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[[?]]g Wabash Avenue Building Includes Auditorium for Use of Public
   Introducing a novel feature in public service and thoughtfulness to women, the Hartmann Furniture and Carpet company revealed at the opening of its new building today the installation of an auditorium planned for the use of women's clubs, auxiliaries, church organizations, lecturers and other enterprises. 
The use of the auditorium, which has seating capacity of 30, is gratis. The auditorium is located in an upper floor of the new twelve-story building at the northwest corner of Wabash avenue and Adams street. 
   Public telephones, restrooms, a free [[?]]enting bureau, a public library branch, a theater ticket office and subpostal station were also at the service of visitors to the new store.
   Executives of the [[?]]ore received congratulations sent fro all parts of the country on the opening. Martin L. Straus, president of the Hartman corporation; Irwin H. Hartman, vice president, and Edward [[?]] Felsenthal, secretary and treasurer, were showered with good wishes. 
   Other executives of the store are Robert I. hall, sale manager; Charles Frank and Louis Glueck, assistant merchandise manager Henry Lorenzen. superintendent; Bar Sackett, office manager; Warren [[?]], delivery superintendent; Russell Lowry, advertising manager and [[?]]ector, and S. R. Woolf. director of [[?]] promotion and publicity. 
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Prominent Chicago Ban[[?]] Suddenly at Home Wilmette 
   William A Tilden, who was [[?]] years a leading banker of C[[?]] be buried at Rosehill Monday [[?]]ices at 1 p.m. in the cemetery.
   The services will be conducted [[?]] A.j. McCartney. The pallbea[[?]] associates of Mr. Tilden in t[[?]] world.
   Mr. Tildent suffered an atta disease two weeks ago, but had recovered when he w again. He died in his home, gan avenue, willmette, sh members of the family reach side. 
Was Native of Wisco
   Born in Delavan, Wis.. o 1857, Mr. Tilder arose to the of one of the country's largest his own efforts. He was educ country schools. and his first clerk in a store.
   Coming to Chicago in 1883 a salesman, and for six years representative for several d cerns. He became office ma Heywood & Morrill Rattan co in 1897 entered the banking assistant cashier of the Drove Deposit Bank.
   He was elected cashier in advanced to the presidency that year, upon being chosen For Dearborn National Bank ed and became vice president director of the Drovers institution.

WHERLE NAMED AS AIR RACE MANAGER
Feb 25, 1926
Former Charleston Man to Have Supervision of International Aeronautic Event in Philadelphia
Gazette Charleston
   Major Howard Wehrle, former Charleston citizen, World war veteran and identified with national aeronautical organizations, will have general managership of the international air races that will be held in Philadelphia next September. He left his home in Kansas City, Missouri, February 13, for Philadelphia where he is now beginning preliminary arrangements for the races.
   Major Wehrle has been in Kansas City for several years and is nationally known as a flyer and fore his activities in the promotion of general civilian flying. While not now a member of the United States army, to which he was attached for a number of years, he was recently called upon to testify as an expers in the Colonel Mitchell trial in Washington.
   The Philadelphia racing events will be staged in connection with the sesquicentennial celebration of the sining of the Declaration of Independence. Major Wehrle's present plans are to return to Kansas City in the Fall.
   In the fall of 1924 Major Wehrle spent three weeks in organizing and managing the Wichita, Kansas, air meet. At the request of Henry Ford he managed the Ford airplane reliability tour. He had charge of all flying at the air meet in Kansas City in connection with the American Legion convention in 1921. He acted as official started at the Pulitzer trophy races at Omaha, Nebraska; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Dayton Ohio, and New York City. He was one of the organizers of the National Aeronautic association and one of its first governors. 
   Major Wehrle launched the Air Terminal association in Kansas City in 1922, resulting in the purchase of Richard field there. He has been more recently actively engaged in conducting the field and in managing a private commercial flying organization. He has many acquaintances in Charleston and a number of relatives in this section.

MARCH 17, 1926
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AERIAL TRANSPORT IS DISCUSSED HERE
Experts at Engineers' Club See Big Future for Commercial Aviation in U.S.
ENGLAND'S STRUGGLE CITED
   Comparison between commercial airplane development in America and Europe cannot rightfully be made because the two continents have followed exactly opposite lines in making progress, Sir Sefton Brancker, major general in charge of civil aviation in the British Air Ministry, told the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia yesterday at a meeting in the Bellevue-Stratford.
   The meeting, consisting of two sessions, was given over to the discussion of the subject of "Aero Transportation."
   "Where you people have gone ahead on the State plan and confined your efforts to governmental activity, we have done just the opposite and encouraged private enterprise through subsidy; where you have specialized in the carrying of mail, we have specialized in the carrying of "passengers," Sir Sefton said.
   "Since 1919 we of England have flown more than 5,000,000 miles on regular subsidized air routes; we have carried 70,000 passengers and 2000 tons of freight. And we have suffered but four fatal accidents.
Seven-Year Struggle Cited
   "For the last seven and a half years England has struggled with air transportation. We are progressing along three lines: reliability, safety and economy. In the first case, improved engine design and all-metal planes will help us; in the factor of safety, already we have made strides. Economy will come through increased traffic, better understanding of our problems and their ultimate solution," Sir Sefton said.
   "Philadelphia is leading the way in educating the public to fly and you are doing it on a large scale through your celebration, which is scheduled for this year," he added.
   Sir Sefton is not without a sense of humor.
   "Please do not get the idea that we operate solely to carry Americans from London to Paris," he said. "That is not so."
   Another interesting speaker was Charles C. Grove, Deputy Assistant Postmaster General in Charge of Air Mail, who furnished a group of figures regarding the operation of that service. He recited the history of the air mail from its first flight, when the mail had to be "taken up with a rake after the pilot dropped it in order to land," down to the present era of transcontinental air-mail service over 2665 miles of country.
Rapid Progress in U.S. Forecast
   In a prophetic vein, Mr. Grove foretold a time within the next five years when commercial planes would be flying on regular schedule between all large commercial centers.
   Other speakers at the night session were Hollirshead N. Taylor, vice president of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and chairman of that body's Sesqui-Centennial Committee, who told of the plans for an air congress and numerous attractions along aeronautical lines; Major Howard F. Wehrle, director of the Sesqui air races; William [[?]]

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Speakers at Engineers Club Aero-Transportation Program at the Bellevue-Stratford. Standing from reader's left: Captain George W. Steele, of the Lakehurst Naval Air station and commander of the Los Angeles; Colonel Paul Henderson, general manager of the National Air Transport; William P. McCracken, Chicago, chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on aviation. Seated, from reader's left: William B. Stout, technical advisor of the National Air Craft Board; Major General Sir Sefton Brancker, of the British Air Ministry; Major Clayton W. Pike, president of the Engineers Club, and C.M. Keyes, chairman of the National Air Transport Board.
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First two sections have nothing to do with Wherle or aviation and are harder to read