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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1894
Page
3
An 1884 note from Texas describes Bill Nye delivering a lecture in Austin with moonlit surroundings. The writer comments on heat, seasonality, and a view from a hotel room as he observes the landscape, flowers, and vines while noting local business and ownership.
The narrator describes a hot night with a murder cry and a thumped bed scene. He recalls whisky keeping guests awake and contrasts farm life with banquet room excess. He laments audience ignorance and shares memories of Bill Nye and a Burlingame piano performance.
An amusing stream of anecdotes and questions from readers including Mr. Morries Mowney of Stella Washington, plus a playful defense of the milk cow. The piece riffs on lectures, prices, culinary cud, and a comic tale of a cow eating coats and garlic, with humorous reflections on office seekers and dairy life.
A stubborn guest refused to evacuate as a fire broke out in a hotel basement. He insisted the fire would not reach his room and stayed under cold covers until a fireman rescued him through a window.
A Virginia couple in the Washington senate gallery laughs at doors that are not larger than ordinary. The man jokes that he expected great doors for lawmakers and ends with a sigh at the now diminished image of grand senators.
A Detroit officer ejects a man from a doorway for sleeping as a law and ordinance dispute unfolds. A humor excerpt shows a talking servant and a clock misreading in domestic life, reflecting early 20th century social scenes and city rules.
Washington dispatch recounts Hon. Hilary A. Herbert hosting visitors in the navy department. Lieutenant Commander Richard Rush and the Naval War Records team unveil a rich library of British and American sailor songs, poems, and images, plus plans for a Civil War naval history series.
Chicago reporter C. E. Chapin visits Wichita to recount Charles Lease and his wife Mrs. Joan of Arc. He portrays Charles as crushed by adversity after an apothecary career setback, while praising Mrs Lease and their four children for loyalty, intellect, and ambition.
Russell H. Conwell has created The Temple church and Temple College in Philadelphia. The church houses a 22 bed hospital, a busy social structure, and a large attendance. the college educates thousands with 40 professors, and fees of five dollars a year. Conwell, born in Worthington Massachusetts, is a self made man who rose from war service to leading a vast religious educational enterprise.
A Paris man pretended to attempt suicide by hanging near children, staying alive after being cut down and leaving a letter explaining his destitution. The ruse followed a game note about whist where each hand held 13 cards.
Major Edmund N. Morrill, head of the Republican state ticket, has been a key Kansas figure since territorial days. He moved from Maine in 1857, served in the Free State movement, held multiple offices, and in Congress chaired the pensions committee, authoring the pension law bearing his name.
The author argues that until science reaches miracle level and can adapt to lobster physiology, true restoration of lost limbs remains impossible. A doctor claiming to restore tissue is warned as unworthy of the Met New York Ledger and would be ridiculed by a reputable community.
A historic American warship the Constellation, famed for suppressing pirates and chasing slavers from 1800s battles to its later role as a training ship, will be dismantled soon and become a receiving hulk after a century of service and distinction across the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. The vessel, launched in 1787 at Baltimore with 38 guns, helped curb Algerian depredations and enforced American rights on the seas, under commanders such as Thomas Truxtun and Commodore Barron, before finally yielding to obsolescence.
The piece recounts William Payne Lord forming a Delaware partnership with EB Knight, returning east to marry Juliet Montague of Baltimore, and his wife’s influence on the firm’s success. It also touches on atmospheric effects on life, church-building expenditures, and a quip about Stephen Grant’s law career.
The Lexow committee chair, Senator Clarence Lexow, spearheads an inquiry into the New York Police Department. The probe has elevated some figures and damaged reputations, with Lexow’s active role and many bills passed in his first term noted.
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