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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
6
Local solicitors report strong merchant support for community ventures and a successful prize drive for the Pennsylvania Athletic Association winter events. Excursion trains and new telegraph offices mark boosted regional transport as suburban service to Osborn prepares to open.
A 15 year old Miss Smothers and Charles Richardson fled Pleasants Plains seeking marriage. Relatives intervened and authorities pursued through Marion. Officers captured them. Richardson promised to wait until she is of age and was released. Both families are described as well to do.
Company efforts concentrate on relieving the delay with AL Andrews yards handling over 800 cars of goods for St Louis and western destinations. Merchants' Transit struggles hinder cross river transport, delaying relief for the congested Wabash system. Celebrate Schuster silver wedding anniversary with local musicians and a social gathering at Send Avenue home.
Wabash Railway to convert many freight engines for lighter faster passenger service after success of engine 390. Engines to be rebuilt with new drives and redesigned cylinders, with delivery of eastern factory units beginning Indy 10 at intervals. Weekend holiday suspension caused by sudden freight surge as western routes reopen. A Kehoe Boat and Major Company shipped a large passenger steamer to Rome City for Sylvan Lake operation. Wabash announces freight service between Toledo and Detroit starting July 1, with anticipated direct passenger service between Asia cities expanding soon.
In Milan and Detroit routes on the Wabash and Pennsylvanian lines, crews and tolls shift as days pass. A large crew change follows delays with rail jobs near Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. Officials, conductors, and station agents are noted visiting friends and awaiting assignments as the rail network maneuvers through yarding, shipments, and ticketing duties amid moves to Chicago and New York.
In Lexington Kentucky the Kentucky Sons of the Revolution meeting at Major H B McClellans residence adopts a resolution condemning officials for criminal connivance or inefficiency that tolerates crime and calls for decisive action to stamp out crime and punish criminals.
Baseball action highlighted by today’s schedule with teams and venue details read from an abbreviated local page. Players names appear in fragmented form, with board-like notes guiding attendance and timing for the day's games.
John Edward Monahan, a native of Towwn Fork Wayne, died in Denver, Colorado after a long illness. He was thirty five, unmarried, son of Mrs Helen Monahan of 106 Kansas Street, and his remains will be brought home for burial with services at St Patrick's Church. Funeral plans for other local notices include Goodfellow and Ida Jenny services, with private or daytime interments in Columbia City and Salen Reformed Church respectively.
A fragmented dispatch mix covers tensions near Adrianople with reports of possible Turkish bulgarian clashes and villager persecutions. Separately a Vienna Morning Leader note mentions King Sier and Greek monarchs sending congratulations amid European unrest. A Dublin crowd at Arklow clashes during a monument ceremony for 1798 rebels, with police restoring order. Vienna comment on Roosevelt’s stance echoes eastern affairs. A Bloomingdale school event advertises a July 4 dinner and exhibition.
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