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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1875
Page
4
The ad proclaims major price cuts on all dry goods and carpets with a closing out sale. It lists items such as ladies linen shirts dresses parasols and sun umbrellas silks laces and embroideries, plus fans muslin underwear and trims. The message emphasizes unprecedented discounts over the past ten years.
A Wall Street friend is advised to invest in a mortgage on a gentleman's house as a safe sure thing. The ad promotes a large stock of crockery glassware lamps china silver plated ware knives and forks offered at New York prices free of charge. Country merchants are invited to inspect the quality at No 9 Columbia Street.
Local vendor advertises a large stock of new quality fireworks including large cannon crackers at about half the usual price.
Watermelons in town and local reflections fill the page. The cornerstone for a new $20,000 brick school-house will be laid at Portland next Saturday. Justice Edwall weighs the State vs Patrick Connere case while street widening troubles inflame Taylor street residents. City engineer Ryall maps Jackson street through Hanna addition as a buggy crash on Harrison injures a man. Postmaster bids and politics stir the city as Zollinger suspends Pat Connors. A night blooming cereus spectacle draws crowds at Ayers’ drug store.
A Fort Wayne mother pursues her daughter who vanished with a fifty year old Randolph Walter after a alleged abduction from Ohio. The search widens to Columbia City as editorials defend railroad affairs and deny a $600,000 claim while asserting no debt to Continental improvement or Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad companies.
The Cincinnati Gazette Cambridge City special says heavy rain damaged railroad infrastructure in Indiana. Bridges at Lickcreek and Shaker Run were washed, culverts and embankments failed, five miles of track between Milton and Bedéets harmed, and a major bridge on Whitewater Valley road badly damaged. crews work to restore service by tomorrow.
The sminiageriant deserve much praise for the stepa taken to insure success and it must indeed be gratifying to observe the appreciation of their efforts.
Local society items list visits and travel of residents and visitors including H N Ward in from Detroit and City Clerk Godown from New York. Notables such as Senator Bell, Rev Father Nierman, Frank Moulton, J W Rout, Jennie Morrison, Mrs Jones and Miss Lizzie Newkirk are noted with origins and destinations. The piece mentions dental convention attendance, salary change for G O Watrous, a wallet gift to J B Morgan with $160, and a plan for Mackinaw trip.
Barnum's Hippodrome advertising agent George Fields discusses the mammoth show traveling by 61 Barnum cars to Grand Rapids Kalamazoo and Detroit with stops at Fort Wayne Logansport Lafayette and Danville. The Detroit run sold 13 800 tickets and the tent seats 13 000. a balloon ascension by Donaldson will rise 23 000 feet worth of gas will be used. The act features genuine races and magnificent chariots.
Come at once and act quickly as limited time bargains appear first in this week’s shopper alert. Invite neighbors to share the news and reap immediate savings on select items while supplies last.
The speaker warns that some firms may offer inferior goods at the same price but asserts that their 6c prints include top titles such as Spragues and Merrimacks. They claim no prior era has allowed selling these at such a low price.
A local store advertises steep carpet discounts with Brussels Carpets reduced to 1.00 and 0.65, Ingrain Carpets down to 0.40 and 0.50, 0.75, 0.60, 0.18 per yard Cottage Carpets, all marked as best manufactured. Prices are described as unprecedented in the state with no room for full quotations.
The report notes Mayor Ryan’s steadfast approach and mentions several local fines including John Mohrweisser for disorderly conduct at $5.75 and Benjamin Lauer fined $5.00 for striking an eye. Albert Wise paid $3.75 for a back light violation and lighted up. A Presbyterian festival doll donated by Miss Effie Colerick drew attention as a prize valued over $40.
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