Beautiful October wedding at the Walton home
Katherine Walton became the bride of Arthur Stanley Bland at 8 pm on Wednesday in Fort Wayne. The service, attended by close relatives, featured Mendelssohn music and a refined reception with decorative palms, ferns, and white roses. Mrs. Walton wore pale blue. the bride wore a princess lace gown with white satin, a veil of chiffon, and a rose bud coronet. The groom’s party included R. H. Wilkinson as best man.
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Edwin Allfree
Chicago
Virginia Carnahan
R. H. Wilkinson
Mrs. Allfree
Miss Carnahan
Miss Flick
Richmond
Mrs. Walton
Jessamine Bailey
Rubinstein
W. H. Nisbet
Rome
N. Y
Lee Dresser
Michigan City
Ralph Barrett
Clarence Swan
Cleveland
Mary Jennings
John Hopkins
Harvey Hall
Pittsburg
H. C. Snyder
Alice Snyder
KH. LD. Griffith
Huntington
C. B. Neff
Warsaw
East
Wayne Street
Willett
Clayton
Mabel Hill Clayton
Pearl M. Koontz
David S. Koontz
Mansfield
Ohio
Mark Shoemaker
Mr. Clayton
Fort Wayne
Miss Koontz
Prospect Avenue
Bass Works Plans Addition to Its Foundry
Bass Foundry, the world’s largest car wheel maker with a 650 wheel daily output, will add a new building to expand capacity to 1000 wheels per day. The addition may absorb the old Force Street plant and could extend to Wallace Street, easing overcrowded orders. President Mr. Bass departs England Saturday to initiate immediate improvements.
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Bass Foundry
Force Street
Wallace Street
Bass
England
Terre Haute Club Seeks Hoffer Signing for Next Year
The Terre Haute club arranged a meeting with Monte Hoffer this afternoon to discuss signing the youngster for next year. He is shy a man in the receiving department and Hoffer was recommended.
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Terre Haute
Monte Hoffer
Hoffer
Smith Introduces Figure to Morton and Bank Note Trail
The fragment references Smith introducing Levi P. Morton and a disparaging remark about Morton. It notes a $4,500 sting claim, Edison once used to gain access to J. P. Morgan with a cold reception, and lists a $100 Union Bank of Chicago check payable to Paul Halloway signed Temple H. Hamilton, plus Hamilton’s autograph photo among Smith’s effects.
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Smith
Levi P. Morton
Morton
Thomas
A. Edison
J. P. Morgan
Union Bank of Chicago
Paul Halloway
Temple H. Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton
Tragic Grand Rapids Engineer Succumbs After Train Incident
Cary D. Sunday, a Grand Rapids and Indiana freight engineer, died from injuries after his back was caught between a cab window frame and a round house door jam while backing his engine. He was born December 10, 1869 in New Corydon Indiana and leaves a wife Minnie Castle and three children Edward, Gladys, and Kenneth. The family, along with relatives, are en route to Portland, Indiana.
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Cary D. Sunday
Grand Rapids
Indiana
Round House
Engineer Sunday
Portland
New Corydon
Ind
Minnie Castle
Edward
Gladys
Kenneth
Frank Sunday
Churubusco
William
Clyde
John Sunday
Ethel Holmes
Michigan
Kate Keller
Mary Sunday
Sunday
Detroit
Frank H Whitney Named Panama Railroad Foreman
Frank H Whitney, a former passenger engineer on the Pennsylvania, will resume railroad work as road foreman of engines on the government's railway line in Panama. He will sail from New York next week to assume the duties of the office.
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Frank H. Whitney
Pennsylvania
Panama
New York
Joan
Fort Wayne Men Move to Isthmus Posts
A former county employee rose to city police captain before joining the Electric Works last year and resigning this past Saturday. The Isthmus attracts several ex Fort Wayne railroad workers with more considering a move.
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Bly
Electric Works
Fort Wayne Railroad
Wrecks in United States Highlight Freight Traffic
An article by W. S. St. George argues American railroads must expand facilities to reduce wrecks and that European systems could be copied later. It notes heavy freight volumes dwarf Europe, cites Pittsburgh and London Liverpool tonnage, and praises the Missouri Kansas Texas line for no passenger fatalities in its history.
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W. S. St. George
Europe
United States
United Kingdom
Slason Thompson
Liverpool
London
Pittsburg
Traffic Club
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Fort Wayne Needlework Guild to Hold Annual Meeting
The Fort Wayne branch of the Needlework Guild will meet Thursday November 21 in the courthouse assembly room. Officers aim for an informative session for garment members with methods of work discussed by section presidents and directors. An election of officers will occur and committees for garment roundups have been appointed with numerous members named for miscellaneous and division roles.
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Fort Wayne
The
Needlework Guild
Court House
Fred McCulloch
Louise Bond
Charles Sedgwick
Miss Fowler
Nichols
Miss Reuss
Miss Knight
Mary Knight
Emily Hoffman
Virginia Carnahan
Mary McDonald
T. R. Cook
Frank Bond
Frank Brown
Arts and Crafts Society Exhibit Plans Local Work
The Arts and Crafts society announces plans for a pre holiday exhibit of local hand work. Entries from town residents in wood copper brass leather clay textiles knitting embroidery crocheting weaving and related original designs will be judged by a committee. Notify secretary Miss Mary Knight Spy Run avenue to contribute.
