19 Aug 1874
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1874
Page
1
A fragmentary poem page presents The Lotus Planter by Meadore Milton with a tale of a Brahmin and a slave, transforming through grace, plus Betsey the Fair a lyric about lost love. The readable lines evoke 19th century verse with themes of equality and romance, though incomplete.
A Missouri man found a rope and left with it. A horse was hitched nearby while a tree was used to swing, and the rope’s other end was somehow connected to him. No further details provided.
A Dundee tale from 1856 reveals Mr Armitage of England secretly wed Candace Bliven, leaving her behind when he fled to Italy. The match surfaces years later amid questions of inheritance and propriety, with claims of noble lineage and possible estate complications. The narrative, including the husband’s later death, remains unsettled and opaque.
A fragmentary Milwaukeee Sentinel style note uses farming imagery and odd phrasing about squashed out Chietge Ties Lettuce and peas. It reads like a satirical garden image with odd wording and no clear event or人物.
A jumble of satirical items and brief notes references Beecher Offenbach Wagner and local curiosities. It notes a German consul recognition and a Tulsa related column gag. The piece blends witticisms on culture crime and fashion with scattered names and puns.
A Berlin paper ridicules American progress with a three mile front Chicago hotel of seventy seven stories served by balloons and automatic beds. The piece mentions Grant’s hat repurposed as a storehouse, Webster's dictionary praise, Beecher Tilton letters and courtroom testimony, plus a sensational Abyssinian king Todros obituary and a Newfoundland dog battle tale.
Mr Beecher argues Tilton delayed charges until after he lost salary and sought $7,000 through friends. He says Tilton signed a peace agreement not authored by Beecher to quiet slanders and permit a social revolution under Golden Age plans. The alleged changes before signing were presented as relief from slander.
A Boston Adver tiser correspondent recounts crawling into General Putnam’s Wolf Den in Powret Conn. He challenges Humphreys 1778 account, stating the passage is straight, about twenty five feet long, two feet square at the opening, and not as described, as he backs out safely without incident.
A Wilmington excursion ends in comic beach mishap as a 300 pound man and a 100 pound wife attempt a Cape May bath. The fat woman drags her reluctant husband into breakers, he sinks in the surf, and she immovably “presses him to her bosom,” declaring the trip worth it.
A man lying across the eastbound train track near Rose Creek Winnemucca Cal held his handkerchief and waved for help as the heavy down grade train sped toward him. The engine applied brakes and reversed the lever but stopped within yards of the man who was paralyzed and unable to move. He was taken to Winnemucca Hospital for treatment. He says he collapsed while walking along the track and could not move, fearing inevitable death as the train approached.
James Cameron, near Albany, age about ninety four, remains healthy and strong while harvesting with Mr. Sloan’s farm crew. He earns two dollars daily and supports himself through exercise and work, with a mother who lived to 108.
A Hudson NY society page reports at Lebanon Springs a wealthy bachelor and guests playing a handkerchief ball spelling cargo items by alphabet. The game halted when a misfit word caused laughter and a second turn ended with another miscue before resuming. A separate note describes a North Carolina belle’s horseback ride near Morgantown where her horse cleared a barricade of a mule and cart while the rider remained poised and amused.
A letter to the Whitehall Times recounts a hunt on Dresden Mountain by A B Meadow and J W Carter that yielded a bizarre amphibious creature with a water spaniel sized body six feet long a ten foot tail two long arms and a horn between its eyes. The animal reportedly fled into a rock crevice dragging a dog and Meadow's coat before vanishing as the party hunted the cave.
A Napanee reporter recalls Oronhyateka, an Mohawk youth educated at Oxford with an annuity from the Prince of Wales. He later married a chief's daughter, became a merchant, faced bankruptcy with $8,000 due, and built Napanee’s notable residence while practicing medicine as Dr. Oronhyateka in Napanee Ontario.
In Colorado a prosperous plains farmer famed for praying for rain finally acts on his dream of self reliance. After moving, sowing, and building irrigation ditches he sees the drought yield water and declares the land fit with no more prayers. He now feels self-sufficient as rain is produced by his own efforts.
Reader letters and odd lines describe a speaker with a strange mouthful of stumps and quirky dental advice. The Inter Ocean reports $18000 from delinquent tax notices published yesterday, while scattered text hints at a city survey and a mysterious cure.
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