Brewers and saloons face tighter limits in Allen County
Fort Wayne dispatch reports Indiana brewers contend with liquor law enforcement waves. Louis Centlivre argues breweries should not fund saloons, urging operators to invest their own capital. The piece traces saloon ties to politics, warns of a countywide shift against brewers, and notes recent full compliance with Sunday closing.
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William H. Clodgett
Indianapolis News
Fort Wayne
Ind
Louis Centlivre
Brewing Company
Mr. Centlivre
Centilivre
Allen County
Crawford Fairbanks
Albert Lieber
Nquor
Liquor League
Laughlin Fined and Warned for Intoxication at City Court
Charles Laughlin was arraigned in city court Friday on intoxication charges, fined $25 plus costs, with a warning that a repeat offense would bring the maximum $100 fine and 30 days. Testimony showed an attempted restaurant theft on South Calhoun Street. Laughlin previously acquitted of murder has been working. Patten and others received various penalties or continued cases as judges addressed vagrancy and drunkenness.
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Charles Laughlin
South Calhoun Street
Laughlin
Pattelman Petgen
Ray Patterson
Thomas Bryant
Pennsylvania
Judge Skelton
del Parham
William Bruce
Fort Wayne Man Visits Denver to Meet Two Brothers
Ed Hoffman of Chicago, once a Fort Wayne resident, travels to Denver to reunite with his two brothers Frank and Jasper whom he has not seen since boyhood. The trio were left at a St Louis orphan asylum near Webster Grove Missouri and later separated. Hoffman travels with his wife hoping the journey aids his health after an accident last year.
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Ed Hoffman
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Denver
Col
Frank
Jasper
Hoffman
St. Louis Orphan ‘Asylum
Webster Grove
Auto Burned After Boy Hit In Deerfield
In Deerfield Illinois last Saturday a touring car carrying Louis F Swift Jr S B Chapin and Mrs Chapin and a guest veered into a boy injuring him. Mobbed by farmers the car was burned and the occupants were forced to walk two miles before a driver could take them to Highland Park. Swift offered compensation to the boy’s father.
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Chicago
S. B. Chapin
Louis F. Swift
Packer
Mr. Chapin
Deerfield
Highland Park
S. B. Chapin & Co
Stock Exchange
Fifth Avenue
New York
Automobile Party
Mr. Swift
Private secretary to Fairbanks named
George B. Lockwood, editor of the Marion Chronicle, is appointed private secretary to Vice President Fairbanks. The salary rises from 2200 to 4000 dollars annually by action of the last congress. Lockwood previously served as private secretary to Indiana Governor Durbin.
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Washington
George B. Lockwood
Marion
Ind
Chronicle
Fairbanks
Lockwood
Durbin
Indiana
Raid at Wawasee Inn Nets 800 Bottles of Beer
Warsaw Indiana August 2 detectives and the Syracuse town marshal raided a building run by the Wawasee Inn company and the Johnson and Sons. They confiscated 800 bottles of beer and several jugs of whisky. Warrants for arrest of several persons for selling intoxicating liquors were expected to be sworn out before nightfall. Authorities anticipate additional arrests as the probe widens. Chr McMahon seeks a liquor license at Lake Wawasee but county commissioners are expected to refuse.
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Warsaw
Ind
Syracuse
Wawasee Inn Company
Johnson & Sons’ Place
Wawasee
Goshen
Milford
Fort Wayne
Chr
McMahon
Kosciusko County
Lake Wawasee
New Three Story Office Building Planned at Jefferson and Calhoun
Contractors Ernst Ehle, Herman Micheals, and Frank Coblentz secured the contract to build a 50 by 120 foot brick three story office and store building on the northwest corner of Jefferson and Calhoun streets. J F King is the architect. The structure, costing about $25,000, will feature a pressed brick front and modern construction with the first floor as a store and upper floors as offices. Occupants of existing huts on the corner are vacating and site work will begin next Monday.
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Jefferson and
Calhoun Streets
Ernst Ehle
Herman Micheals
Frank Coblentz
Elie
J. F. King
Death of Cy Iba Early Fort Wayne settler noted
The Natrona County Tribune reports Cy Iba former Fort Wayne and Allen County resident died in Cheyenne Wyoming at age 77 from stomach inflammation after months of illness. He helped found Natrona oil lands and guided many capitalists to Wyoming fields. Survived by a widow two sons Harry and William and two daughters Mrs William Mosteller and Lillie.
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Fort Wayne
Cy Iba
Allen County
California
Wyoming
the Sentinel
Amanda Shaw
Fairfield Avenue
George Iba
Natrona
Iba
Lillie
William
Casper
Highland Cemetery
L. C. Thompson
M. E. Church
Harry
William Mosteller
Miss Lillie
Saloonkeepers back petition to enforce liquor laws in Columbus
Rev. S. Offutt of Central Christian church organizes saloonkeepers to sign a petition urging Mayor James Cochran to enforce liquor laws in Columbus Indiana. The petition calls for closing saloons on Sundays holidays and after hours. Additional signatures are gathered after meetings with saloon men. The minister aims to present a majority petition to the mayor on Saturday.
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Columbus
Ind
Offutt
Central Christian Church
James Cochrane
Cochrane
Fort Wayne Men to Speak at Pioneer Society Reunion
Fort Wayne leaders Judge Allen Zollars and Dr. C B Stemen headline the thirteenth annual Allen county Ohio Pioneer Society reunion at Crites grove near Elida on August 8. Over 3,000 attendees are expected with speeches by Albert E. Smith of Ada Northern University, Prof. W F Hufford of Ada, Allen Zollars ex supreme court judge, and Dr C B Stemen of Kansas City.
