Fort Wayne Times-Post and public safety debate
The Times-Post signals new ownership aims to match top Indiana papers with full news coverage and strong ads. The piece condemns favoritism in the Bow ers investigation, urges thorough impartial inquiry, and highlights Fort Wayne centennial plans and Democratic leaders in contrasting terms.
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Trans-Post
Indiana
Times- Post
Fort Wayne
Deai
Times-Post
Timbs-Wes R
C. T. Drummond
Officer Bowers
Political Intrigue Swirls Over City Hall Nomination
The piece warns of power struggles within the city’s Republican scene as the mayor seeks renomination. It argues counterforces will unite to threaten the machine and that ambition can override loyalty, describing treachery and schemes as the drama intensifies ahead of spring contests.
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Jayhawk
Irish Confederate protest denounces Chicago Irish convention
At Burlington Park in Chicago on August 16 the Confederate Irish Societies denounce the planned September convention as a sham and warn Ireland’s friends to reject its leaders. They pledge support for Ireland’s self rule and urge unity among Irishmen at home and abroad.
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Cuicaco
United States
Confederate Irish Societies of
Chicago
Burlington Park
Ireland
Confederated Irish Societies of
England
O’connell
Parnell
Greece
Belgium
Italy
Germany
New Movement
Clan-na-Gael
Lanod League
le Caron
United Irish Societies
Ogden
Irish Question in the Commons Brims With Scene
In the British Commons Tim Harrington accused the Liberals of fleeing home rule. Dr Tanner shouted a profane reply, refused to withdraw, and was suspended by Chamberlain after a muddled clash. Tanner protested as the sergeant escorted him out amid cries of Judgment. The Daly certificate motion passed despite Tanner’s objections.
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Gerald Balfour
Ireland
Mr. Redmond
Timothy Harrington
Lords
Salisbury
London
Commons
Liberal Party
Tanner
Chamberlain
Jud.s
Richard Webster
Michael Daly
Limerick
Portland
Daly
Havana Mayor Denounces Cuban Insurrection At Havana
New York dispatch quotes Havana mayor Senor Segundo Alvarez accusing insurrection leaders of foreign backing. He says the better Cuban class rejects the movement and warns Americans against supporting expeditions under the American flag, threatening trouble between Spain and the United States.
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New York
Havana
Cuba
Senor Segundo Alvarez
Union State Hotel
Roliff
Key West
Spain
United States
Northwestern Trotting Assoc. Trials Without Pools in Illinois
In Chicago on August 16, the Northwestern Trotting Horse Breeders association announces an experiment to run races without pool selling. A match race between John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen for 3000 dollars is scheduled for August 22 at Washington Park as a centerpiece of the meeting.
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Chicago
Illinois
Northwestern Trotting Horse Breeders' Association
Washington Park
John R. Gentry
Joe Patchen
Markets Brief Mixed Elsewhere with Grains and Cattle Data
New York money on call easy at 1 percent, sterling rates reported, government bonds steady. Chicago Board prices show wheat futures gains, corn and oats mixed, and pork and lard futures firm. live stock in Chicago market sees cattle and sheep receipts with wide price ranges and notable Texas steer figures.
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New York
Sterling Exchange
Bankers
United States
Pacific
Chicago
Board of ‘Trade
Igc
Wgc
Rouse
Duces
Geusa
Brow
Comb L.gléu
Dack
California
Worth a Smile. Comic Vignettes Stock
A collection of light anecdotes and quips about daily life. Jests about sun distance during job interviews, marriages, aging beaux, a clever son, a New York debtor, a temperance street ruse, a rainbound courtship, and a kindly guard bidding a released convict to return soon.
Gems Of Thought And Quotes From Classic Voices
A collage of aphorisms and quotations on faith civilization courtesy wealth and virtue from Buncon Curtis Swift Hamilton Antoninus Carlyle Addison and others. This selection contrasts moral insight with social critique across various thinkers.
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Buncon
G. W. Curtis
John O
Swift
Hamerton
Odd Facts and Finance Across Years
A compilation notes many figures from varied topics. It cites unsold postage stamps in Colombia and a city bond sale in London. Other items report liquor outlets in France, a tiny gold quotient, and disbandment of a national guard. It also mentions beer consumption in Europe and yellow fever mortality in Brunswick, with London’s large appetite for food and drink.
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St. Louis
Londo
France
Delaware National Guard
Pall Mall Gazette
Europe
Germany
Lrunswick
Baltimore & Ohio sells excursion tickets to Mountain Lake Park
From August 1 to 27 the Baltimore and Ohio railroad offers round trip excursion tickets at one fare for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society and Mountain Chau tauqua Meetings. Return validity lasts until August 29, 1895. Contact any B&O Ticket Agent or L. 8. Allen in Chicago for details.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Mountain Lake Park
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Mountain Chautauqua
Allen
Chicago
Strange Toda of Nilgherries Seen as Lost Tribe Descendants
A Toda community of 600 to 700 in Southern India is described as possibly descended from a lost Israelite tribe, with beliefs in a harsh afterlife and ritual funerary practices. The text notes a narrow bridge over a deadly stream and describes funeral rites including skull and hair tokens, offerings, and cremation with ashes scattered to the winds.
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Israel
Toda
Styx
Our Battleships and Their Mighty Specifications
The article outlines several pre dreadnought battleships with tonnage from 1,200 to 11,800, including the Texas Maine Iowa Indiana and Massachusetts. It notes armament armor and costs with figures like 14 inch turret armor 12 inch wood backing and four 12 inch guns and 18 inch armor on certain ships.
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Texas
Maine
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
The Burning Mountain in Johnson County Wyoming
A vast coal bed in Johnson County Wyoming has burned for centuries, possibly 200 to 300 years. The barren surroundings show cal pocks with exposed reefs and wind feeding huge underground flames. Surface heat and numerous smoke jets reveal the dangerous, gas filled site.
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Johnson County
Wyo
Odd Natural Phenomena and Historic Enigmas Highlight 1860s Notes
A ragged summary reports a Yellowstone Park hole called a dry bottomless geyser and a 1867 giant sunspot measuring 280000 by 190000 miles. It notes a giant spid er bridge over the Meramec River and claims on bacteria causing colds. It mentions St Petersburg fashion and Poe’s house near St Nicholas Boulevard in New York.
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Yellowstone Park
St. Louis
Meremac River
Missouri Pacific
Schenck
St. Petersburg
Poe
New York
Eighty-fourth Street
St. Nicholas Boulevard
Bloomingdale Road
World Time Told by Twenty-Two Clocks at World’s Fair
Visitors at the World’s Fair observe twenty two clocks in the Terminal Building showing global times. The clocks, installed by a New York company, display major cities including New York Chicago Paris London San Francisco Buenos Ayres Santiago Honolulu Sidney Yokohama Hong Kong Bombay Mecca Jerusalem St Peters burg Cairo Rome Madrid with times offset from 1:30 in New York.
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New York
Chicago
London
San Francisco
Niagara Falls Excursion Aug 19 By Nickel Plate Road
An advertisement promotes a Niagara Falls excursion scheduled for August 19 via the Nickel Plate road. The notice appears amid local trade printing house promotions and job printing announcements.
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Niagara Falls
Central Bimetallic Compact Urges Silver Restortion Prior to 1873
A political call to form a Central Bimetallic Compact to restore free coinage of silver equal to gold as before 1873. The declaration cites gold and silver as full legal tender, criticizes the 1873 coinage act, and seeks education and political action to increase money volume. The Times-Post is authorized to schedule a meeting.
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