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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1895
Page
3
In a tense drawing room scene, Miss Cheswick tests Mr. Stanley with a chess game that mirrors a deeper romance. A dramatic flashback reveals a German forest peril and a brave English rescuer. the tale entwines memory, honor, and thwarted passion as the couple confront their feelings and the chessboard’s final move.
The article describes peachblow porcelain a rare 300 year old glaze that penetrates the entire vessel. It notes the glaze cannot be seen as color just glaze, its unknown method, and traces its spread from China to Holland France and then Europe. It adds a San Francisco cousin of Herbert Spencer, Moira Spencer, works as a clerk and has not read his books.
The late Emperor Dom Pedro of Bazil tested a young engineer's brake by riding in his carriage and ordering a practice stop. A plotted cliffside obstacle appeared but a rapid stop nearlysav es the moment until the stone on the rails turned to dust when kicked, revealing the stunt.
A brass octagonal ticket relic from 1832 Leicester and Swannington Railway shows open carriage fares of one and a quarter pence per mile over sixteen miles. Tickets dated L and 8 Railway Bagworth No 29. used in eight-station bag system with guard collecting and reusing tickets.
A Scotch traveler extols Australia as a land rich in reptiles. He notes about sixty five snake species with forty two venomous and twelve dangerous, forty or so frog varieties, and around forty lizard kinds including night lizards and a frilled lizard. Monitors reach nine to ten feet, crocodiles in Queensland up to forty feet, and color-changing lizards occur. He observes a ten foot turtle caught there.
A Santa Clara grocer bars cash buyers from the credit side and vice versa, presenting goods on separate duplicate shop fronts. Cash customers see both sides, while credit shoppers are directed to the other side, illustrating the value of ready money.
A tense bedtime scene unfolds as a mother struggles with her fussy infant while the sleeping lord of the manor remains unconcerned. She paces the room and performs exhausting antics to soothe the baby until dawn. The infant finally settles, and the mother places the child back in the cradle.
A manor lord wakes sleepy at night and complains of fatigue from sleepless nights with the baby. His wife Maria speaks softly and they rest, while he muses on life and looks worn and dissatisfied the next day. The exchange hints at parental strain and household burden.
In China the table turns upside down with legs to the ceiling while four children hold hands as a medium recites an incantation. The motion accelerates, sending the lads around as the table whirls on its axis. The practice is viewed as sport rather than spirit communication.
A duke's habit of dozing in the Lords is noted, with scenes of Lord Hartington in the Commons. The piece also describes a colossal Japanese wooden statue of Hachiman, 44 feet tall, with a sword and globe, its interior anatomy on a gigantic scale and viewable via a winding stair.
During Henry VII’s era in Lincoln England a famed bailiff named Joe Dunn became renowned for clever debt collection. His persistence earned the phrase to Dunn him as a common admonition among debtors and critics, giving rise to a now disliked word in the language.
In a humorous Irish anecdote an old woman, angered by a funeral she expected to attend, shouts at the passing procession with a sharp quip about inviting herself. She adds that a funeral might come to her own house soon, and then they’ll see who’ll be axed.
The article notes Sweden as the oldest and largest match producer, with exports rising to 1,000,000,000 boxes annually in twenty five years. Modern machines produce 2,500,000 matches daily at 200 revolutions per minute, with Americans using over five matches per person daily. Despite quality issues, the state plans to revive Swedish manufacture, hoping for $1,100,000 in revenue, as Europe hosts about 50,000 factories producing $50,000,000 worth of matches yearly.
A San Francisco resident is described as a standing puzzle to local doctors. For weeks he blends with the crowd, then suddenly his skin darkens to a negro hue overnight, leaving friends who can only recognize him by his clothing.
A wide ranging digest covers Crimean war casualties, animal curiosities, native labor in African telegraphy, German excise laws, German saloon customs, electricity advances, a Hartford superintendent tackling pests, an Amsterdam court sentence for disrespecting the Queen Regent, hair dye disputes in Britain, marine plant reactions to fishes, lightning power claims, a Virginia road worker unearthing a chained malefactor skeleton, an Alabama judge ruling on arm placements as a marriage proposal, a New South Wales memorial fund for Sir John Robertson, Paris anglomania, English word borrowings, and Secretary Herbert's order to use cornstalk cellulose in frilling two new battleship cofferdams.
A breezy parade of quips about appetite, dentistry, fashion, mischief, and weather. It wields light humor on manners and habits, including jokes about oysters, pencils, and collars, ending with a Texas Siftings quip about kicking weather.
A renowned lecturer explains stage fright defies experience and is shaped by circumstance. The narrator recalls moments before and during lectures when fear, a frozen clock, and a paused cadence disrupted thought, yet resilience kept the talk going and the audience from total breakdown.
A London Primrose League meeting honored women for canvassing including the Countess of Lathom and several countesses. A Salisbury regime may revive political salons with the Duchess of Devonshire hosting entertainments after Parliament opens, and Lady Salisbury, the Duchess of Portland, and Mrs. Chamberlain to stage receptions. The Nickel Plate road advertises an excursion to Niagara Falls on August 19.
W H Harvey promotes Coin's Financial School and its continuation Up to Dats in Fort Wayne Times-Post ad. It touts 150 to 200 pages with numerous illustrations and multiple editions priced from 25 cents to $1.00, highlighting accessibility for voters and readers.
English firemen may wear asbestos or mineral wood suits in the future. The efficiency rests on three facts: the material is non combustible, a non conductor of heat, and not damaged by water.
A modern invention introduces a purse accessory that secures to the wrist with a strap and to the middle finger with a ring. The adjustable purse attaches to either hand and rests in the palm for easy frequent use, preventing accidental drops and theft.
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