16 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1871
Page
1
Fort Wayne readers are urged to use the new Fort Wayne Business Directory listing as a ready reference. The carefully selected guide lists top houses in Art Galleries Books and Stationery Binders and more with full addresses and wholesale retail notes for quick purchases.
Societies section lists Ayne Council No 4 R & SM meets second Wednesday monthly. Port Wayne Chapter No 19 R A M meets weekly with first Wednesday stated. Numerous lodges and officers named. schedules include Tuesday/Friday gatherings, and encampments across Ayne and Port Wayne with hall locations and officer lists.
Fire Department, LEAT Hook and Ladder Company No 1 holds monthly meetings on the first Wednesday with FG. Veyzel as Foreman and A. 4H. Carter as Secretary. Ope House No 1 meets the first Thursday at Fireman's Hall led by Jd. Beard as Foreman and Henry Colerick as Secretary. nov 8-dly.
Paris faces tense reception as German troops near the city amid opposition headlines in London papers. Reports cite meager food distribution, rising exactions in the Seine department, and calls for abatement from Dieppe protesters. General Faidherbe signals readiness of the Army of the North to meet threats.
In New York on February 15 the common and medium State and Western flour market was dull due to Liverpool declines and gold premium shifts. Wheat fell abroad while stock trading remained weak. The money market was dull and easy, with bonds gaining steam in high-class issues. Union Pacific moved from 207-8 to 201-2, then to 211-4, as overall market remained soft. Dry goods buyers from the South and West watched for railroad freight cuts and domestic business gains. A Salt Lake note reports B Youne greeted by crowds and wives lining streets upon return from a country visit.
Foreign dispatches note Belfast agreeing to an armistice while Paris braces for possible hostilities. Uprisings in Cork greet a released Fenian captain as authorities deploy sabres and mounted police. In domestic news, Ohio gunfire grisly. a man shot in Rollsburg. a train accident in Indiana. N J ratifies the XVth amendment. and a water shortage looms in Brooklyn. The Pension and other committees report thousands of claims, with total House filings nearing three thousand.
A Louisville coroner's jury returns a verdict of murder by intent to injure, while the accused denies it. California crops prompt remarks on weed growth. A New Haven boy seeks removal of hitching posts after a schoolboy injury. A drug clerk misgrades a customer’s quinine for arsenic, leading to a funeral. Continental Hotel bachelors allegedly flee to the woods after wedding parties arrive. A California husband sues over repeated pleading in a case of alleged enticement. Keno’s popularity among gamblers is noted for its slow, steady loss. Auburndale residents face an extreme method to remove an obstinate neighbor near a railroad. No patent has been filed on that scheme.
Senate reports from committees propose amendments to the Common School law including reducing the school examiner pay. A minority report on a constitutional amendment to grant women 21 and older the right to vote was debated. the white before female clause passed but the overall resolution was rejected. House actions include dyke and drain measures and a bill on districting for Congressional elections. The session adjourned after actions on redis tricting and related refer decisions.
Readers favor Thackeray and Scott, with rising interest in Buckle Mill and Macaulay essays. Many fiction and standard works show strong circulation, while science writers like Tyndall Huxley and Lubbock attract wide attention. A presidential message critiques a loyalty oath law as discriminatory.
Financial and commercial notes list grain and other staples with prices for flour, wheat, corn, oats, beans, dried fruits, and meats. Telegraphed updates from New York and Cincinnati give current commodity rates and currency movements, reflecting market demand and trading levels in mid February.
Telegraph dateline Tocreno February 16 notes steady prices for breadstaffs and flour with wheat firm. No 1 white Michigan 156 dollars, amber Michigan 136 half, No 1 red Wabash 140, No 2 135. Corn quiet 58 and 63 half to 59. Onte dull and lower at Michigan 52. Clover seed steady at 630. hoge steady at 885. Receipts list flour 600 bushels, wheat 2000, corn 8000, oats 5000.
Advertising notice from Howard Sanitary Aid Association offering essays for young men termed relief for the erring and unfortunate, diseased and debilitated. Sent in sealed letter envelopes free of charge. Address No. 2 South North Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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