Romanian Drowns in St Marys River Near Swiney Park
A Roumanian laborer at the Rolling Mills drowned in the St Marys River just south of Swinney park this afternoon. Police search the river for the body after two Roumanians swam near the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge. One could swim, the other could not, and the novice drowned while the swimmer struggled to help.
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St. Mary’s River
Swinney Park
Rolling Mills
Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge
Married couple in a rural court dispute ends in stalemate
In a city courtroom Judge Skelton heard a desertion case involving an eighteen year old married couple. After a series of petty spats the judge held the matter for 30 days to allow them to reconcile and continue living together as man and wife. The proceedings also note other local cases including a theft accusation and a minor loitering charge.
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Herman Osterman
City Court
Skelton
Judge Skelton
Arthur Woolright
Harry Cliffton
Helen Brown
East Superior Street
Burglary at Bluffton Confectionery Victims
Mr and Mrs H H Sarcus report a petty thief visited their Bluffton confectionery on Tuesday night. A 35 year old man with a mustache rented a room, then left early taking a shaving brush fur collar towel and other small items. He rode the Fort Wayne car to Kingsland before the Erie line train. The loss was minor and no pursuit was made.
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Bluffton
H. H. Sarcus
Fort Wayne
Kingsland
Erie Railroad
Barcus
Carpenter nearly severs finger in Jefferson Harrison work
James Bennett, a carpenter, at a house on the corner of Jefferson and Harrison streets, nearly cut off a finger with a hatchet. A surgeon dressed the wound and Bennett will be idle for weeks. A thunderstorm struck Frank Miller’s Bluffton road farm, killing one horse, injuring another, and forcing five to seek shelter under trees as three survived unharmed.
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James Bennett
Jefferson and
Harrison Streets
Mr. Bennett
Frank Miller
Bluffton Road
Miller
Trade Mark Title Company Opens Fort Wayne Offices
The Trade Mark Title company opened on the ground floor of the Elektron building last Thursday night to stockholders officers and the public. It is the newest Fort Wayne business and has a five year lease for its rooms. Eight operators are already at work filling data cards for registering trade marks and defending marks. The firm organized in New York by Steuart Steuart with Steuart & Steuart as counsel, but is headquartered in Fort Wayne under E H Merritt who manages the Physicians Defense company. Officers include S M Foster president F L Smock vice president E H Merritt secretary E W Cook treasurer. Directors include Delaven Smith S M Foster R B Taylor B W Cook and others. The firm seeks to index the 60 000 registered trade marks and protect honest business by guarding marks and advertising designs.
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Elektron
Fort Wayne
Congress
New York
Steuart & Steuart
E. H. Merritt
Steuarts
S. M. Foster
F. L. Smock
E. W. Cook
Delaven Smith
R. 8. Taylor
B. W. Cook
Henry J. Miller
J. M. Landenberger
Charles E. Bond
C. M. Niezer
Patent Office
Washington
Bowser Company
Dayton
Bowser
Mark Gut
Woman Arrested After Spitting Incident In Fort Wayne
Mrs Charles H Rawlins wife of a former Fort Wayne official was arrested after allegedly spitting in Charles Schmidlin watchman at Centlivre brewery. She claimed men flirted with her and threatened her daughter thirteen, facing police at headquarters she posted 25 bond. Neighbors call her a morphine user but say she is bright when sober.
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Charles H. Rawlins
Fort Wayne Rolling Mills
Spy Run Avenue
Wagner Street
A.ing
Charles Schmidlin
Centlivre Brewery
Lenz
Strodel
Milwaukee
Fort Wayne
Schmidlin
Charles Schmidnight
Charles Stickley
Columbia City
Brave Policeman Rescues Children From Runaway Horse
In Chicago on June 21 Policeman J O Rourke shielded about 200 children from a runaway horse at 63rd street and South Park avenue. He ran into the street and grabbed the horse by the neck, was dragged over 100 feet, and suffered a fractured right shoulder while preventing a deadly accident.
