Fort Wayne financier James Cheney dies at 85
Venerable financier and Fort Wayne's wealthiest citizen James Cheney died peacefully at his daughter's residence on Spy Run Avenue. The death ends a long career marked by wealth and influence. funeral services are planned at the residence, with interment in Logansport. Cheney would have turned 86 Tuesday.
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J. Cheney
Fort Wayne
James Cheney
America
Charles 8. Knight
Spy Run Avenue
Logansport
FORCE GOES SOUTH TO Panama With Marines
A company of U S marines from the ship Prairie landed at Colon under Captain Smedley D Butler and boarded trains for Panama. The move follows reports Colombian troops near the isthmus and aims to deter an advance on Panama. Marriott Yaviza is named as a destination along the San Miguel gulf and Tuira river.
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Colon
United States
Prairie
Smedley D. Butler
Panama
Yaviza
San Miguel Gulf
Tuira River
Colombia
Reyes
Fire devastates downtown building. two businesses hit
A major blaze at 722 Calhoun Street gutted the four story Shields clothing and Zero Mitten factory building early Monday. Estimated damage near sixty thousand dollars. fire discovered just before 5 am amid bitter cold. Firefighters battled through ice and wind, preventing spread to adjacent Patterson clothing house as flames spread from basement to attic.
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Calhoun Street
Shields Clothing Company
Zero Milien
Shields Company
Mitten
Otto Seidel
Shields
Reuben S. Patterson
Patterson
Charles F. Mahler
Harry Fletcher
Patterson Clothing House
Main Street
Berry Street
Court House
The
Seidel
Zero Mitten Company
Mitten Company
City Sustained by Judge Rose in Fort Wayne Franchise Suit
Judge I E Rose denied the injunction request by Rev Samuel Wagenhals against Fort Wayne upholding city demurrers. He ruled a city council cannot be enjoined from granting a franchise absent fraud or corruption. Final hearing set for next Thursday. city officials attended the Auburn verdict noting the suit filed September 7 in circuit court.
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Sentinel
Auburn
Ind
I E. Rose
Samuel Wagenhals
Fort Wayne
Shambaugh
Aiden
W. G. Coderick
James M. Barrett
Meds
Board of Works
Woodworth
Dealt County
Judgs Rom
Eng
New Rural Route No 9 Planned From Fort Wayne
A new rural free delivery route No 9 will begin in a few weeks from Fort Wayne extending northeast to areas without daily mail. Inspector W D McCorkle visited to arrange an examination Wednesday evening for the carrier vacancy on route No 9.
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Fort Wayne
W. D. McCorkle
New Clerk Appointed at Fort Wayne Post Office
Postmaster Page adds one clerk to the Fort Wayne mailing division. Reymond W. Whittern moves from substitute to regular position while A F Young fills his former substitute slot. O R Manlove becomes engineer watchman at the government building. formerly an engineer at the state school for feeble minded youth.
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Fort Waynes
Reymond W. Whittern
A. F. Young
O. R. Manlove
Manlove
State School
Mrs Coster Hosts Daughter From Canada and Convalesces
Mrs LB Coster entertains her daughter Mrs A M Williams of Canada. Mrs Owen Corcoran, after a serious operation at St Josephs hospital, is convalescing.
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LB. C. Coster
A. M. Williams
Canada
Owen Corcoran
St Joseph’s Hospital
Local Hotel Proprietor Ends Life in Bed
Robert Muehlfeith, co proprietor of the Centennial hotel at Broadway and Hendricks, shot himself in the head with a 32 caliber revolver at 6 50 am and died thirty minutes later. Ill health and business troubles were given as causes. He had run the hotel since Sept 15 after working at Centlivre brewery, recently troubled by kidney illness and Brights disease fears. The act occurred in a ground floor room opening to the parlor. He left a wife, one son, and a stepdaughter amid Knights of Pythias connections.
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Robert Muehlfeith
Centennial Hotel
Broadway
Hendricks Street
Centlivre
Bright
Muehlfeith
Muehireith
E. P. Owens
Knights of the Golden
Knights of Pythias
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Cheney
Bie
Patterson Store
Elliott and
Kelly
Ames
Main
Calhoun Streets
Seidel Buiding
Thomas Hammond
Harmony Court
Hammond
Billiand
Hilbrecht
Flaes
Patterson Building
Deke
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N. Beadcell
Immonday’s
Rose
Cimmit
Samuel Wagentals
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