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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1900
Page
8
Advertises dental care as affordable and painless before winter. Promotes dental supplies and services at 7s Calhoun street with contact via phone.
A dense, garbled fragment mixes names, places, and terms across a maze of pseudo fiction. It weaves references to imagined beings, fictional realms, and scattered proper nouns without clear narrative or events.
A damaged OCR fragment describes plaster and remedy terms, naming persons and places in a scattered historical record. It references supplications and materials, hinting at a ritual or medical use, with unclear context and multiple misspellings. The piece lacks coherent narrative but preserves named entities from the era.
The article reviews swamp land and river works in Kankakee valley and Lake County Indiana, noting $70,000 spent on drainage schemes and river obstructions. It quotes Indiana commissioner John Brown and details ditches Singleton and Brown, their cost, dimensions, and limited repairs while claiming some land benefited through improved cultivation and drainage.
Local debate centers on river obstructions and drainage schemes in the Kankakee valley. Nelson Morris claims 23 000 acres and drainage plans may divert school funds. he argues funds were misapplied and should be returned to the drain area. Promoters and state surveys have consumed large sums, with $5 000 once allotted for Campbell's survey and other funds reportedly diverted.
Mrs Tyson Borer presented Ten Ways of Cooking Oysters at the 10th annual food show. She demoed oyster cocktails fried in oil, pickled with parsley, oyster cutlets, curry and other preparations. Instructions covered oil heat, breading, frying, draining, and serving with salads and garnishes.
An advertisement promotes S S S blood purifier as a cancer cure, recounting a case where a jaw cancer allegedly healed after treatment. It blends medical claim with recipes for oysters including curry oysters, oyster steak, oyster salad, broiled oysters, and oyster sauce for turkey, all presented in a period newspaper tone.
Policy holders are notified that due to retail growth under Mr H W Ten Broek general agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co New York the front part of the third floor in the Slektron building has been leased. The new offices will open on June 3 1901.
The article notes a meeting of the stockholders of the Home Telegraph and Telegraph Company to elect officers and conduct other business. The session is set for December at 8 p.m. at the Commercial Club, with Polk Rignne described as the new bolcot wide store fronting on Berry.
Indiana officials prepare four bills fixing salaries for state officers and county officials. The first bill sets governor and cabinet pay plus clerks and deputies. the second establishes pay for justices of the peace and constables with scale by township population. the third outlines traveling expenses for county judges. the fourth requires certified county office expenses.
A sale of art and sculpture items including busts, figures, panels and reliefs from various styles and periods. Offers are wholesale and retail. Location noted as Maiden Law and Main streets. Stamps referenced as Uncle Sam stamps.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a loan discussion for a pier project with fixed 1 percent rate. Names and precise entities are unreadable, but the item centers on financing terms and a proposed public works loan proceeding.
Fall and winter apparel showcased by G Schmidt's Merchant Tailor at 67 Henry Street. See Lange line of simple pla nd a for up to date styles and tailoring.
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