Spectators Witness Spelling Bee at Turner Hall Spectacle
Nearly 500 attendees filled Turner Hall for a spelling contest staged as a mock battle. Judge R. P. Taylor and R. C. Bell led teams in a theatrically grim skirmish with a black book and foil like a fate decree. The crowd saw names called, penalties, and dramatic miscasts as spellers faced calking tests and improvised arms.
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R. C. Bell
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M. Waldo
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Robert Lowry
Henry Golenck
Spencer
John Jacobs
W. Ef. Scudder
A. J. Lang
Louis Newburger
Emma Graffe
Anna Stophlet
Moffatt
Misa Mabel Bull
Phiiley
Mug Munger
D. Baird
W. W. Worthington
John Dolin
W. E. McDermut
P. Taylor
Bell
Clinbing
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Marine
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Cmeters
Mies Lowry
Misa A. d. Lang
Cimiteres
Miss Cochrane
Tay
oH.olerick
Hughes
L. Newberger
Misa Sharpe
Leonard
Ming Cochrane
Colin
Spelling Be Festival Draws Blooms and Banter
A lively spelling contest at Bloomingdale drew a merry crowd as editors, physicians, and residents debated word forms and pronunciations. The event featured jokes on basis versus basis, praiseworthy wins by Mr. Scudder and Mr. McDermut, and a plan for an even larger gathering at the opera house to extend the fundraiser for the Bloomingdale mission.
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Robinson
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W. 2. McDermut
Sentinel Newsroom
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Gcudder
Bull
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Webster
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Morse
Bloomingdale
Atig
Opera
Correction issued on Jackson Beech er piece in Baptist clergyman case
The paper retracts an earlier Jackson Beech er article about a Baptist clergyman in Jackson Michigan. Two Jackson residents affirm their church membership and integrity and state the original statements have no factual basis. The editors publish this correction to evenly circulate the update.
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St Patrick's Day Procession Parade Through Fort Wayne
A large St Patrick's Day procession formed at the cathedral despite cold weather. Societies represented included Father Mathew, German Benevolent, St Bartholomew, and Irish Benevolent groups with Kelvins and St Pauls bands. Chief Marshal Cody led a route through Calhoun Berry Van Buren Jefferson and Wallace ending at the Irish Catholic Benevolent hall where a lecture by Bishop Dwenger followed at the cathedral observing Trelaud's Faith and Mattyra.
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Salvedore Peltier
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Jerome J. Studer
P. J. Fallon
George Iry
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Patrick Ryan
John Noushan
B. Martin
St. Paul's Band
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Total Abstinence Society
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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Berry
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Wallace
Hanna
Washington
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Wayne
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Dwenger
Trelaud
Mattyra
Ireland's Faith and Martyrs lecture at cathedral
Bishop Dwenger delivered a lecture on Treland's Faith and Martyrs at the cathedral last evening, with the choir singing O Salutaris. He traced Ireland's early history, Saint Patrick's mission, and the spread of Christianity aided by European bishops, noting Saint Bridget and the first convent at Kildare.
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Kildare
Ireland’s Faith and Monasteries Through Ages
The article extols Ireland’s steadfast faith since the fifth century and the enduring influence of St Patrick and St Columba. It describes numerous monasteries famed for learning, hospitality, and manuscript preservation, noting persecution under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and the monks’ martyrdom. It concludes with weather notes and local notices about residents and public figures.
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Viit
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Goeb’s
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Etna
Circle of Sheep Devoured Each Other in Winter Snow
In a vivid reminiscence a veteran recounts a brutal 1875 winter with ongoing blizzards and frozen cattle. Sheep perished, then allegedly ate one another after being buried by snow in a circle, a shocking tale told with wry humor and cautious credence.
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Injinawpolia
Westher
Muneia
Ananias
Sapphirs
Granger
Fort Wayne Topics and court notes mix with weather lore
The Fort Wayne area papers discuss estate bonds and guardians, asylum debates in nearby suburbs, a weary auctioneer, a circuit court case, and Whittier poetry print runs. Local color ranges from Old Ironsides to Holy Week services, temperance speakers, a lost horse and barber shop chatter, and reminiscences of past snowfalls and oddities from 1843 to 1874.
Farm purchases and local court cases spark town talk
An Irvington land sale at ten dollars per acre, later valued at two thousand, is noted amid a survey of early agriculture. The Dunlap family testifies in court over marital strife as the case unfolds with multiple witnesses. Teachers Institute updates in New Haven report illness and lectures on study and arithmetic. Advertisements recount Buckeye reapers and a fire insurance payout, while Fort Wayne Colleges announce a spring ten week term beginning April 7 with diverse departments and affordable expenses.
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