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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
1
To day and yesterday the article touts improved breakfasts with corn flakes and wheat cereals. It praises fortified brands like Erg-O-See, claims easier digestion, stronger children, and invalids, urging readers to look for the E C mark on packaging.
A Siouxland style report notes landowner UE Shans TUM owns property by Bixler Lake and a deal aims to create an amusement park with benches and other attractions in the town. Nearby updates cover fire damage to a business, a church supper and meeting, and various local incidents in Kendallville, Columbia City, and Warsaw.
Fifty or more members of Aneme lodge TL OOO PB visited Orland on Thursday evening. They were welcomed into the Orland lodge and elected to assist in a banquet. A special train carried the visitors back to Angola, with high praise for Orland hosts.
A mistranscribed notice from Wabash Indiana describes a civil case in North Manchester involving Salyer Berd and two minor children against Corey Nagy. Allegations claim Nagy intoxicated in a saloon, assaulted at his home, and caused a widow to be injured. Damages of 4000 dollars sought. surety bond by American Surety Company of New York. Proceedings set for a Tuesday night session in Manchester.
Proper food and exercise are urged to maintain health and prevent illness. The text emphasizes the body's need for nutrition and waste processing, praising wheat rich in germ and packaged for cleanliness. It promotes products like macaroni and mentions goats and groves in a promotional context.
Real estate transfers listed by seller and buyer names across subdivisions and additions. Notable entries include Lisette Glaser to Willem He Bronk, Mary Von ase Vat to Francis Cordrey, Ramya addition to SWHi, and multiple parcels on Walton Avenue and Evans Place. Transactions note lot numbers, additions, and cash amounts where stated.
The Thledu and Chicago Interurban company sent a special car to Fort Wayne hospital to rush Roy Life of Auburn for urgent appendicitis surgery. Manager Patterson coordinated immediate transport and the operation by Dr. Hine at Lutonian hospital, with the appendix ruptured and delay fatal. The patient remains in critical condition, but the timely move by the Interurban and medical team is credited with saving his life.
A Kendallville student, Campbell, a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, was nominated that week for a position in the group. En route he met William Jennings Bryan in Des Moines, who arranged an interview with the governor’s office in Lincoln and hosted Campbell at Bryan’s home for a dinner. On the train, Bryan queried him about public duties, and Campbell affirmed his readiness as a Republican and pledged honesty and promptness in service.
A Terre Haute ruling affirms a railroad’s liability for a pedestrian’s death at a street crossing. Judge Hadley notes the decedent could not hear or see the train, so the railroad’s failure to operate within city ordinance speed limits and heed safety rules caused the fatal accident. The decision rejects that pedestrians must exceed ordinary caution, upholding public highway liability.
The Fort Wayne gathering showcased efforts toward universal education, kindergarten growth, and design training while urging stronger school involvement with libraries playgrounds and evening programs. City officials discussed landscape planning to beautify the city with Charles Mulford Robinson’s guidance and funding to support the project.
Two paternity actions were filed in the circuit court today in Columbus City. Plaintiffs are Viola Ramany of Churubusco and Vina Widker of the city, suing Charles Barnes. Barnes is in jail in default of bond. A related incident mentions J M Brown being asked to permit entry to a bedroom to change clothes. he leaned from a window and disappeared.
Washington June 4. Attorney Charles Lucas in Huntington searches general land office records for a treaty with the Milam teibo Indians claiming land in Huntington county and heirs argue land should stay with Indiana kin. Also reclassifications of San Gina post offices and local political notes alongside Lagrange high school commencement with 29 graduates and Dr L B Brown delivering the address.
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