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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1874
Page
1
A rugged Mississippi River boatman, famed for strength and grit, clashes with a roustabout amid spilled cargo and rough play on deck. A separate fragment recalls a glove and a memory laden waltz, linking past loves to travels in the Indies and ending with a sober note on a dead beloved.
The first campus rush ends with a clash as sophomores and freshmen fight for dominance. Police capture two students and fine them while a large crowd marches downtown to condemn the action. President Allell addresses the crowd as the campus vows to continue the rush with renewed vigor.
A compact excerpt from Nast's Almanac 1875 translated by Ki-po-Tark, distilling Confucius lore. It covers cosmogony and Confucius habits and ethics with satirical jests about virtue, propriety, and statecraft, including lines about walking, attire, and the famed moral quips.
In the tale Brer Harte relates Confucian humor about a broken two foot rule and a robe misidentified. The Master notes a rule that fails in both directions and comments on filial regard versus opium addiction. The exchange moves through questions on attire and misread clues, ending with Pekin and Nankeen distinctions.
Harper's November essay argues Watling's Island more likely San Salvador than Cat Island. It cites Beecher's naval analysis, noting Columbus rowed the northern coast in one day and a central inland lake exists on Watling's Island but not Cat Island, reshaping accepted charts.
Professor White consented to drown himself in the Serpentine to test resuscitation methods for the London Humane Society. After remaining submerged, his son dove in, retrieved him, and the officer subjected him to resuscitation. White revived and returned to the water, validating the theory under controlled risk.
A collage of quirky notes from Cincinnati Times column. Items include playful takes on Fernando Wood and Barnum polar ventures, fossils in Kansas, and jokes on balloons and parachutes. It lampoons editors, judges, and social manners with brisk, humorous asides and satirical quips about Americans and English readers.
An interviewer quotes Police Superintendent Folk and clerk Jenkins detailing a sensational Can-Can performance in Williamsburg and Apollo Hall. They compare it to the Black Crook and Williamsburg can can, calling it horribly disgusting and more immoral than prior shows while vowing to intervene with a "little paper" in hand.
The Free Training Schools host a large crowd of ladies and gentlemen for a cooking class. To address crowding, two parallel programs are planned: one for servants offered free instruction, another for wealthier students paying a fee. Classes run Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays for girls 11 to 12, and Thursdays 11 to 12 for housekeepers, with three months’ aim to produce proficient cooks. A second piece reports on Abbe Meigns describing George Robinson’s patent for wood cutting with a heated platinum wire powered by electricity enabling curved, decorative cuts.
The text notes that the surface of the wood appears charred yet sustains no material damage. It hints at an economy question to be resolved and promises to withhold judgment on the science’s application until receiving further information.
New Haven Register reports Policeman Badger, patrolling Jessop Street, checked Drayton & Fogg's jewelry store after midnigh t seeing light through shutters. After inviting the officer in for warmth he left, only to wake to a $6,000 jewelry and watch theft. Though Badger holds a mental daguerreotype of the suspected robber, the culprit remains at large.
W G Sumner argues U S financial questions demand a clear final solution yet public discourse is fragmented with diverse, conflicting views. He warns that democracy is tested as millions must be educated in technical matters for long term public good, urging deeper, localized effort to reform legislation through solid principles.
The Mariatta and Cincinnati Railroad crew Perdew and Parent, both engineers, sacrificed themselves to save passengers when a switch failed and an engine crashed through a bridge into a roadway. Their names and hometown Chillocothe are noted, two charred corpses the only remains. Railroading heroes are rarely heard of, even in death.
An Octo bwe 3 issue relays Guatemala’s September earthquake account. Shocks hit Antigua about 9 18 pm with vertical and horizontal oscillations, bells, fires, and widespread damage. Cetieties report 30 deaths in Antigua and up to 250k dollars in losses including farm buildings and cochineal stores. The writer travels to Duenas as inhabitants flee in fear. Local police seize a gang leader Rudeford amid unrest in Terre Haute.
A natural salt spring three miles southwest of Canton attracts visitors as a new artesian well surges forty feet high and sprays thirty feet wide. Iron pipes release water to create rainbows, while owners plan groves for picnics. The sight, visible for miles, promises become a premier local pleasure spot.
A convict named Rudeford escaped from prison and tricked a farmer into providing shelter and meals for $550 reward. The farmer kept guard over clothes and a pistol, while Rudeford vanished with store clothes, a horse, and a pistol. Police pursued but he remained at large. Elsewhere in Vigo County two highwaymen attacked a couple near Terres liute, were traced to a farm five miles out, and after a standoff with sheriff and five deputies, were arrested following a furniture smashing struggle.
In Bellina near Ginrge, Catholic priests sway village maidens to take vows, provoking a mass convent influx. Families resist, villagers seize to block a Bucharest exodus, warning of Bellina’s likely depopulation.
