Fort Wayne Businesses Advertise Across City
An ornate Fort Wayne directory lists numerous merchants and professionals with addresses on Columbia Street Calhoun Street and nearby. It includes auction houses hardware stores dentists druggists tailors and a long list of wholesalers retailers and craftsmen. The ad promotes safety and reliability of purchases and features a Big Cast Iron Dog sign at Ward's Cheap Crockery Store.
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Ons
Fort Wayne
Auction & Commission
J Scheffperek &Co
East Main Street
Court House
General Auction and Commission
N. Ward
Calhogn Street
WARD
Eeler & CO
Columbia Street
Bash & CO
Col
Umbia Street
Sentinel Focuses on Grants Family and Temperance Movement
The piece rails against Grant kin and political plunder, lauding Good Templar sessions, and outlining a drive to form a temperance political party. It notes debates among local leaders, calls for nominations, and plans for a December convention in Angola to advance temperance aims.
Second Annual Fair of Indiana Association Opens
The Indianapolis Fair Trustees announce the Second Annual Fair of the Association to run September 25 to 30 on sixty six acre grounds with new cattle stalls, grand prizes on a one mile track, and extensive premiums across agricultural mechanical and fine arts divisions. Entries close September 26 at 6 pm. grand trotting prizes total two thousand dollars. additional grand premiums include railways hotels and citizens awards. Local water works debate and engineering opinions accompany notices from Fort Wayne and Evansville.
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Indianapolis
W. H. Loomis
Blu
Fort Wayne
Bert Wayne Daily Sentinel
Gaylor & Co
Cincinnati
Hyaraulic Department of Civil Enginering
United States
John Ryall
T Civil Eng. P. F.W. & C. R.W
Klcniv
Gibson County
Friesvs
Kokomo
Lafayette
New Harmony
Troy
Indiana
Rising Sun
Muncie
Vincennnes
Richmond
Puldsdham
Vigo County
New Albany
New Harwony
Rural Refrigerators
Madison
A Fort Wayne Fifth Ward Exalted In City Life
A lengthy defense of Fort Wayne’s Fifth Ward praises its independence and growth. It highlights ward leadership, institutions, commerce on Broadway, the new drug house, hospital, market, fire department, and proposed spring developments including a public hall, branch post office, and a street railway, arguing the ward’s essential role in the city’s future.
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Greencastle
Amlerson
Nad
Train Haute
Cincinnati
Lafayette
Speer
Milwaukee
Fort Wayne
Versailles
Paris
Snydenham
London
Luxuries
Bois de Boulogne
France
Louis XIV
Puarig
Crystal Palace
Fifth Ward
Broadway
West End
Charley Uplegger
Randall
Bittenger
Webb
Commodore Foote
Sisters of Charity
Eagle No. 4
Th Avenue
Douglas
Col. Swinney
Jefferson Streets
Calvin Anderson & Son
A. C. Rommel
Helmbold
Gilsoy House
N. Y
Esculapius
Harry V. Sweringen
Ase Pharmaceutist
Neatle
West
Browiway
Gazette
Holly
Temperance Convention Encourages Reforms and Duty
Mr Reynolds praised the ladies of Fort Wayne and urged saving youth over reclaiming fallen men. Speakers urged temperance lodges for children, lamented alcohol's ruin of many men, and pressed a strong anti drink campaign. Ho e urged persistence, vowing to lift the banner of temperance and seek a pure future. The meeting adjourned after hopeful appeals.
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Mr. Reynolds
Elty
Fort Wayne
Stocker
Hoe
Grand Lodge of God
Mixed 19th Century News Flashes and Notices
A rapid collage of brief items notes Andrew Jackson’s servant near death, George Polk’s death in New Orleans, Springfield Mass as a new female paradise trope, a wife earning 140 dollars monthly vs her husband’s 12, and varied curiosities. It mentions Kate Fen a pistol shot Miss Hazlett a swimmer Elizabeth Cady Stanton an angler Susan B Anthony a poker player. Actor Mr Forrest visiting Boston plans a winter starring run. A Morristown Jerseyman ad accuses Parmella Bush of eloping declared liar. Vienerox Boulogne accident fatality. A Cleve land boy wounds father, a Swiss boy kills teacher, a 15 year old poisons his mother in Oregon and robs, and an Indiana boy stabs another over billiards.
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Andrew Jackson
George Polk
New Orleans
Springfield
Mass
Kate Fen
Miss Hazlett
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Mr. Forrest
Boston
Lear
Richeliea
Morristown
Jerseyman
Parmella Bush
Chester
Edward Pratt
Vienerox
Goliath
Boulogne
Avertca
Cleveland
Im Oreron
Indiana
Cat Baker’s Doom At Virginia Watersing Place
A Virginia riverside hotel cat sneaked dough, fell into bread dough, and vanished into the loaf as guests fled the fashionable summer resort. The oven baked a breakfast disaster while the cook served hash from the cat's family. The steamboat crowd fled, leaving only the cook, bar keeper, and remaining kittens.
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Potomac
Washington
Kitty
Cooky
Ashash
Missouri Great Express Robbery Report Missouri Wealth Figures
A Kansas City dispatch states the Ellis express office was robbed Tuesday night of $22,000 with few details. The State Auditor reports Missouri total taxable wealth at $571,166,523, with St. Louis County at $198,617,340 and Jackson and Buchanan counties next richest at $17,438,325 and $12,040,433 respectively, among twenty-three counties above five million.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Ellis
Kansas
St. Louis County
Jackson
Buchanan
St. Joseph
The Retiring Colfax and Western Politics
The Boston Post reports on Mr Colfax seeking retirement from public life as he tours the Northwest. It discusses his "unselfish" deeds, his Indian policy stance, and suspicions of collusion with Mr Queeeley to influence Western delegates for Grant or Greeley. It notes Colfax’s pledge of retirement and potential reconsideration during emergencies.
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Colfax
Mr. Colfax
Nortwest
West
Grant
Little Rabbit
Mr. Queeeley
Greeley
Indiana
Pittsburgh
General Grant
Vanderpool Trial Ends in Acquittal at Manistee
The third trial of George Vanderpool for murdering his banking partner in Manistee Michigan on September 6 1869 ended with acquittal. The courtroom scene showed the couple embracing and crying with joy as verdicts divided among onlookers. Three trials cost about $70 000 for an original property value of $5 000.
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Vandeerpoolti
Haskines
Mica
George Vanderpool
Manistee
Michigan
Vanderpool
Kalamazoo
Annual Gathering at Salisbury Beach Attended by 15000
The Salisbury Beach meeting drew fifteen thousand attendees with speeches by Gen. Butler Wendell Phillips Mayor Kelly of Newburyport and Captain F D Burtham. Butler defended his prior arguments while Phillips urged reform criticizing New York financiers and Vanderbilt influenced laws. The assembly adjourned to September 15, 1872.
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Boston
Salisbury Beach
Gen. Butler
Wendell Phillips
Kelly
Newburyport
Wilton
F. D. Burtham
Butler
Wendell Philips
Massachusetts
Phillips
New York
Vanderbilt
London Longshoremen Employed Daily Amid Town Prosperity Rumors
Dispatches report 4716 workmen employed daily at New Castle, with constant additions promised, fueling talk of revived town activity. Amid global tension, cholera rages in Asiatic ports as political and police news cross Atlantic fronts, including New York disorder and calls for reshaping city leadership.
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London
New Castle
Conservative Cendiale
Dee
Empire
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