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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1920
Page
1
A large Bowser salesmen convention is planned with over 200 attendees. Meetings will cover sales policy and business matters, with entertainment for participants and events at the home office, then later in January moves to foreign regions. The gathering follows a postponed previous timetable and includes city meetings during the convention.
The Pennsylvania Athletic Club announces a revised festival date and noon program. The event at Swinney Park, originally set for June 17, will start today as a noon series.
Sugar beet fields require additional labor as factories and locals push to prepare ground and irrigation for the beet crop. The work is critical to alleviate sugar shortages, with workers badly needed to complete soil leveling, planting, and irrigation tasks.
Elmer Oh formerly of the general drafting rooms of Gene Plectrié Co has been transferred to head the transformer drafting department. The move places Oh in charge of developing transformer components and related engineering sketches for upcoming product lines.
Chief Inspector at GE resigns to enter business with One Burdaq Co. A new store will open in the city. The company organized with capital of 30,000 dollars. A lease on premises at 123 West Ma is mentioned. Stay informed on the move and planning.
LaOtto June report states drillers working on four test wells. After penetrating Niagara limestone to about 400 feet, crews expect to reach Prenton rock and oil sand soon. Local company officials express optimism for prospects.
The Apily newspaper was extolled as the best advertising medium in meetings of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the world. Hank A Black of Boston praised newspapers as the idea vehicle for up-to-date advertising due to form elasticity frequency and cost. The Rev Horace Westwood of Taiwan said church advertising in daily papers yields long run results. The women’s department opened with a session debating whether advertising women work best in women only or in mixed clubs. The Lost Limberlost Hanging Baskets advertised at Foster’s for 40 cents.
The Engineering Go on Winter Street nears completion of a new 8100 feet erecting shop to handle surge in business. The plant will serve as a main shop later and supports a nationwide growth in milk sterilizers, with three large lathes and multiple presses and welders added in both old and new facilities.
F B Palmer of Emerson Institute of Efficiency spoke to department heads superintendents foremen and assistants at Bowser's Monday afternoon at 4 18. He outlined the essence of efficiency and its application to modern production. The talk was highly instructive and greatly appreciated.
Members of the Forkmen's club from the I. Sowser and Co plant held a picnic at Tri Lake last Saturday afternoon. About sixty members attended and plans for another similar event are under consideration for the near future. Time and place for the next excursion are not yet decided but will likely be at a nearby lake.
Kendallville Ind June 8 war chest board inactive for months now plans to wind up its affairs and distribute remaining funds. Funds were for war relief to soldiers with five cents extra credited to clerks O H Michaelis and wife. Some funds likely to be turned over to local American Legion Post.
Attorney General Palmer stated the Adamson eight hour law applies to workers on tugs and car floats in the port of New York. Folk, counsel for marine workers, called Palmer's construction a settlement of the strike and predicted freedom of commerce at the ports soon would prevail. Fireman seeks better pay. Apply Gas Plant, Barr and Superior Sts.
Frisco gears up for a rare Pacific coast hosting of the Democratic National Convention with 46 000 attendees. Postmaster Charles W Taz leads west coast welcome plans while hotel rates hover around 85 to 15 dollars daily.
Mesxer Brouse appealed to Kendallville women who signed a petition months ago to attend a public service commission hearing at 2 a.m. at City Hall. The Indiana Buel and Light Co seeks higher gas rates, with local users complaining of service. Mayor Grouse aims to present evidence to the commission.
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