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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1908
Page
10
An advertisement claims nerve energy controls respiration circulation digestion and elimination. It promotes Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for nervous breakdowns and related ailments with testimonials and a promise of refund if not beneficial.
Fragmentary ad text references Soden and W. Pitch & Sons and a county fair. Mentions a trip to Texas and a sale schedule. Details are unclear due to OCR damage but involve advertising content on a local newspaper page with multiple names and events.
A compact history of the typewriter from early European devices to 19th century American development led by Thurber Beach and Milwauke e pioneers. It notes Remington's rise by 1874 and marks Mark Twain as an early user, including a published letter requesting secrecy about his machine use.
At a sensational meeting the board confirmed resolutions for paving Columbia Avenue Sutton Kent Street and Leith Street and ordered improvements with funds from dirt removal. Lennon opposed the bid partnerships citing guarantees, while Bravius and Schwartz supported resolutions and Tennon dissented on the Harrison Street payment.
An attempted wreck occurred as a west bound passenger train on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad near Owman six miles east of Elmira NY was sabotaged by piling ties on the track. The locomotive struck the obstruction and derailed several ties while the train slowed to a stop. An east bound freight train also encountered a similar obstruction but no collision occurred.
In Columbia City April 15 a marriage license was issued to Alva Vaughn and Grace Hult. Gilberta Sisk of Bisharat won a divorce from We Sisk in circuit court. Visitors Jack Sturray of Dodge City Kansas guests of Jon Winters in Troy. Five Hundred Club hosted by Kaler. The new pastor A Teahue of the Methodist Episcopal church drew large crowds. Mrs Rolla Patterson of Larwill underwent pelvic surgery. Fort Wayne improvements noted. Fringing Winie spent years in Los Angeles and San Diego with parents Drs.
An ad claims No Competition soap by The Ten RevS Soap Co of Dayton guarantees money back, claiming it’s the superior white soap for woodwork, windows, kitchen and country use and asserts no manufactured rival exists aside from ants.
Havana April 13 The new assembly room of the University of Havana is nearly completed with extensive alterations. The institution will feature a well equipped, co educational campus with English language instruction for engineering courses. The head of the engineering department is a graduate of Stevens Technical College Hoboken assisted by Carnell Nan. The college is government supported.
City Board of Public Works discussed pressure from Agent Fred Buechner of the union to force all city teamsters to join the Teamsters union. The board said compulsion would exceed authority and warned that work could halt if union demands were enforced, while denying any controversy with the union.
A Teamsters union member told the Journal-Gazette that a proposed wage increase would take effect on May 1 and that the union plans to call out city teamsters if members refuse to join. Public works officials said they have no objection to paying the higher scale if it becomes generally effective.
An old advertisement asserts Over Sixty Years of use by millions of mothers for teething pain and gum relief. It claims cures for conditions including diarthes and Wild Sole, promising universal efficacy and declaring compliance with drug acts.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota addressed the Kentucky Jefferson club in Louisville at a banquet, urged Jeffersonian democracy as the party framework, and highlighted states rights. Governor Willson welcomed him at Frankfort and hosted about 150 guests as part of the reception.
A speaker denounces monopoly power and government ownership as threats to democracy. He urges a principled, Jeffersonian declaration over expediency, arguing the Democratic Party must stand firm on Jefferson’s ideals to win and reform abuses without yielding to untested remedies. The road to victory is long but necessary.
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