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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1892
Page
4
A collection of disjointed reflections from Dayne Sentinel dated August 31 1892. The text discusses morality shame and remorse linking immorality to invasion of privacy and property. It then shifts to observations on superstition education war industry population density and the dangers of overwork in American life.
A reflective essay urges balancing labor with leisure and virtue. It argues censure informs growth, wealth should aid others, and personal conscience outranks popular opinion. It notes European thoughts on life with US population data and predicts railroads powered by electricity transforming transport within five years.
A collage of aphorisms and local notes features a West cyclone joke about barns, double gangers for everyone, and a subtle jab at public speech. It references a Springfield society incorporation and a London organ critique, then shifts to a railway dining scene and a domestic money exchange anecdote.
Fort Wayne Aug 25 1899 The Sentinel argues against the claim that a protective tariff is needed to maintain diversified industries and high wages. It attributes wage rises to machinery and skill, cites McKinley and Wright, and condemns tariff levels as offsetting labor costs with little basis. It also critiques use of labor cost gaps to justify tariffs.
The Republican column announces Abraham W. Smith as Kansas governor candidate, a Maine native with a long Kansas legislative record and agricultural leadership. It also notes W. A. Harris of Linwood as Republican nominee for at large Congress, ex Confederate soldier with Ohio roots, and Stephen A. Northway of Jefferson as Ohio district nominee.
Officials urge rigid Atlantic quarantine to block cholera entry from European ports. August and September cited as peak mortality months, with fumigation and baggage disinfection required for all foreign vessels. First National Bank Fort Wayne offers three percent CDs after four months.
A patron at a table tests a noiseless waiter who avoids speaking while taking a steak order. The exchange reveals the patron’s insistence on discreet service and a preference for silence, ending with recognition of a memorable yet quiet server. The piece then shifts to a note on France’s 1832 postal savings banks, citing 1830 deposits and totals across 6,817 branches.
A doctor declares the patient has appendicitis with clear symptoms. The patient asks what appendicitis is, and the doctor explains the term and diagnosis in plain terms.
A post office inspector reports a fraud involving a small box sent with a letter claiming a gold watch inside. The box arrived empty at Kearney Nebraska after a complaint from the Kearney post master to the Colorado Springs post master. The sender and addressee were cousins and suspected of deception.
A detective photographs a registered box mailed empty to steal a watch. The suspect and his wife dispute the case while witnesses and a clerk complicate the evidence. The narrator outlines the postage miscalculation and plans to prosecute, then forwards the recovered watch to its rightful owner in Kearney.
In seemingly old newspaper style a San Francisco man markets educated flies while Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as beneficial for scrofula and blood diseases including indigestion and malaria. Hood's Pills claim to cure sick headache.
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