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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1895
Page
3
A witty verse portrait of Princilla a fin de siecle social climber who blends bookish tastes with social polish. She challenges gossip and declares herself distingue while Manhattan’s tradesfolk and a West contrasted suitor remark on lineage looks and manners in Kate Tield's Washington style.
Olivia and Philip, engaged and hopeful, face financial strain as Philip plans expansion. Olivia secretly buys Mrs. Vane's millinery store with funds from her inheritance, hoping to aid him. When Philip discovers the deception, Olivia explains the motive and reveals the shop prospers under her care, while Philip forgives and agrees to trust her.
A compilation of maxims on virtue, self mastery, charity, patience, wisdom, and social conduct. It urges honesty, temperance, helpfulness, and the value of steady effort over flashy luck, linking moral behavior to personal and communal well being.
The story comes from Naoum Tufekcheu’s brother Dentcho a 17 year old student at Sofia and Liege who endured tortures under Stambuloff to force a false confession of Naoum’s ties to the Panitza plot Dentcho finally refused to accuse Naoum and was burned alive for his defiance marking a brutal end to the torture ordeal.
A prominent French doctor M. Wilhelm Fischer urges reversing bed setup with head at or below foot level and pillows under the feet to curb insomnia and nightmares. He cites experiments showing intellectual sleep improves with this position and benefits lung and kidney ailments, recommending gradual pillow adjustments.
Girls at an eastern college devise a paper box candy by folding heavy writing paper into a four sided tray, melting sugar with a touch of water, adding flavor and nuts, then letting the candy set in cold water. The result is a brittle, toothsome square.
Dr B Ward Howe argues proper bodily health supports mental welfare and overall life quality. He notes the body as a well maintained engine and cites a maturity to life ratio implying a 21 year path to 105 years, asserting longer lifespans are possible but not common due to errors.
A Massachusetts congressman describes the duties of his office as a vast business role from river and harbor work to pensions and seeds. The piece notes how this contrasts with the eras of Webster and Sumner. It then describes Nanaimo undersea coal mining reaching below the ocean floor with galleries totaling about 12 miles.
A Washington bicycle rider on a Virginia road finds a black snake after running over it. A farmer explains a prior accident where a man killed a large snake and repaired a tire by peeling the skin, inflating it with a pump, and continuing. The cyclist reaches Round Hill in two hours, still riding with an intact tire. Also notes Mrs. Alonzo Campbell of Bergen County as a weather-prophet whose storm sensitivities surge before thunder.
The article notes Wanamaker’s $20 000 Paris dinner amid his Philadelphia firm’s $4 000 000 profits last year. It argues he maintained a retail monopoly, buying with ready money, and profiting heavily through bargains and drives while others suffered in a weak market.
Paris conducts a street paving experiment on Faubourg Montmartre testing pitch pine Landes pine teak red karri box and a hard Borneo wood. A committee of experts will evaluate each material for wear resistance and non slip properties and report findings over time.
In the Bering Straits near Port Clarence Alaska about two hundred islanders inhabit a half mile long rock. They live in cave homes under and over each other, sleep on Dalive grass, and warm fires at cave mouths. They wear skins, build odd cliffside nests in summer, and have no government or chiefs. They appear strong, vigorous, content, and free from formal law.
The text notes natives spend days foraging whales seals and walruses then return to caves or tents. Prestige hinges on clothing made from skins, a wealth marker, yet the most well dressed man holds no greater authority, only greater respect for his wisdom.
New York City undergoes a decade scale building surge along Broadway from the Battery to Fourteenth Street. Projected value tops eight million dollars with twenty four major improvements replacing old structures as 100 high class apartments rise north of Fifty ninth Street into Morningside Park.
A dog outfitter notes Paris Palais Royal plates feature dogs in luxury styles including a silk dog umbrella with a frame tied to the collar and a dog held leash in mouth. He jokes about canine dental fittings and reports rising demand, with false teeth costing 45 to 15 dollars.
Captain Younghusband notes the Chitrala mountain people shunned money, using rupees only for ornaments. As officials trained them to accept currency, peddlers were brought up, and once goods could be bought with rupees, the mountaineers began accepting money for labor.
Canada faces rising costs as the dominion prohibition commission spends funds totaling over 0. The chair Joseph Hicksor receives 3,220 dollars and others include KEFF Clarke 2,468 dollars and Mr Gigault 2,874 dollars. Dr McLeod 4,935 dollars, Judge Macdonald 3,918 dollars, and secretary Mrs Monaghan 10,068 dollars. The six volume report remains unread and the royal whisky inquiry is seen as unlikely to meet its aims.
An Irish student once asked a famed German flute teacher about lesson terms. The mentor quoted two guineas for the first month and one guinea for the second. The student replied with humor that he would come in the second mouth.
The Chicago Record recounts a home for destitute colored children where a manager finds a darkly comic scene. A boy named George Washington lies bound to a bedpost with hands tied after an accusation of lying.
A Canadian experiment used a street car fitted with ball bearings and drawn several hundred feet by men pulling sewing thread. A carriage maker tested ball bearings on four horse axles, while a trained dog pulled the coach around a yard. Pneumatic tires plus ball bearings could reduce horse strain.
The soil beneath Paris is sinking steadily with subsidence most marked near heavy structures like the Pantheon and the Bourse. The trend extends across Northern France while the Mediterranean coasts show a rising tendency from their former level.
A compendium notes how bunions color blindness and hearing affect Army eligibility. It cites West Point age limits 17 to 22, pension rolls totaling 969,544, and Britain’s 689 U S pensioners. It lists 44 garrisons, private pay 13 to 18 dollars monthly, and officer salaries up to 4500 dollars. It mentions 2.5 to 3 million field-ready in danger times and costs of the War Department.
Carlyle's Old Home Museum in Cheyne Row Chelsea London, bought for 100000 dollars to create a museum, opened to the public amid large attendance. Many Carlyle furniture pieces and relics have been restored. Nickel Plate railroad runs an excursion to Niagara Falls August 10 19 336.
Wal Harvey presents Coin's Financial School a 150 page illustrated guide explaining money matters for youths. A popular edition costs 25 cents, cloth 1.60, paper sewn 50 cents. to date volume priced at 1.00 in cloth. Coin's Financial Scroox and Cov Ur To Date bound in cloth 1.09. Sent on receipt of price by Times-Post Fort Wayne.
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