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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1891
Page
2
Manufacturer's lot of ladies fine dress shoes priced below value by Jacobs' Shoe Store at 17 Calhoun St. On Saturday September 5 the sale price is $1.50 per pair. Kid uppers, leather soles and counters, warrantied for satisfaction. See them in the city.
A preacher likens heaven to a vast corncrib of abundance and warns that entrance is conditional on bringing Christ, the divine Benjamin, who sheds mercy through Jesus. He urges sinners to seek comfort in Christ's wounds and to enter Heaven only with the Lord Jesus by their side, lest they be barred at the gate.
A horse drawn wagon crashed on West Main Street after running away from Coverdale and Archer’s grocery. In Jeffersonville the sensational piracy confession of James and Jesse Graham followed a fifty mile pursuit by the steamer Hotspur. The report ties a river pirate ring to Bethlehem looting and hints at broader shanty boat gangs. The era notes Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes as the sole living Boston poet of lasting culture, aged eighty two, Harvard graduate of 1829, once a lawyer turned physician.
Sunday Dr. W. W. Barnett rushed to Harrison and Grand where Mrs. Woodward suffered deep lacerations to the head from a shattered window pane. He removed glass splinters and dressed the wounds, stabilizing her condition.
Sunday notices Kilian Baker a prominent citizen and hardwood lumber manufacturer at 98 Haat Main street suffered a partial stroke. Doctors expect climate treatment and proper care may restore him to vigor. Baker is known as a timber buyer across northern Indiana.
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