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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1895
Page
2
The Harvey Horr currency debate draws intense attention as Times-Post and others compare coverage. Harvey presents prepared documents and data while Horr argues with attacks on method and book-based arguments, audience cheers wax and wane amid clashes over gold and silver standards.
The piece notes T. S. Holmes alias How ard alias Mudgett attracts global interest with alleged murders and a secretive house in Fort Wayne. It questions the builders and suggests Chicago findings bolster Pitezel murder evidence while criticizing debate figures about currency and the gold standard.
In Memphis a church minister opposed a popular game among his congregants and demanded it be dropped or he would resign. After a prior similar confrontation, the women of the church chose to keep playing progressive culture and accepted his resignation.
A description notes the Austrian empress on a daily four to five mile walk in a short black dress not reaching the ankles. Her Greek tutor trails closely, speaking Greek or reading to her, and she changes teachers yearly. Timms-Post job printing office wafts your business.
Advertisement announces low excursion fares to Syracuse Indiana via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on July 20 and 30 and August 5 6 8 and 9 for German campmeeting Young People's Alliance meeting and English campmeeting at Oakwood Park Tickets valid for return until August 20 and agents' contact listed for schedules and rates
The sixth session of the money debate features Harvey and Horr clash on silver and gold values. Harvey presents production tables, critiques misstatements, and defends free coinage while Horr questions overproduction, price effects, and the role of government in money. Both cite figures from Coin's School and Statistics Abstract to support their positions on monetary measures, primary money, and national debt.
Summary notes M Parodi nearly finished tragedy Le Pape to be staged at Theater Francais in September in five acts and six tableaux with Pope Gregory VII as the Bonaparte of papacy and Countess Matilda as Italian Joan of Arc. The piece draws strong interest for its moral and political stakes. Also mentions royal visit plans and a local waterworks vote. In Lubsa, Ind., farmer Richard Murphy fatally stabbed Barney Blackburn. Blackburn was the aggressor.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Mountain Lake Park Maryland from August 1 to 27 at one fare. Tickets are valid for return through August 29 1895. Inquiries may be made with any B and O ticket agent or L B Allen assistant general passenger agent Chicago.
A local call to form a Central Bimetallic Compact urges restoring silver coinage to pre 1873 levels. The resolution condemns the 1873 act restricting silver, blames money interests for restricting currency, and pledges labor to educate and drive political action toward reinstating silver in coinage. Citizens are asked to sign and return to the Times Post office.
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