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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1896
Page
5
An extended travelogue describes mountain locals preparing for a farmers picnic at Glen Cove with guns, brawls and accusations. The account details sawed rifles, gun repairs, and violent clashes leaving several dead or injured as a preacher clashed with a skeptic over Bible sales.
A fragmentary montage shows Mrs Blublud seeking loaded dice for a scheme to enrich a groom, a wedding epithalamium misheard as a term, and Mr Blublad balking at expenses. The pieces shift to Charley economizing, keeping a 50 cent necktie to save for better ones.
Excerpts reveal social attitudes as characters joke about romance and marriages in 19th century society. A captain questions a lieutenant about marrying Richman’s daughter while noting family opposition. A witty remark contrasts circumspection with social propriety in Miss Port and Miss Strait Lace.
In a clipped exchange, Miss Twenty Summers and Miss Forty Winters discuss the terrors of war while Dinguss and Shadbolt trade a comic coin on borrowing. The Quips capture wartime anxiety and practical thrift through neighborhood chatter.
In a New York World dialogue, Misa Gotrox argues poverty is not a crime, while a character counters that poverty is punishable by hard labor. The strip frames social critique through satirical banter about justice and poverty.
In La Salle Illinois a large tom goat named Dan, part of a dramatic company with John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan, knocked out the former heavyweight champ with a single hit after freeing himself from a wall tie. Sullivan later praised Dan’s fighting, claiming the goat could whip any goat on earth.
George J. Foster of Alameda California awoke to a bleeding ear after a mouse gnawed him in bed. He told the San Francisco Examiner he was terrified and set traps around his room. A physician treated the swelling and inflammation.
The Boston and Albany railroad adopts a fusee safety device. a flagman warning rear trains can be slow, so a red light on a pointed rod and crosstie fusee burns for 15 minutes and projects visibility for a mile. Also notes Grant death mask completed in Hartford for a New York Grand Army post. W H Gale, Newport’s oldest Mason, turns 95. Cap Doesn’t Fit.
Gates announces a special Pullman train will depart Fort Wayne via Wabash Railroad at 1 30 p m Tuesday January 14. The 30 day journey covers 6600 miles through noted regions of Old Mexico the Egypt of the New World with compartment dining library and observation cars. For rates routes maps and tour books contact the Wabash Ticket Office telephone 6 7 61.
A playful rhyme extols BRENZINGER'S BAKERY and the honeymoon beyond an old time ad for BREAD. It shifts to travel details on L. E. W. Ry and Big Four Ry with a Fort Wayne to Indianapolis schedule. A public notice invites stockholders of the Fort Wayne and Decatur Gravel Road to a Jan 21 meeting at 2 p m chaired by Gorter Haier.
John Luly of South Hanna Street expected home in Chicago. A son born to Mr and Mrs George Keel of Toledo with Mrs Keel formerly Miss Effie Grand of DeWald Street. Young Ladies Cooking club meets at 2 30 PM at Miss Alice Dryers on Thompson Avenue. Dr Porter with Drs Sturgis McCaskey and Drayer operated on Mrs Mary Eisinger yesterday. she remains critically ill. Simpson M E church members visited Mr and Mrs A W Paschal for a pleasant evening with refreshments. Centennia Pedro club hosted by Mr and Mrs Charles Jones. prizes won by Mrs Louis Schmoe Jr and Mr Hugh Hogan. consolations to Mrs Charles Kratch and Mr Henry Bilmond. August Korn and Amelia Brunner to wed next week. Brunner, sister-in-law to Justice Huser, is noted as an accomplished young woman with many friends.
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