Local items note travels, visits, and health updates
Clem App leaves for Buffalo on business. Harry Templar is ill at home. Everett visits Columbia City on business. Mr. and Mrs. Evans return from Frankfort Pa. Miss Josie Young visits Mrs. Will Wilson in town. Dr. and Mrs. Myers go to Chicago to visit relatives. Mr. Bliss walks downtown after malaria. Northwest Indiana M E conference opens in Valparaiso with Bishop Merrill presiding. Mrs. Hood returns to Columbia City after three weeks with the Hood family. Rebekah Daughters No 110 host trolley party from the South Streetcar barns. Spy Runs lose to Young Fort Wayne 14 to 11. Theodore Gould and family leave for Valparaiso after his mother’s death. Barbers Union social at Hanna and Madison largely attended. Judge Allen Zollars and wife return from Waukesha, health improving. Dr. Wheelock removes cataract from Addison Keever at Hope Hospital restoring sight to a soldier. Mrs. Allinger, inmate at county jail, shows improvement but remains confined. Plans to admit at Richmond asylum once papers proved. City health steady with some typhoid and diphtheria cases. infants suffer cholera infantum in heat. Calh asserts larger woolens stock at 41 West Main Street.
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Clem App
Buffalo
Harry Templar
Co. E. Everett
Columbia City
George P. Evans
Frankfort
Josie Young
Will Wilson
W. H. Myers
Chicago
C. H. Bliss
Northwest Indiana
M. E. Church
Valparaiso
Bishop Merrill
Allen Zollars
Waukesha
Hope Hospital
K. K. Wheelock
Addison Keever
Keever
Allinger
Richmond
Fort Wayne Bands Concert Draws Fort Wayne Visitors
The famous City band and the First Regiment band of Fort Wayne played in the Muncie court house square on Sunday afternoon. The concert drew crowds from both cities with about a thousand Fort Wayne visitors wearing identical program cards throughout the event.
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Muncie
First Regiment Band
Fort Wayne
Courthouse Square
Port Wayne centennial ads and Nickel Plate excursion deals
In the 1895 advertisement fragment Port Wayne promotes its centennial celebration with quirky placards. It notes low fares to Louisville for G A R encampment and lists marriage licenses. Nickel Plate agents offer special excursion rates to multiple regions for tickets sold in September and October. The piece also recounts the original use of canes by church readers and deacons as a five foot long staff with a feathered end used to discipline noisy boys and revive sleepy families.
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Nickel Plate Road
Merry
England
Rarity of a perfect sapphire and its test in red glow
A perfect sapphire commands high price as one of the rare gems. Its perfection is tested by showing red under a strong arimetal light, a curious method noted in historical gem appraisal.
Two Fine Shows at the Masonic Temple Tonight
Fort Wayne audiences may witness Sydney Grundy's Sow ing the Wind in a lavish production by Frohman's company at the Masonic Temple this evening. The melodrama centers on a clash of sex against sex with a dramatic final duel between a daughter’s guardian and her lover's father figure. Also on tour is The Fatal Card, praised for its English melodrama style, with a strong cast and new scenery. The Old Homestead drew a fair crowd at the temple, with George W. Wilson delivering a powerful Joshua Whitcomb and solid supporting players strengthening the production.
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Sydney Grundy
Masonic Temple
Frohman
England
Temple
Mgr
Gustave Frohman
Old Homestead
Fort Wayne
George W. Wilson
Joshua Whitcomb
Slave trade in Tonkin women continues in China
A historic exchange reports Tonkin slave traders still abduct women and children, selling them to Chinese merchants who take them to western China. The practice began about 25 years ago during Tonkin unrest, rising from emigration schemes and wartime prisoner shipments. Women are prized as gentle, obedient servants commanding high prices.
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Africa
Tonkin
China
Chili
Western
Valkyrie In First Still Makes Gallant Fight In Cup Race
New York dispatch describes Valkyrie III and Defender racing for the Second Cup. Valkyrie, crippled yet pushing hard, finishes just 47 seconds ahead of Defender after a collision near the line. Skippers Hank Haff and Sycamore maneuvered to windward positions amid jockeying at the start.
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Dunraven
New York
Valkyrie
Hank Haff
Haff
Sycamore
Haft
Leeward
Where is Broadhead the editor asked in a tale
A man who had left Excuseless City two years ago asks about Broadhead the editor. The reply recalls Broadhead insisting the settlers would stay, but he died of starvation at the end of the fourth month, buried in the settlement.
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Broadhead
Offer of Pensions if Valkyrie Wins Americas Cup
Lord Dunraven promises lifelong pensions of 80 shillings weekly to every crew member if the Valkyrie defeats to win back the America's Cup. The offer, stated in a speech to the sailors and their commanders, spurred cheers and a vow to push for victory.
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Lord Dunraven
England
Debtor Skips Out Prompting Runing Account
A bookkeeper notes a customer who has owed money for three months has skipped, and the proprietor instructs to open a running account with him. The exchange mirrors a colonial ledger style as reported by the Washington Post.
