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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1894
Page
4
A fashion letter depicts a stylish, businesslike woman who frequents a tailor shop, preferring men’s cuts and box coats, with refined dress details. It notes her bold, consistent style, luxury fabrics, and high taste, including a tuxedo influence, tailored pockets, and well coordinated accessories.
The article describes styles and outfits among fashionable women including neat dressers with long skirts and fur coats, Estelle Clayton as a top example, and a New York bride receiving a lavish washstand set in repoussé silver. It covers rainy day attire and ends with a note on Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh and its wide availability.
The Canadian Wheelmen's association aims to secure a paid editor for its official organ. The French wheel paper Le Velocipede Illustre enters its 25th year. Wheelwomen reach Japan amid surprise at exports. 84,000 cycles from Birmingham and 87,000 from Coventry in 1893. A new mud guard uses a spring roller shade principle and folds away when not in use.
A nostalgic note recalls Castoria as a family staple from infant illness to motherhood. The poem traces a child crying, a Miss clinging to Castoria, and mothers giving it to their children, highlighting its longstanding role in a household remedy.
The statement notes Edith will be sent to college by the Migs Shoddie and Highminds with Mrs Shoddie remarking the cost is lower for schooling than keeping a daughter at home. The dialogue hints at family dynamics and economic considerations.
John Y. McKane, last in line during Sing Sing morning march, faced his first prison breakfast a pint of burnt bread coffee. He then began trousers cutting lessons under an instructor, while worried he might have heart lung or kidney disease per a doctor’s certificate.
Pope Leo XII marks his eighty fourth birthday and sixteenth coronation anniversary. Cardinal Monaca LaValletta offers congratulations as the pope thanks all and speaks of continuing to serve the church. He urges a return to moral faith, denounces Free Masonry, and calls for equity, charity, rectitude, and peace through church guidance.
Levi Ivins, a workman, was killed when a blast ripped the waste separating building of Repuano Chemical in Gibbatown N J. The explosion shattered the structure and damaged nearby buildings with the shock felt fifteen miles away. In a separate item Mrs Louie Rockwell died after being shot by Pitcher McNabb at the Hotel Eiffel, prompting his body to be returned to Mount Vernon Ohio. Ambassador Wayne Mac Veagh arrived in Rome to present credentials and seek an audience with the king next week.
Trenxrox New Jersey March 2 Jon Wall Wiltso alias John Mulwitz sentenced twenty years in state prison. he forced his cell door and gained access to an unspecified area.
A convict seized a rope in the corridor then choked Keeper Jas I Walters into unconsciousness. Center Keeper Joseph B Lippincott arrived, the convict seized his gun and killed Lippincott. The Witlse was recaptured.
Martial law is in effect in Eagle with military authority. Governor MacCorkle received a dispatch from Major Banks asking for troops to Powellton to safeguard life and property amid threats from Eagle and Montgomery strikers against Powellton miners. Rioter W T Akins to be buried today. funeral could inflame the situation. Governor has three more companies ready to move to prevent violence.
A large woolen mill in Hillx0 R90 Ohio closed on bank judgments totaling about $18,000 after the disappearance of J S Bliifritz senior partner, last heard from in Chicago on February 17. Rumor and grief surround his absence with no trace of him or the goods sent to St Louis. In Lina Ohio a wealthy widow is found murdered near St Henry. robbers stole $2,000 and silverware as a posse hunts for suspects.
The column lauds Admiral Benham as a courteous, steadfast leader who protected the American flag in Rio de Janeiro. It recalls Grant’s praise, contrasts Benham with old‑school rivals, and emphasizes restraint, diplomacy, and force when needed to uphold national prestige and protect American seamen.
Margaret Reid, born in Maysville Kentucky, rose from Indianapolis roots to study in Boston and Paris. Her pivotal break came aboard a steamer with Signor Vianesi and a chance Hamlet rehearsal at the Metropolitan, leading to a triumphant operatic debut in New York and later success in France with grand opera.
The Fourteenth district narrowly favors the Republican candidate Lemuel Ely Quigg by a 984 plurality, defeating ex State Senator William L. Brown. The wider state results show a Democratic plurality in other districts, with Straus singled out for a biography note. Quigg, a Maryland born thirty one year old, rose from newspaper work in New York City to prominence within the Republican party.
E. R. Swetnam of Fairfax Station Virginia reports customers travel forty miles to his store to buy Chamberlains Cough Remedy a dozen bottles at a time. He says it is a great local favorite with notable cures for coughs colds croup and whooping cough and is sold by druggists.
A cryptic set of puzzles presents riddles about kings, dependencies, and wordplay. Entries include Enigma No 43, Buried Trees and Plants No 44, Metagrama No 4 6, Concealed Shakespearean Names No 62, and assorted wordplay gems with references to classical figures and playful transpositions.
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