Heroic lad rescues two boys from watery grave
Ray Keiser, 15, son of Ira G Keiser, and a group of youths were at the Lawton park dam when 9-year-old Earl Buckley and 12-year-old Roy Cotter slipped from a sandbox pipe into deep water. Keiser dived twice, bringing both boys to shore unconscious. Buckley revived in about 30 minutes, Cotter after over an hour.
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Ray Keiser
Ira G. Keiser
Pennsylvania
Scott Avenue
Young Keiser
Earl Buckley
Bass Street
Roy Cotter
Locust Street
Lawton Park
Cotter
Buckley
Keiser
Cotter Boy
Weiser
Barker's Spree Highlights Local Courtroom Oddities
Sam Barker, a heavy drinker from North Manchester, caused a stir in our city by public intoxication and attempts to drain a bank via schemes. He received a light fine after a brief stay, while others faced harsher penalties for theft and weapon possession.
Trugk by heavy weight injures Auburn worker
C RB Fisher a machinist at the Auburn Automobile company in Auburn is hospitalized at St Josephs with a fractured skull after a 40 pound hanger broke loose at the plant and struck him on the head Tuesday afternoon. He was attended by a physician.
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C. RB. Fisher
Auburn Automobile Company
Auburn
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Fisher
Ys Bee
Death Aboard Train En Route Home
George Marsy aged 45 of 43 Rush street Chicago died on Pennsylvania train No 9 en route from Van Wert to Fort Wayne. Cause heart failure. Body removed to Peltier morgue in Van Wert. Marsy had been ill during the trip. Local Red Men lodge notified widow in Chicago and arrangements were made to ship remains home tonight.
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George Marsy
Rush Street
Chicago
Pennsylvania
van Wert
Fort Wayne
Peltier Morgue
Marsy
New York
Order of Red Alen
Schone & Ankenbruck
Fle
Sister Mary Cyrill Returns to Lead St Catherine’s Academy
Sister Mary Cyrill resumes as superioress at St. Catherine's academy after returning from Chicago where she had been a year. She previously led the school for seven years and succeeds Sister Celestine as superioress. Sister Mary Henrietta returns to St Augustine's academy for her third year.
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Mary Cyrill
Chicago
St. Catherine's Academy
Celestine
Mary Henrietta
St. Augustine’s Academy
Teen Thief Steals From Benefactor in East Wayne Street Store
Isadore Malter, a nineteen year old newcomer from Chicago, lived with Max Himelstein at 836 East Wayne St and repaid kindness by stealing 7.25 dollars from the cash drawer. Patrolman Spiliner investigated and placed him under arrest.
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Isadore Malter
Chicago
Max Himelstein
East Wayne Street
Spiliner
Court punishes neighbor over sixteen pound flat iron incident
In city court Deputy Prosecutor Callahan argues a sixteen pound flat iron injured Paulina Woeschenowski after a dispute with neighbor Alvina Schulke. Schulke pays a $10 fine plus costs and appeals to circuit court while court records note other minor drunkenness and fines.
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Stephen A. Callahan
Alvina Schulke
Paulina Woeschenowski
Typhoid Linked to Out-of-Town Resorts in Sumner
Dr Crull links recent typhoid cases to sanitary conditions at summer resorts. Vacationers returning home brought the illness, with Fort Wayne’s water and sewers deemed clean. Eleven cases exist across three city hospitals, including five residents. Patients come from Lagrange Van Wert and nearby areas seeking treatment.
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Eric Crull
Fort Wayne
Lagrange
van Wert
Decatur Auto Plant Adds New Extension Contract
Decatur Indiana August 25 192? contractors Mann Christen builders were awarded the contract to extend the De catur Automobile company plant showing growth in local industry. The addition will enlarge the factory facilities and support more production.
