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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1896
Page
2
Democratic council candidates rebuked for favoring corporations especially street railway interests, urging voters to oppose Scheid in Seventh Ward Sommers Second Ward Borkenstein in Tenth Ward. At large candidates listed John Mohr R J Fisher H Waltemath. New date notes for subscribers.
Fort Wayne Journal criticizes Democratic rhetoric urging voters to choose between true democracy and its traitors. The piece questions who defines democracy and accuses corporations, monopolies, and tax dodging of corrupting the party, urging readers to evaluate who manufactures democracy.
A Post note corrects a city tax figure for Jenny Electric Light and Power to 1933 and condemns tax dodging. It discusses southern delegates to the St Louis convention and McKinley factions, then invites sealed bids until April 28 1896 for remodeling the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne with plans by architect A Druiding. Bishop Joseph Rademacher signs the notice.
An article reviews summer millinery focusing on net gauze and mousseline de sole hats with velvet brims and dainty trims like choux and ruches. Mauve and green are fashionable. French milliners use wire supports for flower placements. Light gloves gain popularity and boots rather than shoes suit day wear. elaborate collarettes and theater toques are described with varied materials and colors.
In the Senate Hawley of Connecticut argued against extending civil service rules to rural post offices. He favored keeping traditional country post offices with local postmasters serving nearby towns and warned against placing city civil servants in distant rural posts. He also noted the nation’s long Civil War legacy and cited census figures on surviving veterans and their geographic distribution, including large Confederate veteran numbers in Texas and Pennsylvania’s Union veterans.
Mrs Ida Wellman, left in charge during the Robinsons’ trip, redecorates with extreme measures. She nails a carpet to the ceiling, alters portraits, bars, furniture, and even builds stables and hen coops. The owners return to a ruined parlor and a front hall like a wreck. The couple moves to a boarding house while Wellman ends up in an asylum.
A venting narrator rails at pedestrians wheelmen and trolley companies for crowding streets. He calls for sidewalks and tunnels to protect rider rights, condemning old people and children as obstacles and urging stricter traffic control.
W W Barnett M D Deputy Coroner and J H Kappan request the Democratic nominating convention consider them as candidates for the office of coroner of Allen County subject to the convention's decision. They seek public announcement of their candidacies.
Fort Wayne envisions a future city park adjoining Lakeside on the north extending to the Driving Club grounds. The proposed 160 acre park would include a grove of forest trees measuring a quarter mile by half mile, a natural feature that would take centuries to grow elsewhere. Residents of Lakeside would be included in the new park.
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