A Nevada Enterprise tale describes a bold fighter nicknamed Blazer who thrives on conflict. After a brutal scuffle in the Barbary Coast area, Blazer lies senseless on the floor, yet greets rescuers with a grim grin and the remark that he has stumbled into a paradise.
Louis Riel, rebel and member-elect to the Dominion Parliament, is outlawed by the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench. Indicted for the murder of Thomas Scott, he fled justice, was expelled from the Legislature, and now is described as a contemptible adventurer who abandoned his accomplices Lepine and another on trial.
The St. Louis Republican quotes that Germany could ease the Alsace and Lorraine dispute by allowing home rule for the conquered provinces. It argues this neutral ground would remove German troops and reduce hostile sentiment, offering a potential path to eventual settlement or ransom.
A newspaper notes that Indiana politics attract outside attention and insists on free expression of opinion while praising Johnson's Sozodont as a popular dental remedy used for chronic rheumatism relief.
A Boston medium Mr I Warren demonstrated spirit communication at the Graphic building with an eccentric entourage. He bound himself in a chair as spirits appeared, freed his handcuffs with help, and offered feats amid a crowd including Mr G F Train. The article mockingly details his lifestyle and flamboyant pretensions.
Professor Tyndall argues matter holds the promise of life and that all living things are material. He notes four organogenic elements sustain life and that life’s mutations drive cycles, while spontaneous generation is a misinterpretation without denying the observable natural laws governing vital, chemical, and physical processes.
A writer describes Milonia Caesonia as Caligula’s wife whose intense devotion humanized the tyrant. He rages against her, claims drugged wine binds him, and questions love as poison while she pleads with conspirators after his assassination.
Paris correspondent to London Times describes Marshal Mactishon as a taciturn, tireless hunter who loves shooting from dawn to dusk. A veteran old soldier, he avoids politics and speaks bluntly, with retrievers, his aide, and Marquis Amelot as nearby companions.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent Devoy roams the Central Pacific line chronicling blacklegs and recounts a three card monte robbery at Kiko Nevada. A drunken miner, Johnny Roach, is revealed as the schemer behind the theft and accuses the railroad of collusion with gamblers. Roach defends railroad workers and promises to refute Devoy, while slander claims hang over the overland operation.
New York correspondence describes tea as a great Russian institution centered on the somovar. An immense bronze urn heats charcoal sending boiling water to a china teapot, symbolizing daily ritual and pious habit across households, even among the poor, with the process likened to sacred fire.
The account describes various peoples using clever rope and hoop tools to climb trees for fruit, nuts, or opossums. It notes South American climbers using vine hoops, West African practices anchoring a hoop around trunks, Tahitian youths fettering feet to ascend cacao palms, and Australian women straddling rope systems to haul themselves up gum trees.
The piece notes Wagner at age eleven planned a Shakespearean style drama intended to outdo Lear and Hamlet. It imagined forty two deaths with ghosts appearing in later acts, a humorous self critique showing his early drive to expand artistic forms, discussed in Franz Hueffer's Richard Wagner feature in Scribner's.
An iron car built from boiler tin weighs about 10 000 pounds with a ten and a half ton capacity, while a wooden car of equal capacity weighs 17 500 pounds. Twenty loaded wooden cars equal the weight of twenty nine loaded iron cars on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania line. Iron cars resist wear better, survive wrecks with repairs, and cost roughly ten dollars less per initial coat than wooden cars.
The Grand Rapids Democrat notes a strong Democrat in Indiana named Holman who has won three times in a gerrymandered district. It asserts Radicals cannot beat him and hails his recent election to Congress despite Republican-leaning district design.
The Indianapolis Journal argues the state election was not driven by hard money, paper money, or repudiation issues. It says both parties put vague financial planks, no clear winner on finances, and expansion or contraction questions had little influence on the Democratic victory.
In San Isidro a mystery deepens as missing residents return only as rumors of revolt swirl. A northbound train case was commandeered to a farm by a solitary house where a narrow hall led to a room stacked with bones and skulls. A cellar hid stilettos daggers pistols and more murders tools all bearing the inscription So die all traitors. A woman’s severed head lay among the bones.
A colonial anecdote recounts Mr. Bogart of Albany who died in 1826 at twenty one proving adept at impromptu writing. In a contest with Col J B Van Shaick, lines from a Byron stanza are used to form an acrostic about Lydia Kane. A later note describes a Rocktown Tenn girl inventing a fan that starts shy suitors by exposing a handwritten question on the fan followed by a clever escape trick.
A Virginia City Enterprise item recalls three Paiute Indian boys at Silver City public school with a father visiting bearing a turkey feather and shotgun. The piece contrasts racial imagery and notes a white observer’s tale of a Great Dismal Swamp party using an insect’s movement to find direction.
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