Times-Post under new owner plans strong Fort Wayne link
The Times-Post announces its continuation under new ownership with aim to rank among Indiana’s best papers It boasts first class plant and broad civic readership and pledges unbiased news reporting and robust advertising value The note reflects local political chatter and broader state issues including trusteeships and mayoral contests notables include Tom Taggart and Prusler in Indiana politics
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The Decline of Literature and Cheap Travel Notices
An orator laments the decline of great writers while a gallery voice quips All dead The text lists reduced rail fares for various September events across cities including Toronto Philadelphia Minneapolis Albany Atlantic City Columbus and a note about a want ad in the Toses-Post column
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A Russian Convict Steamer On the Clyde Yard
A steamship built for transporting convicts for the Russian government sits in Dumbarton yard on the Clyde. Though outwardly ordinary and about 6,000 tons the vessel hides a grim purpose below deck with numerous barred iron cells and tube-ribbed gates.
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Fashion's universal sway across distant shores
A letter from a curious American girl notes Finnish fashion of a blue serge skirt and blazer with a silk shirt and broad-brimmed sailor hat. The writer observes similar outfits in Washington, British Columbia, Honolulu, and Melbourne, calling it a global trend. The piece highlights a shared gesture of adjusting outfits at the small of the back, a marker of the era's style.
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Singing Mice Infest Daniel Denio's Sandy Hill Home
Mice in Sandy Hill New York haunt Daniel Denio’s dwelling for years, emerge at night, perch on hind legs and sing loudly like birds. They are thumb sized, yellowish with long tails and deer mouse like ears. Denio has trapped ten captives, but none sing.
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Anchorite Jean Galade Arrested in France
An anchorite of Hlermits named Jean Galade, once believed holy, turned out to roam the countryside stealing. Gendarmes pursued him and captured him at St. Paul, placing him in prison at Prades for a lengthy period of seclusion.
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A Colored Business Woman Lizzie Young Makes Way in Jacksonville
Mrs Lizzie Young a colored woman of Jacksonville Fla runs a draying business owns three drays and employs up to thirty men. She pays each driver a dollar fifty daily for fourteen loads a day while also operating a wood yard in North Springfield six months yearly with four to five teams delivering wood. She also sells hundreds of dollars worth of pork poultry and eggs each year.
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They Live High The loftiest inhabited places in the world noted
The Buddhist monastery of Haine in Thibet stands about 17,000 feet above sea level as the world’s highest inhabited place. In the Western Hemisphere Galera railway station in Peru reaches about 15,635 feet above the Pacific level at low tide.
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Balm of Gilead: scarce dried balm from Syria shrub
The balm of Gilead is the dried juice of a low Syrian shrub, highly valuable and scarce, yielding at most sixty drops daily. Josephus notes it was a gift from the queen of Sheba to Solomon, and ancient Jewish physicians used it for dyspepsia.
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Nickel Plate Rounds Linwood Park Summer Rates
The Times-Post advertises Nickel Plate road excursion tickets to Linwood Park Vermilion Ohio and Lake Maxinkuckee Hibbard Indiana with low round trip summer rates. It promotes a summer resort on Lake Erie with special passes, and invites readers to use the want column for ads and a stamped request for a summer souvenirs.
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Central Bimetallic Compact urges silver restoration pledge
A historical appeal urges formation of a Central Bimetallic Compact to educate for restoring silver coinage to its pre 1873 place. The text calls Silver and Gold free coinage as lost and blames money kings for restricting money volume. Readers are asked to sign, date, and mail to the Times-Post office.
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