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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
2
A jumble of political chatter and social scenes. The weather man faces scrutiny while figures like Dunraven, Iselin, Morton, Foraker, Horr, and Platt populate a talky landscape. Debates on silver, third terms, pensions, and Chicago reform clashes mingle with club politics and yacht society tensions.
The committee blamed Captain Cranfield for an incident with the Defender, accusing him of deliberate or careless action that harmed Defender. Dunraven vows not to race in American waters again, with a note he will not be permitted to do so. The speaker calls him a chump.
A series of aphorisms on morality, restraint, and social conduct. The text urges thinking rightly to avoid wrong, valuing practical deeds over grand words, and maintaining kindness even toward enemies while practicing self discipline in all matters from buying to speaking. It advocates modesty, charity, and cheerful conduct to foster peace.
A Pittsburg Commercial Gazette note discusses how barometric changes affect health. Low barometer raises blood vessel congestion, slows brain function, and worsens symptoms in the weak or diseased, while strong individuals, especially children, resist these effects.
A curious inquirer uses a microphone to listen to flies and reports they may have a language of finer sounds beyond wing buzzing. He notes the fly ears are highly acute and hopes a microphone could reveal microbial language likewise.
The piece surveys European royal succession crises. It notes Archduke Franz of Austria as a weak heir, the Italian line as undersized and unlikely to marry, the Russian heir with consumption, tainted Habsburg blood, and a fragile Frankish and Spanish succession looming amid Bourbon influence. The overall mood is a bleak view of royal stability across Europe.
A tiger cat with a scarlet neck ribbon draws crowds on Temple Place Boston daily. He greets a milkman who places cream in a sidewalk hollow. the cat devours breakfast then retreats to a doorway to groom his whiskers.
A survey of European colonial empires notes Italy may secure Abyssinia while England dominates global possessions. Germany, Turkey, Denmark also hold colonies. An electric defense scheme by Edison is described, plus a domestic anecdote about a wet lawn and a trolley wire scare.
A dying Orleans telegraph worker in Franklin, Tennessee, requested a link to New Orleans and spoke his farewells to old colleagues before dying. A separate historic tale recalls a 18 year old Jackson Mississippi message delivering a gubernatorial reprieve that halted an execution and led to nine months in prison before release.
The piece traces global hat history from rawhide caps and iron fronts to the Spanish broad brim and Napoleon’s artillery style. It notes red cardinal hats signifying sacrifice, heavy medieval battle helmets, hooded cloaks for four centuries, Turkish muslin turbans, beaver and rabbit fur hats, and US fur production, with several centuries of European and American hatmaking.
A missionary barrels in the South once found a wire bustle in a clothing lot for the poor. An elderly Negro requested the item and was told it could be his. Soon Mrs. Jackson appeared at the mission church wearing a large, adornment laden bonnet that drew all eyes and sparked mixed feelings from the missionary.
A concise survey explains how Benedictine and Bernardine orders derive from St. Benedict and St. Bernard. It covers Faith healers Idolatry Protestants Passionist Fathers Gnostics Crutched friars Arminians Camisards Episcopalians and their defining traits and names.
A retrospective on how Latin roots shaped words like prevaricator pagan baffled and kindly in old English usage. It traces how meanings evolved from legal and knightly contexts to common modern senses.
A New York dentist notes the commercial value of gold sweepings from dental work, with small bits selling to dealers and assistants keeping precise usage records. The article then describes a new perpetual polyantha rose race from Paris, bred from Japanese and hybrid perpetual stock, flowering continuously in summer and reaching about twenty inches tall.
An old Irishwoman asks a lawyer to seek a continuance so she can hire a better attorney for her son’s burglary trial. The lawyer agrees only if valid grounds exist but must tell the court the reason. He must find a lawful basis, then rushes back in frustration, leaving the court with the request.
The article recalls Washington joining Freemasonry before 21 and notes his two degrees at Fredericksburg Lodge 4 Virginia under a Massachusetts Grand Lodge dispensation. Records show November 4, 5752 payment for entry, March 3, 5753 Fellow Craft, and August 4, 5753 Master Mason raised.
Ricketts quips with Fosdick about humor as a stuttering suitor proposes. He recalls the awkward delivery on an installment plan and Blanche’s coy response, framing the scene as a delayed romantic moment.
Explosive bullets were used for hunting in India and later by Russia in 1863. An 1868 convention banned war usage as inhumane. The Nickel Plate road advertises low rate round trips to Lake Maxinkuckee from Hibbard Indiana, Saturdays to Mondays, with dates 8 20 9 27 376 and 8 20 9 27 877, urging inquiries to agents.
A resolution urges the formation of a Central Bimetallic Compact to educate and campaign for restoring silver to its pre 1873 coinage role. Members pledge to labor honorably to restore silver and authorize the Timms Post to convene a meeting to organize.
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