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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1894
Page
6
Aspen North Carolina July 1894. Nye answers correspondence on household affairs in his well known style. He notes a backlog of letters to be answered and promises to respond soon, with some items postponed to next week due to unreadable reach.
A long excerpt presents homely anecdotes on treating a felon with old folk remedies and humorous tales. It includes a man using salt pork, hot vinegar, and lye, a neighbor advising cutting to the bone, a blacksmith smashing a mashed thumb, and satirical quips about home decor and etiquette from various correspondents.
George M Pullman born in Brocton New York rose from a country clerk to capitalist founder of the Pullman car empire. He moved buildings along canals, invested early savings, built a sleeping car after the Civil War, and launched a company that grew to a 30 million dollar capitalization and the planned town of Pullman with strict residency rules and large factories. The article notes his rise and growing labor disputes with employees culminating in a boycott and strikes led by Debs.
Wages were cut early this year as Mr. Pullan pursued a city building plan grounded in business rather than philanthropy. He resides at Prairie avenue and Midteenth street in Chicago, with a mansion costing about 500000. A grand Thousand Islands summer home followed, built for Castle Hest and dedicated to his mother. His wife Harriet Singer, daughter of J. Sanger of Ottawa, has two daughters and two sons.
A veteran newspaper man, A O Bunnell, longtime editor of the Dansville Advertiser and former grand master of New York press circles, is elected president of the National Editorial Association. Born March 10, 1836 in Lima New York, he has devoted 58 years to printing and editing and has been active in state and national press bodies since the 1880s. The association aims to advance editors and publishers within the United States and foster social ties.
A collage of comic exchanges and signboards from papers like The Spouter and Detroit Free Press. Griggs refuses a fifty dollar photo bill, while a Georgetown shop advertises odd claims. Other quips include a baby’s nocturnal talk and a Massachusetts farmer warning cattle on his land.
A Chicago Record quip mocks illegible handwriting in medicine. The Experienced Physician scolds a freshly graduated Dr. Squillers for a legible but flawed prescription, lampooning unreadable notes in the profession.
The Illinois State Fair Exposition Building at Springfield will open Sept 24–29 with the greatest baby show yet seen. The $100,000 brick stone structure will seat 6,500, offer a 1200 capacity roof promenade, and include galleries, commercial displays, horticulture, fine arts, and education exhibits. The grounds will be a park with lagoon and bridges, streetcar access, and two railroads serving the fair.
A brutal heat wave grips the nation from coast to coast. Newspaper offices burn with activity and fatigue as editors, reporters, and printers toil through the night to publish the morning editions. Amid widespread suffering, children and workers succumb to the heat, while others seek relief in waters, shade, and leisure, yet remain anxious for the latest "indications" of relief and cooling.
A narrative of a woman married at eighteen whose husband deserts them, a life of hardship in Holborn, and a vow of hope as she endures. A palm reader in Ballarat receives a letter from Charles Thompson seeking reunion after shipwreck and crime, leading to a later Australian reunion and a dawn of optimism.
A young Owensboro woman narrowly escaped death when a lightning express rattled a long high trestle. She and a male friend crouched on a water barrel as the train passed, fearing the barrel and cross ties would fail. She recalled not her family or sins, but worry over her spring gown. An earlier Russellville incident also recalled a carriage crossing rescue, where a woman dangled by a man’s arm as the engine piloted by.
The Norton county woman raised 500 signatures for her father’s pardon and scraped together railroad fare to Topeka where she met the governor and secured a pardon. It is said the father will live honestly henceforth. The note adds a China water rights line about a pool at Fu Chan and a warning that infants may not be drowned there.
Thomas H. Davis aimed to hire for the cowboy part in Rush City, while with Buffalo Bill at Ambrose park. His brother Charles A. Davis offered to negotiate with the Wild West group. On the grounds he tried to converse in Sinus dialect with chiefs who spoke in English, revealing a gap in language, and the chiefs questioned his Forrpaugh ties.
The Ottawa gossip column reports alleged permissive behavior at Rideau Hall, detailing Lord Aberdeen and Lady Aberdeen entertaining servants as equals, with informal meals, lack of uniforms, and a casual royal setting that shocks Ottawa society. It recounts dinners, servant culture, and odd anecdotes, concluding with a note on their personal dynamics and public image.
A traveling foreigner asks Porter for a pack of cards and a table aboard a train car. Porter provides them for seventy five cents and notes a fee for the service. The traveler begins a solitaire game but Porter returns to announce that cards are not allowed to be played on Sundays in this car.
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