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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1906
Page
8
The Griffin Motor Car Co offers scents for Northerny lids and ferc the famous White Steamer Wine ton Sudiline and Bruick plus the Pops Waverly Electric and Columbia Automabites. Modern charging plant and repair work specialty open day and night. Phones Home 2400 Bettono.
Fort Wayne trainmen elected C M Preble as master and MM Lagan as financier, with Elmer St John chosen to represent Fort Wayne on the legislative board in Indianapolis. The local lodge lists 420 members and a state-wide total of 3380 in twenty four orders. Benjamin F Strack, longtime Wabash employee, died in Fort Wayne hospital, survived by wife and daughter, funeral set for later today in Roanoke.
A summary of injuries reports three workers, M. Miller at Steckbuck, W. Josh at Wabash, and engineer A T Holmes at Pennsylvania. Miller fractured his right kneecap after a fall on the way to work and was moved to Lutheran hospital. Josh bruised his right foot on a transfer table and is off work a few days. Holmes suffered scalds from boiling water and remains laid up.
Salt Lake City Utah December 7 Representatives of the Harriman railway system, which has used Armour cars for perishable freight, today incorporated the Pacific Fruit Express company in this community. The company is capitalized at 12,900,000 in 100 shares.
Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union 210 meets in room 69 Bank block. Brakeman Freq Vox resigns from Nickel Plate. Engineer 3 Grubb of Nickel Plate visits Chicago. Machinist F. M. Hogan returns to duty.
An early 20th century advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and related products. It emphasizes natural ingredients, tested authenticity on bottle wrappers, and broad cures from digestive ailments to chronic catarrh and lung infections. It warns against consumption and asserts strong antiseptic, antiferment, and soothing properties with glycerine as a key component.
The clipping notes Eclipse as the best smoke at the Queen restaurant 612 Calhoun. A humorous exchange occurs about society news being accepted for publication, with an undersized editor and a worker offering to publish private party details as a test of the desk’s willingness to print such material.
A Seattle company led by George Boole and C A Chery plans a modern whaling network between Cape Flattery and Alaska to capture all whale varieties and process every portion into oil bone fertilizer meat and other products. Vessels will use bomb harpoons to tow and butcher whales at central stations. aims include local refining in Seattle and broader distribution to Glasgow Hawaii New Bedford and Chicago.
Finest Hot Lunch in the City at Dick's New Buffet on Barr Street invites diners tonight. The restaurant at 1812 Barr St offers a variety of dishes and quick-service dining for local guests.
The London Times reports the sultan of Turkey, via a land trust, plans to exploit Meeapo tamia for personal gain. Through litigation the trust broadens its reach, displacing live landholders to farm laborers, while funding towns and schools and paying union wages. American interests back the venture with religious ties, drawing swift controversy.
A garbled OCR style piece threads names of monarchs and markets across Mesopotamia and New York. It hints at King Leopold, Queen Victoria, and Union Pacific links, mentioning mines, lands, steamsnip lines, and emigre movements, while urging readers to try the Journal-Gazette for results.
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