War Loafer Order Proving Successful
Indiana free employment bureau weekly report shows 262 calls for help in five days with 715 positions filled. Male and female job fills detailed by trades. shortages noted in female hotel and restaurant work. March month report records 94 calls and 900 fills, with 67 female positions filled across chambermaids cooks dining room and housework. Honor roll notices announce James F H Anderson and John A Tracey retirement and William Payne recognized for service.
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Indiana Free Employment Bureau
Mar
Famale
Pennsylvania Roll At
Fort
Fort Wayne
William Jr. Payne
Shopa
Shopmen Join Colors In War Effort At Fort Wayne
Four Fort Wayne shopmen reassessed their positions and entered the fighting forces of Uncle Sam. C J Thomas a helper in the Pennsylvania Blacksmith shop enlisted in the engineering corps and left for Fort Meyer. W H Keller a draftsman in the Pennsylvania Pinene work department was bound for Indianapolls then a naval training camp. Machinist T F Damherty of the electric magnetic transmission department left Friday for a coast artillery unit. Machinist Stohart Stevens in the same department has gone to Dayton to assume duties at a government arsenal.
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Fort Waynn
Sam
C. J. Thomas
Pennsylvania
Engineering
Ako
Fort Meyer
H. B. Keller
Pennsylynnia Pincn
Kadmud
Ue Leavy
Indianapolis
Naval Training Scon
T & Damherty
Electric Works
Coast Artillery
Stohart Stevens
Dayton
Government
Bonus distribution boosts Wayne and Thieme mills workers
A surprise $45,000 bonus was shared yesterday by about 2,000 employees at Wayne Knitting Mills and Thieme Bros Mills. The total equals roughly $25 per worker and adds to the regular 30 percent wage bonus paid all year.
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Wayne Knitting Mills
Thieme Bros. Mills
Firestone service expands in Fort Wayne store remodels
George Dowald, a well known Fort Wayne auto accessories figure, launches Firestone service in Fort Wayne. The 210 W Merry St location is being remodeled with modern tire service stations and trained staff to service cars and trucks with Firestone products including tubeless tires and the famed giant grooved truck tire. Miss Hilda Ulmer leaves for Harrison NY for main branch assignment.
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George Dowald
Fort Wayne
Donald
Merry
Kubbar
Fort
Dowald Ty
Tird Servier Company
Alivty
Tin Hrantour Tire and Rubber Company
Daewild
Econventeurs
Furl Wayne Motority
Ines Suekestians
Art Wayne
Leon Taimp Company
Misa Hilda Ulmer
Wesl
Harrison
N.Y
Isa
Miss Umer
South Whitley Man Passes Away in Columbia City
Yad. June 1. Morra Beate, a pioneer of his county, died at his home after three years of poor health. Born November 24, 1856 in Muncie, Indiana, he married in 1876 and lived in several towns before settling in South Whitley. He leaves a wife and three sisters, with brothers in Marion and Jickiwine counties. The county treasurer received assessable figures for townships after his death.
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Columbia City
Yad
Morra Beate
Tae
Muncie
Ind
Hyedoon
Tagal Town
Rhin
Routh
Whitley
Stern
Cage
Beatty Wihiitlow
Williaan
Marion
Charlesa
Celynatin City
Samandy
Gilson
Mewan Wistline
Jickiwinre
Prins
Alexair
Rupture Awareness and Self Care Claims
A distressed ad promotes a supposed rupture prevention device with sensational figures. It extols a FLAPAG method and a PLAPAD-PAD product as the solution, urging readers to send their name for a trial and claiming dramatic mortality and medical benefits allegedly achieved at home.
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Plapa
Tania
Dudlo Girls Win in Red Cross Contest
The Dudlo Girls club won the Loviras Cup in a Red Cross fundraising and attendance event with high marks for all around display. Other clubs Penileelby Gynt Haosyee and Perfection placed behind, with Busy Keepneers second and Dudlo notable for a 100 percent savings report.
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Dudlo
Sesson
Red Cross
Dudio Chi
Federation of Girls
Cliub
Tha Penileelby & Gynt
Haosyee
Perfection
Long Misread Notice Recounts Local Families in Fort Wayne Area
The passage records a jumble of township names and names such as Henry Smith Emma Christan and Fred Gross. It notes a death at Lutheran hospital Fort Wayne after an operation for amycarditis, a May 18 birth in the county, a 1379 marriage to Henry Smith with five children listed, and funeral arrangements at Compton church with burial in South Paris cemetery. Additional snippets mention Auditors and hospital visits, a child named Robert with dysentery, and relatives from Arkansas returning for their baby.
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Wimner Schrader
Columbi Township
Grover Smith
Frit Township
M Dairy
Compton Church
Paris
Thomas A. McLaughlin
Daghter
Wilda
Tr. V. Nol
Mort Wayne Biid
Ae Rostig McLaughlin
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the Shields Clothing Co
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