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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1895
Page
2
The Red Cross launches a major relief expedition for Armenian sufferers. Miss Barton leads a global effort, facing European hesitation toward Turks, but anticipates strong Christendom support and swift aid under the sacred emblem.
The Chicago Record shows a double column cartoon of a street scene in Fort Wayne. An excited Italian fruit dealer is arrested by a policeman while another officer carries off his table and wares. A caption explains the man with the Star is a city officer enforcing municipal rights. Tributes to Allen G Thurman note honesty and uprightness across parties.
Mrs. Ernestine Schaffer, known as the Angel of the Tombs, is a wealthy philanthropist who spends Sundays driving ponies in a road cart and devotes her life to helping people unjustly accused or recently released from crime. She supports bail, runs two offices, and has lent over twenty thousand dollars for bail with minimal personal losses.
The item mentions payments to widows and dependents totaling $46 in some cases and $79 220 to army nurses. It also notes the Lake Erie & Western railway selling tickets to Atlanta on November 15 25 December 5 and 16 1895 at 16 25 good for 10 pays on account of exposition.
The New York Post notes widespread war talk yet finds little demand for conflict among taxpayers. It cites naval officers as more inclined toward war, while declaring realistic army involvement unlikely and mocking General Harrison's Indianapolis remarks about a future war and joined Georgia Indiana charges.
A Boston Globe critique rebukes the overproduction meme raised by Republicans amid tariff-era trade booms. It notes cotton mills in the South and nation surpassing needs, argues such claims shield faulty policy, and targets credulous crowds seeking protection for ragged workers.
The Bitter Creek senator shifts from aggressive stance to measured diplomacy. He favors careful Cuban self governance prep before any intervention and supports asserting the Monroe Doctrine only to the Guiana boundary dispute, signaling a more restrained approach as Congress nears session.
A Chicago Times-Herald observation notes Mr. Quay's plan to raise government revenues paired with a liberal proposal to spend them as quickly as they come in.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes Pingree’s clear Detroit majority praising his work as potato philanthropist while lamenting that many other successful candidates seem less worthy.
A fragmentary Washington Post note urges readers to send hard luck stories to William McKinley for advantage. It also cites Kansas City Times and Exchange comments predicting political tides and possible 1896 outcomes, critiquing Republican performance and national impact.
The source quotes a court stance about Harrison and a man who induced him to write about municipal politics. It notes Republican and A P A influence with Raye carrying in Omaha and remarks on a political surge described as a tidal wave in St Louis Republic.
Washington column notes a surge of journalists and printers in Congress. It highlights Secretaries Lamont, Smith, Morton and many senators and representatives who owned or edited newspapers, underlining journalism as a training ground for public service and policy understanding.
Cartoonish dialogue from Punch shows a family reacting to unseen visitors in the drawing room. The exchange highlights a playful tension as Papa and Mama are addressed in endearing terms while a hush falls on the room.
In a lively exchange, Mrs Donovan Michael and Mr Donovan debate a goat in the front yard with tongue in cheek humor about signs, licorice horns, and a neighborly misunderstanding.
The Nickel Plate road announces sale of excursion tickets at reduced fares for travel between Buffalo and Chicago. Eligible travel dates are December 24 and 25, 1895, December 31, 1895, and January 1, 1896.
Do you wish to save or borrow? Allen County Loan and Savings Association offers unlimited borrowing and a repayment rate of 1 per month per 100 borrowed. Loans can be repaid in full anytime with no penalties. Members listed include Gorter Hauer president and other officers and directors.
A list of male sexual and urinary ailments including syphilis gonorrhoea impotence and kidney bladder disorders is presented with a claim that a treatment successfully addresses frequent urination bloody urine and mucous in urine. The text implies a medical cure or remedy for these conditions.
Advertises a medical practitioner offering cures for sexual organ diseases including sterility, leucorrhoea, painful menstruation, piles without knife or caustic, nervous disorders, warts, tumors, cancers, pimples, and moles. Claims to treat all chronic diseases and to cure when others fail.
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