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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1895
Page
3
Dr Will Walker tends a mysterious seventeen year old patient Parke Halton with a wounded arm. The boy shows a strange, lingering bond with the physician, deposits a protective kiss, and leaves a locket bearing a girl’s portrait, hinting at a secret past and possible dual identity.
A dying guardian confesses he ruined Leoline Lea to force marriage. Leoline recounts her escape from his oppression and recovery after a hospital stay. Doctor Will accepts her, declaring love as the ward’s truth prevails, and the couple unite. The piece closes with a note on Japan’s education shift as 400 Japanese women study locally.
A surgeon dispatched to bleed a noblewoman bungled the procedure and severed an artery, leading to her death. In her will she bequeathed him an annuity of eight hundred francs “to ease his troubled conscience” and to ensure he is not forced to risk others’ lives.
An American recounts a half hour chat with the Prince of Wales aboard a channel crossing. He notes the royal’s cordial manner, jokes about titles, and a missed opportunity to address him first, reflecting on class and courtesy in a seaside hotel setting.
A large empty wine cask rolled from a Vallejo Kearny corner, leapt along Telegraph Hill, smashing a fruit stand and bootblack booth before stopping near Jackson Street after colliding with a hitching post. No injuries were reported as bystanders fled. The cask’s owner stayed put to avoid further damage.
A Boston tale recounts Bishop Phillips Brooks telling his servant not to admit visitors. He later appears at the door, greets an old classmate, and is treated cordially. The servant protests, recalling the busy rule, but Brooks explains the difference between Gabriel and his friend and notes he must see the friend in this world if there is any doubt about the afterlife.
An auditor recounts recurring blunders by bank tellers and others who handle large sums. A bold swindle saw a teller cash $50 on a counterfeit money order after it bore a fake payee and imprint. He notes weekly instances of checks with missing signatures or improper indorsements slipping through banks and clearings.
A fragmentary remark suggests that some officials or reporters may conceal mistakes and downplay their flaws when describing local events. The note hints at a culture of quiet missteps and selective transparency within the newsroom or administration.
The piece argues that natural life spans about a hundred years depend on the constitution of organs, not climate or race. It links longer life to pure air, moderate exercise, and avoidance of vicious habits, noting urban strain shortens duration and that unethical living accelerates decline. It cites Noah, Joshua, and Moses as references to decreasing longevity.
A passenger on a Calais to Dover steamboat offered a jaujube paste lozenge to a seasick woman. The instant cure had her ordering ham sandwiches and ale. Passengers, astonished, watched the couple depart arm in arm at Dover after the man sold many boxes of the remedy.
A company plans to build a bark bay Boston refrigeration network with pipes distributing cold air to homes. A coil in each house would adjust temperature, promising to save 20 000 tons of ice yearly and reduce unhealthfulness and waste. Service cost would equal the cost of ice while cooling rooms dry and reducing dampness.
A veteran recalls a 40 year old incident on a bay island when a movable church was towed by scows for a coastal ride. A fanatical follower of the New Light cut the cables sending the church adrift about forty miles until a schooner secured it.
A catalog style note describes Indigo cork ginger asphalt turpentine gutta percha camphor madder logwood litinus caoutchouc and rubber production. It also includes a vignette of a child in church whose mischievous pocket etiquette elicits a mother's whispered reminder and the child's innocent quip.
A curious historical note explains why China avoided telegraph poles. Superstitious reverence for ancestors led crowds to smash poles that cast shadows on graves. Linemen found graves everywhere, forcing a shift to underground wiring. The government could not stop the vandalism, so the wire went underground and the system supposedly worked.
In Nevada Utah and Arizona salt strata yield blocks containing hundreds of perfectly preserved fish resembling pike and pickerel. The salt fields likely originated from an ancient lake and the specimens are not petrified but flesh preserved for about 10 000 years. When warmed they harden like wood and some workers have attempted to eat them.
Surgeon General Francis links ongoing snake destruction in India to reward systems and cobra eggs. He urges securing snake eggs by walls and sunlit spots, while addressing cultural reverence for snakes and low caste role in extermination. A sailor stresses knot-tying as vital life skill, and a Denver preacher recounts a comic encounter with a Ute squaw and a kodak incident near Union Station.
A collection of maxims on self control kindness and virtue. It urges action over hope condemns idle talk about happiness and champions gentleness intellect restraint and the value of books and good friends. It notes the need for love with virtue and the difficulty of accepting blame over praise.
The speaker argues that ruling wisely requires a husband and a prince to yield some prerogatives at times. Aging brings more leniency toward human frailty. A man who loudly denounces others is suspected, while a right-thinking person knows too much of crime to condemn others unheard.
A historical survey of holidays from the French Revolutionary Feast of Nature on August 10 1783 to Fete Dieu dates in Christian history. It notes lunar and solar calendars, Constantine era shifts, Pope Julius I fixing December 25, and late 19th century Parisian use of lycopodium powder to keep hands dry for delicate ribbons and silks.
The Lion bridge in China claims the title of the longest bridge, spanning five and a quarter miles over a Yellow Sea arm. It rests on 200 stone arches, with a roadway seventy feet above water inside an iron network. Nickel Plate excursion to Niagra Falls on Aug 19.
W B Harvey authorizes illustrated editions of Coin's Financial School with 151 pages and 64 illustrations detailing prices for paper, cloth, and popular editions. Also promotes Up To Date Coin's History 200 pages 50 illustrations and a combined volume offer for $1.00 from Times-Post Fort Wayne.
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