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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
9
A suspicious mid century ad touts a urinary or sexual health cure claiming to restore vigor and enlargement. It asserts private, confidential correspondence and offers a receipt with a claimed free trial, targeting men with promises of renewed strength and vitality.
Goshen notes indicate work on a long discussed Angola project may proceed and the Northern Indiana Railroad Company emerges from a name change after a $3.5 million mortgage. A $5700 mortgage to Colonial Trust Co. of Pittsburgh is recorded, and local talk links the line to Toledo-Chicago or Buckeye routes, with speculation about routing near Angola, LaGrange, Elldart, and Goshen.
J M Bryson of the Chicago and Indiana Air Line reports twelve miles graded west of South Bend to within two miles of New Carlisle. The company has laid a long stretch of steel to South Bend and plans to increase its force next week. The line requires right of way through St Joseph and La Porte counties and condemnations for several parcels as it extends from Michigan City westward.
The annual meeting of the National Petroleum Association of the United States was held at the Windsor Hotel in Atlantic City. Officers elected for the coming year include President W. E. Wall of Cleveland and Secretary Herbert Eaton of Warren, Pa. An elaborate banquet followed hosted by A. O. Woodman of Union Petroleum and W. E. Wall.
Cleveland Ohio June 19 The Adams and Larber company filed solitary bankruptcy in the insolvency court here. Assets listed at 171000 liabilities 321000. Receiver named Charles Zucker. Company promoted Cleveland Lima and several other oil ventures with offices from Atlantic coast to Rocky Mountains. Main office in Scofield building Cleveland.
Hilary Koons of Queens West Virginia reports eight years of scrofula and erysipelas improved after six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and three vials of Pleasant Pellets. He gains weight from 130 to 175 pounds and calls the medicine the best on earth while claiming it purifies blood and cures eruptions. A free Common Sense Medical Adviser is offered with 26 one cent stamps for paper edition or 31 stamps for cloth bound volume.
Ellenwood leaves for Kalamasan. Coven family to Chicago. Miss Struce to Cleveland for a month. Several guests from Cleveland, Chicago, Grand Rapids attend events. Faculty and students visit Detroit, Toledo, and Huntington. dances at Robison Park. Boat built for Clear Lake with 140 square feet sail, 12 feet length.
A large audience attended Sacred Heart academy commencement at Robison park theatre. Graduates were Miss Coella Mulligan of Colorado and Miss Laura Kang of the city. The program mixed music and drama led by Sisters of the Holy Cross, featuring The Witch of Bramble Hollow. Father Fitzpatrick gave the main address praising education and moral growth.
The passage lists multiple students receiving prizes and honors for academic excellence and improvement. Names include Miss Mulligan, Ivana Schweiker, Mildred Rick, Belew Mulligan, Jenne Vo Kane, Corrinne Pailey, Vida Rawos, Alma Uebine, Agnis Oetdon, Artin Allardine Ilaaller, Sanura Kane, Cocadin SMH wan, Sias Trou, Schnelker, Moyers, Helen Milian, Kalivers, Dailey, Charlotte Gases, and Rhianyne Lee. It notes prize drawings and scholarships, with emphasis on equal awards among several scholars and recognition for improvement and coursework.
In a reading of school notices a series of awards were given for improvement across instrumental music, singing, painting and drama. Winners include Miss Alma Drbita, Miss Chiara Larssuti, Miss Pauline Sein Peizy, Miss Citar Binathe, Miss Laura Petro and Miss Teresa Mulls.
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