakota Manitoba Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and Arizona depart every Wabash Rail road station on October 10 with tickets valid return twenty days from date of water. For particulars apply to the nearest agent of the Wabash Railroad.
A playful dialogue contrasts loud clock stockings with alarm clocks for tired feet. An ad touts Beecham's Pills as a malaria cure, and a universal cough syrup promises prompt relief. A quip notes that anger reveals real sentiments in a light, period voice.
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