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Elks Parade Brightens Fort Wayne Centennial Festivities
Fort Wayne Elks officers highlighted a four day carnival with a luminous street display and a grand parade. Capt. Dougall led costumes ranging from burlesque to Weary Willie, while electric strands, neon fronts, and pyrotechnics lit Calhoun to Berry streets, drawing thousands amid humid summer night revelry.
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Port Wayne
Higre
Indtany
Holt
Wight
Bireneth
J. B. Reichelderfor
W. C. Cleary
Barry Alderman
Sypster
Durkles
Jorge
Charles F. Centlivra
Lh Farmer
Charley Paps
Celhoun
Jon” A. Scott
Scaup
Calhoun and
Berry Streets
Hitler
China
Elis
Wash
Ington
Washington
Grifich
Berry
Rare
Columbia
Calhoun
Depot
Ecuizter
Washington Street
Visite
Satan
Soelar
Rabison Park Pavilion
Rangnet
Fort Wayne Lodge
Daughters of
Logal Elks