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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1928
Page
6
In Bradford a father confronted his daughter and her new husband after finding them registered in a local hotel. The couple, believed to be headed from Jamestown, claimed a marriage in Smethpart hours earlier. The father threatened annulment and planned to take his daughter home.
Historical notice describes early surgical methods by nodents including trepanning fractures of the skull and bladder stone extraction. It notes such procedures were performed without anesthesia. Miss Elizabeth Keleher is confined to her home on North Center Street by illness.
Police pursue John Gelicea alias Silitpo alias Munci a known bootlegger living near 10th and Parade streets in Meadville after a shooting left LeRoy Cole wounded and Oliver Rice firing at a fleeing suspect near Brieray road tracks. Cole expected to recover Spencer Hospital reports indicate ongoing bootlegging activity between Erie and Franklin.
Chicago detective Thomas Geary was shot dead in a saloon said to be owned by State Representative Lawrence O'Brien. Bartender Thomas Mullarkey seized a gun from Patrolman Howard Johnson and killed Geary after a quarrel, as reports tie the event to a broader crime wave including the slain Sicilian gang chief Joseph Martino. Meanwhile in Warren, George F. Henry, 87, a grocer, has vanished from his home since Thursday with no leads. Authorities search his East Street residence and note heart trouble as a possible motive, with no hospital admits recorded.
The Broken Stray Game and Fish Protective Association in Warren held a meeting at Youngsville to protest the state game commission opening the deer hunting season. President W H Brazee led the discussion as members approved posting and patrolling the Trymeton to Tidioute area west of the Allegheny river, urging sportsmen to stay out during the open season.
The Montour Railroad seeks permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to build a three mile extension connecting its Library branch with the Baltimore and Ohio near Snowden Pennsylvania. The plan aims to link Montour tracks with B&O lines in Pittsburgh territory.
A merger of 16 Ohio pottery companies into the American Chinaware Corporation was announced in Chicago. Hathaway and Company bankers and Lot Porter, vice president and director of the new firm, said the 18 companies valued at 26 million dollars will create one of the largest pottery concerns globally.
Obituary notice for B J McColley died at his daughter’s home 829 North Center Street. Services were held at 8:45 am at his late residence with Rev. Roger P. Cressey officiating. Born December 10, 1842 in Columbus Ohio he lived in Marion Ohio and Corry where he resided the past two years. He is survived by six children: Barry McColley Gladwin Homer Curtis W Bricker and Mrs Rowella Tron and Mrs W B Bricker of Corry. Funeral planned for Monday December Sei.
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