Local News Highlights and Oddities From Fort Wayne
Wabash repairer Plank recovered from illness and returns to work. Stemen returns from the East via New Philadelphia. About thirty five prisoners confined in the county jail. Book contract for the new public library awarded to Merrill Co. of Indianapolis. Bloomingdale school well declared unhealthy with unfit water. County practitioners and local events fill the week with weddings, arrests, and civic notices. Fort Wayne society and business figures appear among the city’s daily happenings.
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Plank
Wabash @repe
C. B. Stemen
New
Philadelphia
Merrill Co
Indianapolis
New Public Library
Bloomingdale School
Board of Maalth
D. W. Souder Hess
Peter Werkmen
Pwate
R. McDonald
A Man of Hoss Sense and Plain Living
A Limekiln club speaker eulogizes Bradder White as an ordinary man who avoided public life yet showed practical wisdom. He notes White’s frugality, reliability, daily church offerings, and unglamorous values while humorously recounting his quirks and simple, steady ways.
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Charles BL. Lewis
Bradder Sundown White
Brother Gardner
Limekiln Club
Bradder White
Pyramids
Egypt
de Pusson
Niagara Falls
Brudder White
Nebber
Ebery Mawnin
America
Pusson
Jones
The Arizona Kicker Puts Big Bend Gazette to Rights
The Arizona Kicker recounts moving to Big Bend to aid Brother Sewell in reviving The Gazette. A chaotic scene unfolds with a jail ward, a dog fight, a burned printing office, and a plan to publish four columns of ads. Sewell shows renewed resolve, aided by the Kicker team and a horse editor.
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TG Bend
Brother Sewell
Big Bend Gazette
Sewell
The
Bend
Minois
Gazette
Big Bend
Salt Lake
Justice of the Peace
Gazettee
Arizona
Cleopatra Pearls and Modern Beauty Uses Sozodont
A playful ad tone extols Cleopatra drinking pearls and then urges modern readers to use Sozodont daily to maintain dazzling teeth. It links beauty and charm to dental care with a wink to historical imagery.
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Cleopatra
Cisar
Not for Money and the Hotel Customer Complaints
A narrator recalls visiting a hotel with severe service issues. The landlord replies to complaints about coffee tea and meat quality, milk souring, leather hard hot cakes, and an abominable bed. The exchange emphasizes persistent poor service.
Stranger Revives Man After 'Stone Dead' Moment on Mountain Trail
A woman at a mountain cabin asks a passerby if he can tell when a man is dead. The man appears stone dead but is revived by hot water poured over him. The dead man opens his eyes, rises, and whispers a question to the stranger.
M C A WHE Toetarly tale of a perilous journey
A fragmented fragmentary narrative shows a man avoiding danger, dodging into brush, and a character named Teraspediiaid resuming a journey. A distant event features a rock rolling from a hill and a tense exchange about threats and new hopes, attributed to M. Quad.
A Tale of Torture and a Cure by Pink Pills
A lengthy narrative recalls chronic paralysis and near death before Dr Williams Pink Pills allegedly revived the sufferer after doctors failed. The piece extolls the pills as a blood builder and nerve restorer and cites other cures. A second note reports Mrs Hartman elected secretary of the Northern Indiana Conference at an Omaha church gathering with 500 delegates.
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Heim Eriber
Jo Benham
Inez
John F. Jarrell
Esquirer
Robert Creigmile
Indiana
Harrell
Marvell
Tam
Dr. Williams
John Preble
Amita Young
W. Rosengard
J. W. Harrell
James Collena
Popie
Deadly boiler blast at Henry Clay colliery kills four
A catastrophic explosion at the Henry Clay colliery near Suamoken Pa destroys 36 boilers, kills four firemen and injures many others. The blast halts Henry Clay and three nearby mines, with total losses estimated at 110000 dollars and a month to six weeks before operations resume.
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Suamoxin
Henry Clay
Bio Mountain
Sterling
Peerless
Thomas Carr
William Boyle
William E. Slick
Peter Heck
Jacob J. Didiam
Mahoney Valley
John McLaughlin
John Flenkinallen
Dennis Brennan
Stone Moved Ten Miles to Honor Thomas F Davidson
In accordance with his last will a massive bowlder is being moved from Indian Ford on Rock River to Oak Hill ten miles to mark the grave of the late jurist Thomas F Davidson. Davidson, a prominent Indiana jurist, was noted for his lifelong love of fishing. The bowlder at Indian Ford is described as mammoth.
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Tonming
Mat
Tan
Dick Townsend
Chester Bert
K McDonald
Bert
Harry Ohery
Hart ‘Chhy
Migs A. Fox
Muncie
Ullery Hintendient
Electric St
Reil Harttert City
Ind
Onis
Dayton
Piqua
Allery
Hawkins
Wabash
Jane Smith
Hadrews
Thoreday
St. Patrick's Church
Mr. Donahue
Ehinger
Monroe Street
Thomas F. Davidson
Crawfornsyisle
Oec
Indian Ford
Rock River
Oak Hill
Monumental stone moved by windlass over ten miles
A massive boulder six feet square at the base and eight feet high, weighing around twenty tons, is slowly moved inch by inch along a ten mile stretch using windlass and steel cables. Included are notes on Knights of Labor officers elected in Tipton and local health notices, followed by advertisements for medicines and travel cars.
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George W. Aldrich
The
Knights of Labor
Tipton
Ind
Grand
George W. Fippin
Fort Wayne
A. W. DeWitt
Marion
T J.S Robinson
Cloverland
E W. Miller
Wabash
G. A. Piter
Connorsville
J. H. Hamilton
Banker Morg an returns from mysterious disappearance
Returned banker R. Morgan of Ilwaco Washington reappears in Ohio after vanishing about a month ago. He says his mind is blank regarding the two year plot and recalls his memory returning while staying with relatives about a week ago.
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Are
J. R. Morgan
Ilwaco
Waab
Ohio
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