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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1874
Page
1
A collage of clipped jokes and notices from Western papers. It riffs on politics, editors, novelty items, and pithy witticisms, naming Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Akron while weaving in figures like Mr Tilton and Sir Charles Dilke. The tone mimics a bustling 19th century miscellany column.
The Chicago Times reviews the Speakership race in the Forty-fourth Congress. It endorses Michael C. Kerr as a coherent hard money, free trade candidate but notes his district defeat and lack of Western support. It also cites Alexander Campbell of Illinois as a possible Western favorite, warning of Eastern pressure and factional divides.
The Vimre consistent advocacy of free trade and hard money is praised as mellow music at this distance, while denouncing paternalism and attacking Democratic rock rootedness. A long campaign lies ahead as the wound has enlisted for the whole war, and the writer asks the ferocious friend for a reply.
Three masked men forced entry to Miss Hoover near Donegal Springs, demanded food, fought with Miss Hoover and Bishop, injured a boy with cuts about the eyes and head, and fled after a horn alerted neighbors. Bishop defended Hoover, preventing robbery or murder as blood stained the kitchen and dining room.
Canadian fisherman Toulers, a fishery partner near Fighting Island, recounted a Tuesday encounter with a mysterious large fish. Nets trapped the erratic behemoth, which leaped, foamed, and nearly overturned a skiff before escaping, leaving locals to suspect a shark or unfamiliar freshwater species.
A foreign science writer asserts cast steel and new metals named Bes semer Siemens Martin are the only true steels formed in a liquid state producing homogeneous, compact ingots. The text contrasts crude iron made by piling grains with slag to true steel welded at high temperatures, the latter yielding a slag free, fully carburetted, homogeneous ingot.
The Columbus Dispatch notes evening papers suit advertising better. Morning readers skim quickly, often discarding the paper early for daily tasks. Evening editions reach tired households with time to read telegrams, local news, and ads, prompting family discussion and fall purchase decisions.
The Debats notes that Paris US trade is nearly as valuable as trade with all of Germany. Consul General in Paris reports exports to the United States from Oct 1872 to Sep 1873 at 36 million dollars, while exports to Germany total about 37 million. It also says American visitors’ spending in Paris rivals exports, underscoring France’s incentive to maintain friendly ties with the United States.
The International Typographical Union solicits further contributions for a statue or memorial at Horace Greeley’s grave in New York on November 1. The committee has funds for a portrait and bust and has taken charge of the neglected grave.
The Cincinnati Bayquirer details a brutal murder and cremation connected to the tannery tragedy. Exner, newly arrested, confesses a plot led by Rufer and the Egner family to kill Hermann Schilling at Gamble alley and hide the body in a furnace after a swift, grisly assault. The confession, sworn with coroner witnesses, outlines the sequence from initial plan to final disposal and includes the participants and their actions.
A Burlington Hawkeye item recounts Middlerichs dog a five month old hound with odd looks and voracious appetite causing chaos after eating yeast and various items. The tale ends with a midnight uproar as the dog testifies and a vigilance committee debates his fate. Also includes a humorous interview with Mark Twain noting age discrepancies and a violent brass knuckle weapon imagined in a separate scene.
A speculative theory suggests a subterranean river may run from Lake Superior through Huron to Lake Ontario, explaining why salmon and herring appear in all lakes connected to the St. Lawrence but not in others. The idea accounts for lake level similarities and Niagara Falls’ existence, offering a naturalist puzzle about fish migration and periodic water flux.
A 56 year old widow from Grand Traverse walked three weeks with two children to reach Martinsville Ohio after suffering is and hunger. She left Traverse City to aid her dying mother and to reunite with two grown sons in Ohio. County officials arranged county help and plans to send her to Toledo for placement. The tale illustrates ongoing relief efforts in Grand Rapids.
A Chicago Inter Ocean correspondent profiles Louisa May Alcott, noting her amiable, sociable nature despite occasional prickly authorly moods. It traces Little Women’s origin to Alcott’s home life, recalls fan visits, and shares anecdotes of publishing success and a Boston bookstore moment.
The New Orleans J Kayune describes an annexed depiction of a street fighting instrument. It is a weapon with a menacing look designed to terrify. it starts as ordinary brass knuckles with sharp edges and includes a gimlet knife at one end.