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Allen Zollars
C. B. Stemen
Pioneer Society
Allen County
Ohio
Crites Grove
Elida
Albert E. Smith
Ada
W. F. Hufford
Fort Wayne
Ind
Supreme Court of
Indiana
Kansas City
Interurban Granted Bonus For Fort Wayne Route
The proposed interurban road from Bryan to Fort Wayne gets a $10,000 bonus from Hicksville citizens. E G Hoffman acts as attorney. Half paid on grade completion and half when the first car runs. Other towns consider subsidies and progress is anticipated soon.
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Bryan
Fort Wayne
E. G. Hoffman
Hicksville
Former North Manchester Bank President Dies in Trial Fallout
A garbled report from Wabash Indiana notes former Bank of North Manchester president Daniel K. Risher, linked to a two year delay in trial, amid ongoing cases involving multiple suspects. The text is initials heavy and fragmentary, with unclear dates and charges.
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Risher
North
Manchester
Wabash
Ind
Daniel K. Risher
Bank of ‘North Manchester
Tial Sa Pribensienseniti
Goney
K Fasled
Toll of Lies in Pennsylvania Coal Mines Revealed
Philadelphia reports over 1000 mine deaths in a year per an annual state Mines Department release by James Roderick. Most fatalities stemmed from miners own carelessness or unavoidable accidents. calls for lower child labor age spark debate while a broader social unrest theme links mechanization to lost human element and personal service.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
James Roderick
Department of Mines
Church fails in its first duty says a bishop
Bishop Henry Potter of New York condemned the church for indifference to the mental physical and social needs of the masses in a Chautauqua address on the church’s relation to social unrest. He urged sympathy personal service and action to cure physical and mental ills, criticizing ostentatious wealth and the failure to follow Christ’s example of assisting the hungry sick and blind.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
Henry Potter
New York
Christ
Church of God
Potter
Church
Inspections Find Few Unsanitary Places in Fort Wayne
A state health bulletin reports fifty four Fort Wayne inspections revealing one bakery and five restaurants in unsanitary condition. Five more eateries are poor, four unsanitary, and two have four refrigerators. The survey covered groceries drug stores candy stores meat markets hotels and bakeries. Owners not named. proceedings possible under the pure food act.
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the Sentinel
Indianapolis
State Board of Health
Fort Wayne
Eleven-Year-Old Lad Hero in Portland Fire Rescue
Eleven-year-old Richard Conley crawled into a burning home near Portland to save a baby amid a fatal blaze that killed mother Mrs. Thomas Ryan and her three-year-old son. The house, lit by a kerosene stove explosion, burned southeast of the city. the infant survived.
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Portland
Ore
Richard Conley
Thomas Ryan
Ryan
Busy Dr Wiley Plans International Pure Food Congress
Paris August 2 Harvey Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry in the US department of agriculture, visiting Europe, plans to urge the United States to convene an international pure food congress to set global standards. He notes French government supports the idea while he studies copper sulfate use in vegetables exported to the United States and will report findings in Washington.
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Paris
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Agricultural Department
Europe
Washington
France
Sullivan sisters lease Randall hotel cafe on European plan
The Misses Elizabeth and Margaret Sullivan have signed a lease on the cafe at the Randall hotel. The European plan is being adopted as the new standard. Purcell touts the cafe as first class. In the city, A M Tyler of the Wayne hotel plans shifting to Europe in a few weeks.
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Elizabeth
Margaret Sullivan
Randall Hotel
Sullivan
Purcell
A. M. Tyler
Wayne Hotel
Europe
Kendallville Grocers Open Close Pact at Eight
Kendallville grocers sign an agreement to close their places of business at eight o'clock p m citing uniformity in closing hours and seeking orderly evening commerce. Local officials report forthcoming enforcement steps and member strict adherence is expected.
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Kendallville Grocers
Indiana Tax Board Giv es Allen Raise
Indiana tax board raises Allen land value by 5 percent on average per acre to 33.57 dollars and approves changes for Grant Tippecanoe and Wabash counties. The board partially upholds assessor Clarke in the Standard Oil case, increasing assessment from 75 000 to 98 492.62 dollars.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
County Boards of Review
Allen
Tippecanoe
Wabash
George E. Clarke
Vatterburg
Standard Oil Company
Clarke
State Board
Appalling Record Of Accidents On The Railroads
Washington report on the three months ending March 31 shows 20 563 total casualties among passengers and on duty workers, 421 deaths and 4 920 injuries. Rail incidents caused 3 591 collisions or derailments with 323 collisions and 229 derailments affecting passenger trains, and $3 536 110 in damage.
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Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Prec
More Quakers Reside in Indiana Than Pennsylvania
Orthodox Quakers across the United States and Canada prepare for the five years' meeting in Richmond Indiana opening October 15. Indiana leads all states with about one third of the nation’s orthodox Quakers, numbering around one hundred thousand, organized into thirteen yearly meetings and sending delegates to the five years' gathering.
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New York
United States
Canada
England
Richmond
Ind
Pennsylvania
Indiana
America
Track Layers Strike Over Delayed Train At Payne Ohio
Eighteen Nickel Plate section men from Payne strike at New Haven after three weeks of waiting for an 8 43 p m train. They sought to stop the 3 43 p m passenger run with Trainmaster Kirby's consent, but were told they would be docked. They claim carpenters and machinists receive similar privilege and quit when denied.
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Payne
Ohio
Nickel Plate
New Haven
Kirby
Ancient Order of Hibernians Offer Monroeville Trip
The Ancient Order of Hibernians sell round trip tickets to Monroeville where an Irish Day celebration will be held on August 24. They aim to attract a large crowd and are offering interurban round trips for 35 cents.
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Hibernians
Monroeville
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