Twenty Years Ago Stanford News and Local Happenings
Arrangements were completed for the Downie Brothers circus appearance on Wednesday May 22 with motorized acts and a noon street parade. The Stanford Hose Company and Firemen's Relief Association elected Richard Ross leacher and Charley Kinley president respectively. A burglar confessed stealing $1537 from the billiard room money box after police investigation. Mrs Mary Freno died suddenly, a son Richard Elliott born today at Comy Hospital to Ralph and Mrs Freno. Baseball plans for tomorrow include High School and Company A nine’s first game of the season. Historical notes covered multiple wars and diplomatic incidents, illustrating war fears and incidents up to 1914.
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Downie Brothers Circus
Stanford Hose Company
Firemen's Relief Association
First Ward
Richard Ross‘ Leacher
Charley Kinley
Relief Association
Brown
How's Your I Q A trivia quiz on memory and accuracy
A fragmented classifieds style quiz tests memory and logic with questions about moonlight reflection, Roosevelts death time, cream fat content, appendicitis surgery, Adam and Newton fruit, Alfred E Smith derby color, tax exemptions for newborns, Pygmalion author, psychic victory, and round signatures.
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F. D. Roosevelt
Adam
Isaac Newton
Alfred E. Smith
Nostradamus and Fears of a Third World War
A German authority notes Nostradamus prophecies hint at a wartime outbreak in Greece as World War III looms. Analysts warn Nostradamus verses are opaque and open to many interpretations, while past conflicts show wars arrive with little warning.
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Greece
Hitler
Poland
Bosnia
Herzegovinia
Spain
Mexico
England
Dunkirk Youth Nabbed in Burglary Ring
A 13 year old Dunigirle probationer burglarized garages in the Dunkirk Fredonia area over six months to pay a gambling debt and was caught by a special police officer John B Payne when returning to a scene. He admitted 12 burglaries, a petit larceny, and an attempted burglary. Deputies Stoyle Cassadag and Fisher assisted in the probe.
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Dunkirk
Mayville
Dunigirle
Odssadaga
John B. Payne
Tony
Richard K. Moynihan
Fredonia
William Stoyle
Cassada
Chester Fisher
Payne
Denuty Stoyle
Submit New Bill For Area Turnpike
Harrisburg April 12 A new bill to empower the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to build a bell road extension to Erie was submitted in the Senate last night. Senator G Arthur Blass explained the measure would keep the proposed road entirely separate from the western extension to the Ohio Pennsylvania state line. He noted a question of delaying bond sales on the western extension if the Erie toll road was included in the new law.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Erie
Senate
G. Arthur Blass
Trwin
Judge Refuses Tax Compromise in Erie Case
Erie April 12 Judge Burton R Laub rejected a tax settlement offer of 814.91 from Andrews Land Corporation for a 60 by 175 foot lot on Greengarten Blvd north of Land Street stating such a price would encourage tax procrastination and threaten taxation structure He ordered the hearing extended two weeks to seek a better offer The Duchess of Bedford is credited with originating the idea of yellow tea in the 19th century.
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Laub
Erie
Burton R. Laub
Greengarten Blvd
Leab
Michael V. Mosher
Guy Owned Property Department
Duchess of Bedford
Youth Burglar Uses Joker Friend's Hint to Take $22
A 13 year old burglar followed a friend's urging to have $4.50 ready for the next day and broke into the Payne garage months later, taking $22 to satisfy an obligation.
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Payne
Pittsburgh man jailed for 16 to 20 year attack sentence
Ralph Thompson, 49, began a 16 to 20 year prison term for criminal attacks on two women six years ago. Identified by both victims as the attacker, he was returned from Vancouver, B C, by PBS Judge Henry O'Brien who said he could not impose a harsher sentence.
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Pittsburgh
Ralph Thompson
Thompson
Vancouver
B. C
PBS
Henry 2. O'Brien
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Mary Preno
Jacob Freno
Brook Street
Comy Hospital
Richard Elliott
Ralph Martin
China
Prussia
Austria
France
United States
Great Britain
Origen
Trent
Venezuela
Wilson
Duco Cement
Laster
Gay
Murphy
BIG Stare
Sotvom
N. Center St
Evschholt Johnson
National Bank OF Corry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Powell
North Center Street
Ford Garage
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