Fort Wayne Leader Sees Growth Through Interurbans
Colonel J Levering Jones of the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company lauds Fort Wayne as a growing center with many interurban lines. He cites $242 403 76 spent on street paving locally and notes no dividends have yet been paid while earnings cover labor, materials, and interest as the system undergoes expansion.
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United States
Fort Wayne
J. Levering Jones
Philadelphia
Henry Rainey
John Blair McAfee
Emmons
Ile
Railway Company
Fort. Wayne
Fort
Ble
Pennsylvania
South Bend
Colonel Jones
Indiana
Interurbane
Interurbans
Naples
General Electric Works
Bass Foundry
Dayton Firm Accused of Most Unfair Methods
Fort Wayne firm Bowser & Co accuses Dayton’s S F Bowser & Co of copying cuts and ads to mislead customers. A supplementary suit in Cincinnati seeks injunction and damages. Argument on injunction set for June 28. Brown & Hopkins of Chicago represent Bowser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. F. Bowser & Co
United States District
Cincinnati
National Oil Pump and ‘Tank Company
Dayton
Fort Wayne
Dayton Concern
Fort Wayne Company
Dayton Institution
Bowser
Bowser Works
Vandals Deface Twenty Calhoun Street Windows
Vandalism on Calhoun street left more than twenty plate glass windows damaged from Columbia to the Pennsylvania railroad on a Thursday night. Names cut include Emmons and KE. L. 8 at F M Smith Co. and Rosenthal’s window weakness noted. police and detectives assigned to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calhoun Street
Columbia Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Emmons
KE. L
F. M. Smith & Co
Main
Columbia
Rosenthal’s
Shields Clothing Company
Packard Piano Company
Miss E. Miller
Aurentz
Grand Union Tea Company
Paul and
Murphy
Young People In Auto Accident Near Hoagland
Three Fort Wayne youths escape serious injuries in an auto crash three miles south of Hoagland at 7 30 p m. Miss Edna Null of New Haven is hospitalized at St Joseph's with a hip laceration and other injuries. Driver identified as Roland Anspach of this city.
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Mr. Anspach
Miss Null
Laura Lenty
Homer Kenyon
Decatur
Anspach
Young Kenyon
Miss Leung
Kline
A. H. Macbeth
Morse Harrod
Fort Wayne
Smith
Morris
Hoagland
New Haven
L. S. Null
Kenyon
Miss Lenig
Edna Null
St. Joseph's Hospital
Roland Anspach
Has Received New Racer In Northern Indiana
Undoubtedly the fastest automobile in northern Indiana was received yesterday by Will Peltier. A new seventy horse power Pope Toledo racing runabout with a guaranteed speed above seventy miles per hour, one of only two such machines in Indiana. The gray, massive design is unlike anything previously seen in the city.
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Indiana
Will Peltier
Toledo
Sons march with father in Thirtieth Indiana parade
Stanley and Ransom Allen of Ossian Ind both served under Gen H W Lawton. Ransom fought at Shiloh and Stone River in the Civil War and is the sole Company A survivor. Stanley served with the 160th Indiana in the Philippines and later wore a Thirtieth badge in the veterans parade. Lytal Kays, 80, Civil War veteran of the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, has died in Huntington.
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H. W. Lawton
Indianapolis Star
Stanley Allen
Ransom Allen
Ossian
Ind
Lawton
Allen
Shiloh
Stone River
One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana
Philippines
Islands
Lytal Kays
Huntington
Kentucky
Prisoners Get Even Break In City Court
In city court Judge Skelton fines Harry Hammond and an Evans, both described as negroes, five dollars plus costs after a street brawl at Curry's saloon. Evans claimed Hammond choked him and threw a brick, leaving a black eye. Other minor cases include two men fined for drunken disturbance and loitering. Local social notes mention visits, a G A R encampment, and a postponed Poe Sheldon ball game due to rain. Decoration Day observances and a large farm sale near Poe are noted.
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Curry
Big Evans
Holt
Harry Hammond
Evans
John Smith
Curry’s
Hammond
Harry
Skelton
Mat Sheehan
Eoth
Frank Heckber
Edward Somers
Gert Somers
William Kaiser
Fort Wayne
Calvin Beam
Lima
Ohio
H. K. Turner
Hessa Castle
Heerman
M. B
Poe
A. S. Covell
Bethel
Marion Shockman
Rollo Uirey
Claude Neibreiter
Grover Smith
Marion
Messrs
Shookman
Ulrey
Smith
Memorial services and local visits mark Poe Sunday
Poe Indiana reports memorial services at the M. E. church in Hoagland led by Rev J S Newcomb. The piece notes interlaced visits among local residents including the Dalman, Glock, Somers, Essig, Hmerick, Mercer, Sherer, Rainer, Mullen, Emerick, Shearer and Lahrman households and trips to Fort Wayne and Roanoke.
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Sentinel
Poe
Ind
M. E
Hoagland
J. S. Newcomb
William Dalman
Dr. Glock
Edith Glock
Roanoke
Lucius Somers
James Essig
Judson Hmerick
Verba Mercer
Charles Sherer
Fort Wayne
Walter Rainer
Thomas Mullen
John Essig
John Emerick
John Shearer
Wiliam Lahrman
Strong-Box Balky Delays Stamp Office Opener
Deputy collector M J Barton faced a balky safe at the stamp office in the government building when the door refused to open after hours of tinkering. With cigar and beer stamp customers waiting, Expert Reiling opened the safe at 11 o'clock as tumblers jammed and refused to respond.
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M. J. Barton
Government
Barton
Reiling
Court House
Trinity Episcopal church adds assistant rector in Fort Wayne
Trinity Episcopal church enlarges its staff with Rev BE Averill gaining an assistant for six months. William Wesley Coup, a Virginia Theological Seminary graduate, will be ordained deacon this month and reside in Fort Wayne. He will work under Averill in Columbia City and Huntington missions and assist in the parish.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
BE. W. Averill
William Wesley Coup
Virginia Theological Seminary
Fort Wayne
Mr. Averill
Columbia City
Huntington
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