Work On New Station To Resume On Baker Street
Information from the local maintenance of way department states the terra cotta stone long overdue has been shipped from a factory in New Jersey and should reach Fort Wayne today or tomorrow. Upon arrival the construction of the new passenger station on Baker Street, abandoned five months ago, will be resumed and pushed to complete before snow flies.
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Maintenance of Way Department of the Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Fort Wayne
Stote
Baker Street
Wabash Rail Lines Add Water Purification Plant
Wabash improvements include a water softening plant south of Pair Field Avenue near the water tank. The system will treat boiler feed water to remove mineral salts, reducing boiler blowoffs and locomotive washing. Expected annual savings exceed $400 per engine, with plants planned at all Wabash water stations and a total regional savings nearing $400,000 annually. Local shops build tanks and apparatus, with shopmen overseeing installation.
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Pairfield Avenue
Spon
Wabash
Trainmen Elect Boards and pick Detroit for 1916 meet
San Francisco June 5 The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen concluded its convention naming an executive board and an insurance board. Re-elected members include Joseph W. Rhoades Toledo J R Powers Oakland A W Evers Corning N Y A Wicks Green Bay and Robert McKinley Temple Texas The insurance board also re elected includes B W Cartmell J F Ogden W Letthorion H A Edwards and others with members from Los Angeles Little Rock Kansas City Toronto Boston and Greenville D C
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San Francisco
Detroit
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Joseph W. Rhoades
Toledo
J.R. Powers
Oakland
Cal
A. W. Evers
Corning
A. Wicks
Green Bay
Wis
Robert McKinley
Temple
Tex
Board of
Dunkards Return from Wi none Lake Convention
Following the Dunkards annual convention at Winen(e) Lake Indiana attended by nearly 40 000 people from across the country thousands passed through the city yesterday. The Pennsylvania Railroad arranged three special trains with two more added today. A special train bound for the Wabash will carry eastern residents. Another will move south of Cincinnati Ohio traveling via Pennsylvania to Fort Wayne then Cincinnati over the G R &.
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Dunkards
Winone Lake
Ind
Pennsylvania
Wabash
Bufalo
Cincinnati
Fort Wayne
G. R
Addi
Plumbers Strike Continues Over Wage Proposal
A Master Plumbers association committee at Vordermark hall offered a fifty cent hourly wage to all plumbers, a sliding scale opposed by union men. Workers at Union Plumbers meeting reaffirmed demands for a minimum scale of fifty cents and a half holiday on Saturdays, rejecting the proposal.
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Master Plumbers’ Association
Vordermark Hall
Convention of Stationary Engineers Meets in Terre Haute
More than 300 delegates and visitors gathered in Terre Haute for the state convention of the National Association of Stationary Engineers. Committees were formed and tours of major plants were conducted. Professor F G Wagner of the Tose Polytechnic made an honorary member, as the convention prepares to elect officers and plan the next session.
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Terre Haute
National Association of Stationary Engineers
FG. Wagner
Tose Polytechnic Made
Wagner
Shay
Amoker
General Electric officials inspect Broadway factory visit Fort Wayne
Vice President A Burchard and Chief Engineer E H Rice of General Electric examined conditions at Fort Wayne Electric Works. The group, with Treasurer T S Hunting, departed for the East to report results to the president and board and influence plans for a proposed Wall Street factory building. New boiler plant completed at Eckert Packing with three boilers and fronts and stacks, boosting plant power.
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A. Burchard
Rice
General “Electricc
Fort Wayne
Eckert
Robert Schellhammer
Brss
Injuries at Fort Wayne Electric Works Workers Hurt
Henry Gauer suffered severe burns on his right hand from hot insulation material at the Fort Wayne Electric Works. The hand skin was largely removed before the hand was treated by company surgeon Dr. Schultz. Gauer remains in intense pain and will be unable to work for several weeks. Several other workers at Pennyslvania and Wabash shops were reported ill or off duty for injuries or illnesses.
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Henry Gauer
Fort Wayne
Cliff Wilkening
Julius Simon
Ork
Pennsylvania I
E.B. ‘Hughs
Pennsylvania Engine House
J. A. McNally
Pennsylvania
Wabash
W. L. Wilt
Pennsylvania Motive Power Department
Chicago
Philadelphia
Henry C. Lepper
Bort ‘Wayne Electric Works
Vincent Grams
Avilla
International Business College
F.C. Eggers
Ed Koehn
Aow
Washington
New York
Pennsylvania shops bustle with transfers and furloughs
Off duty workers report on illness and personal matters while new assignments shuffle through the Pennsylvania shops. Machinists McNally and Bauer face changes, Wabash hires Grams, and managers Koehn and Wilt return from travel as repairs on a large turret cause temporary shifts.
Besancon News Highlights Local Visits And School Commencement
In Besancon June activities feature Mr and Mrs Edward Lomont and families visiting, Barths and homes host gatherings, and numerous locals traveling to Fort Wayne Antwerp Ohio Mendon Gas Creek Maples and Gas City. Commencement at St Louis school included a program with Master Joseph Dodane as first graduate, various musical numbers and a diploma award ceremony.
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Besancon
Inn
Célina Boitel
Monronvilles
Saud
Edward Lomont
Viola
Marie
Louis
Pauline Lomont
F. &. Comont
Norbert
Charlotte
Evelyn
Mies Velvn Terriet
Ternet
Joseph .Baltel
Familly
Prank Voroil
Mra
Frank Ever
Clein Girardot
Seanaes Vorot Ane Allesen
Weld Tennet
Lillesa Russel
Viola Girardot
Erin Grieser
Clement Voroil
Clifford Girardot
Clarence Voroll
Raymond Grieser
Bernadette Gladieux
Prank Henry, Jr
Lea Boltel
Frank Henry
Maplee
Ind
Louis Pabst
Misa Bernadette Huguenard
Antwerp
Ohio
Clara Sullivan
Maude
Margaretta
Payne
Ono
Herschel Jacquiy
Chirlas Martin
Josephine Townsend
William Townsend
Mendon
Mich
Charles Martin
Tilman
Charles
Martin
Charles Ternet
George Townsend
Cletus Ternet
Monroeville
St. Louis
Joseph Dodane
Betty
Laurie
Make Your Own Cough Syrup and Save
A vintage ad-like fragment promotes making cough syrup at home to save money. It instructs buying Kuf-Olo to combine with thick sugar syrup to produce a pint of medicine, then hiring a top medicinas for coughs and colds. The phrasing imitates early 20th century sales copy.
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Coe
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