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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1910
Page
7
A country party at Miss Myrtle McCrea’s home celebrated Christmas with a guest list including Dr. A. L. Latimer of Indianapolis and W. Whetstone of Marion. The gathering featured holly and floral decorations and a broad mix of local attendees.
Culinary Department presents recipes for soups puddings and desserts. Gream of Rice Soup uses stock rice onion parsley celery and milk with cream. Cottage Pudding blends yolk and whites with sugar milk flour baking powder and butter. Tomato Soup simmers tomatoes in stock with rice and croutons. Prune Whip combines egg whites sugar and prunes served with cream. Brussels Sprouts boil with soda and drawn butter. Banana Custard cooks cornstarch sugar butter and eggs then folds in bananas and lemon flavored whipped cream. Nut Pudding blends flour baking powder salt sugar eggs milk melted butter and nut meats boiled in a mold with golden sauce. Golden Sauce uses butter sugar eggs and cream with vanilla.
Fire Chief Henry Hilbrecht reports that in 1909 the city fire department answered 245 alarms compared with 334 the year before, and there were no major fires during the twelve months. He is preparing the annual department report detailing the city’s fire statistics.
The tenth annual fox chase in Erie township east of Peru Ind attracted several thousand locals on Saturday but few joined the hunt. Heavy snow eighteen inches deep turned to slush, making walking difficult and foxes escaped. The dismal weather hampered participants and hindered the pursuit.
A man struck by train No 19 at Winter street crossing was identified hours later as Martin Brososke of Grant avenue. Officials traced the body to the Peltier morgue, and family members confirmed the identity after the inquest. Brososke, 65, had worked in Fort Wayne since 1871 and was a night crew member at Menefee Artificial Stone. He left a wife and several children. The accident occurred as gates were down and he crawled under them toward the moving engine.
Dr. O B Stemen resumes duties as chief surgeon of the Pennsylvania Western division after more than three years as professor of surgery at the University of Kansas. The move follows railway circles noting Dr M F Porter would not seek renewal. Superintendent J B McKim offered the post and Stemen accepted, returning to Fort Wayne for the role. The appointment began in March 1876 and continued until June 1906.
Dr Stemen signs to accept a professorship with the University of Kansas as part of the Rogerdale medical department near Kansas City. During thirty years he served railroad patients, teaching railway first aid, expanding medical supplies, and improving trauma care, with headquarters in the Shoaff building and appointment as Surgeon for Missouri Pacific in Kansas City Kansas.
Dr George Gillie reports seven down and dirty milk samples from Fort Wayne Dairy Co The tested dairymen include Oscar Hobson C P Sutton Fred Zelt Mason March Berghorn Fahlsing H Bradbury Barnhart Henschen Amos Young Kromler Keller Meyers Gillie Gable Sons Tassler Prange Gable and Branson The fort Wayne dairy company also cited with low butter fat in multiple lots
On Monday morning the Pennsylvania shop train struck Peter and threw him into George Ember near Hanna Street east of Fort Wayne. Peters injuries include a double fracture of the left leg and a left shoulder blade fracture with a scalp wound and some internal damage. Ember suffers a bruised leg and bruised face but is not seriously hurt. The engine was slowing, warning bell rung, but both men failed to move in time. Peters status is serious but hopeful per Dr. Stemen. Ember walked home. Peter, a Macedonian wheel cleaner at Bass foundry, married with a son expected next spring. Ember, a Syrian, prominent in Fort Wayne Syrian circles, recently married and had returned to work at Bass foundry after a prior accident.
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