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Decatur
Ind
Decatur Automobile “Company
Mann, & Christen
Huilders
Bujtt
Reckless Truck Driver Strikes Miss Mera Fox in Wayne Area
Miss Mera Fox of 1219 Maple Avenue was injured when a Motor Transfer truck driver hit her near Wayne and Calhoun streets. The driver did not stop and has not been identified. Fox suffers severe bruising and lacerations but no broken bones and was helped home after the incident.
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Mera Fox
Maple Avenue
Motor Transfer Company
Miss Fox
Wayne Oil Tank and Supply Company
Wayne and
Calhoun Streets
Broadway
Possible Toe Amputation After Industrial Accident
Cc East, foreman of laborers at a Pennsylvania blacksmith shop, may have two or three toes amputated after an engine side rod fell on his foot. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where surgeons try to save the foot, but the outlook remains uncertain. East has been employed at the shops for about three years.
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S. Cc. East
Pennsylvania
East
Thrae Y
Nyack
N. Y
Harry N. Atwood
Castleton
Hook Mountain
St. Louis
New York
Atwood
Tim
Taft Opposes Nostrums as Peace Aim in 1912 Campaign
President Taft spoke to G A R veterans in Rochester outlining opposition to reform nostrums and warning against concentrating wealth. He urged steady public discussion on arbitration treaties with Britain and France and defended Monroe doctrine politics and immigration policy.
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Rochester
N. Y
Taft
Beverly
Frederick D. Grant
Edgerton
Gilman
Great Britain
France
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Joint High Commission
Europe
Edward Grey
Foreign Affairs
United States
Atwood Ends Long Flight Reaches Gotham in 45 Minutes
Harry N. Atwood, the American aviator, landed at Governors Island at 2 38 PM completing a St. Louis to New York flight. He traveled from Nyack to the city in 45 minutes along the Hudson, amid cheering crowds and ships whistles.
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Atwood
Aviator
Gotham
St. Louis
New York
Harry N. Atwood
Governors Island
Nyack
Hudson
Sheepshead Bay
Trimble Heads the Grand Army
Judge Harvey M. Trimble of Princeton was unanimously elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at noon after Col. John McElroy withdrew from a bitter contest. The encampment endorsed the Sherwood pension bill with a proviso to align closely with the Sulloway bill. Col. Nicholas May of New York was chosen senior vice commander. Installations and the next encampment in Los Angeles will close the gathering.
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Rochester
Harvey M. Trimble
Princeton
Grand Army of the Republic
John McElroy
Washington
Underwood
Congress
Nicholas May
New York
Los Angeles
Albion plans to rebuild Paragon Mills after fire
Stockholders of Paragon Mills in Albion Indiana expect to rebuild the plant destroyed by recent fire. A meeting Wednesday drew interest from neighbors and farmers who aim to add an elevator. A $500 reward stands for the arsonist but no suspect has been found. The mill's loss hits the town and local agriculture hard.
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Albion
Ind
Paragon Mills
Run Away to Sea to Wed on Power Launch Comet
In San Diego on August 25 Fred Shideler and Olga V Payne both of Los Angeles could not obtain a license due to the bride’s age. They sailed with a minister on the power launch Comet beyond the thras mile limit where the ceremony was performed. The Imunch’s skipper acted as the only witness and drifted the boat as the preacher read.
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San Diego
Cal
Fred Shideler
Olga V. Payne
Los Angeles
Arctic Discovery Finds Eskimo Viking Type People
Vilhimar Stefansson reports from the Mouth of the Dense River in 1916 that a party of explorers has encountered a previously unknown group in British Columbia. The people, who had never seen whites before, show Eskimo speech and habits with European features.
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New York
Arctic
British Columbia
Vilhimar Stefansson
American Museum
Steffansson
Franklin
Greeneland
Victoria
Hudson River
le Ronclere
Rae River
Rae
Old Shopman Hurts Finger in Window Accident
Blacksmith Thomas Williams of the Pennsylvania shops had the end of his left index finger cut off and other fingers bruised when a window he was lowering fell on his hand at 8 o'clock Thursday. He is sixty three and has worked at the shop since 1888.
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Thomas Williams
Pennsylvania
William
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