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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1906
Page
8
Measured calm returns to Bialystok as a massacre investigation unfolds with surgeons arriving from Warsaw and a parliamentary inquiry commission promised. Reported casualties run high with hundreds wounded, and jurists debate agrarian reform amid the Cronstadt deployment news.
In St. Petersburg June 18 the constitutional democrats near breaking with the government align with radicals urging immediate action. Leaders Roditcheff Naboukoff press for forward battle while Miunkoff Vinaver and others advocate caution. Strikes widen bakers and workers face shortages as unrest spreads across Ekaterinoslav Saratoff and Bakmuth.
From St. Petersburg June 18 no fresh news arrives from Bialystok. A parliamentary committee dispatched there to report on the massacre has not been heard from. Police and troops are blamed for the killings as residents flee toward open fields while volleys echo over the terror stricken town.
Mr and Mrs Frederick Meyer of Adams township marked thirty years of marriage with a Monday anniversary at home. A dinner party for friends and neighbors followed with floral decorations and a generous table. Guests included Will Braun Charley Salzbrenner Theodore Lepper Chris Ahlschwere and daughter and others from the local community.
A cautionary piece on social etiquette warns against garrulous talk and gossip. It advises refined conversation, restraint, and avoiding personal disclosures, noting that polite people shift topics to fend off probing inquiries.
Rioting mobs sack Jewish shops and kill dozens in Bialystok. Police and troops move in after a bomb signal triggered the violence. Jews flee to forests as casualties mount. three Jews are reported thrown from a railroad station window.
Reports from St. Petersburg on June 15 describe widespread alarm in the lower house as War Minister Rudiger’s supporters shift blame to the interior minister. The government faces possible collapse, with calls for dissolution and growing worker unrest including strikes amid a political standoff with parliament.
Authorities condemn flour mills and grain warehouses in Tula Rusafa for causing harm. Officials urge reform to curb pollution and improve storage conditions affecting local commerce and public health.
In Kursk Russia in June 1915 a jury acquitted thirty peasants charged with devastating the estate of M. Stichinsky minister of agriculture. The acquittal followed testimony about the extreme harshness of the estate's superintendent.
In Tver Russia on June 156 the Cossacks and dragoons were sent to two districts as peasants, impatient with parliament inaction, took possession of lands.
Readable fragments describe egg and pepper scrambled eggs on toast, banana strawberry compote, pineapple canning, olives with gooseberries, gooseberry preserves in vinegar, pineapple preserves, tomato fritters, celery sandwiches, veal croquettes, muffins, creole potatoes, eggs with cheese, walnut marguerites, green peas, cucumber salad with French dressing, Persian sherbet and several garbled notes from Good Housekeeping.
Summary of Sunday School lessons from 1908 on foundational contrasts in Matthew and Luke with golden texts. Covers Jesus and the Sabbath, power over disease and death, the sinner’s friend, the parables of the sower and tares, the demoniac, John the Baptist's death, feeding the five thousand, the Gentile woman’s faith, Peter’s confession, and the Transfiguration. Includes reflections on truth, faith, and the kingdom.
A Chicago Inter Ocean discussion on euthanasia cites a tale from a bachelor visiting a friend. A six month old baby teases with a gold watch, the mother panics, and the bachelor jokes he holds the chain. The piece uses the anecdote to illustrate coldness in euthanasia.
A Chicago business circle reports the firm head’s death and sends circulars. A printing house replies with a sly offer to bid on future orders, noting cheaper terms than rivals and suggesting they could have printed the notice for less. The exchange shows sharp, humorous business banter over mourning communications.
A plutocrat complains to his daughter about a high bill for a new frock. The father balks at six thousand dollars, while the daughter argues most of the cost comes from outfit trimmings. She notes five thousand two hundred dollars were spent on an auto to match the color.
A farmer jokes about his son studying botany and adds the field teaches him names of many things he cannot raise. The neighbor questions the boy’s focus, prompting a wry quip about practical knowledge.
The fragment notes a comic mishap with a character sitting on a colonel’s hat and a failed attempt to replace it. Tatler voice suggests an awkward purchase or offer amid embarrassment and apology. No clear names or setting are provided.
A brief exchange shows a mother scolding a boy for teasing while he laments being raised on cow’s milk since infancy. The Chicago Record-Herald passage captures a tense domestic moment and the tease of rural wit within a newspaper fragment.
The note discusses a marriage elopement between Jinks and Hello Blinks, stirring parental fury as a pursuit is reported but未 caught. The item appears in a New York Weekly brief with humorous tone.
A piece in Catholic Standard offers a mock-Patriotic voice praising being American through a flawed quasi dialect. The narrator claims cleverness enough to “skeen som' udder man” and urges unity with the refrain Da redda whita blue Hooray while noting the Green in the flag’s colors.
Clean and aerate cellars twice yearly. Move all items out, scrub floors, whitewash walls and ceilings, and ventilate doors and windows. Use cement floors, damp control with cheese cloth pads filled with plaster and lime, and ensure air flow through front and back windows. Separate vegetable bins, discard decayed matter, and treat bin exteriors with camphor.
The guide urges stout women to avoid white or light colors and large patterns. It favors narrow stripes, perpendicular patterns, short skirts, flowing draperies, and a central trim or flounce to add height. Frills are discouraged and tight gowns are unflattering. a chiffon or lace scarf softens the look.
The Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City is being enlarged. In an automobile accident Sunday, County Superintendent W. A. Fox sustained a fractured shoulder.
The Company of Makers of Playing Cards in London offers a $50 prize for the best back designs for playing cards illustrating the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
With a fall arrival in the United States the noted bass Edouard de Reszke aims to rebuild his fortunes after losing much of his earnings in prior years. The veteran singer, nearing the end of his career, seeks renewed success on the concert and stage circuit.
In a walled Chinese garden the emperor’s tea is cultivated away from others. Pickers bathe thrice daily, wear special gloves, and refrain from eating fish to keep the leaves' aroma pure.
The Duke of Hamilton gained early fame as a skilled swimmer and diver. While serving in the English navy he repeatedly dived under ships and sustained a serious injury during one such feat.
Clemenceau estimates that 90 percent of strikers in the May demonstration were forced to quit work due to fear of molestation by a 10 percent minority, highlighting coercive pressure behind the labor action.
Telegraph dispatches announce the placing of fifty million dollars in Pennsylvania company bonds with French capitalists. The funds will be used to improve road bed and equipment for Pennsylvania lines, including thirty three thousand fifty ton steel cars and three hundred thirteen locomotives at a cost of forty two million dollars. President Cassatt confirms the plan.
A Nickel Plate freight train side swiped another at Ashtabula early Sunday injuring Flagman A. L. Seip of Bellevue with a fracture above the right ankle. He was taken to his Bellevue home. Seip has served several years with the railroad.
The administrator of the estate of Margaret Foltz deceased announces a sale by private sale under Allen Circuit Court order. sale date June 20 1906 at Harper Eggeman law offices 722 Calhoun St Fort Wayne Indiana. sale terms require at least one third cash and the remainder in two equal installments.
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