15 Jun 1870
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Democrat
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1870
Page
1
Dates of legal advertising set at 150 per square for first insertion and 75 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Ten lines equal one square. eight inches of type. Attorneys pay all ads. 80 proof of publication prepared only after payment. Letters for publication or delivery to RR. DO. DUMM & CO. Fort Wayne Indiana.
A detailed 19th century Fort Wayne business directory lists leading firms by category with names and street addresses. It covers art galleries, clothing, dry goods, drugs, hardware, furniture, gents goods, millinery, paints, sewing machines, harness, and more, indicating prominent local merchants and locations.
A long, polemical tract argues for natural rights and limited government. It quotes Jefferson and the Declaration, contrasts Federalist excesses with republican ideals, and urges voters to oust alleged tyrants amid calls for constitutional fidelity and civic duty. Includes digressions on historic political slander and a dramatic Nile crocodile scene.
A poem by N. J. Wills reflects an elderly speaker who vows to enjoy life despite aging. The narrator acknowledges years and fatigue but embraces vivid scenes of youth, music, and dancing. He concedes mortality yet voices a longing to feel alive, join merriment, and bless the young with his spirit.
A perilous early morning rooftop lift ends with a fall when rope breaks. Harry, nicknamed Spider, steadies Ben Loyd as the cradle crashes. Ben, blind and crazed, nearly corners his savior before a kite rope rescue saves them. Ben is later deemed unfit for heavy work while Harry retires from the trade. Community onlookers witness the dramatic attempt and the long aftermath.
A Syrian man fighting for life after a Nile encounter stabs a crocodile with a dagger. He dives and resurges multiple times, escaping the jaws as the beast is wounded and sinks, leaving a red stain in moonlit water.
A comic tale set in Galen Illinois depicts a fifteen year old girl who orders a midnight wedding outfit from a milliner. Her elopement plan with a suitor is foiled by fearful parents. The second act follows a country farmer and wife seeking their daughter who ran away to marry. the plot includes a boarding school near Chicago and a staged ascent to Council Hill Station. The drama ends with the parents recapturing their daughter at the railway and returning her to home, amid village agitation.
A woman and her daughter were terrorized at their home near South Public Lane and East Public Lane by an unknown Black intruder who entered the house during the evening, waited until occupants slept, then followed them toward a vault in the yard as the mother felt unwell.
A mixed bag of notes reports Tom Toums traveling to Australia with his wife and baby. Rosa Bonneva buys a young menagerie to furnish studies. If all the ladies went to China, gentlemen would go to Pekin. A Paris milliner earned 780000 francs in seven years. Newport spent over a million dollars on cottages this spring. Linen dresses with chiny or Valenciennes lace are fashionable in New York. A quip on a rule to get along in life urges maximizing gain, saving, and giving. The piece mentions fashion, sermons, a child scolding a fly, rib bons hats, Empress Hugenia’s dress, and other society notes. It also notes crime, bigamy, and economic anecdotes.
A patchwork of items from Lafayette Terre Haute and other towns reports a near completed Postoffice in Lafayette a drunken street scene in a hotel a new street sprinkler and a peanut stand in Rising Sun drownings thefts and arrests election notes and church and college news. The Bloomington Democrat notes wheat crop concerns while Terre Haute Journal cites a Negro delegate claim and other local happenings including a paralyzed judge in Illinois and a murder scare in Jennings county.
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