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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1895
Page
2
A new owner pledges to keep the Times-Post publishing with strong news coverage and no favoritism. The paper seeks ad patronage, touts a first class plant, and promises up to date reporting for Fort Wayne readers.
The article records a Missouri statesman visiting St. Louis and signing the hotel's register as Joel D. Hubbard and family. It also notes a Chicago medical mishap involving Hon. Buck McCarthy and Joe Lammers losing an eye, and comments on Chicago Republican politics. It discusses Ohio silver Democrat faction and their stance on free coinage versus 1873 act restoration.
A woman writer argues wealthy American girls marry titled foreigners to escape American toadies who imitate foreign snobbery. She says American men in the upper circles seek foreign manners, favoring pretended nobility over genuine American decency. The piece laments the reliance on abroad matches and the lack of suitable American suitors.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch correspondent notes the Orientals use gunjah a dried cannabis resin for reviving overworked cattle. He recalls seeing on a hard march oxen exhausted on a steep mountain road aided by a handful pounded with sugar restoring vigor and enabling progress to the encampment.
On a 1000 acre Puget Sound island in Hellingham Bay two men Jim Wardner and Fred Evans formed a stock company to raise black cats for fur. A huntsman supply chain delivered cats from trains and workers fed the felines by fishing. some cats were killed each season. Black pelts sold up to $2 aiding a prosperous venture used for muffs and capes while lighter colored cats dyed fetch lower prices.
This piece notes that three of the first four Presidents married widows. It mentions John Quincy Adams's English education creating a sensation in Washington, Hannah Hoes Van Buren dying young, Tyler’s wife’s Catholic faith, Polk’s wife’s Methodist calm, Millard Fillmore’s schoolteacher background, and Mrs. Franklin Pierce’s devout clerical family ties shaping White House charity and religion.
A British ship Lanark arrived in New York with Lascar sailors from Bombay. Doctor reports six with heart issues, two with other diseases. One Lascar insists on food only from countrymen to avoid defiling caste, choosing death over leaving ship без hospital care. Quiet protests noted. two men moved to hospital. others stay aboard. The article cites special articles protecting Lascars under Indian steamship accord.
The text explains how spiders shorten or lengthen their web filaments to predict weather. Shortened threads indicate varying conditions. extended threads signal calm weather, and inactivity suggests rain. These observations reflect traditional weather lore tied to spider behavior.
Mrs. Sarah Howard of Houston Maine keeps muskrats as pets. They enter through the drain into the cellar and become tame, dining from the cat’s saucer while the old cat ignores them. The kittens cuff the intruders and the rats drag straw to form a nest under the cupboard. They dip paws in milk then lick it clean, taking about half an hour to finish a small saucer.
A patient and physician spar over a bill and a bequest as the patient playfully asks to alter a prescription in light of leaving a legacy. The doctor responds with courtesy while noting a small change the patient wishes to make.
A $1,500 rug, ten by fifteen feet, made from thirteen wild animal furs, belongs to Chicago’s W. N. Wallenbar. Made in Moscow over two years, it resembles a mosaic with tiger and South Sea seal patterns and rings of monkey skin. It features sable, fox, mink, otter, mink and various other pelts with silver fox tails at the ends.
The article explains how glacial ice dissolves as temperatures rise, with glaciers failing to advance when warming exceeds seasonal gains. It cites Icelandic glaciers’ century long oscillations and notes potential historic ice advances from the Alps, linking global climate patterns to regional ice behavior and distant ancient ice flows.
Care tips advise folding trousers flat rather than hanging them. If space is limited, lay them flat and button the waistband to maintain shape. Avoid creases by smoothing fabric and storing in a cool area.
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