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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1895
Page
3
Chicago Record describes Jonesville postal life as neighbors gather nightly for the weekly mail delivery. The sorter has fifteen years on the job and watches for Ned, Polly Perkins, and Widder Tomkins as letters arrive or fail to arrive from the city.
In Tournont a wealthy merchant Mr Sheldon schemes with his clerk Harry Conrad to elope with Meadows’ daughter Mattie for a rich match. When Mattie and Harry wed with Sheldon’s blessing, the old man’s gamble pays off. The couple returns, the town’s gossip fades, and the partnership is sealed.
The Czarina, famed as devoid of wives and mothers, once lost a two month old baby in 56. At her funeral day in winter she argued with the Emperor over a private burial in the coffin carried to the Romanov family vault, declaring a poor woman’s right to try. She pursued the act despite catching a severe cold that kept her bedridden for a month.
Building associations spur stable home formation, strongly evident in Philadelphia Cincinnati and St Louis. Newspapers from these cities echo security against riots and labor unrest unseen in New York Chicago or Denver. Philadelphia shows 121 000 homeowner families versus New York’s 30 000 despite 70 000 more residents.
An Accrington weaver died when a turpentine plaster on his stomach for a liver complaint was ignited by a lit match. The ensuing blaze caused fatal burns, ending his life soon after the accident.
A list of invented items with dates from various eras and regions. Notable entries include the locomotive by Trevethick in 1502, the first pipe organ by Archimedes in 240 B C, the Argand lamp by Aime Argand in 1789, and Billiards in France by Devigne circa 1471. many other devices, tools, and concepts are dated from 11th century B C to 1854, reflecting broad claims across science and industry.
A compiled list traces the fathers of famous writers, scientists, leaders, and artists to humble trades and labor backgrounds. It notes fathers as knife grinders, watchmakers, ship carpenters, farmers, millers, and other modest occupations, highlighting how prominent figures often sprang from modest origins.
A compact survey lists key steam engine developments from 1713 to 1778. Potter automates valve gear. Sauaron builds a 72 inch cylinder engine. D Auxiron and Watt figures appear with road engines and steamboats on Loire. Watt and Smeaton contribute condensers and rotary motion. Parliament renews Wart patents. various inventors including Cugnot Berangron Wart Warr Jonathan Heaous propose and refine steam propelled craft and engine components.
A pasted feature describes Panarii, a Lipini island south of Itely between Itely and Sicily. The land has no doctors lawyers prisons or beggars yet faces gloom. Each family farms grain vegetables oil and wine, exports cloth materials, with sea food, and relies on a priest who built the Civic Church to foster harmony.
In Panaria a single devoted figure, Padre Michelangelo, serves as priest, mayor, harbormaster, postmaster, and marine telegraph master, instituted by his widowed niece. His tireless work has created a port, land postal link, telegraph to Sicily, a school, and a large church with daily services.
The Czar’s Siberian railway project, begun May 24, 18, seeks to run 5600 miles with no car changes by 1900. About 600 versts are laid, 4100 more surveyed, costs per verst estimated at 30000 to 67000 dollars. Benefits include Siberian colonization, mineral and agricultural development, new markets, and shifted trade from the West to Russia, with faster Shanghai to Europe freight.
A compact chronicle of monarch deaths and torments. Louis XV dies of smallpox in his harem household after years of religious instruction by abducted women. Abdul Aziz is tortured to death. Barazet I is locked in an iron cage and killed with extreme cruelty. Valerian is flayed alive by Sapor. Harry IV of France is assassinated after provoking outrage. Charles IX dies of horror after Massacre of St Bartholomew. Zedekiah’s failed revolt ends with captivity and blindness. Asa dies after seeking physicians. Louis XI dies in fear while begging for a longer life.
A compendium notes ages at publication for Knox Scott Cooper Tuvine Goethe Prescot Humboldt Tennyson and others. It records dates for major works including Knox at 79 for History of the Reformation in Scotland and Gibbon beginning the Decline and Fall at 39 with twelve years for completion.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports the removal of Flood Rock near Hell Gate as the largest blasting operation ever. Nine acre rock mass was honeycombed with tunnels and drill holes totaling over twelve thousand, using vast quantities of rackarock and dynamite. Water was admitted to the mine and the explosion occurred October 10, creating a towering water column and a massive foam plume. The shock was felt across New York and Brooklyn with no damage.
The Queen sent a large collection of Dutch dolls to Osborne House. Photographer Louise Ponsonby found them at Windsor Castle amid the royal visit. A forthcoming magazine feature will include a letterpress description and a portrait of the dolls, highlighting the Queen’s interest in national costumes.
An excerpt on the Zulus and Matabele war practices describes the Smelling-out ceremony led by witch doctors who identify a supposed wizard. The accused is ritually executed after being named, often implicating wealthy herdsmen. The narrative chronicles the alleged sequence from accusation to death.
Wabash ticket office in Fort Wayne offers single and round trip tickets via Toledo and Detroit to all Great Lakes ports including Buffalo Erie Cleveland Mackinac Island Chicago Duluth and intermediate points. Modern steamers promise speed comfort and safety on fresh water. A book titled Arid-Summer Voyages outlines lake tours with costs times and traveler guidance. State room reservations and tickets available by telephone No 6 R G Tompson Passenger and Ticket Agent.
The article describes three active U S mints in Philadelphia New Orleans and San Francisco with others in Charlotte Dahlonega Carson City and Dallas noting mint marks on coins. It explains marks like C for Charlotte D for Philadelphia CC for Carson City and no mark for some mints while listing assay offices in New York St Louis Denver Helena and Boise.
Linwood Park in Vermillion Ohio on Lake Erie entices visitors with summer excursions. Nickel Plate railroad vouchers are available throughout the season from August 1 through late summer.
W H Harvey promotes Coin's Financial School with 150 pages and 64 illustrations, priced 50c paper, 25c popular, $1 cloth. Coin's Financial School Continues adds 200 pages and 50 illustrations, notes it as a history of Coin, with popular 25c, better paper 50c, cloth $1.00. Both works offered in cloth pair for $1.00, via Times-Post Fort Wayne.
A St Louis Globe Democrat quote notes that Corea treats all crimes with equal severity and public execution as a penalt y. It recounts a visitor’s tale of sleeve buttons stolen, a servant accused, and a dramatic tribunal offering to cut him open for evidence.
Mrs. Sarah Roberts died at Manhattan Hospital from a scalp wound caused by a hairpin point. The injury occurred two weeks earlier after a fall at her West 131st Street home. Initially painless, the wound later triggered neck pain, hysteria, spasms, and lockjaw before death.
A collage of curiosities cites iron doll heads, light railroad work, pennywise currency, quinine manufacture in Michigan, many salt firms, Korean attire, electric tooth extraction, Dublin breweries, a linland stone barometer, Moscow bells, coin counting machines, pine leaf textiles, 300000 commercial travelers, an ancient Swiss hotel, and Washington timber lands spanning twenty million acres with vast lumber yields per acre and per-tree outputs.
Venezuela offers the milk tree or palo de leche whose sap yields a creamy, cow like milk flavor and density. The sap, rich in water albumen and wax, yields pure wax usable like bees wax. Indians fashion candles from the wax. the plant’s sap is nutritious raw or cooked.
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