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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1895
Page
2
Fort Wayne opens its gates for four days to celebrate a centennial with visitors from three states and beyond. The city pledges hospitality, decorates stores, and expects a large crowd, boosted by revived business and confident legislation.
In a college town a boastful boat club captain uses a racial slur to taunt a conjurer at the Nebraska Loadstone show. The crowd witnesses a levitation trick that leaves Waterer suspended above his chair, while the Loadstone remains still. The episode ends with Waterer sobered and the Loadstone exhausted, the crowd roaring as the curtain falls.
Charles Dudley Warner argues in Harper’s Magazine that born rich and old would fix life’s ills. Wealth spent instead of earned could yield perpetual youth-like vitality, while aging would provide experience to boost happiness. The piece contrasts this ideal with voyages and evolving transport ideas.
A collage of witty dialogues and brief notices covers language fluency, a Chinese empress learning English, married life jokes, a skating contest over a marriage prize, odd epitaphs, dancing mishaps, and a Japanese divorce rule. It ends with humorous banter about likeness and luck.
A man mistook a police station door for his boarding place and broke in. A Ga man boasts he never wore store clothes or a collar. A New York fire horse roamed stairs and nose-nudged a driver. A Stetson man dislocated a shoulder from an ox cart accident. Olympia women trap a rat that dies from kindness. A Georgia hunter accidentally bags seventeen partridges, not just two. Savannah News reports these odd events.
The article notes fireflies captured by light, widespread rats and mice except in Africa center and polar regions, bats across tropical and temperate zones, and rhinoceros beetles two inches long famed for their odor. It also describes cantharides beetles roosting in Southern Europe and the cantharidin chemical in blister beetle flesh.
A Maine town hosted a joint revival by two churches. After the meetings, one minister claimed success in bringing most converts into his fold. The next Sunday the other pastor spoke to his small group, saying the Lord knows who truly is chosen.
Dr J W Roosevelt argues in Scribner that near death, fear is rare and pain is not inevitable. He notes most patients sleep quietly as life ends and consciousness fades hours before death. The piece challenges common beliefs about dying and calls Fear of death in life cruelly unnecessary.
A Detroit Free Press tale humorously misreads a fortune telling session. Amanda’s seventh daughter quest reveals a friend’s full name as "Dami Jon" after a feigned heavy prophecy. The gag hinges on misreading cabalistic script and the sitter’s realization.
The notice advertises savings time deposits bearing 3 percent interest per annum. It also promotes safety deposit boxes available for rent at 5 dollars per year.
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