Fort Wayne Fair Returns With New Amusement Co Plan
Fort Wayne Fair and Amusement Co plans a September Driving Park event marking the last Fort Wayne fair there. The new organization, led by secretary-manager Paul T. Strieder, aims to host a weeklong program with motorcycle day, animal, and automobile events, plus a rare chariot race. If profitable, a permanent grounds and annual fairs may follow. Driving Park will be subdivided into building lots thereafter.
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Etrieder
Central States
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Burman
Joe Dawann
Barney and Smith Car Co of Dayton Placed in Receivership
Dayton court appointed Charles A Harrison as receiver and M Estabrook co receiver for Barney and Smith Car Company of Dayton amid a petition by Cincinnati creditors asserting an $11,188 claim on contracts. The filing says assets include $7,000,000 in contracts and $2,100,000 in raw materials, with plant valued at $4.5 million including six acres, buildings, and machinery. Receivership aims to meet debts and continue contracts under court guidance.
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Fort Wayne Graduates Lead Michigan Ann Arbor Ceremony
Fort Wayne sends the most graduates, six, at the Michigan commencement with 9 Indiana students among ? graduates. Degrees awarded span engineering, dentistry, and arts, with Dr George B Vincent delivering the address and Senator Townsend set for the new McMahon auditorium dedication aided by Governor Ferris arriving to receive state buildings.
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Indianapolis
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Crasby
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Lane
Harry Waiters
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Fourth Class Post Masters to Take Civil Service Exam
Preparations in Fort Wayne aim to compel fourth class postmasters in Indiana to take a civil service examination in competition with any entrants. The exact date for the nationwide application of civil service rules in Indiana is not settled, with July expected as a possible start. The test targets fourth class postmasters earning more than 180 dollars annually and recommended by the post office inspectors.
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Joviana
Indiana
Postoliva
Samuel M. Foster Returns Tomorrow From Fort Wayne
Samuel M. Foster, president of the German American National Bank, will return home tomorrow after an eight month absence from Fort Wayne. He has been in the United States for ten days, stopping at several places on the way back. The bank will render him immediate intervention upon his arrival.
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Fort Wayne
Samuel M. Foster
Gennan-American National Bank
Annrrow
Foster
United States
Raturna
Body of Babe Found Floating in St Marys River
Police report details a dead infant found floating in the St Marys River near 412 West Superior Street. The white male baby, estimated at under a day old, showed heavy decomposition with a head wound. no autopsy was performed and investigators considered possible causes including drowning or impact. The body was recovered by Dunn’s Canal Company workers and sent to the Peltier morgue amid various police inquiries and local docket updates.
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Warren D. Smith Profile Tied to Philippine Athletics
Attorney T. F. Allivan received from his son in law Dr. Warren D. Smith a copy of the Teachers? As sumbly Herald from Baguin Philippines. The paper notes athletic contests in the Faraway county and records Dr. Smith as a participant stating islanders have taken up baseball tennis and infant sprueticaly in the same ports as in the United States.
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Teachers? Assumbly Herald
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Philippine Islands
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Alderman sells Wawasee Cottage at Goshen Indiana
Janet George B Alderman sells to J G Knox Ina T Minty and Jon Knox a Wawasee cottage near the Jones home for 2400 dollars including furnishings. The Alderman couple own the adjoining cottage which they will occupy.
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Alderman
Terre Haute Thief Leaps to Death in Police Office
Brantlinger, charged with larceny, fled after robbing a Vigo County house office. He hid in a cabinet, then leaped from a window as prosecutors prepared information, dying on the pavement. Police had arrested him after a Flores battle.
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Preferred death to his arrest in Savannat Ga
A sailor, T. Faton, a sergeant of the United States army, fired a revolver into his breast in a public square when officers came to arrest him for leaving a ship without permission. He died moments later, preferring death to capture.
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United States
Emi
Aing Ling Brothers Circus Magnitude Hint At Fort Wayne
Aing Ling Brothers Circus plans a Fort Wayne show on July 22. The traveling circus spans eighty five double-length railroad cars and covers fourteen acres with 1 280 people and 20 nations represented. It operates from winter quarters in Baraboo Wisconsin and Stoke on Trent England with offices in Chicago and New York and tours globally. The spectacle includes 656 horses, 40 elephants, 1 000 other wild animals, 376 artistes, and hundreds of clowns and staff. Daily expenses reach 7 600 dollars, with nearly 4 million invested in vehicles. The company travels about 40 000 miles yearly, staging over 190 performances in 35 states and territories, cooking 60 meals daily and powering the show with its own dynamo plant. The strongmen, doctors, lawyers, and detectives on the show travel aboard portable stages, and the production features a marvel of a stage equated to the myth of Joan of Arc.
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