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  • A printed page from a 1927 volume of historical collections, numbered 451 at the top left beside a running head in small capitals. Below a short heading, a column of names runs down the left with a column of figures down the right, joined by dot leaders, each line beginning with a small mark in the margin. A rule crosses the page below a subtotal, and a second short heading opens four further lines.

    Fort Wayne

    By different Indians

    John Johnston named every man who owed the United States factory at Fort Wayne, down to a labourer owing $2.70½. The Indian debtors are one line with no name on it, owing nearly twice what the sixteen named men owed together.

  • A printed page from a 1917 volume, numbered 99, with a running head in quotation marks. Below two paragraphs of text sits a pen and ink drawing of a river seen from a wooded bank, a large tree leaning out over the water from the left, houses among the trees on the far side, and a shelving gravel bar in the foreground. A small inset street map is set into the lower left corner of the drawing, and a signature is worked into the lower right. A caption in small capitals runs beneath it.

    Fort Wayne

    He was in the engagement

    An old soldier who marched with Harmar wrote that a Miami chief was in the river that morning. Twenty-five years later the county's first historian put the same man on the bank, a boy of ten or twelve.

  • A printed page from a 1927 volume of historical collections, numbered 322 at the top left beside a running head in small capitals. A single column of set type on toned cream paper, broken twice by short centred headings, with a brace and two signatures set to the right at the foot of the page.

    Fort Wayne

    Without any provocation

    A private pleaded guilty to rioting in the public cornfield. Three men were then sworn, and what they said was not about the riot. The commanding officer punished the other man too, without charging him.

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