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Chicago
63Rd Street
South Park Avenue
J. O. O'Rourke
O’rourke
Liquor Interests Lose Fight for Saloon License in Cedar Creek
After weeks of intermittent conflict, the county commissioners denied Lloyd Hursh a saloon license for Grabil in Cedar Creek Township. Ten signers were deemed valid remonstrants though Sam Watson Claude Gratz and others were scrutinized for signatures and capacity. Cedar Creek becomes the fourteenth township cleared of saloons in two years with an appeal likely.
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Cedar Creek Township
Lloyd Hursh
Grabil
Sam Watson
Claude Gratz
William Shuler
Cedar Creek
Lightning Kills Mare in Allen County Storm
A severe electrical storm hit the northeastern part of Allen county at 6:30 am Thursday, striking a mare owned by Frank Roger and killing the animal in Springfield Township. The mare had a young colt unharmed. An appraisal panel of Charles Rupert Dennis Merrill and Conrad Kehr valued the mare at 175 dollars and noted insurance coverage.
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Allen County
Springfield
Frank Roger
Conrad Kehr
Secretary Taft Guest of W. A Nelson in Kansas City
Secretary of War William H. Taft rested at Oak Hall, home of W. R. Nelson, editor of the Star, before departing for Ottawa Kansas to speak at a Chautauqua assembly. He received a throat treatment from Dr James E Logan, who noted Taft is in good health aside from a lingering cold.
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Kansas City
Oak Hall
W. R. Nelson
the Star
William H. Taft
Ottawa
Kan
Chautauqua Assembly
Taft
James E. Logan
Dr. Logan
Taft Addresses Chautauqua Assembly in Ottawa
Secretary of War William H. Taft spoke to about 12 000 Ottawa visitors on the Panama Canal. He arrived with Kansas editors and politicians and would not say if he would comment on politics or Bryan remarks. Bryan urged Taft to endorse Roosevelt on the income tax and swollen fortunes.
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Ottawa
Kan
William H. Taft
Kansas City
Chautauqua Assembly
Kansas
Taft
Panama Canal
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Roosevelt
Mr. Bryan
Fish Die From Late Cold Spell Across Northern Indiana Lakes
Warsaw Indiana June 20 Many small northern Indiana lakes and southern Michigan waters show dead fish blamed on a peculiar disease sparked by late summer. Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner John Rigney says speckled perch and sunfish are especially affected as the disease spreads across the region. He noted no explosive fishing acts. rumors of dynamite stem from early Sunday shotgun reports near Yellow Banks on Webster Lake. The disease is seen in many lakes, with weather changes expected to slow it and sign the end of the outbreak, a first for northern Indiana lakes.
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Warsaw
Ind
Indiana
Michigan
Fish and Game
John ©. Rizgney
Goshen
Rigney
Yellow Banks
Webster Lake
Mail carrier of Kosciusko county delivers by auto
Elmer Vandermark of Kosciusko county serves as a rural mail carrier from Burkett. He covers a 30 mile route for about 400 residents. He starts at 7 30 am and returns by 10 am, leaving the rest of the day for his other business.
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Elmer Vandermark
Kosciusko County
Burkett
Bankhead Named to Succeed Senator Morgan in Alabama
Montgomery June 21 John H Bankhead appointed by Governor Comer to fill the United States senate seat from Alabama following the death of Senator John T Morgan. The term runs until the legislature meets July 19. Bankhead had won first in the democratic primary for alternate senator last August with Joseph F Johnstone.
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Montgomery
Ala
John H. Bankhead
Comer
United States Senate
Alabama
John T. Morgan
Bankhead
Joseph F. Johnstone
Education Aims Highlight St Augustine Academy Exercises
Rt Rev H J Alerding addressed St Augustine Academy’s annual commencement at Library hall. Graduates Agnes Lowry Grace Gordon Loretta Morris Ethel Hayes received commercial diplomas while Elizabeth O’Rourke Hilda Dooley Loretta Lordier earned diplomas. Flora Rush won a gold music medal.
