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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1907
Page
10
A humorous tale unfolds as Mr Bowser shifts from patient husband to outspoken reformer in Wyoming. After a string of domestic annoyances and a minister’s gate, Bowser mocks authority, recounts a courtroom reversal, and ends with a punchy arraignment of perceived justice.
A pupil answers a teacher’s riddle by saying his father’s vocation is smoking a pipe. The snippet from the Boston Transcript showcases a dialogue about the meaning of vocation versus avocation and a humorous student response.
Harper's Weekly outlines social trends in fashion and leisure with playful verses about Marie Daisy Myrtle and Jane. The piece references gender roles, outdoor scenes, and a father's debt while lampooning contemporary millinery styles.
Mayor W. J. Hosey and Mrs. Hosey left the city for Norfolk Virginia where the mayor will attend the League of American Municipalities meeting and view the big exposition. Hosey serves on the executive committee of the safety panel.
Rome reports Osservatore Romano publishes Pope Pius X encyclical on Modernism. It labels modernism a synthesis of heresy and atheism and outlines measures including Catholic control of education, censorship of publications, removal of modernists from professorships, and creation of diocesan councils to oppose modernist influence.
Rochester Ind Sept 16 Rev George F Byrer pastor of Calvary United Brethren church in Fort Wayne is reassigned back to the charge by the St Joseph conference ending at Fulton. The session closed after five days with Bishop Matthews urging revival of righteousness and noting church growth and finances. Assignments list pastors across Peru Elkhart Warsaw districts. Yellow Creek lake to get a large summer hotel by Newton Lautzenhizer near Claypool.
In Indianapolis on September 16, judges ordered Lorenzo B. Lockard and other supreme Knights of Honor officers to appear before Judge Allen in a mandamus case. John D. O Keefe seeks to block Missouri grand lodge exclusion and force recognition of twelve committee members' participation in the supreme lodge meeting.
Conrad Tielker, longtime farmer and staunch democrat, died at his south Fort Wayne area home. He vowed not to cut his hair until a Democratic president was elected again, a pledge kept for 24 years. He immigrated to America, worked in a brick yard and on the Wabash and Erie canal before buying the family farm in 1852. He was highly regarded as an exemplary citizen and trusted community member.
An unknown young man attempted to cash a $20 check at First National Bank using a fake Kronmiller signature. After Detzer alerted Kronmiller and the police, the suspect fled before detention.
The Rothschild firm of wholesale paper dealers denied plans to open a paper mill in Fort Wayne. The rumor arose from a Mansfield Ohio item during a local representative’s visit, and has since drawn inquiries from railroads machinery houses and other industries.
Mrs Cassie M Chadwick the so called witch of finance who posed as Andrew Carnegie s daughter and swindled banks and capitalists out of millions fell into a nervous collapse at the penitentiary in Columbus Ohio today her ailment left her blind and prison physicians fear she will not live to serve her ten year sentence having already served two years
Dynamite wrecked the press and composing rooms of the Joplin News Herald an afternoon Republican newspaper. The blast at 1 15 o clock shattered windows and destroyed a Goss press and linotype machines. Owners P E Burton and J P Farrish run the paper. no one was inside at the time.
Sheriff Grice recovered a horse and buggy stolen from Nolan livery stable on South Harrison Street. A man posing as a traveling agent rented the rig for daily trips for a week, offered it for 40 dollars in Huntington, then abandoned it at Andrews when suspicion arose.
The Brewery Workers union elected J. D. Asserman as delegate to the state convention in Muncie on September 24. A committee including Fritz Kley and Fred Lauerdyke will urge merchants to stock only union made glassware. Rev. J. B. Fradenberg will resign next Sunday from Goshen First Baptist to accept a church call in Madison Indiana.
D. B. Haley, president of the local bridge workers union, testified before a government commission about defects blamed for a Quebec bridge collapse. He described a chord outside the cantilever arm with four webs giving way, bent lacing, and a four foot section in poor condition, examined the eve of the accident.
Police recovered about $50 worth of brass believed stolen from the Maumee Brick company. The metal was found Monday morning within a few days of the theft, about fifty feet from where one of the prisoners said it had been hidden and was in plain view.
Architect C. E. Kendrick of this city selected to prepare plans for the Tri-State college building at Angola. A fund exceeding $30,000 has been raised for improvements and work will start promptly.
Cincinnati reports three fatalities when the four story Dorian Shoe building on Central avenue collapsed during repairs. A passerby was killed, a laborer died in the ruins, and Mrs. Mary Daley of the second floor perished. seven workers were involved but later found safe, while residents escaped.
Saturday evening Captain T W Blair head of the mailing department at Fort Wayne post office and a noted member of the Sons of Veterans was surprised by friends on his birthday. They presented him a leather chair and a keepsake of the occasion. Present were A F Archibald George Humphrey E C Close Henry Seiling James Hattery Elias Hire Harry Smith J S Braden George Beck R B McCollough and W F Geller.
A city physician, Dr Wells, reports phenomenal success in treating ear diseases. A well known horse dealer from a neighboring city, once deaf with pain from a discharging ear, was cured after other doctors failed. He credits the method and urges public awareness of these results.
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