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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1895
Page
3
A Spokane resident, A. T. Church, claims a new method stops ground squirrels by blocking holes with briar bushes or paper. He notes squirrels avoid obstructed entrances and will not populate if local holes are blocked, promising a cost free experiment for farmers.
A Buffalo Express writer notes Americans are the only women who do not show signs of marriage. The piece describes wedding day headgear and customs in Germany Little Russia New Guinea China Wadai Africa and Mongolia, detailing caps, haircuts, tattoos, lip and ear ornaments, and tasselled baskets.
In Pendleton Oregon a court session became a gym as prisoners Sam Budd James Williams and Charles Brown performed tumbling in the courtroom to prove they were not vagrants. After removing a table and providing tights and shoes the trio entertained and were discharged. The tale then shifts to foreign critique of American women voices and Eskimo marriage customs as described by J Florence Wilson in Godey's Magazine.
The Spectator discusses coincidence and superstition using a tale of a Greek coachman, an English girl with an evil eye, and a horse that calms after a cure. It cites a child's four leaf clover episode and argues that coincidences fuel belief, especially among the uneducated, while noting every mind hides a dark chamber where superstition dwells.
Leonard Volk born November 7, 1828 in New York state died Sunday at Borderwall in Osceola Wisconsin. A leading Western sculptor he carved Lincoln’s mask and the Springfield State House bust and created the Woodlawn Park Douglas monument. Volk studied art with Stephen A. Douglas and produced portraits of Washburne Douglas Swett Davis Scammon Bryan and others. His Rochester soldiers' monument and a heroic Gen Shields figure were among his notable works.
James Bradley aged 102 died at his Perryville home after being thrown from a mule and suffering a fractured skull. In the forties he killed a man named Johnson, resisted arrest, and pledged to shoot the first officer. He reportedly lived seven years in a hollow tree while farming at night and making trips to Selma before surrendering and being tried.
An outbreak of fire near the roof of a dwelling at Offerton is blamed on birds building a nest using a lucifer match. The fire brigade arrived but the occupant and neighbors extinguished the flames before aid. Damage limited to a section of board near the roof gutter and a bird’s nest.
The fragment from a 1895 New York Musical Record issue presents a lyric line murmur and vows spoken in a private moment, with the speaker noting the uttered vow and hearing it echoed back.
W H Harvey offers Coin's Financial School with 150 pages and 64 illustrations, priced 50 cents for paper and $1 for cloth. Continuation, 200 pages with 50 illustrations, retails 25 cents to $1.00. Both volumes advertised together in one cloth-bound edition for $1.00, sent on receipt of price by Times-Post Fort Wayne.
Fragmentary timetable notes departures and arrivals with odd punctuation and misspellings. Mentions Indianapolis and Pat Wayne with scattered times such as 448 am 115 pm and 300 am 10 am. Details are unclear and incomplete.
Train timetable note for September 2 1895 shows departure options to Grand Rapids and North from Fort Wayne with listed times 220 am 815 am 255 pm and 655 pm from Richmond, indicating multiple daily services on the Grand Rapids and Indiana route.
A popular edition of a 302 page novel titled Two Nations presents a love story narrating the history of demonetization and the alleged malevolent forces harming American prosperity. It promises engaging reading from start to finish with various binding options priced from 25 cents to a dollar.
Starting September 15 1895 the Lake Erie and Western railroad offers tickets to Atlanta Georgia for the International Exposition. The pass costs 821.05 valid twenty days and an additional 28.30 option extends through January 1896.
Corrected daily by 8 Bush & Co Wheat 65 67%c Oats 28 30c Corn 45 48c Rye 48c Barley 45c Butter 14 15c Beeswax 250 1b Oil 1 81.25
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