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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1902
Page
7
The ad stresses that quality and suitability drive stove sales not price. It touts a wide, carefully chosen selection of multi fuel heaters, urging shoppers to compare and buy early for winter warmth. The tone emphasizes confidence in the product and its usefulness to sustain warmth.
Promising steady growth and security, the bank urges customers to discuss prudent investments and future protection during regular banking hours. The notice emphasizes dependable savings and a reliable fallback option in times of need.
A Pennsylvania company plans a new two-part shop building at Lafayette Street near the blacksmith shop in Upper Sandusky. The first section, 62 by 100 feet, will be one-story for watchmen and firefighting gear, while the second, 38 by 17 feet, will house iron, coal, and brick materials. Work begins after sheds are torn down, with excavations to start at once. Also, the Locomotive Engineers Ladies Society will host a party and supper at Calhoun Street Hall this evening.
The R.R. M C A holds its regular monthly meeting Monday night at the association rooms. Reports from Humbership and high chairs are set for ratification. Several workers, including George Tedeger and O. E. Davis, suffer foot and back injuries. others return to duty after incidents. Fifteen football players pass through on their way to Chicago en route to Buffalo. A strike situation looms as President Joseph Ramsey addresses wage terms and possible shop openings for non-complying workers.
Dispatches describe tensions over wages and work rules at Fort Wayne yards with trains held for now. Engineers and shop workers prepared for a future agreement as interlocking plants between Fort Wayne and Chicago faced inspections. Bridge work on the Sandusky river line nears completion and double tracking between Fort Wayne and Crestline progresses toward May completion.
Vesey and Eaton offer loans at five percent in sums not less than one dollar secured by mortgage on improved Fort Wayne real estate. Office at Court and Berry streets, with Hagerty? details not clear.
J EL Welstrai of tha Lash railroad is in business for the company. M ik Griffith of the Pennsylvania blacksmith shop is off duty due to illness. Winters, a machinist, will arrive from Warsaw and take a position at the Pennsylvania shop. Mrs BF Saever, wife of the foreman, promoted to a conductorship on the Pennsylvania lines West. JF returns to Warsaw for vacation with his father, M Shea. Ray Wordermark, Fort Wayne man, returns from Chicago to work at the Gass Foundry and Machine works. Elsie DeWalt company will go to South Bend. The beach power line will waver over the Pennsylvania to Plymouth and South Bend. G A Szink and daughter will visit Chicago. A lumber derailment near Hanna street blocked main tracks for half an hour. Conductor Heasing, Brakeman Cherry and an extra man form a new train crew on the Plate’s fourth district due to rising business. Mrs M Schoenlein will visit Chicago with daughter. Fireman Boone of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad fell ill in work train service at Portland and had to return home. Another man was sent to reg. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton raises yard foremen and switchmen wages by 2 cents per hour and shortens engineer and fireman hours.
Engines taken from the bridge construction returned to service delaying ballast work. The Garth immigrant train of the week on Nickel Plate passed through last night. The train carried a mix of passengers from various regions bound for the west, with about 1200 people handled across four trains. Conductor Deakl and Craw, and engineers Sliter and Hooper piloted the engines on the two districts.
Train No 4 led the Nickel Plate through this city carrying twenty six cars of Morris & Co products Win Now 52 followed with fifteen cars. The trains were augmented to meet tonnage by additional freight. Only one inspection point exists here to inspect the train and change engines.
A serious accident at a Fort Wayne facility was narrowly avoided when Frank Hotter, employed at Foremim Fort Wayne, suffered injuries during a machine-related incident involving cap wheels. He was treated by a physician and hospitalized at St Joseph's, with doctors noting no permanent impairment.
Workers at a Pennsylvania machine shop reported a very busy period as shipments dominated activity. Principal consignments included 1800 light generators for Rinhiwood, 200 horsepower motors for Dollar Mick, and a 520 light separator for Chicago. Several officials and workers, including boilermaker Smeling and foremen Stimson and Hunter, were noted in transit between plants and towns. The report also mentions a charitable relief tally and insurance benefits linked to recent events.
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