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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1891
Page
2
Dr Bronn Seycarp urges general knowledge on stopping coughing and sneezing by pressing nerves near the lips and nose or the roof of the mouth and notes the will as a preventative. The report also covers political gossip from Shelbyville and notes on various officials and church leaders.
The ninth annual Indiana state health report covers the 1889 90 influenza impact with about 400 direct grippe deaths and a three and a half million dollar financial loss cited from Wayne County. It highlights improved medical qualification laws, urges steam heated passenger cars, and notes marriage births and deaths statistics with county health letters and physician lists.
The Monroeville Breeze reports a petition to build a new Allen county court house at Fort Wayne. It urges Monroe township taxpayers to gather at the Town Hall in Monroeville on Saturday afternoon November 14 1890 at 2 o clock to protest the plan and insist the old courthouse remains sufficient.
President Harrison issues a proclamation designating Thursday November 26 for giving thanks to God for Providence peace and the preservation of civil and religious liberty. The Valparaiso Daily Sun compliments Judge Allan Zollars of Fort Wayne as a gubernatorial aspirant with strong statewide recognition and campaign prowess.
An advertisement extols Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as superior curacy and purity. It claims finer refinement and careful production with chemists testing every batch to ensure quality, asserting it is the only powder containing the whites of eggs.
An almost full audience in the Masonic Temple heard William Q. Judge, head of the Theosophical Society in the United States, explain Theosophy as a religious science. He described reincarnation, karma, and the astral body, argued for a universal brotherhood, and contrasted Theosophy with materialism.
Judge Samuel M. Hench of Fort Wayne discusses Indiana Ohio boundary disputes and the Twelfth district race to succeed Congressman C A O McClelland. Possible candidates include Barrett Zollars O Rourke Robinson Dills McDonald and others, with Hench tentatively in the mix. The piece notes a lively, Democratic contest and Andre political maneuvering in Fort Wayne.
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