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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1875
Page
1
A bettor recalls a tense hand where a draw hope turned to a bluffed pile shift. One card revealed as red sparked a triumph while the rest showed spades. The tale mentions three old maids and a decisive play, capturing a vivid moment at the table.
In a ruined town near La Puisaye, George Dickson meets Mary Milton by chance amid battle debris. Delaval, a mysterious Frenchman, seeks George’s pass and betrays him, while a fatal shell accident seals fates. Mary reveals love, Ada’s rejection follows injury, and reconciliation with Elizabeth ends in a hopeful marriage.
In a detailed rebuttal M E S of Chicago explains that wool shrinks due to filament contraction under heat and moisture, not from puckering. The presence of cotton lint adds no preventing effect. long or strong wool determines cloth shrinkage, while lint appearance is taste. A broader review follows on turf association disputes and proposed American association plans.
The piece recounts Dr. Vander Weyde preparing edible items from worn attire. Boot jelly is made by cleaning the boot and boiling it with soda under two atmospheres, leather tannic acid reacting with salt to form gelatine. Shirt coffee and linen glucose are created using fabric fibers and acids, yielding a convincing edible imitation.
Lafayette Journal wonders how many so called editorial excursionists ever saw a printing office. Legitimate professionals have enough to do in keeping business afloat and paying creditors, with railroads and the public urged to understand the issue clearly.
The article notes a soda hair treatment that can darken or lighten hair and cites New York society examples. It also mentions a purported plan to prevent Mississippi floods by building eighty dams across the upper basin, then argues the government won’t undertake such a didactic, unrealistic project.
An optimistic ad claims that most Americans suffer dyspepsia and liver trouble and lists symptoms such as sour stomach headaches and heartburn. It urges readers to buy a 76 cent bottle or a 10 cent sample from their druggist and try it.
Purveyors tout Parson's Purgative Pills as a best family physic publicized with claims of digestive relief. Sheridan's Cavalry condition powders advertised for horses offer veterinary support.
A massive cyclone swept a wide arc across Alabama and Georgia into the Carolinas and the Atlantic. It crossed from Lee county Alabama into Harris county Georgia then through several Georgia counties before entering South Carolina near Edgefield and crossing the Savannah River near Augusta. A second cyclone appeared near Milledgeville crossing the Ogeechee and moving toward Richmond and Glascock counties.
A Land and Water correspondent details the capture of a 49-elephant herd in Mysore district India. A horseshoe shaped enclosure formed by a canal and river led to a staged trapping using trenches and gates. After multiple drives, the herd entered the keddah and were secured one by one by tame elephants aiding the captures over several days.
The account describes Louise Larean’s Friday ecstasies with wounds on her side palms feet and head, visions of Christ and apostles, and pain intensified by feasts. Tests by church figures including Dom Jueranger allegedly provoke delight at consecrated Eucharist and silence otherwise.
Lennox March 9 1875 report notes Helps ill after staying with a friend and dying Sunday afternoon. He was a shy, low energy man who smoked constantly and dictated to a secretary rather than writing. His appearance and manner suggested an owl-like, somber figure, with a temper of reformist sympathy and reluctance to engage in disputes.
A tribute lamenting the end of FE E Spinner’s signature on U S currency. The piece praises his bold penmanship as unparalleled, noting its power to inspire trust and shape commerce, while lamenting the treasurer’s retirement and the loss of that legendary autograph.
A traveling theatrical troupe in Mississippi spread trouble as one member shot and killed Aberdeen's editor after harsh newspaper criticism, while at West Point the troupe sparked a bloody feud between rival editors.
Providence antiquarian John Russell Bartlett possesses a vast rebellion library. It includes sixty seven folio volumes with Russia leather bindings, mainly cuttings from leading journals and English papers, plus three volumes of war caricatures and assorted war poetry. He also holds nearly five thousand books and pamphlets on the rebellion, aiming to compile a full history.
The paper read by Williams yesterday resembled a heated partisan speech more than a fair judicial document. It distorted record facts, omitted essential elements, and showed deliberate falsifications while praising the state’s attorney and denouncing the defendant with rancor and vanity. He rejected motions to mitigate sentence and twice ordered immediate commitment.
Investigation shows the declaration was adopted in the evening rather than daytime. Congress began consideration on July 1 1776 with committee of the whole under Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, and the draft was amended and adopted on July 4 after further debate.
In Thompson’s Station near John Critz’s farm a hired man, a Black worker, sought time off for a funeral. A quarrel over the request led to a fight and Critz firing twice with a double barreled pistol, killing the man. A funeral procession witnessed the fatal shooting, prompting a mob siege with shots fired from Critz’s home before calm returned and another funeral the next day.
Washington reports a March decrease in public debt of 3 681 210 currency balance 5 182 412 coin 84 105 520 coin certificates 24 191 900 special deposits for redemption 430 450 000 outstanding legal tenders 379 326 900 decrease since June 30 1874 9 456 462
A merchant recounts a single dollar changing hands twenty one times in one day as it moved through six transactions, ending in his safe. The tale argues that rapid money circulation boosts business and warns of the cost to the state from outflow, urging local support for Franklin fire insurance company.
A reader confronts editorials arguing protectionism amid 1874 British export declines. The writer asserts U S self reliance cannot fully halt imports and criticizes the protection creed while noting Britain’s continued vitality. Subscrib er signs off with a partisan jab at the political economists.
Josiah Henson, eighty five, from Dawn Canada West, arrived in Boston to clear a $600 mortgage on his homestead. A former slave who founded a settlement for freed people, he inspired Stowe, Eliot and friends who once aided his saw mill and walnut cargo venture. Paralysis struck as he sought funds, his days of activity ending, yet his deeds endure.
Chicago Tribune reports that Gortschakoff seeks recall of Eugene Schuyler, secretary of legation at St. Petersburg. Denials aside, Schuyler’s dispatches on Russian misrule in central Asia strain Russia Britain ties, with fear of a wider clash as Russia’s frontier backs toward British India. Also noted is a Crawford County Bulletin joke about weather dress.
A miscellany of notes references a J. H. Small dividend meeting on March 16 before Register Johnson, with social quips about Theodore and Victoria, a tale of a Milwaukee nose wart refund, queries on John C. New as U S treasurer, Dante's Hell art, and varied remarks from the Detroit Free Press, Brooklyn Argus, and Chicago Tribune on men, manners, and migrations.
Syracuse Courier notes Lake Monroe near Orlando hosts a Sandford settlement with orange groves and Swedish colonists. Wealthy buyers including Gen. Babcock of Grant’s staff and Rhode Island Senator Anthony acquire large plots for winter residences amid growing expectations for the river region’s development.
The Chicago Tribune reports strict enforcement of compulsory education in New York with sixty policemen auditing attendance by mid April. Truant agents hunt for absentees, but persuasion suffices so far, with lack of clothing cited as a barrier and some groups yet untouched. Meanwhile Ohio’s bourbon senate votes against compulsory education.
A Washington telegram to the Philadelphia Press reports Samuel J. Randall returned from Richmond where he was honored by the Virginia legislature now in session. In the senate a recess was taken for handshaking and he was granted Moor privileges in both houses. Since Congress adjourned, Democratic members elect sent letters backing his speakership, signaling Randall as the preferred choice of the Virginia delegation and likely overall Speaker for his party.
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