An editorial argues for independent journalism over partisan presses. It defines independent standpoints as principled scrutiny free from party motives, urging editors to evaluate all candidacies impartially, follow reason and moral aims, and avoid letting party fortune dictate truth or virtue.
A skeptical column laments dull Indiana politics as Republicans exit office and seek lucrative post-term work. It highlights Secretary Curry's detailed report on state activity, praises aides like Eddy and Wagner, and notes concerns about internal improvements bonds, tax law, and corporate rules amid a temperate, capable administration.
A long suspected horse thief gang operating across Lafayette and neighboring counties was disrupted. Eight leaders including Voss alias Schultz were captured or killed, with several more arrests in Benton Saline and Marshall. The crackdown followed a fatal barroom shootout and ongoing efforts to break the criminal network.
A young spendthrift named Butenor, son of a San Francisco banker, killed himself claiming calm but driven by extreme despair. In a final letter he cited mounting debts and repeated rejections for aid, noting he had attempted to offer services for board without success and that he could no longer obtain support from those who profited from him. He listed a dozen named individuals who learned of his act after refusing credit.
Wilkins Micawber Jones devises a plan to count how many passersby named Mary by calling out the name on a busy street. He tests with two women, then is surprised when a man with an escort answers, leading him to abandon the experiment due to social risks and misidentifications.
The piece notes that the most dangerous coal beds are often the most valuable for their quality. Fire damp, light carburetted hydrogen, and gas pockets occur near faults or within beds. Detection relies on barometer, thermometer, and anemometer. a drop in barometer with rising temperature and south winds signals rising danger, especially in blower mines when barometer falls below twenty nine inches.
The Tue Troy Whig recounts a tale relayed by W. P. Phillips, assistant agent of the State Associated Press in New York, during a visit to the city. An unnamed Western Union Telegraph Office official at Broad Street impresses with a remarkable, time-defying anecdote about rapid communications.
News from New Orleans reports William Pitt Kellogg gravely ill with bowel inflammation and not expected to live through the night. Prominent physicians battled the condition as Radical Republicans fear leadership turmoil while Warmoth and General Sheridan visited Kellogg’s bedside.
A Cincinnati Enquirer description portrays a chambermaid about five feet two with classical features and a graceful figure. She cleans a first class hotel parlor, brushing mahogany furniture and polishing mirrors, while observers note her beauty and the scene inspires pleasant dreams.
Fort Wayne papers clash over Pendleton's greenback theory and hard money policy. The Democrat and Herald advocate monetary expansion while the Fort Wayne Sentinel calls for a specie basis, reduced indirect taxation, and stable labor and commodity prices.
The Graphic shows a monument soon to be erected in Calvary Cemetery Memphis to Fathers Daley Carey OBrien Sheehy Leo and the seven Sisters of the Order of St Francia who died aiding the sick during last year’s yellow fever epidemic. It will be eighteen feet high with a twelve foot base, on a circular mound with graves arranged around it.
The Logansport Pharos reports the Indiana Democratic Platform on the financial question emerged from a resolutions committee as a compromise, facing strong opposition within the convention. Governors Hendrick and McDonald dissented, while editorials suggested repudiation doubt. A Grim Hunt Ends With Bearish Misidentification On a Berlin road, a party pursued a bear only to discover a drunken man in benzine disguise. the “bear” escaped undisturbed as the light finally came up.
A World report on Father Bleeson's De Garmo Hall address argues Indians were betrayed by 400 broken treaties with whites. It covers Captain Jack’s motive to avenge tribal murders, the Modoc war, treaty failures, and Canby’s death amid broken promises, with tangential notes on a clergyman miscue and John L. Clem’s promotion.
An old health advertisement touts Land's German Bitters for stomach tone digestion and blood purification. It claims toning the bowels, eradicating foul matter, and curing eruptions headaches bilious issues and general weakness. Hoofland's Pills are praised as non purgative yet effective, sold by Johnston Hollaway & Co. in Philadelphia and carried by druggists.
Three years after Dr Boschee introduced German Syrup in the United States for coughs colds chest infections and lung diseases it claims 300000 sample bottles sold annually by druggists and 1600 letters attest high satisfaction. Readers urged to sample a 10 cent bottle with regular 16 cent size and two Parson’s Purgatives offered.
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