Broad overviews from Erie area reported events and notices
Columbia Broadcasting System reported earnings for the 13 weeks ended March 29. A quarterly meeting of the Past Grands Association of Erie County will feature Grand Patriarch A. H. Eichholg as chief speaker. Delegates from thirty Odd Fellows lodges are expected. Edward Rosenwald claims a $50 investment saved $12 million on railroad fares for service members. Quarantines affect several families with chicken pox and whooping cough cases were reported. Direct relief payments to Erie County residents declined by $443 in the latest week. Corry man Matthew Snedden released on bond for liquor-related driving charge. A man posing as Rev. Alexander G Patterson warns merchants. Recent showers end copious weed growth. Coast Guard recruitment details issued in Baltimore. Dr Hugh O’Hare resigns as local examiner for Union City draft board. Rep Joseph W. Martin Jr., to speak on CBS from Waterbury. A North Center street car with license 180 parked for weeks draws attention. Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar urges tuberous tests coverage at a Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society meeting in Erie.
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A. H. Eichholg
Grands Association
Erie County
Union Gdy
Erie
Crawford Counties
Estate Fight Continues in Mayville Court
Testimony on 1937 pricing of Robert J. Gross estate securities continued in Mayville as Surrogate Lee L. Ottaway weighs how executors Hurlburt Draves and Harold Duell managed an estate once valued around 1.37 million dollars. Beneficiaries led by Victoria Rappalee. W. W. Bullock estate. Harriet Mott and Edward E. Sheldon allege mismanagement and arrears.
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Robert J. Gross
Dunkirk
Mayville
Lee L. Ottaway
Eget
Aete
John J. Hurlburt
William A. Draves
Harold Duell
Albany
New York
Gross
Severa
Shulles
Victoria Rappalee
W. W
Bullock Estate
Harriet Mott
Edward E. Sheldon
Sancura Antiseptic Ointment and Soap Remedy Ad
An old advertisement promotes Sancura Antiseptic Ointment and Soap for hemorrhoids and skin irritations. It claims soothing satin like feel and relief for minor sores burns and cuts with prices 36c 60c for ointment and 2d for soap.
Probe Air Crash Kills McNally Family Near Binghamton
Investigators probe a bi plane wreck at Tri-Citie airport in Binghamton that killed Rev. Dad McNally 43 his wife Dorothy and their four year old daughter Kitty Maureen. Mary Wicks 37 leaped from the plane to safety after it dove and survived with injuries.
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Ranklin
ADFIL
State Policc
Dad McNally
Dorothy
Kitty Maureen
Tri-Citie
Binghamton
Baltimore
Mary Wicks
Wicks
McNally
Ideal Hospital
Hadtcott
Binghamton City Hospital
Erie Resident Ends Her Life
Mrs. Josephine Wawreyniak aged 75 of 1321st Street took poison by carbolic acid and wood alcohol early Wednesday afternoon. Her body was found at the Perry Furnace Company entrance at Wayne Street around 1 p.m. She was rushed to Hamet Hospital where physicians pronounced her dead. Hazel Leach of 104 Wayne Street told officers she saw the woman near the Perry Furnace Company around noon carrying a package from which alcohol had been drained. the packages were found near the body.
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Erig
Josephine Wawreyniak
McKean County Tax Assessment Raised in 1941 Rate
Bradford Pa April 17 McKean County tax millage for 1941 set at 6 1/2 mills an increase of 1 mill over 1940. Breakdown shows 1 1/2 mills for interest and principal on bonds 4 1/2 mills for general county purposes and 2 mills for institution or poor districts. Assessed valuation given as 27 million dollars. Commissioners J Albert Cleveland Orvel Scott E M Benson reported.
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Bradford
J. Albert Cleveland
McKean County
Orvel Scott
I E. M. Benson
Eight State Police Transfered In Pennsylvania Shuffle
Eight transfers of Troop C members were announced by Lieutenant Frank L. Garnow at Punxsutawney. The moves shift personnel among Joes headquarters, sub stations, and the local barracks, but keep 18 officers and men stationed here. Names listed include Andrew Hughmanick Edgar A Tekes Gordon Pusey O A Smith J A Straub R A Machin Steven C Banks and Martin Kiggins.
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Punxsutawney
Stele Mator Police
Frank L. Garnow
Shenges
Joes
Andrew Hughmanick
Edgar A. Tekes
Gordon Pusey
O. A. Smith
J. A. Straub
R. A. Machin
Steven C. Banks
Martin Kiggins
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John Nichols
West Main Street
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Erie Times
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Union City Draft Board
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
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Columbia Broadcasting System
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Second Ward
North Center Street
Franklin
Sadie Orr Dunbos
Pennsylvanian Tuberculosis Society
Mayville Court
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