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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1906
Page
8
Bowser buys jewelry for his wife on their twenty second anniversary. A costly count turns to trouble when a jeweler reveals the pieces are fake pinchbeck. Accusations fly and Mr Bowser threatens divorce as the couple confronts a shattered celebration.
Under a new rule in the Elkhart police court money found in prisoners pockets must go toward fines. Mrs. Christ J Sack is dead at her home near Ligonier aged 66. Her husband and children are noted members of the Back orchestra.
A Baltimore American quotation frames car scorching as sport with Migs Syllye calling it deadly. The dialogue questions thrill versus risk in reckless driving.
BR W Shellenberger, agent for the Lake Shore railroad at Millersburg, registered at a hotel in Elkhart on Friday night and swallowed morphine after his wife left him. A hotel porter heard his labored breathing and called a physician. his life may be saved.
A preacher outlines the second parable in Matthew as the age of the world progresses. The sermon contrasts the field as the world, the tares sown by the devil, and the harvest at the end of the age. It discusses the church, end times, and the fate of believers and the wicked with reference to numerous biblical passages.
The Sentinel reports acknowledgment from Louis Klopsch of the Christian Herald for $11 more to the Japan relief fund from Sentinel readers. This is the second and final remittance in the aid effort.
William A. Garland, son of the late attorney general and senator, jailed for $75 after trying to smash a jewelry store window with a brick, speaks in Chicago about work as salvation and condemns inherited wealth and liquor. He warns against college excess, urges self help, and lists don’ts including avoiding liquor, tobacco, and unearned money.
A reformed man recalls an encounter with Dr. Davis that changed his life. Once a gutters drunkard disowned by family, Jim faced a gulf between them until a gentle plea and earnest care led to a vow to quit drinking. Jim is today a respected man.
Ram's Horn quotes decry liquor as an artificial thirst leading to a desert and a drunkard as one who harms himself gradually. The Farm Journal calls liquor the worst habit. The British government bans liquor use by naval officers under 20 and urges moderation among older officers. Sir William Broadbent links alcoholic excess to consumption.
In the first week of the year the temperature at Forty Mile and Eagle in the Klondike fell to 50 degrees below zero, a record chill for the area.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for constipation headaches and dizziness. It promotes the pills as fast acting with colon and liver relief and lists Dreier & Bro. druggists as the seller in plain marketing language.
Ervin Weber longtime Fort Wayne pioneer, resident of Chicago for 25 years, died at his Chicago home last Thursday. He once ran a tinshop in Fort Wayne and was brother to the late Andrew Weber and uncle to Carl J. Weber Irvin Miller Mrs Carl Rastetter and Mrs John C Lennart of Fort Wayne. Mr Miller attended the funeral Sunday.
F N Tacket of Alliance Kentucky faced severe lung bleeding and a fatal cough but reports full recovery after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption. He says four bottles cured him and proves the product s lifelong effectiveness. Sold at Dreier Bros drug store with trial bottle free.
The Old National Bank outlines officers led by Nationae as President and E Bond as Vice President. It lists a long slate of directors and notes interest payments on certificates of deposit at 3 percent per year for four months and 4 percent for six months.
A barn at the Allen County Orphans' home on the Bluffton road burned Sunday evening causing about 350 in damage. A horse and several farm implements were destroyed. S. M. Foster owned the barn. Firemen arrived late, believed started by bonfires left by river fishermen.
S C Blair of St Albans West Virginia reports his daughter recovered from St Vitus Dance after three bottles of Electric Bitters. The remedy is praised as a quick cure for nervous complaints general debility female weaknesses impoverished blood and malaria. Dreier & Bro. sell it for 50 cents guaranteed.
Lawson Robertson of the New York Irish American athletic squad, noted Olympic contender in Athens, Greece, and winner of the 100 yards dash in St. Louis 1904, is the nephew of William Lawson of this city. Andrew Pollock, longtime WarSaw constable, died Saturday.
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