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Washington Post
Muncie Route Offers Low Rates for All People
Nickel Plate road announces reduced excursion rates for multiple regions and events including Sept dates in Chattanooga Fort Wayne Indianapolis Knoxville Washington Minneapolis Albany Philadelphia Atlantic City and Cleveland. Information and tickets available at the Fort Wayne North depot. prices range from six to ten dollars round trip with several special event dates and societies noted.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamaugaa
Fort Wayne Ind
Indianapolis
Ind
Knoxville
Sons of Veterans
Washington
Western States
North Depot
Fort Wayne
Philadelphia
United American Mechanics’ Mutual Council
Minneapolis
Artificial Ice From Distilled Water Promises Pure Drinking Ice
The Artificial Ice Company uses artesian well water in covered cans surrounded by heated pipes to extract heat and form pure crystal ice. Marketed as sanitary and physician endorsed, the ice suits families, hotels, and druggists, with one gallon bottles for drinking purposes. Books of 5-cent coupons sell for $1.50, lasting about 100 days for a family. The Nickel Plate road offers low rate excursion tickets to Lake Maxinkuckee Saturdays through Sept 28. Inquiries via agents.
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Nickel Plate Road
Lake Maxinkuckee
Fenquire
Fort Wayne Markets corrected daily by Bush & Co
Wheat seven cents oats twenty eight and eighty cents corn forty five and forty eight cents rye forty eight cents barley none butter fourteen cents per pound kegs ten cents beeswax twenty five cents per pound meal one dollar twenty five cents per bushel potatoes fifty cents per bushel feathers five geese forty five cents per bag fifty cents per cw hides green seven cents per pound hides cured eight cents per pound
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Bush & Co
Racing Stakes Ledger From September 25
Two-year-old pace and trot events listed with stake numbers and close notes. Entries show purse values and expected times such as 2:23 trot and 2:30 pace. Additional three-year-old trots and paces appear with stake numbers and prize references.
Nursin Ain't What It Used to Be QuoteFeatured
A quotation from Mrs. Gamp appears in the Indianapolis Journal noting nostalgia for old remedies. The text mocks modern medicine as overly refined and less amusing or effective in preserving traditional remedies. The remark reflects historical attitudes toward healthcare and humor.
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Indianapolis Journal
Mrs Bellows Accuses Kiss With Hired Girl
A dramatic exchange quoted from the New York Herald shows Mrs Bellows accusing her husband of kissing the hired girl. Mr Bellows laments their cooling conduct has cost them many girls.
Preface word origin welcomed meals in old books
The term preface once served as a welcome at meals, meaning Much good may it do you. This etymology traces a tradition from hospitality to book introductions.
Boston Courier Sees No Better than Other Print Shops
Mr Stayforever praises Buil finch for his go. Miss Smilax agrees. The Timms-Post job printing office invites business, claiming quality equal to first class printing.
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Builfinch
Miss Smilax
Boston Courier
Timms-Post
Horse Race Entries and Purses for Trot and Pace Events
Race program lists pace and trot events with stake numbers closed, including a 2000 dollar Free-for-All Pace for three-year-olds and a 1000 dollar Free-for-All Pace. Additional 1000 dollar purses appear for 210 Trot events and other listed purses.
Evening Harness Card From September Fray Listed
The schedule lists September race events with times for a 2:15 trotting stake number 38, 2:12 pacing stake 36, a 2000 purse for a Vree-for-All Trot and 2:09 pacing purse. The following day, Saturday September 28 features 2:30 trotting 2:22 pacing and 2:28 trotting purses with similar stakes.
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No. Lil
Hanna and
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A. I. Senect
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Port Wayne
Louisville
George F. Ackerman
Florence Donnelly
George C. Wilmot
Jennie Gibbons
Yankee
Navy Department
Moran Bros. Company
Seattle
Wash
Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works
Portland
Ore
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Herreschoff Manufacturing Company
Bristol
R. I
National
Pern Chronicle
With& Builet
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Peru
Charles Adams
Morey
Arda Werner
Logansport
Rome City
Callon Will C. Cleary
Harrison Street
Cleveland
Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Grand Council Royal and
Select Masons
Turspay
Maumee Valley
Old Fort
Indiana
Oho
Michigan
Ohio
Romy & Bobilya
Barr Street
D.J. Spencer Cor M In
Calhoun
VIA
Tadinoxville
Cincinnati
G. Roa
C.L. Lock Wood
Grand Rapios
Mich
Pantitorium
Calhoun Street
J.O. Caswell
Rich Hotel
Woodesh Tal
Mark Scp
Ana Q
Freese & Ranke
Calhoun ST
Temple Theatre
New York Empire Theater
Ty Sidney Grundy
New York Herald
Miss J. Haverly
Tuansday
Fort Wayne Steam Laundry
Main Street
W.B. Phillips
Telephone
Broadway
Washington Boulevard
Geller
W. F. Geller
Fray
E. Main ST
Brant Home
Dadry Times —Post
South Side Wall Paper Store
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