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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1892
Page
4
A sprawling collection of quotations and observations ranges from truth and ignorance to law, public policy, and social conduct. It touches on dynamite use, sleep patterns of a thirteen year old, judicial pursuits, philology, urban planning, and the impact of cosmopolitan ideas on national prejudice.
A mosaic of reflections on virtue and fate, alongside assorted brief items: Prussia’s card factory profits, a St Petersburg train phonograph, parliamentary salary and peerage, ecological debates on river sediment, local animal trapping in Sangerville, Me, and a Detroit woman’s hair turning from white to black.
A Fort Wayne editor rails at the tariff debates of 1892, arguing that high wages do not raise home prices and mocking tariff advocates as inconsistent. He cites iron and steel demand, steel rails costs, and McKinley duties while urging free competition to prove the folly of protectionism.
Fort Wayne residents are noted visiting Monroeville and neighboring towns. Guests include Will Skelly and Frank Summers with John Gailey family. Francena Vince stays with her parents. Mrs. C E Webber and children visit Henry Smith family. many Fort Wayne people are listed as visitors and guests at local events and homes.
A collage of witticisms and observations on women, stuttering, manners, and practical gadgets. Jokes touch on gender roles, etiquette, and a blind watch with pegs marking hours. The piece weaves social humor with brief anecdotes about daily life and clever innovations.
The ad states Hood's Sarsaparilla has the most Meni and worn un equalled success, claiming it accomplishes the greatest cures. It notes constipation from loss of peristaltic action and promotes Hood's Pills to restore bowel movement and invigorate the liver.
Charitably inclined residents in New York and Chicago back a Daily News Fresh Air Fund program. Poor city children spend two weeks on farms or in villages to gain health and hope, while understanding nature and growth away from crowded tenements.
A narrative mix covers the Fresh Air Fund and its aim to renew city children through country visits, funded by city donors and hosted by rural families. A San Bernardino rancher recounts his boy’s kite and geese scheme, while other short items describe Japanese dancing girls, seal catching by fishing hooks, a London gold burning tale, and promotions for the Electric Light and Bitters remedies. The page ends noting Shelbyville labor unions plan Labor Day observances.
The Southern Pacific Overland runs between Colton and Pomona as a small group of six commercial drummers in the smoking car recall a wild scene with eleven geese unable to fly higher than a kite, spinning a curious anecdote from the journey.
At Tecumseh Alabama a lion from Morepaugh show ripped cage door and leapt into a frightened crowd. One fainted woman lay near the animal as it approached. The tame r fled and the lion, after examining the seemingly dead woman, walked away and was recaptured.
A Montgomery county Tennessee resident named Fisher Crotzer, aged seventy five, notes teeth renewal would mirror nails and claims he has voted only twice in his life. The ad-like text promotes Sozodont as the solution to preserve health and beauty of teeth.
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