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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1895
Page
2
A dated column blends local and national politics with satire. It addresses Indianapolis fears and pride, schoolhouse shortages, party rivalries, weather lore, and public officials. The piece comments on Governor and mayoral actions, labor disputes, and religious attendance among governors, ending with critique of a political trick involving a city surplus notice.
A survey notes Mt Hercules in New Guinea as a diminished peak after measurement and estimates Earth accretes about 146 billion shooting stars yearly. Prof ASA Gray links Washington Elm moisture to surface radiation, while thunder does not sour milk but a fungus grows during storms.
A miscellany notes language, population, and tech growth with 115 million English speakers and telephones rising to 506 thousand in 1894. It mentions carrier pigeons in Canada, Nile irrigation plans, Ida Lewis of Lime Rock Lighthouse, and an ancient Xerxes tale about loyalty and a captain saving the king’s life with a crowded deck voyage.
A compact collection of aphorisms and reflections from Byron Pater Eliot Johnson Sterne Rivarol Lavater Young Marcus Antoninus and Colton. The lines discuss freedom restraint health opinion and the balance of advantage and disadvantage in life.
German and English women grow bitter over American beauties sent to Germany to study music painting and literature. The colonizing young women from Columbia captivate officers and influence culture as they master the arts and threaten local social order.
In 1822 Labouchere, Amsterdam clerk for Hope, seeks a loan from London banker Mr. Baring. He flatters Baring about marrying his daughter and trades partnership with Hope for marriage. Labouchere returns to England, marries Miss Baring two months later, and gains Hope partnership as promised.
An Albuquerque speaker recalls Indian cunning after buying a rough pony in New Mexico. He describes skin patches on the horse, swindles by local sellers, and a guarded view of native trickery amid a patchwork parade of historical quotes and marriage advice exchanges.
A visitor questions a London factory foreman about which road leads nearest to the village. The foreman suggests the left road is the longer route and the right road is shorter, based on observed worker departure and return patterns when shifts end or begin.
A collage of odd facts and anecdotes lists values and titles from nobility and politics. It mentions Baroness Gustav de Rothschild's pearl collar valued at 20090, Viscount Wolseley losing sight during an assault, and Dr. Margaret Abigail Cleaves as a pioneering female physician in an asylum. It also cites aged officials and clergy, insurance on Senator Hearst's widow, Viking voyages, and a quip about Pope's pence and Bismarck's pigs.
The piece surveys mean temperatures across U S states, historic Nile floods tied to African rainfall, and global rainfall patterns. It mentions Mount Washington frost crystals, Cherrapunji’s rainfall, evaporation estimates, a 19th century Russian winter, and weather folklore such as a tight window cord and damp tobacco plugs signaling rain. It reads as a miscellaneous weather column with dated anecdotes and meteorological curiosities.
A collection of brief moral observations on motherhood, character, prayer, wealth, society, and virtue. It reflects a contemplative tone urging moderation, sincerity, and love as enduring values. Named maxims include praise for mothers and the primacy of love over faith and hope.
Bee County Texas resident William Langsdorf discovered an old pair of boots in an outhouse. One boot contained a roll of greenbacks totaling five hundred dollars, leading to an unexpected windfall during a routine search.
An article notes a mob attempting to stone a Russian man amid tensions over tea culture. A firm had bought tea plants and feared Rus sian competition would threaten their livelihoods, motivating the mob’s action.
A string of curious, often humorous anecdotes from across the United States features a Florida man fattening on snake steaks, an Idaho teacher wielding a revolver for obedience, a Mississippi steamboat roust drinking whisky daily, and a New Hampshire girl tasting hot bread late. Also noted are peculiar births, unusual animals, taxpayer freedoms in Kentucky, a fashion of economy in a West Virginia man, a Philadelphia club expulsion over bills, and other stranger-than-fiction snippets.
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