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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
15
A quirky scene unfolds as a youth confesses poetry woes before a cadi who jokes about lending money and readers. A later tale lampoons a shopping wife, a red headed trolley conductor, and a bike riding daughter seeking audience with a sultan, all in whimsy and satire.
A humorous fragment features a sultan and discussions of love between a daughter and a poor man, with a father’s concerns. The tale shifts to Josephus and Hislop as the sultan dispenses blunt, practical wisdom over petty quarrels and missing money.
A Colchester, England, woman named Mrs Patten regained speech after 23 years of silence following a violent shock caused by her daughter's illness.
Persons seeking to take children into good comfortable homes with common school education are invited to contact The Allen County Orphans Home in Fort Wayne Indiana. References are required from all applicants for children.
The Journal of Inebriety argues for a fair, time‑tested scientific trial of abolishing beer and spirits at army posts. It dismisses opposition as dogmatic and urges medical journals to support the law, stressing that alcohol is a narcotic and that policy must be settled by observed facts.
Physicians who claim alcohol can be food or that moderation cures inebriety fall from scientific ranks. Inebriety is a physical disease and alcohol is not a food and poison at once. The Journal of Inebriety notes theories fail and the field remains largely unexplored.
A writer notes whether drunkenness arises from parental factors before or after birth. Another urges remedies including punishment, housing reform, temperance education, and public self-control. The excerpt cites Journal of Inebriety and compares 1900 English wine consumption to U S figures.
The text compares per hundred people beer and other beverages by country. It notes 1899 figures: Germany 145 gallons and France 2540 for one category, while Englishmen drank 3170 and Frenchmen 620 in beer. US rate 1330 and Germany 2750 for another category.
Willie a bright blue eyed boy learns to say no after a wine jelly incident at a birthday party. His mother guides him through bedtime talks about independence and making good choices, a scene praised as better than forbid-and-tighten approaches. A second passage discusses marble-like emery from Paros, mined under strict fraternal rules, with 20,000,000 tons available at Naxos and 3,950 tons exported last year.
News notes report Carbondale Illinois voted to close all saloons. Other items include Rev J E Everett succeeding T E Stephens as Kansas State Temperance Union secretary and a British Privy Council ruling affirming Manitoba liquor law jurisdiction.
Emery comes from the island of Naxos in the eastern Mediterranean and has been exported for the last two centuries or more. The beds are:
A traveler encounters a lean man guarding a rope on a road through a forest clearing. The toll keeper invites the visitor in to hear his tale while his wife smokes and they reveal a bare cabin and meager provisions.
A downtrodden man pleads that a woman ruined him by abandoning their efforts and selling a woodchuck skin for snuff. He relays his sacrifice, nearly starving, and laments the worm turning as he contemplates despair. He then jokes about leeches for black eyes, revealing combat scars and a defiant edge.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is claimed to kill pain from burns scalds cuts and other skin issues. The ad cites cures for ulcers fever sores eruptions salt rheum boils felons corns and warts and markets the product at 25 cents through Dreier & Bro’s drug store along with a subscription pitch for The Sentinel.
A dense catalog ad lists fruits, sugars, teas, coffees, textiles, oils, and fish products. Notable items include granulated and New Orleans sugars, Green Rio coffee, New Orleans molasses, California fruits, and various oils.
A short, scrambled time sequence appears on the page with entries like 11 40 pm and 6 55 am and 12 30 pm and 6 50 pw day, lacking context or narrative. The fragment suggests scheduling or log times but provides no events, people, or places to anchor meaning.
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