Indiana Temperance Drive Aims for Local and State Prohibition
Fort Wayne hosts 16 Anti-Saloon League meetings as leaders push Indiana toward county and state local option laws with aim to enact statewide prohibition. R. Carle Minton retracts remarks after an anonymous letter. speeches stress enforcement, political alliance, and church backing for dry counties.
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E. 8. Shumaker
Indiana
M. B. Church
Evansville
Anti-Saloon League
Minton
Ankenbruck
Fort Wayne
Mr. Minton
Barney
E. M. Barney
Indianapolis
League
Plymouth Congregational Church
America
Model License League
Louisville
Church of Jesus Christ
John the
Union
Kansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Big Telephone Meeting Set in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne hosts a February 25 gathering of more than fifty independent telephone company representatives. W L Moellering chairs the Indiana Independent Telephone Association Second District meeting with officials from Allen Adams Whitley DeKalb Noble Steuben LaGrange Kosciusko Elkhart and neighboring counties plus delegates from Grand Rapids Indianapolis Cleveland Toledo and South Bend. Officials expect new long distance line extensions across northern Indiana and a busy year for the industry.
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Fort Wayne
W. L. Moellering
Second District of Indiana Independent Telephone Association
Allen
Adams
Whitley
DeKalb
Noble, Steuben
Lagrange
Kosciusko
Elkhart
Grand Rapids
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Toledo
South Bend
Moellering
Nothern
Indiana
Marshall not seeking governorship in Indiana race
Goshen Indiana February 8 Thomas R Marshall of Columbia City Democratic gubernatorial nominee possibly was here conferring with political leaders and said he would not actively seek the nomination. He would accept if offered. Democratic leaders favor Marshall and expect the thirteenth district to back him. Charles W Miller Republican candidate said his chances are better and plans to win delegates in Allen County and much of the twelfth district. Miller contests published delegate estimates.
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Goshen
Ind
Thomas R. Marshall
Columbia City
South Bend
Marshall
Charles W. Miller
Miller
Fort Wayne
Allen County
Congressman Watson
Fatal sleighing accident shocks Fort Wayne crowd
A runaway sleigh at East Berry and Clay streets near Fort Wayne injures five, killing Mrs. Emma Lambrook of Exeter Ontario. Her husband J H Lambrook and daughter in law Mrs Wilbert Lambrook suffer brain concussions, with two other Lambrook relatives less seriously hurt. The party, visiting from Canada, was returning home when the sleigh struck a curb after a horse spooked by an automobile. Mrs Lambrook dies at St Joseph's hospital.
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East Berry
Clay Streets
Emma Lambrook
Exeter
Ontario
Canada
St. Joseph's Hospital
J. H. Lambrook
Wilbert Lambrook
East Jefferson Street
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Wolf & Dessauer
Edmund Lambrook
Fort Wayne
Berry
Edward White
van Beemer
Lambrook
Clay
Monroe Street
Barnett
Schubert
Elder Mrs Lam Brook Dies After Street Accident
Short time after hospitalization the elder Mrs Lam Brook died as the remains were moved to Peltier undertaking rooms. Injured victims remain under care of Dr. C C F Nieschang. Bystanders recall a horse reacting to an automobile and a sled striking its heels, causing the crash.
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Berry Street
Thousands Back to Work at Lorain National Tube Plant
Cleveland February 10 five to six thousand men returned to work at the Lorain plant of the National Tube Company after months of closure. Company plans to re-employ a full quota soon as orders rise. Nearby firms report optimism with continued gains in employment across Ohio.
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Cleveland
Lorain
National Tube Company
Ohio
R. W. Ney
American Steel and Wire Company
Salem
Stark Rolling Mills Company
Canton
Illinois Steel mills reopen in South Chicago
The plate slab and structural mills of the Illinois Steel company in South Chicago opened today after weeks of shutdown, restoring jobs to two thousand workers. W A Field, general superintendent, says by week’s end five thousand more will be employed.
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Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
W. A. Field
Work resumes at S Marks tube plant and Roseville pottery
In Zanesville Ohio on February 10 the S Marks Manufacturing tube plant with seven hundred workers reopened today while the Roseville pottery with three hundred workers also resumed operating on half time reflecting a return to normal production after a shutdown.
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Zanesville
Ohio
S. Marks’ Manufacturing Company
Roseville Pottery
Plumbers Strike Over Wage Cut In St Louis
About five hundred union plumbers walked out today in St Louis as the Master Plumbers Association enforces wage cuts from five seventy to five dollars per day. A meeting was announced to discuss the situation tonight.
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St. Louis
Master Plumbers’ Association
Population of Fort Wayne Diocese Reveals Catholic Community
Advance sheets of the official Catholic directory show Fort Wayne diocese population about 93 844 Catholics. It lists bishop and 199 clergy across 153 churches. There are 16 colleges and academies 82 parishes with schools 14 252 children attend 14 252 orphans 239 charitable institutions 17 and 3 orphan asylums 3.
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M. H. Wiltzins Co
Milwaukee
Wig
Fort Wayne
Tenderloin Woman Shot Dead on City Car in New York
A 27 year old Tenderloin resident known as Queentie was shot in the breast on a northbound Second Avenue car at Highth Street. A man in a light gray overcoat fired and fled. witnesses include two women from Lyndhurst New Jersey and the city.
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New York
N. Y
Queentie
Highth Street
Mabel Cousins
Lyndhurst
N. J
Helen Sullivan
Queenie
Brooklyn Bridge
Miss Cousins
Cousins
West Twenty Sixth Street
Chinatown
WANTS HOWER PAROLED FOR PAROLE PLEA
Christy Stodgill of Bluffton travels to Fort Wayne to urge Judge Erwin and the prosecuting attorney to sign a petition for the parole of Jesse Hower. Hower, once a Bluffton resident, was convicted two years ago of abetting in a fatal criminal operation and sentenced to 2 to 14 years. He has served the minimum term and a parole petition is being circulated.
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Fort Wayne
Bluffton News
Christy Stodgill
Bluffton
R. K. Erwin
Jesse Hower
Hower
Stodgill
Erwin
Bliffton
Craigville
Money to Loan on Real Estate or Personal Security
E Pfeiffer offers money to loan on real estate or personal security. Offices at Bass Block Rooms 6 7.
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E. Pfeiffer
Bass Blosk
War on Watson spreads as petitions circulate statewide
Indianapolis February 10 Copies of petitions circulated for signatures by republicans pledging to oppose Congressman James F Watson for governor and to oppose him at the polls if he is the nominee Labor leaders reportedly circulating the petitions under Terre Haute Typographical Union label from Terre Haute and Indianapolis to present at the state convention
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Indianapolis
James F. Watson
Watson
Terre Haute
County Clerk Receives Surprise Birthday Return Welcome
County Clerk Joe Mason arrived home from Toledo to a surprise party of about 30 relatives and friends gathered to honor his thirty ninth birthday anniversary. He graciously accepted the gesture and he and his wife hosted the visitors in a royal style.
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Joe Mason
Toledo
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