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Library Hall
H. J. Alerding
Fort Wayne
St. Augustine’s Academy
Hilda Dooley
Loretta Lordier
Elizabeth Helen O’rourke
Alerding
Agnes Borgia Lowry
Grace Gabriella Gordon
Loretta Catherine Morris
Marie Margaret Kelly
Ethel Marie Hayes
Elizabeth Lyons O’rourke
Hilda Frances Dooley
Loretta Julia Lordier
Flora Marie Rush
Beatrice Kinder
Josephine Hipskind
Regina Dusek
Blanche Reuss
Borgia Lowry
Helen Ittenbach
St. Catherine's
St. Catherine’s Academy
St. Patrick’s Church
John R. Quinlan
Huntington
Father Delaney
Lenora Marie Cullen
Eugenia Marie Contenwell
Irene Frances Rohgans
Genevieve Marie Mungovan
Mary Marcella Gallagher
Mildred Cecilia Marie Rohgans
China
Elizabeth O'Rourke
Marie Nolan
Marie Kelly
Pauline Brown
Frances Ryder
Edna McGuff
Bertha Byanskie
Spertee Walsh
Artie Taylor
Fay Nogal
Lois Chapman
Emma Lintz
Cecilia Smith
Grace Gordon
Borgia Lowery
Mt. Mellick Center
Julia Cleary
Bernadette Dittoe
Needlework Exhibit Displays Center Pieces and Pillows
The display features a large array of embroidered center pieces pillows doilies napkins and aprons from Ethel Hayes Edna Huguenard Blanche Reuss Irene Noli and others with violet pansy and poppy motifs. The art department showcases china pastel drawings oils with works by Clara Welker Mabel Vogeley Marie Rissman and many more, praised as varied and advanced.
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Ethel Hayes
Edna Huguenard
Blanche Reuss
Irene Noli
Ethel. Holbrook
Clara Schone
Gertrude Hagan
Elizabeth Martz
Helen Reilly
Margaret Travers
Evelyn Lordier
Grace Barra
Helen Mommer
Anna Dondero
Stella Cochoit
Margaret Bashara
Dorothy Reiling
Marie Acker
Elizabeth Applebach
Lucy Gladieux
Alice Burns
Loretta Sorg
Helen Gerow
Fay Nogal
Marie Maney
Marie Mercer
Celeste Petgen
Grace Kelley
Dollie- Mable Martin
Marie Henry
Fifch
Jean Hosey
Helen Pauley
Irma Faust
Helen Clifford
Ruth Donahue
May Staub
Julietta Lang
May Centlivre
Maria Summers
Eva Kohler
May Traverse
Layola Kenss
Adeline Keller
Gertrude Getz
Mary Miner
Jeanette Ryan
Lorette Laibe
Myrtle Knowdel
China
Clara Welker
Mabel Vogeley
Marie Rissman
Marie Moran
Sardiniere
May Rahe
Rouen
Catherine Foster
May Freiburger
Lillian Schafer
Ethel McArdle
May Hutzell
Frieda Westhoff
Miss Zook
Marie Miller
Alice Gilmartin
Emma Weisse
Christina Pape
Ruth Flick
Toses
Katherine Archer
Cla Hasler
Miss Katt
Regina Dusek
Cancer Cure Claims Stir Fort Wayne Readers
Fort Wayne residents report cancer cures after a sixty minute operation claiming twenty five years of continued success. The advertisement also promises quick treatment for asthma catarrh lungs dropsy kidneys bladder and various skin and sexual health issues plus removal of blemishes and birthmarks by Dr Charles Zimmerman specialist on Harrison Street Fort Wayne Indiana.
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Fort Wayne
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Roumanian
ST. Mary's River
Mike Hughes
Ray C. Reaser
H. H. Barcus
New Fort Wayne
Taft Guest
W. A Nelson
Mr. Bankhead
Senator Morgan
H. Bankhead
St. Augustine’s and
Catherine’s
Klaehn & Meiching
West Main Street
Charles Zimmerman
Harrison St
Wayne
Dr. Wells Sanitarium
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