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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1895
Page
3
A collection of anecdotes on William Wirt Henry Colis P Huntington Byron and other figures. Topics include Spurgeon Douglass and Hayti's World’s Columbian exhibit budget. Carlyle margin notes described with humor.
A collage of quips on marriage and gender roles from social chatter. A Chicago woman chases a burglar, women praised as heroes, and a string of humorous exchanges about husbands wives and engagements, exposing social attitudes.
News notes report a Philadelphia mill plans, $7 000 690 in gold entering the country from Australia, Italy credited with ice cream origins, a 17 year old giant in Bellows Falls Vermont, epilepsy linked to parental drunkenness in a Paris hospital, Prof. A C Reece teaching 56 years with near 5000 pupils and two deaths, Hiram and Mrs Cox of Calhoun County WV parents of twins for the third time, hunters near Caledonia PA spotting a snow white deer, and a vast submarine cable network encircling the dark continent with 17 000 miles laid.
Portsmouth N H article notes the ship once called Old Ironsides now sits dismantled at 2 200 ton Boston launched 1797. If the 100th anniversary of the launch arrives she may again be put in commission to receive centennial honors.
A collection of short comic exchanges and one liners featuring a range of characters from a father asking for a cent to a judge questioning a pistol incident. Exchanges include a manager, actor, doctor, lady, child, and townsfolk with punchlines about sympathy payments, trial salaries, romantic misunderstandings, and the cost of producing five hundred dollar bills.
A series of reflective maxims on virtue, self discipline, prayer, humility, and growth. Topics include conscience, manners, repentance, discernment, and the value of ongoing learning as a path to true power. The tone resembles moral instruction from a past era.
A compilation of brief notes: the Society of Friends gave over 100000 to Russian relief. UK papers lack Sunday editions. an Italian NY wife bore thirteen children in eighteen years of marriage. Rutherford donated 1600 negatives to Columbia Observatory. Maggie Morganroth peppered a barber in a domestic dispute. kauri trees in New Zealand reach tall heights. Vienna seeks a hangman with wages and assistants. Mrs. Louis Martin claimed 108 years old on her deathbed. English rising as lingua franca in Samoa and West Africa. English spreading in India and Japan.
A Denver man allegedly descended into insanity over an unexpected raise in salary, contrasting his reaction with the idea of being burned. The misdirection and vague details suggest a local oddity or rumor surrounding employment tensions and financial strain.
A brief collection notes a Titusville Pennsylvania president’s suicide over a false family claim, a Newark case of fraud against Commercial Enterprise leaders, a German cow sale with security barter, a London preacher’s happy hunger sermon for slum listeners, and a Washington hall owner’s blunt booking reply about no shakes and cash.
Ivory is sensitive to cold and will crack, affecting billiard balls. A new English stair thread pattern uses alternating lead and steel for durability. An Algerian elastic grass from Oran cradles furniture backs and seats, packing requires heavy steel bands, thriving near Oran’s volcanic slopes.
A New York Advertiser summary explains thirst arising from body dehydration, gland secretion failure, and moisture loss through skin. It discusses unsual thirst during fever, battle fatigue, and the role of fluids, blood loss, and skin in signaling dehydration and hydration methods.
A New Orleans woman argues that women are and will remain the primary newspaper readers. She says busy men skim news while cultured women read thoroughly, using papers to add charm of mind to appearance and social appeal.
The Somersetshire coal canal, ten and a half miles long, was offered for reentry sale at Tokenhouse Yard. It earned about 2 pounds yearly from cottages and surplus lands, opened in childhood prosperity, tolls rose to 1F thousand tons yearly, but by 1868 annual tonnage averaged 24 000 tons with costs of about 1 2. Strikes and idle collieries led to liquidation. original cost about 20 000 pounds. The auctioneer noted a bid of 0 000 would not be refused and a railway firm might acquire it for speculative uses, but the sale was withdrawn with the highest bid at 0 000.
A mixed item list highlights diverse figures from history. Mentions German Emperor with searchlights, John Wanamaker religious views, W R McKee n railroad fame, Semmelweis antiseptic memorial, Thaddeus Stevens will for boys home, Adolph Sutro mayoral talk with no voting, Mrs Henry Ward Beecher at Buffalo Bills show, King Humbert hunting success, Coates conspirative medicine habit, and Miss Ioa Humes’s bold Sioux Falls job bid traveling fifty miles by bicycle to apply.
A nostalgic snapshot of past life contrasts 19th century routines with modern times. It notes far fewer people in Stata and shifts in travel, food, dress, communication, and urban infrastructure. The piece uses vivid examples like Sunday meals, inn gatherings, and unpaved cities to evoke a bygone era.
A collection of proverbs on patience, honesty, and personal reform. It urges that truth, example, and self-improvement shape character more than mere words or social status. It notes distrust in trifles and the shared clay of humanity.
British naval maneuvers reveal steam steering failures in many ships. The issue appears from prioritizing lightness over strength. Crescent class first class cruisers load coal at nineteen tons per hour, with bunkers carrying five tons, implying about two days needed to fully load for a voyage.
The St Louis Republic notes that catalogs from the British Museum and Smithsonian reveal countless ancient precursors to modern devices. It cites items such as hat pins with glass heads, water pipes, stamps for pottery, safety pins, razors, telescopes, thimbles, combs, hinges, lamps, knives, bronze beads, and early forms of the nickle in the slot machine, telephone in China, and magnetic telegraph in Europe.
A visitor describes a Damascus horse sale where an eager buyer attempts to lower the price by piastres. The seller stays quiet until the buyer finally offers money plus a display of generosity. The buyer then insists on friendship, and the horse is sold as a present amid warm exchanges.
Athens plans to revive the Olympic Games next spring in the rebuilt ancient Stadium with seating for 100000. 200 boats may enter the Mafiychia harbor races and Marathon run is proposed. Invitations sent to 2000 clubs, 800 expected representatives. 100000 visitors anticipated.
A Womankind column laments farmer fatigue from field toil and chores and argues that Home improvements start with one family member. A florist quips that even a flower lover may crave gardening after a month among blooms, suggesting small efforts inspire collective household betterment.
Report says New York police may soon use rubber clubs as a nonlethal option. A New London inventor claims his device delivers the stun and impact of wooden batons with less risk of serious harm, potentially replacing conventional weapons.
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