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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1899
Page
10
The governor proclaims the new state laws including county reform creating seven member county councils and township reform with advisory boards. The health board enforces drug and food standards with penalties for violations and fines from 50 to 500 dollars.
New county act requires plans and specifications before contracts for public buildings, six weeks of newspaper publication, five posting places, and two week bridge notices. Low bid with bond. fines and possible jail for violations. A fee salary commission will set officer pay. Rewards up to 500 for murders lynching. pharmacy law takes effect July 1 with fines for improper sales of medicines or poisons.
New measures limit child labor and night work for women, require affidavits of age, cap workdays, and ban young persons from operating elevators. A state factory inspector enforces safety, sanitation, and fire protections across factories and dwellings. Other laws mandate weekly wage payments, ban wage assignments, and require written school contracts with teachers.
The legislature passes a pure food law that takes effect with the statutes. It prohibits manufacturing or offering for sale any drug or food item deemed adulterated. The new act targets adulteration in medicines and related products to protect public safety.
Mrs. C. A. Boice and children visited relatives in New Haven. An internal revenue inspector checked the local revenue office and found operations in good order. Dr. King’s New Discovery ads claim cures for throat and lung ailments while Dreier Bros. promote free trial bottles. Fireman Moore moves family to Fort Wayne. Albert Klingman visits Huntertown.
Four workers were seriously hurt when a centrifuge extractor exploded at the Troy Steam Laundry on Pearl Street at 10 am Friday. Chlorine gas from an acid tank rushed through the room as fragments struck workers, sending several to St. Joseph's Hospital for fractures and another held at home with painful injuries.
The article explains Jesus as the true vine and God the husbandman, urging believers to bear fruit for God. It outlines abiding in Christ, sanctification, and reliance on the Spirit, stressing that without Him nothing good bears lasting fruit and urging continual love and obedience.
Poem excerpt describes a yellow pool under moonlight where reptiles retreat from the eye of God. In darkness they hide in slime, while the surface remains clear and bright, implying moral judgment that makes guilty thoughts shrink in fear. Quoted from H. Coyle in Youth's Companion.
The article cites Christs silence before Caiaphas Pilate and Herod as a defense against malice. It argues that replies often fuel rumor, that self defense is best left to impartial tribunals, and that silence can be a prudent response to unjust charges.
Mrs. M. A. Holt urges in Christian Work to put talents into action for God's glory. She warns that talents unused grow rusty, while selfish use leads to ruin. Two youths illustrate the point one becomes a preacher and the other a temptations-driven actor.
A religious meditation compares spiritual hearing to being deaf to worldly clamor. The author uses analogies of a musician and telegraph operator to argue that true listening requires a sturdy inner deafness to distractions. The piece urges seekers to cultivate discernment to hear the still small voice of God amid temptations.
The excerpt combines editorial and religious voices on fatalism, arguing the idea dulls moral responsibility, and contrasts it with Protestant trust in an afterlife where death is a continuation of earthly life, enriched and enlarged as stated by Rev. Dr. Dille and Rev. J. F. Carson. It cites S. Times as an editorial source.
A traveler recalls an eastern church scene where thousands hold unlit candles. One flame passes to many, lighting a vast crowd. The piece urges Christians to let Christ's light reach every heart, hamlet, village, city, nation, and continent, until the world shines with his life.
A sermon-like piece argues nature wastes nothing and that by products from waste can become valuable. It cites examples such as by products from gas works and steer remains, noting potential profits from turning waste into useful materials and applying the same economy to daily activity.
A child walking with her father refuses his hand then falls many times. She repeats Me want to go my love until finally seeking safety and guidance by taking his hand. The piece reflects on youth needing a higher strength and returning to trust in a loving Father. From S. S. Times.
A compact page extracts a sequence of aphorisms about purpose, mortality, and virtue. It frames life as a test of effort, duty, and responsibility, linking divine provision to human action.
A fragmented sermonette from a 19th century paper contrasts wealth with virtue. It cites Dr. Conaty Rev Mason and Watchman on avoiding earthly temptations, stresses prayer guidance, and argues in Christian terms that wealth or poverty does not determine fate. character endures beyond life.
A cautionary note argues that a woman cannot reform a man by marrying him and warns young girls not to pursue such unions. The piece contrasts with a Civil War anecdote about G B Steadman of Newark Michigan, then promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for cuts burns and skin troubles with a 25 cent price and local retailer Dreier & Bro.
Readable times list scattered across a short fragment with no clear event, person, or location. No coherent event or entities identifiable.
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