Twenty Years Ago Waxen from the Journal Flin
A December 26 1911 column recalls past local events. Warren Billa Corry pioneer dies at home in Town. Miss Nettle Stevens completes a successful term at Moffat school. Salvation Army Christmas dinners for sixty families. Franklin girls defeat Corry 27 to 7. local figures discuss a cowboy pool game with a cash prize. barber shop vs beauty shop regulatory notes. Miss L G Martin and Professor Austin Dempsey visiting. local politicians, street work, crosswalks cleanup urged. Congressman Bates travels Meadville to Trenton.
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Austin Dempsey
Cleveland
T. F
Dempsey
L. G. Martin
I Ciology
Leland Stanford Uni
California
Spra
Spratt
Maple Avenue
Indy
American Writers on American Literature reviewed by United Press
The compendium edited by John Macy includes 37 essays on American authors from colonial historians to modern poets and novelists. Notables include Van Doren on Paine, Hughes on Washington through Jefferson, Bromfield on Hawthorne, and Seitz on journalism. Also noted are Baker’s Wilson biographies and Hampton’s History of the Movies.
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H. Allen Smith
United Press
John Macy
Horace Liveright
Gari van Doren
Thomas Paine
Rupert Hughes
Washington
Franklin
Adams
Hamilton
Jefferson
Henry Hazlitt
Emerson
Louis Bromfield
Hawthorne
Howard Mumford Jones
Longfellow
Edwin Markham
Poe
Gilbert
Seldes
Thoreau
Raymond Weaver
Melville
James Oppenheim
Whitman
C. Hartley Grattan
Mark Twain
Hamlin Garland
Howells
Jonathan Edwards
Washington Irving
Cooper
Whittier
Holmes
Lowell
Lincoln
Henry James
Henry Adams
Brand Whitlock
America
Don C. Seitz
Llewellyn Jones
Beechwood family nearly suffocated by home fumes
Jamestown report says Mrs Spencer and two children at 10 Roxy Avenue Beechwood were overcome by water heater fumes yesterday afternoon. Husband returned at 6:30 pm to find them unconscious. Dr. Austin A. Becker of Lakewood revived them after over an hour of effort and they are expected to recover barring complications.
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Jamestown
Spencer
Roxy Avenue
Beechwood
Austin A. Becker
Lakewood
Earth May Not Be So Firm, Say Perkins Astronomers
Dr Harlan T Stetson of Perkins Observatory Ohio Wesleyan University reports that precise latitude measurements show the earth’s crust may be a loose skin affected by lunar gravity. He notes potential minute tides and a moon related tilt of the vertical, with further observations planned at Perkins to confirm these geophysical and astronomical implications.
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Harlan T. Stetson
Perkins Observatory
Ohio Wesleyan University
Thut
Vega
Galactic
Earth
Fire Destroys Two-Family House In Jamestown
A Christmas Day blaze discovered at 4 10 a m gutted a two family house at 379 Foote Ave Jamestown injuring no one heavy smoke damaged a beauty parlor and a small grocery located in a frame building attached to the house Damages are placed at about 2000 Fire Chief C J Beatty will investigate the cause The buildings were owned by Charles Mordino with the lower flat lived in by Mordino and the upper by Gallideo De Sabatino and family The Mordino grocery and the Jeanette Beauty Shop operated by Jeanette Mordino were in the same block
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Jamestown
Foote Ave
C. J. Beatty
Chas. Mordino
Gallideo de Sabatino
Mordino
Jeanette
Yas
Jeanette Mordino
Ancient French Banner Described as Royal Emblem
The ancient banner of France served as the kings national emblem from its first use in 1110. A crimson flag displayed three tongues of fire in red and gold, each with a silken tassel, carried on a gilt staff as a royal symbol.
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France
Mystery About Boat Solved In Walnut Bend
Thomas Mullins reported the seizure of a boat carrying a white poodle dog, his wheat, and provisions after a theft at Walnut Bend. A stranger unknown to Mullins was observed with the vessel before it was towed ashore by W. M. Young at Walnut Bend, clearing the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut [Bend
Thomas Mullins
Trunkeyville
W. M. Young
Walnut Bend
Jamestown Man Burned When Car Hits Bridge Fire
Berlake, 21, of Jamestown New York, was severely burned when his car skidded into a bridge and caught fire Thursday night. Found unconscious in the road, he was taken to a local hospital. A separate note mentions a stranger visiting the Young home and Mullins recovering his boat while seeking the thief.
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Hahmsburg
Der
Berlake
Jamestown
N. Y
Cay
Young
Mullins
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