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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1896
Page
2
Hon. Charles McCulloch argues that selling eight tickets for 25 cents on the present street railroad line would make travel affordable, forcing more people to ride. He notes fixed charges cannot drop, but increased riders would boost popularity and profits.
The piece argues any inter urban line must secure a city franchise before operation to avoid dead capital losses. It cites Everett's route from Columbia City to Fort Wayne, warns of opposition from streetcar monopolies, and notes reforms and political pressure in 1896 including taxation and franchise changes.
Roads bought by the government lead to fares and freight rates halving while wages double. Belgium reports a similar pattern with wages rising and transport costs reduced. Despite gains for workers, the roads still contribute about 4 million dollars annually to government revenue.
The Barnum estate receipts from Venezuela amount to about 150 annually after a $1,400 compensation award. Venezuela pays in ten installments due to inability to issue a lump sum. The dispute mirrors wider tensions between Britain and Venezuela and reflects public interest in South American affairs. Miss Alice Cornwell of London looms large in London finance circles, with a colorful history as promoter of the Midas diamond and silver mines.
Dr Paul Gibier head of the New York Pasteur Institute plans a modern community in Rockland county between Suffern and Tuxedo Park. The project includes a sanitarium and social experiment in medicine music and art with careful administration and no-cost health benefits for the poor funded by the well to do.
The Custer battlefield in Montana will be transformed into a large park next spring. The government will install waterworks plant trees and replace the stake fence with a three foot high stone wall around the battleground.
Gates announces a January 14 1896 special train excursion from Toledo to Mexico via Wabash Railroad covering 6600 miles. The Pullman train includes vestibuled sleeping cars observation and library car palace dining and baggage car. Gates will accompany the trip and publish a detailed tour booklet with itin ery and data.
In a first of its kind record, Nels Thompson and a gang along the Snake track near St Regis encounter a wildcat trapped by ice to a rail. The frozen fore foot could not free the animal, a crowbar blow then killed it, with skin peeling after detachment.
The Cuban junta reports insurgents burned the Espana Angelito San Vicente Moralca Emperado Colina and many sugar estates in Matanzas. They use maja and juica snakes soaked in crude oil, set them alight, and release them in cane fields to spread fire across plantations.
A Pittsburg lawyer received a curious letter from Warren Bayley of Nopella Illinois seeking help to determine if a land lease to Harris existed and if the claim could be pursued in Pittsburg for five dollars. The oddly specific stake inspired local speculation.
The Venezuelan army on peace footing contains 1000 horsemen 4000 infantry and 1000 artillerymen with local militia and irregulars. Citizens aged 18 to 45 are liable for national militia service by law. Nickel Plate offers excursion tickets at low rates between Buffalo and Chicago for December 24 25 and 26 1895 and January 1 1896.
Washington society notes open the new year with a flood of social entrants and a president centered season. The piece describes the first New Year reception, the president's habit of work, and the social routines of cabinet wives and senators. It contrasts seasoned socialites with fresh recruits and notes the bills and burdens of official life in the capital.
A fragment lists diseases attributed to self abuse and illnesses of the male reproductive and urinary system including blood poison syphilis gonorrhoea stricture varicocele hydrocele and Bright's disease with notes of impaired memory weak back impotence and bladder disorders along with a claim of successful treatment and mention of mucous in urine and nocturnal emissions.
Advertises a clinic offering remedies for diseases of women including falling of womb leucorrhoea painful menstruation and all sexual organ diseases. Claims safe cures for sterility without knife or caustic with no hindrance to business. Also treats nervous diseases fits tumors cancers pimples moles and chronic illnesses. Office hours 8 A M to 5 P M.
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