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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1892
Page
2
City officials and physicians discuss diphtheria as a persistent, contagious threat. They urge stricter sanitation, sewer flushing, and fumigation to curb spread, noting several residential outbreaks and calls for higher funding for health officers.
In a house near Meserve's, Braker and Paxton fought fifteen feet apart after strings of jealousy over Maggie Brandt. Both men suffered fatal wounds. Braker slashed Paxton and in a brutal turn Barker cut Maggie's nose and blinded her. Mrs Brandt witnessed the scene and did not seek help.
Judge Walter Gresham of Indianapolis arrived in Fort Wayne from Van Wert Ohio where he had been for several days on a case. A press interview proved unsatisfactory as he avoided political views and recalled Chicago incidents without detail. He left for Indianapolis afterward.
A historical advertisement touts Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption and Colds with 2 228 672 bottles sold in a year and a money back guarantee. It also promotes Electric Bitters Bucklen's Amica Salve and Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claimed universal sales and world distribution. Dreier Bros drugstore is listed as seller.
Severe storm sweeps the region with hurricane force winds and snow. Reports describe damaged buildings in West Seatchior and other towns, downed telegraph poles, halted streetcar service, and vessels at risk along Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Several ships are reported dragging or wrecked, with crews at risk and life saving efforts underway.
A reported cholera outbreak near Helmetta was found to be violent dysentery. Walter Willard of Jamesburg praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy for severe dysentery. For sale by druggists.
A playful scene recalls Jim leaning from his perch to watch boys leap the wall. He shouts encouragement and a rhythmic boast about winners and losers, celebrating the game with his distinctive voice and cheer.
A Pike County farmer, A. Ansley, boasts three rattlesnake dens on his Huckleberry hill farm along Pine Creek and the Condersport Galeton turnpike. He argues snakes could perform self repair, citing a bet and stories from blacksmith Dan Hanley about garter snakes mending themselves.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes Lake Baikal on the Irkutsk to Kiakhta route. The lake averages depths over a mile and freezes nine months yearly. Crossing it by sledge, author J M Price notes crystal clear ice, deadly depth below, and eerie quiet, with a 30 mile crossing in four and a half hours via Moufshkaya.
A man bursts into a grocer and orders rapid yeast cake deliveries in escalating quantities. He imagines unconventional uses for yeast cakes and rants about sending them everywhere as the grocer and bystanders react with puzzled humor. The piece ends noting a playful exchange about a man's past alias Dennis.
The Indianapolis Journal notes vacation plans with a quip about two weeks of borrowing to travel briefly. The Buffalo Express reports sulkies in trotting races now use pneumati tires, and bettors remain tired from risking on the horses.
A collage of Civil War nostalgia and mining tales. It recalls the haunting song The Boys of the Old Brigade and notes from Queensland in 1889 about rough miners, bravery, and heroic acts. It also recounts a Dom Pedro anecdote and a National encampment reunion of colored troops with speakers praising courage and duty.
The piece describes a shield badge showing a soldier with gun and plow in the distance, captioned Minute Men April 45 61. It proposes removing the vignette and adding a Lincoln portrait with rallying 61 figures and state governors surrounding the scene, alluding to April 1861.
A monument was dedicated at Antietam on Sept. 20 by the remnant of the Fourth New York, now merged in Post 21 of Brooklyn, N Y. The unit held the right in the memorable Battle of Antietam in General Max Weber's brigade of Sumner's Corps. General Weber of New York, Major Henry
A Rockford Illinois crowd welcomed Grand Army comrades as Gen Weber and Major Burleigh were wounded. George W Levings captured a Confederate flag at Orange Court House. The flag, a small 18 inch relic, sparked tensions as officers and veterans recalled the lost cause. Hood’s Sarsaparilla praised for cures.
The Mount Ararat site, believed to cradle the scriptural ark, consists of two separate summits divided by a valley. The higher peak rises about 17 210 feet above sea level and the lower reaches roughly 13 000 feet.
The ad proclaims AllCock's porous plasters as the best external remedy beating finimenta ointments and unctuous compounds. It warns against imitations and deceptive substitutes and urges customers to demand AllCock's. A stray kid line references hardtack and a muttered exchange about crackers and swearing.
A historical fragment traces a woman’s life through misheard names of remedies. Repeated phrases link illness, childhood, marriage, motherhood, and care, naming Castaria Casteria Chetoria Cantert as a through line of memory and healing.
An informal discussion on bodily ill humor and a patent remedy for liver problems cites Simmons Liver Regulator and the belief it stirs proper digestion. A humorous vignette describes a lazy man along the Fulton Chain shore who fancies fishing, tortures a dog, and misses a bite when the bobber vanishes.
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