Fort Wayne Traders List Shows Local Businesses
Fort Wayne shoppers are directed to a detailed city guide listing merchants by street and specialty. Entries include Bookshops at Columbia Street, Boot and Shoe firms on Calhoun, dry goods, medicines, tailors, and restaurants. The directory mentions Dr Bort and Dr Wooster, along with multiple wholesale and retail houses and a noted trunk manufactory. Signage and names reflect a bustling late 19th century commercial district.
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Janzs Harper & CO
Phenix
BKIRT
Nations
Columbia Street
DE. Bort
Eclectic School of Medicin
Columbus Street
Morgan & Beach
From & Ti
Pake M. Leonard
Pheniz Block
Calhoun Street
I. E. Woodward
Court House
Vogel & Son
Gone Before
A poetic note in The Sentinel laments a lost loved one, describing a beautiful face in silent air with amber hair and smiling eyes. The speaker recalls a vigil over a marble sleep, contrasts sunlit memories with pain, and longs for a heavenly shore and treasure beyond.
An E HH Conductor Shoots Himself A Sad Case
Oscar O Otis a Toledo area conductor shot himself after a turbulent sequence of letters and dissipation. Once with Toledo Wabash Western he was discharged for drinking and supporting two families. Jealous of Antioch relations Nellie Clark or Shaw attracted his money and letters. After a night of drunken threat he shot himself in his Ontario Street home, while his wife and children watched. He died later, leaving five children and a warning on self destruction.
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Oscar O. Otis
Ontario Street
Monroe Street
Otis
Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company
Toledo
Antioch
Indiana
Nellie Clark
Nellie Shaw
Rochester
Jones
Kirkley
Wisch
Barkley Springs Undine Swim Spectacle Captivates Viewers
A Home Journal correspondent describes women swimming in a large spring pool at Barkley Springs. They dive and move gracefully in picturesque costumes with hair floating, the clear waters reflecting light through high windows, creating a scene beyond elaborate stage dramas.
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The
Home Journal
Barkley Springs
Removal of a County Seat in Benton County
A movement seeks to relocate the Benton county seat near the center as a rail line from Lafayette to Gillman through Tilinow runs north of Oxford. Landowners Adams Earl and Lafayette associates own large tracts along the proposed route and plan to influence the decision to favor their property. Oxford’s position off the center aids their push to secure the county seat location.
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Benton County
Lafayette
Gillman
Tilinow
Oxford
Adams Earl
Earl
A Sad Warning to Husbands From the West Union Gazette
A village tale tells of a calico purchase by a wife that led to a heated dispute with her husband. The peddler demanded payment, the wife refused, and a domestic uproar ensued with household items flung about. The husband now stays at a hotel awaiting terms of peace.
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West Union
Iowa
Hepsida
Jord
Master
Count Bismarck and the last cigar anecdote
Mr. Curares BULLEN relates a tale from Count Bismarck about a lone Havana carried into battle at Konigsgratz. Facing death, he saves one for himself after victory but shares it with a wounded dragon, lighting it for him as a final gesture. The rescued man smiles gratefully, and Bismarck notes he never enjoyed a cigar so much.
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Laporte Argus
St. Vernon
Livineston
Soudrette
Vincennes Gazette
James Scantlin
Loansville Journal
Terre Haute Mail
Willis Williamson
Muncie
Tuer
Terre Haute
Mr. Curares Bullen
Bismarck
Havana
Konigsgratz
Anns
Princess Louise marries Marquis of Lorne amid rumors
English gossip says the marriage was not a love match and the couple are unhappy. The Princess inherited her mother’s temper and frequent quarrels disrupted the royal household. As a remedy, nobles were invited to Windsor Castle and the Princess was asked to choose a husband from them. She complied.
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Claremont
Louise
Lorne
Circe
Windsor Castle
Tragedy in Shelby County ends in fatal assault
Indianapolis August 1 report from London Shelby county details Henry Eilington once rejected suitor who on Sunday attacked Lizzie Smith in her home beating her with a brick cutting her face severing an ear and breaking her jaw. He fled to the woods but neighbors captured him and he is jailed. Fate of the victim is grim and a lynching threat looms over the alleged assailant.
