Local Firms Listed in Wayne County Business Directory
A lengthy directory of businesses in Wayne includes ART GALLERIES, BINDERS, DRUGGISTS, FURNITURE, GROCERS, GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, MERCHANT TAILORS, MILLINERY, NOTIONS, WALL PAPER, PICTURE FRAMES, SEWING MACHINES, STOVES, and more. Entries provide company names and street addresses such as Calhoun Street, Columbia Street, East Main Street, and Keystone Block, with references to wholesale and retail operations and nearby landmarks like the Court House and Phoenix Block.
Fur Seals Behavior On Pacific Islands Revealed
The San Francisco Bulletin describes fur seals on Pacific islands arriving from April to May with males guarding harems of up to hundreds of females. Females breed from May to June while pups emerge in August. Males defend territories, fight rivals, and feed rarely during the breeding season. After marking and capturing prey, pups learn to swim, and butchery seasons in September yield dried skins for export, with meat salted and clothing uses.
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San Francisco Bulletin
Pacific Islands
The Mitten In Fort Wayne’s 1870 Page
A fragment from The Democrat dated April 12 1870 presents a rough verse about a contentious breakup. The speaker rants about ending a relationship, threatening violence and self harm in a melodramatic style. The piece reflects period slang and emotional turmoil within a single dramatic monologue.
Oldest running watch in America on display in Meriden shop
A Meriden watchmaker hosts a display of an ancient watch with only an hour hand and a catgut winding chain. Housed in brass and once encased in tortoise shell, it bears the inscription W. Lee, No. 2, 1658, suggesting it is 212 years old and among the earliest American timekeepers. The watch keeps excellent time, varying no more than two minutes over a four week period.
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Nan
New York
Porto Rico
Baltimore
West India Ports
William Howard Isotored
Cook
John Mortelier
Tie
St. Thomas
John Fitchiman
Howard
Mortelier
Riae
Meriden
Conn
W. Lee
America
Radical rhetoric at Jeffersonville speech sparks religious controversy
Barnabas C. Hobba, superintendent of public instruction, spoke at the African Aulities in Jeffersonville. his historical sketch of slavery linked Lincoln’s emancipation to a covenant with God, alleging Lincoln waited for Union defeat at Gettysburg to issue the Proclamation. The report condemns Hobbs’ view as ridiculous and sacrilegious while praising Lincoln as a free thinker governed by universal laws. The piece questions whether educational leadership should rest in Hobbs’ hands, urging a change.
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Barnabas C. Tobba
Barnabas C. Hobba
Jeffersonville
Afric Siavery
Hoe
Lincoln
Lee
Gettysburg
Hobbs
Gui
Cincern
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Barnabas C. Hobbs
Jnd. Sentinel
Putting Up a Job by Government Detectives Incident
A woman at Everett House sought interviews to aid counterfeit money circulation. A man refused, was allegedly seized by two government detectives, and a confrontation with Thomas Reilly followed. Reilly later obtained a warrant for detective Charles E Aukie on assault with a deadly weapon charges.
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Everett House
Thomas Reilly
Reilly
Tham
Charles E. Aukie
Winship
Aristocratic Leg Casting Sparks London Leg Craze
A London shop in Soho Square sells five shilling casts of noble ladies legs from life models. Lady de G and R donated molds, others followed including a mayor’s wife, with stockings and garter elevating the display. Bracciani’s Convent Garden shop profits from this unusual trend in aristocratic ladies’ legs.
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London
Soho Square
de G
Bracciani
Convent Garden
Anna Core Momatt Richie
Byron's Spirit Visitatre Haunts Stowe Household
A Florida mistress writes of a haunted Dinah in Mrs Stowe's household, describing a pale thin apparition with hollow eyes and dark whiskers, likened to Lord Byron. The shade allegedly ignores Mrs Stowe while troubling Dinah, with oranges offered as propitiation, and speculation it previews a larger staged drama.
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Lord Byron
Stowe
Florida
N. S
Florid
Bocohey Stowe
Dinah
Greece
Poer
New York real estate slump in wartime rents and vacancies
The letter notes many empty stores and apartments from Broadway to Waverly Place, says rents must fall as living costs drop twenty percent, and predicts more emigration to Brooklyn and New Jersey. It argues real estate is flat and war prices linger with Astors and Stewarts holding firm. It also cites Governor Palmer’s praise of truth in a Thomas eulogy and contrasts Grant and Pope on veracity.
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Jor” Hooker
Thomas
the Tribune
Schofield
Gentemen
Washington
Grant
San Francisco
Lei
New York Star
Broadway
Waverly Place
Canal Street
Stors
Metropolitan Hotel
Bleeker Street
Jersey
Brooklyn
New York
Astors
Stewarts
Pring
Falmer
Sherman
Sheridan
Republican Party
John Pope
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Pope
United State
Cabinet
Lincoln
Chicago
Logansport Journal notes fledgling spared after love crisis
The Logansport Journal reports a fledgling who took leudanum after falling for a fair Loganport daughter who smiled at another. a doctor quickly treated him and he was not spanked. The incident is described without graphic detail.
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Logansport
Leudanum
Logansport Journal
Indiana news and society notes from Krepsville and beyond
A compilation of assorted Indiana items and brief notices. Topics include local personalities such as Horace Cooks and Ciamnary Loan, the Wabash Canal opening plans, a stray German killed near Lafayette, labor strikes in Lafayette, and various civic and political snippets. Also noted are births, marriages, theatrical plans, and regional curiosities with scattered dates and local references.
London readings earn her $40000 and more
A garbled mix of old notes reports Tom THesrB to make 50000 in Australia and Mr Dickens earning 40000 from London readings. Mentions include New Yorkers paying two cents per strawberry, a 104 year old bearded Toulouse widow, and various oddities without clear coherent context.
