Bowser Pacemakers Celebrate Big Fort Wayne Banquet
Bowser & Co held a grand Pacemakers banquet in Fort Wayne capping a week of sales meetings. Toronto office won the Loving Cup after a close contest with Fort Wayne. A D Wyckoff led with a $46,000 deal and 23 freight cars.
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Fort Wayne
Bowser Organization
Swinney Park
Atlanta
Toronto
A.D. Wiekoff
RC. Johnson
T. T. Rhodes
Pacemakers’ Club
W. W. Crandall
S. F. Bowser
A. Z. Polhamus
Bowser
A. T D. Wyckoff
Bowser Company
Pacemakers
Wyckoff
Polhamus
San Francisco
Minneapolis
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Dallas
Boston
Philadelphia
Indiana girl as constable in Indianapolis
Miss Goldie Heathco, an Irvington girl barely past her teens, was sworn in as a constable by Squire Albert Deels. She plans to serve in special cases for Irvington and downtown justices, fears dogs more than men, and questions carrying a revolver while eagerly awaiting her badge and first assignments despite weather delaying her start.
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Indianapolis
Goldie Heathco
Heathco
Irvington
Albert Deels
Irvington &Quire
Meathee
North
Webster Avenue
Squire Deers
South
Audubeon Road
Tivington Justices of the Peace
Tleatheo
Indiana Avenue
Sve
Tve
Indiana House Starts Fast With 26 Bills. Women’s Suffrage Sought
Fort Wayne dispatch notes Indiana House members filed 26 bills in the opening day while the Senate held off. A joint resolution from Senator Stotsenburg calls for 16 constitutional amendments including woman suffrage and enlarging the Supreme Court to twelve. Other measures address city government forms, corrupt practices, campaign disclosure, investment regulation, and a $120,000 session appropriation. Both chambers adjourned to 10 a.m. Monday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Senate
Stotsenburg
Indiana
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Roeing
Koeing
Fort Warne
Adam
Marion County
Gov
Marshall
United States Senate
Branaman
Brownstown
Tower House
Curtiss
Committee On
McKennan
Garrett
van Horn
Indiana Warrior
Public Utility Commission
Keegan
Inheritance Dex
Tingle
Death of Pioneer Samuel Joray in Wells County
Samuel Joray, a well known Wells county pioneer, died at his Bluffton area home four miles southeast of Bluffton yesterday from paralysis. He was 78 years old.
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Bluffton, Ind
Samuel Joray
Wells County
Bluffton
Believed Dead: Men Who Left Home for the Far West
Mrs. Eva Taylor of Balbec seeks probate action in Jay County circuit court to place the estate of Alonzo and Edward Miller under administration. The missing Penn township men left Jay county in January 1880 for the far west and have not been heard from since. Taylor, a niece, suspects they died or were killed after reaching their destination, leaving property interests at risk of waste.
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Portland
Ind
Jan
Eva Taylor
Balbec
Alonzo
Edward Miller
Penn Township
Jay County
Far Westy
Taylor
Fateful Telegrams Cross Paths In Indiana Mystery
In Decatur and Bluffton two telegrams crossed paths about the Purdy family. One telegram urged Samuel Purdy to hurry home as his father Lewis Purdy lay dying, while a second telegram announced Samuel had been murdered in Bluffton. Both messages arrived at nearly the same moment.
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Decatur
Ind
Samuel Purdy
Bluffton
Lewis Purdy
Western Union
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Willbur D. Nesbit
Mion
Frederick K. Landis
Worley Wright
France
Wr. Linshall
Firet Baptist Church
Old Fort Wayne
LaBelle
G. Granger
Granger
America
Bowser Office
Edward
Lowa
Hance
Mr. Bowser
Mr. Hance
W. TR. Hance
Toastmaster
Canada
Hanet
Toronto Curve
Johnson
T. H. Rhodes
Rhodes
Mgr. Rhodes
Mgr. Bowser
A. D
R. 5. Johson
J. H. Armstrong
I. M. Caskey
A. E. Moffat
W. V. Crandall
J. W. Merickel
E. =. Millican
W. N. Deming
H. A. Leonard
FE. F. Klotz
H. &. Dobson
W. C. Smith
M. C. Benham
Wilbur Dpd. Nesbit
RE. F. Yarnelle
Besser
F. Bowser
Indiana Girl
Constable
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Fort Wayne Bill
Koenig
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Far West
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