Better Fishing and Easy Travel: a Mixed Bag of News
The piece surveys state fish and game laws curbing commercial fishing with powers granted to commissions in Arkansas California Colorado and Connecticut while praising good fish and game laws for sportsmen. It then shifts to an easy travel tale of two vacationists who canoeed 2000 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi tying their craft to a floating log to glide downstream with minimal paddling and a South Seas style outrigger for steadiness as they drifted along.
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Arkansas
Game and Fish
Ohio
Mississippi
South Seas
Locusts and traffic notes in a bustling city column
A reader reports singing locusts in the Fourth Ward sparking slumber disruptions and notes the insects’ long life cycle. The column then surveys automobile accidents largely tied to concrete culverts and calls for highway safety engineering changes. Governor Alfred E. Smith’s Albany acceptance speech is previewed, with focus on prohibition and enforcement. Traffic control gains credit for fewer city crashes while Ohio drivers are cited for flouting through high rules. An heiress, Hugette Clark, marries Bellos Guardos in California, linking local interest to the Clark estate legacy.
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Alfred E. Smith
Albany
New York State
Drys
Wetl
Tssue
Smith
Ohio
Center Street
Smith Street
California
Hugette Clark
Tate
W. A. Clark
Bellos Guardos
Santa Barbara
Miss Clark
Paris
New York
Bankers
New Yorks
Sen. Clark
Montana
Weclark
STORE ROBBED TWICE IN DAY AT ERT
A thief broke into United Mink Co at 23 State Street twice in one day. Total loss was 168 dollars. A girl clerk unlocked the safe Monday morning and left 46 dollars and 16 cents on the counter. after she returned the money had vanished. The manager later found 120 dollars missing from the safe and a customer arrived. The rear door was found locked by Detective Sergeant Bert Hagerly, showing the thief entered both times.
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Ert
United Mink Co
State Strest
Bert Hagerly
A Problem a Day on Metal Work and Pricing
A historical snippet describes a blacksmith shortening thickness by a fraction as length and width increase, with an old arithmetic solution using percentages. It mentions yesterday’s answer of 1.06 and a pricing method: add 100 percent and 25 percent, divide 1.80 by 1.25, subtract from 1.20, divide by 1.20, then multiply by 8 pints to obtain the result.
Look and Learn 4 Questions and Answers
Answers cover where gunpowder was invented the Percheron breed of horse who held the heavyweight title from John L. Sullivan the legal age for marriage without parental consent the author of the line oh captain my captain and related remarks. The text mixes varied trivia including Peru India and Switzerland with brief phrases and colors.
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John L. Sullivan
U. S
Capitan
Lond Kitchener
Peru
Switzerland
Game of Correct English by W L Gordon item list
A fragment from a literary quiz page listing questions on English usage and pronunciation. It includes items about sentence correction, correct pronunciation of literature, misspelled words, missing letters, and a set of yesterday's exercise answers. The text also mentions Jessie Hasked and children planning a day at Bent Lake.
New Highway To Be Opened Near Keating Renovo
Renovs Aug 22 news reports the Warren Construction man who supervised the Keating to Renovo state road test trip last Tuesday says the road will likely open to the public in six weeks. The state highway department praised the rapid progress amid ongoing improvements along the route.
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Renovo
Warren
Keating
State Highway Department
Con Shinemanon
Man Arrested on Arson Charge in Tomnsburg Area
Tomnsburg Pa August 22 Willlin Bly of West End was taken to Ridgway by County Detective Leo A Werner and Constable Janes Buzzard and arraigned before Justice onset on an arson charge related to a July 28 incident involving an attempt to start a stove fire with Blair seen at the scene Deputy Blair was held for court under $1 000 bail in what appears to be a local crime case with limited readable details.
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Tomnsonburg
Willlin Bly
Winstavice Wvertuke
West End
Ridgway
Leo A. Werner
Janes Buzzard J
Onset
Daseyh Darthman
Thayas
Witu
Blair
Twenty Years Ago From The Journal Files
Twenty years ago items from August 22 1908 include shipping Indicator gear to Brown Austria Seattle and Lihue and a Concord township wedding of Herbert Lindsley and Elva Gates. A fire at Corry Hamillie and Novelty Works endangered nearby buildings with estimated losses between 25000 and 32000 dollars. Rev Lackey returns from vacation and other church notices and local society items round out the day.
Loan Advertisement Promises Flexible Repayment Options
The notice advertises personal loans from 425 to 100 cash with monthly payments from 2.50 to 10 plus lawful interest. Larger sums in proportion and fees or deductions apply. Loans may be repaid in full at any time. It invites readers to come in or write to learn about the service, noting licensing and bonding to the state.
Planning 1928 V R W Meeting Bris and Encampment Details
Aug 22 Bris planning notes reveal tentative arrangements for the State Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to be held June 20 21 and 22 next year in this city. State Commander James B Van Zandt and State Adjutant Harry Myers met with the local committee at Hill Simpson Post No 270. The visit was unheralded but welcomed by a large attendance and a rousing reception. In Sharon on Aug 22 grief-stricken widow Catherine Reibley mourns her 11 year old son Edward C Reibley who drowned in the Shenango River while trying to recover a $2 bill for a woman.
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Sharon
Edqward C. Reibley
Catherine Reibley
Shenango
Boy Fatally Hurt on Farm in Wheeling
Donald Simpson, 14, of Flushing Ohio, died in Wheel ing Hospital after days of injuries from a fall into a feeding box of a threshing machine. He received four blood transfusions in attempts to save his life. One leg was torn off in the accident.
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Wheeling
W.va
Donald Simpson
Flushing
Muching
Wheelig Hospital
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Sally
Brad Wype
Is Leto
Weital
Rial Saurty
W. L. Gordon
S. Jessie
Bentlake
C.F- Burkhardt
Frederick St
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Lackey
Congregational Church
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Elva Gates
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Albert ‘Truesdell
Alirea Burrows
Page's Corners
Centerville
Erie County Women's Christian Temperance Union
Corry Hanille and Novelty Works
Fimsy
Insurnee
L. Shumaker
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Ward Powell
Olin Bracken
Cam
Prendergast Point
James Lynch
Charles Lynch
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Wasted Brotherhood of Carpenters
Wattsburg Fair
Corry
R. G. Dawson
Penna. Ave
W. Warren
Hulbera
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Georgette
Frank C. Cuapig
North Center Street
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