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Tom Thesrb
Australia
Dickens
London
Gano
Richmound
Boss
Thomas
Toulousee
Bowery
New Boulevard
Harlem
Walnut
Philadelphia
Grass Valley
Cal
Hayes
Charles L. Pugh
Henry Lehreiner
Columbus
Dominion
Rumor of Yankee Cuts Up Sumner-Bulkeley Speech
Word reaches that a speculative Yankee plans to cut the Sumner Bulkeley speech into "elegant extracts" for introduction in all New England public schools. The idea stirs debate over usage, curriculum impact, and ideological intent in regional education policy.
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New England
Execution in New York World style A hangings detailed report
A lurid eyewitness account describes the Reynolds execution at the Toombs, with crowds gathering from early morning, the gallows and Bridge of Sighs, and the dramatic ascent of Reynolds to the scaffold. The narrative follows the ritual, the fear on his face, the drop, and his eventual death by asphyxia, ending with the coffin, flowers, and burial at Calvary Cemetery.
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New York World
Reynolds
Toombs
Ita
O’brien
Court of Special Sessions
Mr. Stevens
Mr. B. B. Rosenberg
Stevens
Prm
Jack
Ter
Calvary Cemetery
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M & CO
Demoonay Building
Werner Calhoun and
Wayne Streets
Fort Wayne
Indiana
al Saverette
D, Dumm & CO
Damoonat
Oprica
Ind
Business Directory
FT. Wayne
Athose
Wayne
BE. Wallin
Hamilton's Hall
J A. Shoafp
Palace of Fashion
J B.saunders
ASD Retail
Stockbridge
Columbia Street
Brass Works
A. Hattersley
East Main Street
Boots Andre E. Vordermark & Son
EL N. Ward
Calhoun Street
B. Trentman & Son
M.E. Woodward
Calhoun St
Opp Court House
Ee el Goods
G Orff & Co
Frank & Thanhouser
Keystone Black
Meyer
Keystone Area
Columbia St
Biddle & Brandriff
Calhoun
DAE Vollmer
Berry
FOOTE
Wooster
W. Cor. Main
Calhoun Sta
Harris & Grothen
Emerson
Pierce
A. Daniels
Grocers
Huestis & Hamilton
Moderwell & Jester
Wweelbaale
BETAN
Mouvulloch T Richey
Morgan & ‘Beach
Bow
Oakley & Son
NOOF
Joseph Blaghs
Paul
Waray
JAS/HARP RPER & CO
Phoenix
Blocky
Merchant Tailors
G. Vogel & Son, Sxc
E. B. Calhoun
Phenix Bi’k
John G
Uppegraff & No
Eae and Wall Paper
West Berry Street
Wood
Painters House
Anderson & Rover
Cormier
Ste
SEEDS
DE Groff Nelson & CO
Grover & Baker
Singer's
L. P
J. J. Jocquel
Calhoun St. Op
Tobacconists
Waolenat
Ewing, Hood & CO
Clinton Street
W.B. Smith & CO
Lingenfeller & Bro
Eins Floar
Dover
Chaz
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
James McGuire
Thomas O’brien
Albert Blank
Ransom Nash
John CO. McLeod
John D. Richards
Alexander Moore
G. C. Watson
George DeBaptiste
Nash
McLeod
John JT. Richards
State Street
Chicago Tribune
Mitten
Thunder
FEMS
Hiomm
Krepsville
Ciamnary Loan
Franklin
Methodist Conference
Horace Cooks
Wabash Canal
Ohio Line
Montezuma
Peru Republican
Jack Tourer
Kokomo
Hanover
Ero Saya
Monticello
Lafayette
Frederick Rothervan
Evansville
Mas Jackson
Indianapolis
Benjamin Seamin
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Vandalia
Jasper County
Wm. Grant
Wm. Moore
Phineas Thornton
Cornelius Hutton
Cox
Owen County
Oranuys County
French Lick
Leavenworth
Crawford County
Herman
Indianapolis Cricket Club
Wil
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Tuens
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Pexeo
Ramsay
W. E H. Leaxe
Wman
Grant County
Marion Chronicle
J. N
Sentinel
Floyd County
Lafayette Universalist
Eunice Archer
Switzerland County
Haveyard
Eunice Ag
Indianapolis Journal
Nero
Cain
Lafayette Courier
Cale
Lifayette
Ray
John Adeli
Rochester
Fulton County
Rochester Union
Adel
Lafayette Journal
Wallace
Ohio House
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Ohio
Lindley Stanley
Jennings County
John A. Leyman
Lindley
Terre Haute Express
Walter Cooper
Third Street
New Albany Ledger
Malone
Evensville Cowmier
Posey County
Babytown
John Graham
Graham
Herald
Indianapolis Stile Sentinel
Alan
Frank Stevenson
Hope
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Spooner
United States
Kneffer
Angola
Fremont
Daniel Lent
California
Bertry
Europe
Montreal
United States Supreme Court
Ithaca
Eacine
Wisconsim
Samuel Watson
Hawley
Paris
Coutrns
Lupia Thomeson
Des Moines
Count Montrand
St. Johnsville
New York Central Railroad
Sanborn
Schenectady
Isaac Declerg
Sechell
Tus
Kansas Pacific Railroad
District of Columbia
Congress
Far West
Toledo
Carlotte
Athol
Orange County
Jerusalem
Burdett Coutts
Borataer
Pall Vali Gazette
South Africa
Guums
M. Liegeard
Hoffman
E Ror
Marshal Vaillant
M. Hottman
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