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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1901
Page
8
The piece recounts Lincoln and Garfield assassinations, noting Booth's Lincoln murder in 1865 and Guiteau's 1881 attack. It covers Lincoln's Ford's Theatre night, Booth’s capture and death, Garfield's shooting in Philadelphia, Guiteau's trial and execution, and public grief shaping national memory.
Dr Henry Gannett outlines the typical American in Everybody's Magazine noting a height of five feet eight inches a 36 inch chest and 150 pounds He is taller than English and German cousins yet lighter in weight His wife is 35 five feet four and 126 pounds The piece details dietary habits tobacco use and alcohol consumption as well as life expectancy and daily routines reflecting a lavish European style of living.
The essay urges merchants to exercise discretion and judgment beyond judges. It notes the need to balance possibilities and timing in buying and selling. It cites changing price factors across wheat, cotton, wool, and tobacco and the rise of new trades from previously unknown articles.
Uncle George Pullman of Macon county, a generous Missourian, settled with his tenants before settlement day. He sent each canceled note and a receipt in full, asking only that they take good care of their tanflied this year.
Jacob Wildner, sole survivor of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid, lives in New Lisbon Wisconsin. He recounts the 1859 raid, escape in disguise, and presence at Brown's execution, denying northern abolitionist involvement and detailing the escape sequence after the Arsenal assault.
Mr Wildner discusses the Harpers Ferry raid in relation to secession and the Civil War. He doubts a direct causal link but says if it helped bring on the struggle emancipation is a glory worth the effort. He emphasizes the importance of liberty and the slaves’ ultimate freedom.
Seoul Chemulpo railway, built by an American concessionaire and sold to a Japanese syndicate, runs 26 miles from Seoul to port. An American electric railway near Seoul, currently 10 miles, will extend about 18 miles into the countryside. natives patronize it and it faces little opposition.
Thomas Lawson the millionaire yachtsman rose from a Nova Scotia carpenter's son. He ran away at twelve to seek work in Boston, joined Stevens Armory & Co. as an office boy, and after persistent effort earned $100 at Christmas. He kept studying nights while working and grew fascinated by the market.
Col Albert Daggett of Brooklyn secures a four year postal card printing contract for three billion 11 cent cards, five million 1 cent cards, and seventy million return cards. His bids total 21.75, 17.5, and 42 cents respectively, the lowest ever for the government. He runs a Piedmont West Virginia works employing fifty, with a $100,000 bond for faithful performance.
In Sarawak, the remote Borneo monarchy with an English-rescued history maintains a small two-boat navy. The vessels weigh 175 and 118 tons respectively, are slow, and each carries two guns as described in a Saturday Evening Post item.
A historical survey recounts a string of high-profile assassinations from the 19th to early 20th centuries. It details figures such as Czar Alexander II, President Garfield, Carnot, Stambuloff, Nasr ed Din, Canovas del Castillo, Boarda, and Empress Elizabeth, noting motives, trials, and outcomes. The piece links these acts to broader political unrest and the era’s volatile state affairs.
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