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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1896
Page
2
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The piece argues eight tickets for 25 cents would undercut walking costs, boosting ridership. It also reprints W U Jones’s Chicago Chronicle letter criticizing federal supremacy and Senate power, urging constitutional change to strip the Senate from revenue bills and promote direct House control.
Gen. C. L. Williams, 75 and an invalid, was arrested in Washington on a forgery charge. He allegedly offered a Christmas dinner to a Baltimore charity, copied the matron’s name on a $220 check, and obtained $120 cash after goods totaling $100 were charged, with the charity covering the rest.
A Phoenix man disputes a Yuma tale in the Journal Miner claiming a prominent Yuma resident died during a heat wave and was cremated in Los Angeles. The tale says after hours in a furnace at three hundred degrees the body sat up and cried to close the door to avoid catching cold.
The notice outlines a new time card effective Oct 20 providing Fort Wayne to Indianapolis travel from 7 10 a m to 11 28 p m and return from 6 25 p m to 10 20 p m enabling a half day at the state capital. It also includes a string of brief, humorous clippings from various papers.
A young man on a Detroit car tries to reclaim a dollar after placing it on a seat. An elderly woman sits, pockets the dollar, and warns she will fight if needed. Crowd laughs as the man exits, while she vows to uncover his actions.
A mixed set of brief comic vignettes and social quips from various papers includes a boastful horse and a laden ass on a highway, a nosy fashion incident about a woman’s gown and hat, and a young couple’s theater outing. Also noted is a color map comment from a Chicago post and opinion on rising posters.
A catalog of maladies including blood poisoning syphilis gonorrhoea stricture varicocele hydrocele loss of manhood urinary issues nocturnal emissions impaired memory weak back impotence and diseases from self abuse kidney bladder Bright’s disease diabetes with notes that a frequent urge to pass urine blood in urine and mucus in urine were all successfully treated.
A collage of witty exchanges and humorous asides from early 20th century papers. Jests range from dress fitting comments to antique revolvers and gallery visits, with punchlines about misdated weapons and social foibles.
A dialogue from the Boston Courier presents a suitor's question about proposed marriage. The reply suggests that refusing would lift months of doubt and fear, yielding happiness if the union is not pursued.
A humorous exchange notes Tom’s cold affecting his engagement with no taste. The caption references Fliegende Blatter and promotes the Fort Wayne Evening Post subscription.
Notice to citizens of Allen County Indiana that a applicant will seek a license to sell spirituous and malt liquors in quantities under a quart for one year at a business location on West 16 feet of a lot in Fort Wayne.
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