15 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1871
Page
1
The entry lists publication details for the Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel with street addresses, publisher names, and printing arrangement. It notes evening publication with Sundays skipped and mentions the printer and associates in the Sanring area.
A compact Fort Wayne business directory lists top local shops across categories with names and street locations. It includes J A Shoafe at Palace of Fashion and N P Stockbridge at 98 Calumbus Street among others, detailing wholesalers retailers and manufacturers by street corners and blocks.
Societies section lists Winsonic War Council No 4 8 and 8 M meet second Wednesdays. Noert Wayne Chapter No 19 R A M meets first Wednesday. Omar Lodge No 342 F A M meets first Tuesday. Male City Lodge No 170 F A M meets first Friday. officers and abbreviations noted for each group with meeting places and routine dates.
Fraternal lodge minutes list officers and routine meeting days. Wayne Lodge No 14 meets Mondays with officers Gable Vollister McKean and others named. Summit Encampment No 16 meets first and third Fridays. Lodge No 19 convenes Thursdays with Stein W G and other members.
The Fire Department lists LEAT HVOK AND LADDER COMPANY No. 1 meeting on the first Wednesday monthly with OG Vovel as Foreman and A H Carlier as Secretary. Hose Company No. 1 meets at Fireman's Hall on the first Thursday each month with J Beard as Foreman and Henry Colerick as Secretary.
Paris reports that a peace treaty committee is chosen and a draft approved by Bis marck and Moltke, with German troops set to march through Paris to Strasbourg and home. Francs-Tireurs pillage departments, while the Provisional Government faces alleged graft and wine excess plots. Provisions arrive as Assembly in BovrvEAu debates Orleanist and Bonapartist influence.
Anti woman suffrage groups back a bill to end sex based pay in all government clerical and civil service roles. Introduced by Mr. Bingham as an amendment to the Judiciary Committee report rejecting the Woodhull memorial. Examinations. vacancies only. open to either sex. supporters include Mrs Dahlgren and Mrs Sherman.
New York Feb 14 severe snow storm slowed trading at the breadstuffs market. Common and middling State and Western flours were heavy but not lower, with a downward drift seen mainly in trade brands as holders seek to realize. Money market easy at call and prime paper in the 6 1/2 percent area.
Market notes show gold opening at 111 3-8 rising to 1121-2 then retreating to 111 1-8 closing at 111 1-8. Carrying rates listed for 3 1-2 to 5 percent. After adjournment quotations were 111 to 111 1-8. Snow storm slows dry goods activity and freight-rate reductions are debated as a key spring trade barrier.
WaAsuBURN the American Minister returns to Paris while the French propose a prolongation of the armistice. New York reports a severe snowstorm and West Point cadets restored to classes. Rumors say Tennessee may arrive with the Commission. A Paris bank offers 200,000,000 francs for war contributions. A piano maker dies of apoplexy. A Florence deputies vote on papal residue policy. A woman impersonator is arrested for fraud after claiming her husband died on the ill fated train.
The Indiana Senate reports many committee actions including a proposed constitutional amendment to grant voting rights to women age 21 and older, while other bills pass or are advanced. News notes cover salaries, road taxes, court appointments, and bond issues, plus varied items from public notices to curious anecdotes.
A large number of bills were reported back from committees with recommendations. Seventeen new bills were introduced, bringing total to 336. A temperance license inquiry for consumers and retailers was adopted. A preamble urges compulsory school attendance for 300,000 nonattending children. A currency reform joint resolution proposes removing National Bank restrictions. Neff's preamble notes a US Senate appropriation that could fund a Common School Fund. The geological survey act amendment fixes State Geologist salary at 2000 and expenses at 5000, referred back. Senate Fee and Salary bill set as special order for tomorrow at 10 oclock. Adjourned.
The piece mocks a morgue fading into farce, jokes about warm water and postponing dying. It mentions Tug Princess Louise threatening Gretna Green marriage to Marquis Lorne, noting such marriages are now abolished. It also cites Frank Buckland on portmanteaus, snakes, and a tally of 696 grain distilleries with 670 million gallons daily capacity and questions if government policy keeps whisky from funding imports.
Fort Wayne prices for flour grain and produce listed with ranges for wheat corn butter lard and more. New York markets note dull cotton petroleum provisions butter cheese bread and eggs with steady or unchanged quotes and ranges for futures and offerings.
Telegraph note from Cincinnati on February 15 reports cotton quiet and unchanged with middling up lands at 143, breadstuffs firm with flour at 699 and 650, corn firm then dull, rye quiet, oats firm, barley unchanged, pork dull with $2250 asked, lard and bulk meats steady, whiskey firm at 82 cents. Seeds and butter mixed, cheese quiet, timothy steady, other staples: rates and terms noted.
Fort Wayne lumber prices list pine lumber shingles and lath with varied clear and common board categories. Fort Toledo grain market reports steady breadstuffs with mixed wheat prices and hogs at 8.55, alongside receipts of flour wheat corn and oats.
Hinkley Knitting Machine Company promotes a Bath Maine and Chicago Illinois manufacturing device that knits stockings in various widths with five stitch types. It appeals to families and ladies for market use, offers liberal commissions, and invites readers to request a circular and sample stocking.
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