05 Apr 1871
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1871
Page
1
The notice lists numerous Fort Wayne merchants across categories from Art Galleries to Hardware and Dry Goods. It promotes special purchases, featuring J A Shoafyf at Palace of Fashion and many firms at Columbia and Calhoun streets including Ward’s Crockery, Meyer Bros, and Lingenfelser & Bro trunks.
An extended and composite excerpt blends a humorous parody about a church sermon to a tragic tale of blind faith and loss, following a deacon's jest and a family tragedy. The narrative shifts through memory, illness, and a wealthy restoration, ending with a dramatic death scene and theatrical allusions.
A devoted wife supports her husband Dickensian designer as he wins a Philadelphia design commission. Their joy and wealth grow while he toils late, grows pale from stress, and she urges care. They plan a wedding tour and a brighter future amid the Indian summer ascent of their fortunes.
In Congress and Senate, Shellabarger reports a bill to enforce the XIVth amendment and protect life and property in the South. Sumner seeks a court of nations to avoid war with Britain over disputes, while proposals address color discrimination on a mail steamer and territorial acquisition debates. The Senate debates resolutions, foreign policy, and party loyalty amid unfinished business.
The article recalls historic deaths of actors and composers during performance. It cites Gottschalk dying at the piano while playing La Morte, parallels Moliere’s illness and fake stage death, Hughes dying after news of a success, and Moody collapsing mid Claudio in Measure for Measure, noting the dramatic irony and audience reaction.
A humorous wedding tale follows a bride Mary Ann and groom Stephen as preparations stumble over a missing baby shirt. In a string of comic mishaps the shirt is mistaken for a handkerchief, causing embarrassment before the ceremony. The couple ultimately marries, and the affair is described as the gayest wedding ever attended.
Ohio Statesman warns readers on public lands as 150 million acres were disposed since government formation, half to non residents awaiting profits. Cites Osage 1,000,000 acres and Cherokee 400,000 sold to two men for 19 cents and $1 per acre, now worth at least $10 million. criticizes swamp land act and land shenanigans, plus naval land grants and Union Pacific grabs, suggesting government may end up with little real estate left.
Tur patents on chairs are numerous and several chair improvements prove profitable with reclining and invalid chairs yielding pecuniary gains. Table improvements are fewer and extension tables show some success while work and kitchen tables consistently lack value. Many inventions fail to sell due to patentee asking exorbitant prices.
Senator Sumner delivers a sharp anti annexation speech accusing the navy and state department of illegal belligerent intervention to seize San Domingo and press Baez into power. He argues the president exceeded constitutional bounds and calls for peaceful reconciliation with Haiti and Dominica.
A collage of satirical items and jokes on Egypts military ideas, Negro cadets, a Montana calico ball for a church, mint juleps, seeds for France, and harsh social commentary. Features quips on vaccination, Mississippi legislature piano bids for Governor Alcorn, maple syrup from brown sugar, and humorous jabs at Boston women, Burnside, and Greeleys farming tips.
The item notes curious price contrasts in Auburn with diamond studs sold for fifteen cents versus a dollar elsewhere. It also recounts anecdotes about Anna Dickinson, Detroit courting rumors, a Montgomery Pa death and a hired man’s suicide, and a critique of a Boston magistrate. The column includes satire about a Philadelphia leader, a church pew rent sting, Vinnie Ream funding, and a postmaster scandal tied to plug tobacco.
In Rolling Prairie Indiana Sarah E Roswell, a young woman, befriended by a charming traveling dentist Henry B Harmaell whom she later accused of seduction and bastardy. Harmaell fled Joliet then Chicago after a mob attacked arrest efforts. bail set at 800. pursuit continued by Constable Hartman.
A country man rushed into a drug store demanding a pint of whisky for mechanical purposes. He asked the bottle be noted “for mechanical purposes” to raise something. When pressed, he quipped that they would “raise the devil” with it as he left.
The Petersburg Courier reports the brutal murder of Mr. Charles Friend, a well respected citizen living near Petersburg. He was attacked between 9 and 10 p.m. as he returned home from the city, beaten with blows to the head, and died shortly after reaching his residence. He was over 60, esteemed in the community, and the motive remains unclear amid intense emotion and calls for policy debate on Ku Klux legislation.
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