Peak local holiday mail handled despite tight conditions
Post office workers report a very satisfactory pre Christmas period with over 17 000 two cent stamps sold and more than 28 000 letters and cards processed on Monday. Three trucks ran all day for parcel post as extra staff cleared mail ahead of Christmas. Postmaster Bentley urged customers that only special perishable deliveries will occur on Christmas Day as other offices close.
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Royal
Bentley
Journal
Marsig
Mati
Cay
Corry
Fastmasten Beniley
Condi
Christmas Exercises Named for Sunday School Programs
Announcements outline Christmas celebration events in city churches. Emmanuel Episcopal holds midnight service with Holy Communion under Archdeacon Fotus mith of Eile. music includes Silent Night and Angelic Processional. Lutheran Junior Circle hosts a 12 o clock program with a listed choir and soloists. public invited.
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Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Emmanuel Episcopel
Fotusmith
Eile
Kyrle
Little Town of
Bethlehem
Jesus Bambino
Pietro
Gorbine
Camidge
Agnus Dei
Lus Gufisiuds
Lutheran Church
D. A. Hillstrom
Burr
Jom
Frene
Armour Hillstrom
Alton Dahlstrand
Robert Street
Prophet
John Boland
Shepherds
Veannere Patterson
Alice Jeno
Helen Button
Seraph
Ruth Lanston
Angele
E. B. Hawkins
Helen Mulligan
Margaret Freno
Bernice Button
Ruth Soper
Mary
Marion
Soper
Joseph
Carl Nelson
Signa Anderson
Puiblic
Swindler Warned Targeting Merchants in District
Warnings go out to merchants about a man calling himself D. H. Naugle working for the Police men's Warfare League. He solicits money for advertising in a magazine and claims proceeds aid the Po. Nvemen's Sick and Benellina. The report describes him as an im poster.
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D. H. Naugle
Policemen's Warfare League
Bandits Grab $10,000 From Philadelphia Bank
Three bandits robbed the Broad Street branch of a Philadelphia bank. They entered with guns, demanded cash, and fled in a sedan after locking in customers and staff. Police chased using a license number from witnesses.
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Philadelphia
Crash victims recover as investigation finds no blame
Injured men from a Union City crash on Smiley Hill are recovering. Blaine Kinney remains in serious condition with head injuries while William Williamson has been released to his home. Coroner Dan Hanley announced no inquest and ruled the Oil City driver not at fault in the fatal crash that killed Mrs. James Williamson.
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Lye
Smiley Hill
Union City
James Williamson
Oil City
Williamson
Edward Harvey
Blaine Kinney
Wright Street
Union City Institution
Young Kinney
Corooner
Dan Hanley
Hanley
Rotary Club Hosts 40 Boys at Christmas Party
About forty boys from Union City and Higin attended the Rotary Club Christmas party at the hotel. A chicken dinner was served, gifts included fruit candy and gloves for each guest. Erie’s William McClelland gave a humorous talk about an appropriate future during the season.
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Union City
Higin
Rotary Club
iHodl Gorry
William McClelland
Erie
Wallace Gd
Erie legislators unite for state aid to hospitals and roads
Four Erie county lawmakers led by Senator Miles B. Kitts plan to press for increased state funding in 1931. Proposals include higher appropriations for St Vincent's Hamot and Gerty hospitals, 100 percent state aid for backwoods road construction, and development funds for Peninsula Park and local child welfare homes. The group expects cooperation will secure most items.
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Corry Hospital
Rpcounty
Miles
United Run
Couty
Miles B. Kitts
Erie
Ine Group
St. Vincent’s
Hamot
Gerty
Peninsula Park
Florence Crittenden
Hrie
John King
Harrisburg
Pack Woods
Erie County
Five Track Workers Die As Express Plows Through
Five laborers were killed when they stepped onto the rails to let a Philadelphia to New York express pass. Foreman blew the whistle but the train dounded the warning, and the crew was struck on the track near Cranford New Jersey. Names listed include Gordon Duruint, Gaviner, Kineller, Solving, Stantey, and Schilltz among others.
