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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1908
Page
19
This week we offer two hundred Ladies' Net and Silk Waists from Peerless Manufacturing Co New York at reduced prices. Choose $1.98 net and silk waists and $0.59 plaid waists while stock lasts. Also $0.98 mercerized petticoats, $1.18 for $2.50 petticoats, and $0.98 muslin skirts from $2.50 values.
The sale features deep discounts on ladies skirts and gloves with prices like 5c to 49c per item, plus silk and fibrous fabrics. Linens, towels, blankets, underwear, and children and men’s clothing are offered at reduced rates including pongee silk, tightweight satin, and wool items. The event runs this week with many items at less than cost.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper notes an instrument listing. The text references a family disinterest in a Toute 244 missesl avernament and mentions an exchange or sale via a Journal-Guzatta style ad.
Charles Gebble a charter member of St Marys Catholic Church and noted for selfless charity died at 78 in Fort Wayne after retiring from farming nine years ago. Born 1847 in Warenburg Germany he settled in Washington township with his family, aided his father in clearing land, and later moved to the city to live with his brother in law. Survived by five sisters Mrs Baltos and the Blisses Hanna Adelaide and Tydia Gebels. Funeral at St Marys Catholic Church to be announced.
The Installation of officers for the Letter Carriers association was held at the first meeting. H. 2. Miler served as Installation officer. The officers include President Y Rief, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary J. D. Rathi Borresn onan, and Sergeant T. A. Nighlas.
Arbors Jan 13 report details Professor Campbell, director of Michigan's chemical laboratory, who became blind after a rotary explosion while researching steel composition. He resumed work, leading in steel alloy studies, and is celebrated for perseverance and ongoing experiments despite loss of sight.
Fragmentary report notes Hammond Indiana figures including a collector, chair, and trustees in a discussion about hosting a birthday event. The document references a February visit by Southern Division leaders and mentions various officials and a potential policy change affecting Grim Rap fs and Indian routes.
Prominent Bloomington Republican Thomas Fatinics Ant and Frank Palmer a former assistant general freight agent of the Wabash, both die aged mid to late sixties from neuralgia of the heart and related causes. In South Bend Elmore Drawn, seventy one, veteran of the Civil War, commits suicide after personal troubles. occurred in a back room of the Strauss Tokrei estate office where he had been sleeping.
The Lake Shore Railway company orders retrenchment following a roundhouse fire that caused heavy losses. Departments face cuts and the locomotive shops are reduced to five days of work, with broader wage reductions planned across divisions. The disaster mainly impacts the company rather than individuals.
Judge Headington, a longtime member of the Iny Enunty Bar, is gravely ill at Nie Nome after a recent relapse from a stroke suffered months ago. A Civil War veteran, he served as colonel of a regiment and helped guard the soldiers and sailors memorial chapel. He was appointed judge of the de elregit cane sery lage in 1897 and has since been a key regent at the soldiers and sailors monument.
Chicago January reports banks recall 3250,000,000 in clearing house scrip and certificates, signaling widening public confidence. Estimates show cash vanished from New York trusts in October and relief funding totaled about 230 million to sustain normal banking.
A brief note states that G. Atren manufactured chewtets and cresant lisa items in Pontar. The fragment confirms production of new sou tiled goods and mentions a small workshop or shop setting. Further details are unreadable.
The article reviews use and redemption of clearing house certificates, noting New York data on issued sums and other cities’ volumes. It recalls historical issuances in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and Pittsburg, and reports a Savannah meeting to recall all certificates amid improving southern conditions. It ends with an ad for a Passion Play on Calhoun Street.
One New Yor. Sewphons Orchestra faced a tense scene when four armed cowboys, chewing, gazed at the stage from above a box while Walter Damrosch led the performance. An audibly tense moment followed as a bald bass player’s hairline drew attention amid the jeering crowd.
A terse report notes a man in black seen off and on during Tuesday evening events on a January date, with witness accounts describing a quiet, shifting presence near the scene and no decisive actions recorded.
The Fry Journal Gazette notes a remarkable modern romance culminated in the marriage of Claire Trest, a Milwaukee beauty, to Arthur Sekiybrork, a talented German painter. The story traces their courtship from a wartime era meeting to an eventual wedding in Berlin and Milwaukee, detailing family reactions and social implications.
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