Brakeman Mart Pier Killed in Kendallville Yard Accident
Mart Pier a Lake Shore brakeman from 605 Thomas Street Elkhart died after being crushed between an engine tender and a coal car in Kendallville yards. He was 32 and left a wife and two young children. The coroner faulted company track spacing and negligence, with funeral plans undisclosed.
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Mart P. Pier
Lake Shore
Thomas Street
Kendallville
Pier
Elkhart
Wirt Pier
No. 16
George Carpenter
John Prentice
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
W. D. Pier
Everett, Mich
Bex Brothers
Frank
Leslie
Mich
Os Owhl
Mart BE
Elkhant
Black
Ligonier
Kendallville Sur
Somnambulism Lecture At Johns Hopkins Explains Sleep Walkers
Baltimore on November 21 a Johns Hopkins lecture by Prof. Pierre Jouet of the Paris Sorbonne explored somnambulism. He described sleep walkers as fully perceiving and acting, with memory erased on waking, and recounted vivid demonstrations of delirious states and rare cases of paralyzed individuals ascending to rooftops.
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Baltimore
Pierre Jouet
Paris Sorbonne
Johns Hopkins
Fragmentary Notice Delivers Missing Context
A damaged OCR fragment provides partial details of a local notice or listing with unreadable lines and unclear names. The readable portions hint at a formal action or brokered transaction but lack sufficient specifics to identify persons places or dates.
Disappearance at LaGrange Mystifies Two Men
The LaGrange community follows theories on the fate of Thatcher and Winkleback after a lake accident at Turkey Lake, LaGrange County. Thatcher is believed missing, with no conclusive signs of struggle found on Winkleback’s body, while searches and dynamite trials to raise a body continue.
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Levi
Thatcher
Turkey Lake
LaGrange County
Winkleback
Ini
Noted Swindler Still At Large Sought in Indiana Wheatland Farm Fraud
A reported swindler alias John Hoover and John H. Kline is at large after alleged land swindling in Indiana. Local authorities cite Felkhart County and the Mrs Beebee farm near Bristol in continuing search efforts.
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Butler
John
Hoover
H. Kline
Indiana
Wincis
Felkhart County
City Health Inspector Quaife Dies in Front of New Congregational Church
William H. Quaife 73 died after a heart attack in front of the Marion Street Congregational church this forenoon while performing duties as city health inspector. He had been a longtime Elkhart resident since 1870, served in the Civil War era, and was a deacon of the local church. Funeral plans await word from his brother in New York.
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William
HH. Quaife
New. Congregational
Marion Street
C. W. Frink
John
Packer
Aun
Marion’ Street
Pidek
Shiloh
Vermont
Robert Quaife
Binghampton
N.Y
Quaife
New York
Congregational Church
Adrian
Strubler Factory to Start Soon in Elkhart
Strubler Computing Scale Co will begin manufacturing on West Crawford street near the water works, employing about thirty high class machinists. The firm plans three styles of scales including computing beam and automatic grocers and butchers scales, with patterns developed by an experimental department.
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Strubler Computing Scale Co
Crawford Street
Tig
Twenltys
Weile
G. Strubler
Vonyentor
Stimpson
Strubler Company
Tha
Angtdile
Farmers Occimy
Franklin Street
Newcastle Growth Hopes for 15000 Population in 30 Months
Newcastle accelerates toward a Maxwell Briscoe automobile factory boom. R A Creek, the company’s agent, predicts the city will reach 15,000 residents within thirty months as pledges and ad campaigns push for 400 remaining lots to fund the project.
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Newcastle
Maxwell-Briscoe
WHO
Maxwell-Briscoe ‘Automobile
R. A.creek
Star ‘League
German Fire Insurance Co of Freeport In Receiver Hands
Losses from the San Francisco disaster near five million dollars left the German Fire Insurance company of Freeport insolvent to the tune of about three million beyond its ability to pay. The firm had two agencies in Elkhart with James Dodge Jr and Hile and Baker as representatives. Policyholders are unaffected as reinsurance with the Royal covers the business. The failure signals potential trouble for other smaller insurers facing audit checks January first.
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San Francisco
Freeport
Elkhart
James §. Dodge, Jr
Hile & Baker
The
Royal
Ithe
New York
Insurance
Compan
Suit over forty five cents drives local case to higher court
A La gro business man files suit through attorney W G Todd against the Wabash Valley Traction Co to recover forty five cents from a PerU to Lagro trolley fare. The agent refused redemption claiming the ticket expired, prompting Todd to pursue the matter to justice court then circuit court if needed, with Supreme Court as ultimate recourse.
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Gore Oda
Lagro
Wabash “County
W.G. Todd
Wabash Valley Traction Company
Circuit’ Court
Supreme Court
Toad
Todd
Peru
Legro
Toda
Than
Parker system of car heating praised for low pressure
The Parker system for train heating claims absence of steam leaks and uniform heat with low steam pressure. It uses simultaneous live steam at both ends of radiating pipes, a rear discharge pipe, and a crossover valve. Tests show 10 psi maintain 70 F inside while outside is five degrees below zero. Application costs about four dollars in materials and labor.
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Railroad Gazette
Doctor's Locust Forest Plans Collapse After Worms
Dr A H Sauerman near Union City Michigan planted about 50 000 yellow locust trees to harvest railroad ties. A worm boring into trunks weakened trees and caused wind fall, wrecking his plan for profit and a replanted tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Sauerman
Union City
Mich
Sauerman
All-Steel Railway Coaches Move Toward Mainline Use
Technical World reports progress toward universal all steel passenger cars. Harriman lines push the shift with Pullman expected to follow. Southern Pacific shows ten percent weight over wood is possible using lighter stronger plates. Car builders expand plants to support the new steel construction.
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Harrieman
J. Mayne
Baltimore
Technical
World Magazine
Acta
Harriman
Appellees
Pullman Company
Southern Pacific
England railway directors approve old age and pension scheme
The directors of the railway company have sanctioned a scheme that provides for their engine drivers and firemen old age pensions and sick pay in case of illness other than through accident, plus retiring gratuities after a certain length of service.
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England
Theatre manager faces criticism over stopped act at burlesque
Supt Silvers with an advisory board halted part of a burlesque performance called The Parisian Sensation during the Black Crook Burlesque at the opera house. The move drew mixed reactions from audience members and a minister, with officials defending the decision as a reform measure while noting overall strong turnout despite high prices.
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Black Crook Burlesqguers
Buelden
Silvers
Elkhart
W. Sterling
Hughes
C. BE. Frank
O. St. Conley
Opera House
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Ayrist
LaGrange
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Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Strubler
Agencies For
the Computing
Ness
Toledo
Chicago
Watterloo
Delta-Defiance
J. M. Leognecker
Delta
Seleck
Michigan
Ity
Devere
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