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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
7
Unusual sales push at season start sees jackets, skirts and waists offered with limited quantities. A $10 pleated voile skirt with silk folds is promoted for a brief window. Nearly 200 guests attended a celebratory feast for the Enai seers' Hell-A and a promotions note for GE Snyder.
A. Snyder of Fort Wayne, head of police on Nickel Plate, is named chief special officer with headquarters in Cleveland. The newly created post places all company police work under him and directs detectives, visitors, and watchmen to report to his office. Snyder, two years on the local division, earned praise for his detective work. successor not named.
Within ten days ghoul forty carpenters and other workmen left Chicago for Delain to join the Chicago Great Western rail road shops. About fifty carpenters and several cabinet makers are being sought to move to Delain where the shops employ around 1000 men. The shift follows the railroad equipment revival trend after prior depression affecting business.
The Lake Erie and Western passenger conductors have been notified they are expected to carry tariff sheets on their person. The notice emphasizes compliance and readiness for inspection and recordkeeping during service.
William Doty a Fort Wayne resident and former Pennsylvania engineer reports two years of deafness and loud ear noises. After consulting Dr Wells he was cured quickly and can hear as well as fever. He endorses the doctor for deafness and related ailments and notes his office at 229 East Superior Street opposite the Avelline hotel.
An advertisement for Washburn Crosby Gold Medal Flour claims its higher gluten content makes bread healthier and tastier, urging readers to try a bag with a guarantee of satisfaction.
Local grocers advertise Gold Medal Flour for sale with market listings and pricing cues. The notice notes multiple vendors offering the product, highlighting availability across shops and potential bundle deals for customers seeking flour supplies.
The article notes ongoing use of thrift sheets by the New York Central Juetron company for signaling aboard passenger cars. By March 1908 boxes were removed from passenger cars, leaving conductors without a place to fire thrift shouts, as sheets remain voluminous and numerous.
The Fort Wayne hearing on the Elmer St John vase case was postponed again amid heated politics affecting the Republican convention. Witnesses and board members expressed discomfort with timing as the political scene in the city remained tense.
The Wabash section crews have gone on strike after the company proposed ten hour days for nine hour pay. Discontent spread after the announcement, with vacancies filled while remaining workers show anger and risk a wider walkout in West Lebanon Spencerville State Line North Liberty Munson Milan and Romulus.
Foreman Crawford Griswold of the Pennsylvania bridge gang and We Whinery of the Grand Rapids Indiana will retire under cen sona pension terms after appearing before the examining board Thursday. Griswold has served over 25 years and is eight years short of elimbulty two. Whinery has been with the Grand Rapids & Indiana since the road was built. Also noted is a pending meeting of local line officials with the St Louis eastern lines to revive the grain schedule and a proposed proportional rates agreement among Wabash Clover Leaf Chicago & Alton Peoria & St Louis for grain shipments east of Pittsburg and Erie. Patrolman Butler of the Pennsylvania police resigns, to return home to Latetos, Ind. A small blaze at the Pennsylvania shops caused by sparks in the erecting department was extinguished before the fire department arrived. losses are trifling.
Report of a coal plant related accident in Delphos Ohio where carpenters from the local shops were injured while attempting to crest a large steel stack. Workers include G H Korte and foreman Frank Benoy with others suffering back injuries and layups. one man killed nearby in related yard incident.
A long, mixed item recalls fires, meetings, and travel of railroad workers and relatives across Pennsylvania and neighboring states. It notes funerals in Delaware, clerks at Columbus, and shipyard and shop activity. A steel revolver contract, a leave of absence for land interests, and a fatal canine accident in Ohio are also mentioned amid routine duties and injuries.
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