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Shelby County
Indianapolis
London
Henry Eilington
Lizzie Smith
Miss Smith
Eilington
School book firms form protective league to limit agents
The Cincinnati Gazette reports that major school book manufacturers entered a protective league after fierce competition. Firms limited itinerant agents to ten per side and pledge to unite against outside competition, backed by millions in capital and including nearly all major houses in the Union.
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Tat
Cincinnati Gazette
A Bogus Baby Tale From Chicago Times
A Chicago Times report recounts a man fooled by a baby not his own, discovered only when a party to the deception reveals the truth. Charles Reed’s A Terrible Temptation mirrors the plot with a noble motive, drawing criticism for improbability. The Chicago case features a minstrel troupe husband and a wife who once played the French Spy on stage.
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Tur
Chicago Times
Chas. Reed
Charles Bascett
Chicago
Mon to Querrel With a Wife
A short humorous vignette on domestic life end with a quarrel. A man advises patience before a wife’s bonnet check and notes that most women fret over bonnets while only one has common sense. The wife presses about marriage and the scene ends in a predictable row.
Election to annul old corporation set for Aug 7
Tipton Times reports last Friday night meeting where 710 inhabitants were counted in the old corporate limits, including 172 voters. A petition to call an election to annul the old corporation was signed by 114 voters. The new corporation will be organized soon to gain the benefits of law and order.
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Republican Party
Morton
Louisville
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
United States
Adratam Lincoln
Delaware
Rhode Island
Senate
New York
Pennsylvania
C.F. Smith
Tipton
Times
Radford Family Tragedy Near Shelby Township
The Lafayette Courier reports a fatal chain in the Radford family from Shelby township. A death by choking of young Rad ford follows prior unexplained deaths within the family including a death in a fit and suspected poisoning. It is now believed the father Isaac Radford died after taking strychnine by mistake for quinine. two siblings survive.
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Radford
Shelby Township
Isaac Radford
Lafayette Courier
Elephants Arrive in New York from Ceylon on Voyage
Elephants numbers eleven reach New York harbor after a voyage from Ceylon. Ten survive the crossing with their Halahab keepers feeding 25,000 gallons of water and 125 bales of hay daily, while weather and seasickness tested their endurance. The group mourns a fallen companion as they settle ashore amid an enthusiastic crowd.
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Dean Swift
DeFoe
New York
Ceylon
Cape of Good Hope
Capes
Tragic Effingham County double murder suicide in family home
A Savannah News report details Mrs. Ash formerly Miara Dasher poisoning her three children with strychnine after writing a note. Mr. Ash and George Patterson woke to cries, the mother died after witnessing her children’s deaths, then the father ingested poison trying to save them. an inquest will follow burial arrangements.
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Savannah News
Effingham County
Central Railroad
Ash
John Hygg
Sil
Mr. Ash
George Patterson
Mrs. Ash
Angai
Buresa
Fits Deere
City accounts held back as Tammany probe nears
The Tribune reports the Comptroller's accounts will not be released today as two public meetings on alleged Tammany corruption unfold. A forged call claims to unify reformers, while genuine organizers fear attempts to split the movement. Edwin Hayle notes confusion over signer lists and calls for truthful action.
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City Administration
New York
the Tribune
Comptroller’s Office
Tia
Moses Taylor
Marshall O’roberts
John Jacob Astor
August Belmont
J. O. W. Zugleman& Co
Howes & Mach
Fisk & Hatch
Rober Winthrop & Co
Henry C
Wool Market Pushes Sheep Prices and Next Year’s Clip
High season prices for wool have driven up sheep costs, leaving farmers eager to buy and few to sell. Slaughter now is unprofitable due to pelts and tallow values, signaling a likely large wool clip next year as prices swing. Farmers expect a flooded wool market after strong prices.
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