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The
Arts and Crafts Society
Mary Knight
Spy Run Avenue
Rogers' Paterson engines near completion for Wabash line
Two more of the big prairie type locomotives Nos 2055 and 2056 from Rogers works Paterson arrived at the Wabash shops, bringing total to 36 of this class with four more due and ten similar builds. When all received, twenty new engines will join the middle division for testing at Springfield. Six new engines will receive electric head lamps for passenger service. Henry Ryder of Rogers works remains to supervise the delivery and quality of the locomotives.
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Rogers’ Works
Paterson
Wabash
Springfield
Henry Ryder
Apprentice Suffers Thumb Laceration in Wabash Lathe
O Oppenlander, a Wabash machine shop apprentice, lacerated his right thumb yesterday when it was caught in a lathe. The injury will keep him from work for several days.
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O. Oppenlander
Wabash
Grace Ladies Reformed Will Open Auction
Grace ladies group announces an open sale event with proceeds benefiting local charity. Details unclear due to fragmented text. event appears to be a community sale organized by the Grace group aiming to support a cause within the parish.
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Ladies ‘of Grace
Conductor C C Plybon Breaks Ankle in Yard
Charles C Plybon a freight conductor on the Pennsylvania road had bones in one ankle broken around 6 am Tuesday at Colehour when his foot turned while jumping from a caboose to read car numbers. He was placed on passenger train No 16 and taken to St Joseph hospital for treatment by company surgeons. He lives at 1518 Fisher Street.
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Charles C. Plybon
Pennsylvania Road
Colehour
Plybon
Fisher Street
Section Man Killed by Passenger Train Near Arcola
A foreign section hand known as Eli Pope, about forty seven, was killed when Pennsylvania Co. passenger train No. 9 struck him two miles west of Arcola. The whistle was sounded and the bell rung but he did not heed. The crew halted the train, Coroner Stults investigated, and Pope's remains were sent to Henry Schone & Co. For
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Pennsylvania Company
Eli Pope
Arcola
Mike Laughlin
Foud
Pope
J. H. Dickson
Stults
Henry Schone & Co
United States
Fort Wayne Back On Baseball Map
Fort Wayne regains status in the Central League after transfers and signings. Jack Hendricks reshaped Springfield, formerly Marion and Peoria, into a pennant winner, signaling Fort Wayne will field the league’s strongest team this season.
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Fort Wayne
Jack Hendricks
Oringfield
Peoria
Ill
Marion
After Monte. Hoffer. L.D. Smith. Waite Sign Younater
Fragmentary text appears to list names and a quoted phrase or caption. No clear event, place, or date readable. Summarization limited by incomplete OCR.
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L.D. Smith
Waite
Younater
Zeno
Telephone bond tendered to city for extended service
The telephone company offered a performance bond to the city amid renewal talks for a forty year extension. The firm argues the project would aid Lakeside residents and avoid outages caused by trees, with poles to be removed from Columbia avenue if approved. City officials note the bond must meet franchise requirements and that current bonds were rejected for not meeting specs.
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Lakeside
Columbia Avenue
Forest Park
Woman of many trades lived as man for sixty years
Katherine Vosbaugh, who lived 60 years as a man, kept her sex secret through a life of bank work, sheep herding, cooking, and running a French restaurant with her wife. She moved from Joplin to St. Joseph and Trinidad, finally dying after a hospital examination revealed her true gender.
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Katherine Vosbaugh
St. Joseph
America
Joplin
Trinidad
Miss Vosbaugh
Sam Brown
Trinchera
San Raphael Hospital
Frenchy
Organized Labor To Fill War Chest
Organized labor urges action to fund mobilization for war, with emphasis on patriotism and labor rights. President Samuel Gompers defends labor’s stance on peace and justice while reviewing the year’s union growth and urging restraint on strikes amid promised redress. He notes 373 charters issued, 1,389 affiliated bodies, and a gain of 188,373 members.
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O'Connell
Congress
Gompers
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Bob Evans
Pacific Coast
Morrison
Lennon
Man Accused Of Forging Endorsements To Bilk Victims
The report details an alleged scheme where a man planned to present forged endorsements from prominent people to strike a deal for profit. Police found notes, portraits, and signatures of many capitalists and New Yorkers in his room, plus a visiting card and bogus letter from Charles M. Schwab.
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Western
Pennsylvania
Charles’ M. Schwab
WANTS MOTTO RETAINED IN GOD WE TRUST ON EAGLES
A resolution protesting dropping the words in God we trust from gold eagles was introduced by Rev J Feck of Union Presbyterian Corona Long Island. Ministers at their meeting debated church involvement in politics and decided to table the resolution until the next gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. Feck
Union Presbyterian Church
Corona
Long Island
Constitutional Church
Mrs Mary Koerdt Formerly Housekeeper of Father Koerdt Dies
Mrs Mary Koerdt 58 years 10 months 14 days died suddenly at 428 East Taber Street Fort Wayne residence. Rupture of a blood vessel caused collapse while gathering kindling in woodshed. Born in Germany she came to America as a child married Casper Koerdt in Cincinnati later moved to Sheldon then Fort Wayne. Survived by a daughter and two sisters in Germany. Funeral 8:30 a.m. from renovence and 9 a.m. from Peter's church with interment at Sheldon.
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Mary Koerdt
Father F. Koerdt
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
East Taber Street
Ms. Koerdt
Germany
America
Cincinnati
Casper Koerdt
Sheldon
Peter’s Church
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