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Union Press
A. Foremeti
Philadelphia
Oppor Het Lapisana
Tne
Mergers Approved for Pennsylvania Telephone Firms
Public Service Commission approves multiple telephone company mergers in Pennsylvania. Transactions include sale of Peoples Mutual to Mutual Telephone of Erie, and transfers among Johnstown, Petroleum, Western Pennsylvania, Crawford and Venango, Sugar Creek, and various regional providers. Bell Company protests noted. panel cites improved efficiency and service.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Public Service Commission
Peoples Mutual Telephone Company
Riceville
Crawford County
Mutual Telephone Company
Erie
The
Telephone Corporation
Pennsylvania
Johnstown Telephone Company
Boswell
Holsopple
Hooversville
Salisbury
Stoystown
Berlin
Myersdale
Somerset County
Bris County
Talise
Muita
Man shot self after bank hold up near Brodyslie
County authorities reported that Virgil Marshall held up his father’s bank four miles west of Walton, netting $7700. He fled, then shot himself when surrounded. all money was recovered.
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Walton
Virgil Marshall
Brodyslie
Here
Marshall
Today’s Five Best Radio Entertainments
Network listings show NBC programs Halles Bells on WIZ at 3 30 and Death Valley Days on WABG at 8 30, with Moot Magis on WHAM at 0 30 and Happy Wonder Bakers on WIZ at 9 30. Philly Syzaphiumy Convert appears without a fixed time.
Brakeman Killed in Fall From Train near Sheffield Junction
John R. McNeal a 47 year old brakeman from St Petersburg was killed instantly when he fell from the side of a Baltimore and Ohio box car at Sheffield Junction south of here. The train was switching at the time and two cars passed over his body before the crew could stop.
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Kane
Pi. Dee
John R. McNeal
St. Petersburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Sheffield Junction
Here
McNeal
Citizens Bank Banquet Aids Relief Fund
Citizens Bank announces it will skip its annual stockholders banquet this January and divert funds to the Emergency Relief Fund of the Community Chest. The bank will contribute over 100 dollars plus the regular dividend and a ten percent raise for employees, with the stockholders meeting set for January 9.
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Community Chest
Citizen's National Bank
Cashiel Parker
Citizens Bank
Watik
Party Leaders Linked in Norris Fight
Washington reports reveal the Republican National Committee as the financial backer of Robert A. Lucas campaign against Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. Internal party strife grows with Progressive Republicans blaming Hoover heirarchy and Norris, while White House stance remains noncommittal and Lucas defends his actions.
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Republican National Committee
Lucas
Nebraska
United Press
Washington
Republican National
Robert A. Lucas
George W. Nobis
Republica
Hoover
Kentuckian
Taicas
Senate
Fess
National Committee
White House
Republica Party
Nortis
Norris
Ix Deinge
Mebrastea
Daring escape by condemned youth from Salem County Jail
Cha Withian, 22, condemned to die in the electric chair for a February holdup murder, escaped Salem county jail last night with help from accomplices. He fled through a hole in the cell wall using a ladder of bars, seized a revolver, threatened juvenile patients, then leaped to the roof and fled to Broadway in Salens town. An automobile matching the escape car was reported heading toward Ballington, Md, as authorities pursued possible conspirators.
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United Pres
Salem
N. J
Withian
Salem County
G. William MacCausland
Hammonton
Mithian
Ball Intone
Wally
Havesbean
Fithien
Nimsei
Fithian
Broadway
Dismissals Shake Pennsylvania Power Commission
Solicitor Charles P. Russell and Willan V. Jing accountant were removed by the incoming power commissioners. Bonner resigned as executive attorney amid a controversy over reappointment of chair Smith. Russell protested the action while Bonner called the new permanent commission a political football.
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United Press
Washington
Charles P. Russell
Willan V. Jing
Areder Power Commission
B. E. Bonner
Anureyiry
Vid Commission
Heidax
Kyo
Hewald
Tf Benge Oba Smith
Maio
New Commission
Chairnsa
Russell
King
Smith W. Brookehart
Senate
Commission
Bonner
Power Commission
Pennayivannia
Ion
Russo
Senate Progressives
Power Trust
Goluzens
Interstate Commerce
Sen
Wheeler
Dem
Monl
Collatns
Permanent Commission
Erie youths tied to string of North East safe robberies
Four Erie men were rounded up by state troopers in a stolen car near the North East cemetery on Buffalo road. Police say the group may be the band behind several recent safe burglaries, with three jailed on open charges. Suspects Bronte Bugnowski, Steve Glotkowski, Frank Mugzyski, and William Strachen were named. Bugnowski allegedly admitted intent to rob the North East Clothing Store.
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Erie
North East Cemetery
Buffalo Road
Waldt
North East
North East Clothing Store
E. L. Martin
L. J. Lawton
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Gus Schilltz
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