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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
6
A Troy laundry advertises reliability in timing and quality. It guarantees on-time work, delicate coloring for shirts and shirtwaists, and best-in-detail results. A trial package is offered to show samples of the prettiest work obtainable.
Prices listed for stock certificates and corporate seals available at the Journal-Gazette Job office. Organize a new company and secure official documents and stamps from the in‑house service.
The city board approved sidewalks on Wildwood avenue and discussed traction company franchise plans. It advised granting no independent street entrance, urging interurban cars at fair rates and construction obligations for any franchise. A covered market house is shelved until enough funds are raised. Bewscer Manufacturing to add a brick factory wing at Hurd street and Holton avenue for $6,000.
Sheriff Grice read the grand jury indictment to John Welker accusing murder in the first degree. Welker remained silent and expressionless as the reading concluded, while Henry Gilbert, charged with stabbing George Girardot, was freed and expressed joy. Gilbert plans to move to New York with his son, and his daughter met him upon release.
Local ad seeks to buy good books for cash. Respond with willingness to sell and arrange pickup. Address labeled Books at the Journal Gazette office for immediate contact.
Bread from Haffner's malt loaf advertised as available for sale everywhere. The slogan invites readers to try the product when bread does not suit their taste.
Monroe W Fitch & Sons advertises two modern oak finish homes with slate roofs and 35 by 150 lots, pavements paid, priced at 3400 each. They claim value around 4000 and potential rent of 3 per month, noting a recent nearby sale at 3700.
August Moritz announces an unusually fine dinner for 25 cents served daily from 11 to 2 at Berry Cafe 114 West Berry Street. Today's bill includes Soup Vegetable, Baked Lake Pickerel, Mashed Potatoes, Roast Beef with Gravy, Green Peas, Roast Pork with Apple Sauce, Tomatoes, Lammy Stew, Banana Croquets, Coffee Tea Milk.
Judge E C Vaughn of Bluffton was in the city yesterday. Mrs Lama Kevntz returns from Plymouth visit. Episcopal ladies meet at 2 09 this afternoon. Wayne township No 2 school social for Sunday school funds. Pathfinders lodge to initiate 30 candidates in Aldine block hall with a banquet afterward. Mr James Lanigan ill at transfer corner and taken home by police ambulance. Hotel arrivals include Brown Yesbera and Parker, Trembly, Spach, Scot. John B Manning offered Lima Progressive secretaryship, likely declined. Township trustee alerted to Selor’s ill condition in Leikoff flats Bloomingdale. Isaac Jenkinson sold a Barr street lot to S M Foster for 2000. Jenkinson’s first Fort Wayne sale since 1875. Knights of Columbus plan excursions to the fair June 21 to July 1 from several cities. executive committee meets tonight at the K Of C Hall.
Undertaker F H Scheumann, whose business sits at Berry and Harrison, has added an ambulance wagon and a top ambulance cot. The outfit will be housed at Horstman livery on West Main and available to the public by calling Schellmann parlors or Horstman livery. The cot is portable, bedside ready, and designed for easy transport at homes and hospitals.
The sessioned grand jury returned four indictments including murder in the first degree against John M. Welker, plus charges of burglary for Arthur Swayne and Leo Cavanaugh and forgery for Clinton Brugler. Henry Gilbert, accused in a Maples stabbing, was released after the jury found him not guilty. Intervening cases included tunnel litigation, probate of Susan Snider will, and county turnpike specs. Several local residents from Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne were listed in a docket of names.
Henry W. Kohrman formerly of the White Bank and later in the carriage trade on East Columbia Street filed a bankruptcy petition yesterday with Federal Clerk Logan. Liabilities total 5385.79, assets 135. His woes stem from carriage business losses. he now serves as bookkeeper for Summit City Soap Works. Ballou Hoffman represent Kohrman. In Chicago Rockwell Wabash sues Wabash Cabinet in federal court over patent infringement. Walter Drew of Detroit is plaintiff's attorney.
RoNdenbeck at 1004 Calhoun Street advertises manicure goods including scissors orangewood sticks and cuticle knives. The note touts the city’s most complete line of manicure items.
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