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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1895
Page
2
A compilation of editorial remarks and commentary on Benjamin Harrison Morton relations, the Rothschild bond deal, the gold standard, and notable figures. It references governor Morton, Ex-Governor Waite, Hardin and Bradley in Kentucky politics, and critiques education's role in currency policy. The piece also touches on international topics and social figures with a satirical tone.
In the 1850s General Grant, then down on his luck in St Louis, was considered for a county road engineer post. Judge Tippett, his friend, inspired the bid believing Grant could use the salary. Grant received one vote from Tippett, with mixed views on his competence and politics.
On a 1866 voyage from Nantucket to the Gilbert Islands the English brigantine held captain David Parks and his bride Mrs Parks. A year later they reached the same island finding apes. Mrs Parks was found harbored in a hollow tree and killed by a huge baboon, leaving the captain and crew to depart.
A compact list of paired similes contrasts vivid images from everyday life. The piece weighs phrases like as wet as a fish versus as dry as a bone and as strong as a horse against as weak as a cat, weaving a playful catalog of opposites.
The Indians of South America, especially along the Orinoco and Amazon, claim alligators swallow heavy stones to gain weight for dragging prey underwater. Bolivar tested the tale by examining stomach contents. every gator contained a rock, with size matching the animal. One 17 foot gator held a stone too large for a man to lift.
Nathalie, the Chandos sister, coolly rejects Western capitalist Bill Peters on a moonlit beach. A fortune collapse, a station dash, and Peters returns changed. Nathalie proclaims Peters as noble and loves him despite wealth loss, while Mrs. Chandos confronts ruin and ruinous vanity.
A family camping on a sand bank by a railroad near Tam Pico Mexico reports millions of fleas swarmed two sleeping children. Parents returned to find the babies dead and bodies covered with insects as buzzards hovered nearby.
The Yearly coroner's total of 921 deaths prompts public reflection says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Homicides numbered 51 and suicides 64, both record highs, with 250 railroad deaths, 46 traction-rail losses, 47 mine and factory casualties, nearly 100 drownings, and 57 deaths linked to alcoholism.
Iron production in the United States for 1892 reached 9 157 000 gross tons, up from 9 202 703 tons in 1890 and 8 279 870 tons in 1891. Maryland Virginia North Carolina Georgia Alabama Texas West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee contributed 1 570 127 tons, with gains from 1891 and 1890. Twelve states now develop mineral resources via rolling mills and steel works, including Alabama Delaware Georgia Kentucky Maryland North Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia. Capital in blast furnaces rose from 17 million to over 33 million between 1880 and 1890, rolling mills and steel works from 11.5 million to 17.6 million, with steel output increasing from 490 000 to 515 000 tons.
The Maine judge known for patience at the pond and love for Izaak Walton style fishing once visited Fryeburg ponds during a closed trolling season. A storekeeper recalls his solemn request for three illegal fish-hooks, a story cited by the Boston Journal.
Mystery of a turtle's age mentions a Hatboro Pennsylvania shell marking "L. W., 1833" by Levi Walton still living, noting turtles outlive people. Also an advertisement invites fall suits at Will C. Cleary 118 Harrison Street with guaranteed workmanship and reasonable prices. Races scheduled September 23 to 28 and a program on the fourth page.
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