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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1912
Page
21
An advertisement claims Earl's Kidney Pills ease weak kidneys and backache with no minerals or opiates. It recommends one pill three times daily and promises samples free. Contact Phanix Chemical Co in Warsaw Indiana or see the box at druggists.
Lake Shore headquarters notify Central foundry at Clinton and Fourth that the plant must vacate within thirty days for the new Lake Shore and Lake Erie freight terminus. The structure will be a concrete cement block building, later razed for extra trackage. Foundry owners hint at negotiating a move, while remaining open for now. Also reported are tax delinquencies of 16,000 by the B. and C. Railroad, a pending action by the Attorney General, and resignations and inspections affecting the C and O and C and Q lines as double tracking progresses toward July completion.
A contract was closed by the Fort Wayne Electric Works volunteer fire department and Lake Erie to Fortifl 2 five-one special train on Thursday to carry the Electro-Technic pant of thirty pieces and delegates from Garrett Butler and Kendalsville to Dunirk for the Northeastern Indiana Tiremen's association annual convention. The train will leave Fort Wayne at 7 oclock in the morning and arrive at Dunirk.
Beginning today G. E. K. and 1 summer passenger trains Nos 19 and 20 resume service between Richmond and Mackinaw City for the season. No. 18 northbound arrives at 12:40 a.m. and No. 20 southbound at 1:45 a.m. Trains operate daily through the season, discontinuing some time in September. A complete revision of engine crews for the G.T.E. & L. goes into effect at noon today.
Henry W. Hurst, long linked with the Wabash supplies department, tendered his resignation effective July 1. He has accepted a position in the Pere Marquette road supplies department with headquarters at Saginaw, Michigan. Hurst arrived in Fort Wayne in May 1911 from St Thomas, Ontario, succeeding J H Shorey who resigned to go into business.
In Cray ton Pennsylvania heavy fog caused a rear end crash between two Nickel Plate freight trains. W. H. Lytie aged 45 and Fred C. Ransom aged 20 were killed. Engineers F. L. Curtis and Andrew Lamb, both from Con neaut, were among the four injured and may die.
Mr Emil Detster president of the newly organized Deleter Machine Company returns from Canada with an order for twenty pre sehirating machines. Adam a Taylor Machine Company on Clay Street is bedding the machines until a factory is built by the new concern.
W C Brown president of the New York Central railroad is recovering from a minor operation performed at his home on Monday. Physicians expect he will leave his room within a week and resume attention to important business duties.
Fifty locomotives for the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh have been placed at Altoona shops and at Sims Locomotive works. Five are passenger engines, thirty-two are heavy freight, and thirteen are heavy switch engines. The northwest system gets twenty seven, the southwest twenty, and the central three.
A meeting of the en fe ty committee of the Lansing division of the New York Centralines will be held in Lansing on July 2. Two Fort Wayne men, C. D. Rene and Thomas Kniwit, will attend. Several other railroad workers and guests travel for visits and duties, with th e week noting injuries, relocations, and promotions at Pennsylvan ia shops and Wabash yardmaster’s office.
A. T. Atwood chief engineer of the L. and W. arrived from Indianapolis on a special train Friday noon to inspect switches and inter lockers at the local yards. The train departed south at 12 35 p m. Several Pennsylvania shop and office staff members were listed as off duty or relocating with movements to Chicago Kalamazoo Canton and New York City.
H C Rockhill, manager of Fort Wayne Rolling Mill, returned from Buffalo where union men and steel magnates discussed a new wage scale. He said the agreement was likely and that strikes and quarrels of former years may be averted this year.
Patrol wagon Gov ers logged 278 miles in 12 hours Friday, a new record since May 1911. Driver Walter Kavahaush completed the next trip, with a total distance of 2 ag indicated on the speedometer early yesterday. The 24 hour average runs about fourteen miles.
Ice cream served at the Columbia Candy Kitchen is of the own make, claimed as best in the city. The fragile notice emphasizes local production and quality, suggesting pride in homemade flavors and a slogan of top city status.
Goshen attorney Jona than S. Yoder marries Biss Nelle Cathryn Colburn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Schermerhorn in Orange township. The bride taught in Rome city schools. the groom is a prominent Goshen attorney. They plan a short honeymoon and will reside in Goshen.
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