Freak Weather In 1816 Broke Every Record
A long, fragmentary news column reports wild weather events in 1816, listing January to December anomalies across the United States and Europe. It notes frost, snow in June, failed crops, and price spikes, with brief mentions of various local names and places tied to the era’s weather calamities.
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Raven
Conny
Vermont
United States
Europe
Ohio
Kentucky
New Yor
New Orleans
Mississippi River
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Tram
London
England
France
Mesito
New York City
Great
Britain
Motors Unhurt In Fractured Oil City Crash
Aug 27 SISLIN Two motorcars wrecked on Fraulein Ol City Road near Welipse Oil Works Friday afternoon. Joan Miller Oil City driving behind Denver Kirby Franklin RD 6 collided with Kirby and Floyd Kribbs Kennerelow. Miller and Kribbs damaged badly. Gozler and McAfee Oil City occupants lightly hurt. Information to be filed against Miller.
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Welipse Oil Works
G. A. Sitter
Joan Miler
Oil City
Denver ©. Kirby
Frantlin
R. D
OM City
Floyd Kribbs
Kennereel
Miller
Kirby
Kribbs
W.F. Gozler
R. W. McAfee
Oil
Associated Gas System Picnic At Waldameer Park
ERS Aug 31 Several numbered employees of the Associated Gas and Electric Co attended their annual outing at Waldameer Park for an afternoon and evening of entertainment. Participants traveled from Erie Meadville Oil City Bradford Warren Titusville and Corry for sports, refreshments and dancing. A woman golfer, Mrs. Madeline Herrimann, found a birdie on her drive but it killed a sparrow midair.
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Asociated Gas and BleezHe Co
Waldameer Park
Pennsylvania
Erie
Meadville
O1 City
Brasford
Warren
Titusville
Corry
Torrington
Madeline Herrimann
Englishman Angas Forecaster of American Boom Sees Stock Rise
London dispatch profiles Major Law Angas a British stock market forecaster famed for The Coming American Boom. Army veteran, Oxford alumnus, Angas blends chart reading with high risk calls, confidently predicting a US market surge amid broad credit expansion, while maintaining a sharp, media-ready persona and a Rolls Royce presence. The piece notes his role with Myers & Company, his wide personal client base, and his controversial stance on British market conservatism versus American rapid-profit methods.
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London
Irenee Lee Burley Angas
Epicure
United States
America
Major Angus
Angus
Oxford
Cheshire
France
Italy
Eingland
Rolls Royce
Financial District
Angel
Myers & Company
Angas
Communicants Show Increase for Past Year in Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia Aug 27 Communicants membership of the Presbyterian Church in the United States shows a gain of 18008 during the fiscal year ended March 31. Total membership stands at 1987291 with 9173 churches and 9943 ministers. Sunday school enrollment reaches 1608007. Local churches contributed 35287207 for local expenses. gifts distributed include National missions 2315199 foreign missions 2171241 and Christian Education 424706.
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Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church
US. A
Lewis
Mudge
General Assembly
Presbyterian
National Missions
Foreign Missions
Christian Education
Pensions Relief Department
American Bible Society
Federal Counsell of Churches
Is Your Complexion Blotchy and Pimply Ad Claim
An old advertisement urges readers to try Adlerika to clear alleged poisonous wastes from the system causing pimples and dull skin. It promotes Kelster's Cut Rate Drug Store as the seller and includes a garbled claim about digestion and complexion.
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Kelster
Adyi
Car Out of Ditch Leaves Two Hurt in Accidents
At Attusville on August 27 Mrs Beet Yering of Re DayCon neauville and her daughter Mrs Anta McCalymans of Meadville suffered fractured collar bones when a car driven by Catherine Whitesel of this city plunged into a ditch between Hydetown and Townville. Their injuries were described as not serious, per Titusville General Hospital attaches. Police report said they were forced off the road by an approaching car.
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Attusville
Beet Yering
Lewis Forester
Bank Street
Back to Work Under New Deal Setup
A 1934 comparison shows corporate profits rising from 6.9 in 1894 to 83.2 in 1934 Q2 while NRA codes cover about 95 percent of industrial workers with higher wages and shorter hours. PWA projects reach 99 of 100 counties as living costs outpace worker pay amid a 40,140,000 industry employment figure. In Youngstown a drunken driving crackdown follows the deaths of two sets of sisters and a motorist incident involving a bat.
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