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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1907
Page
4
The speaker touts a long running August sale claiming it is the state’s best and pledges faithful advertising. The fragment lists underwear items with deep discounts from $2.00 to 25 cents, suggesting a clearance-like clearance event and repeated promotions.
A Good Citizenship league crackdown on saloon law violations led John J. Kennedy Jr to withdraw his license application in Fort Wayne. The immediate license expires tomorrow and a 30 day cooling-off period blocks renewal. Police warn arrests possible if liquor is sold post expiry. League plans further affidavits and revocation actions as more violations are pursued.
Mrs. James C. Brames sought separation after drinking bouts strained the marriage. An agreement sent the girls with the wife and the boys with the father, but Brames remains responsible for support and faced a failure to provide charge in city court. He admitted earning 12 to 15 dollars weekly while neglecting his family. Humane Officer Schlaudroff intervened to prevent potential county burden.
Evansville Indiana August 6 Miss Rose Zipp eighteen a well known society girl danced all evening on a river trip with family. The young woman grew frail after long hours of revelry and died after two weeks of typhoid like illness. Dr Warner said death stemmed directly from overexertion while dancing on the steamer.
A Wabash machinist named Patton sustained a severe eye injury in an on site mishap. Reports indicate the incident left him temporarily blinded in one eye and requiring medical assessment.
Deputy Revenue Collector M. J. Barton notes that starting September 1 new revenue rules permit denaturing bonded warehouses in Fort Wayne where alcohol can be shipped and denatured without tax with revenue department approval. The act allows farmers and others to set up small distilling and denaturing plants up to 100 spirit gallons per day using cisterns or tanks instead of standard equipment, under supervision.
Diana Union Traction announces the promotion of a young engineer, formerly chief machinist in the U S Navy, who completed a four year enlistment a year ago. After service he studied engineering in Chicago and now brings notable ability and promise to the North Anderson power station project.
The 1907 Fort Wayne City directory is being delivered to subscribers with more pages and enhanced completeness and accuracy. Delays in printing caused a somewhat later delivery than in prior years.
In city court James C. Grames was ordered to pay $12 per month for the support of his two daughters. A proposed adoption by a family could reduce the payment to $8 monthly. Grames and his wife separated. he kept two boys and she kept the two girls.
Oarsmen from Berlin Waldemar Sands New Orleans St Louis and Halifax arrive for the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen regatta on the Schuylkill River with events scheduled Friday and Saturday. Guy Bassett returns from Toveka Indiana amid preparations and participation.
Jabez Wolffe, in his fifth English channel bid, reached three quarters of a mile from Cape Blanc in fifteen and a half hours from the South Foreland before tidal sweep forced him to abandon the record swim.
Lutheran clergymen and teachers from the city left Tuesday for Cleveland Ohio to attend the annual synod meeting. Among the delegates is J F W Meyer.
Berlin August 6 The king of Siam met with his doctors to discuss digestive ailments then toured Berlin with General Von Kessel who travels with him. Emperor William will then receive the Siamese king at Cassel.
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