Corry area notes mix of thefts jobs and court filings
A mix of small town notes includes a rabbit shipment sighting in Corry woods and a new service post at Waterhouse Garage. Orrie Cook shifts to West Main duties from Le Ford agency after twelve years. A New Year’s Eve theft at a downtown cafe saw W G Nantes lose a camel hair coat and hat. Independent items cover rail freight totals, insolvency filings, electric rate cuts, court listings, and local officials in Erie and Venango counties.
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Orrie Cook
Waterhouse
West Main Street
le Ford Agency
W. G. Nantes
West 27Th Street
Eri¢ ‘Times
French Creek Boy May Get U S Appointment
Robert M Hitchcock, a former French Creek resident now in Dunkirk, is recommended for the post of assistant United States attorney in Buffalo. Democratic leaders endorse him. U S district attorney George L Grove is expected to appoint him within two weeks. Hitchcock, 30, educated at Georgetown and Fordham Law, is married with two daughters and has previously practiced in New York City.
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Jesus
Robert M. Hitccock
United States
Buffalo
Hitchicock
Dunkirk
George L. Grove
U. S
New York
Hitchcock
Fordham University
New York City
Hitchcock & O'Brien
Joseph C. White
Chautauqua
Cat
Judge presiding Hauptmann trial identified
Justice Thomas Trenchard, the presiding judge at the Hauptmann trial in Flemington, New Jersey, is noted in reports with the text describing his role and position in the case.
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Hauptmann
Wreck Destroys 108000 Eggs on Highway
A truck trailer carrying 300 cases of eggs caught fire near Lisbon O about a heavy rain wash away remaining crates. The eggs were en route from Kansas City to Pittsburgh when the blaze melted the load and scattered shells along the highway.
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Lisbon
Here
Kansas City
Pittspurgh
Kiwanis Club Discusses New Year Program
Corry Kiwanis Club members met at the Hotel Corry for a round table luncheon discussing the new program for the year. Seventeen members attended as Walter Scott Ray Greene Walter Peake C M Howard G M Simmons C F Hoffmaster and Rev Gilbert L Boyd spoke two minute talks on club betterment topics. A reward is offered for a lost small brown male pariah shepherd named Brownie with return to 48 East Frederick Street.
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Corry
Frederick Street
Night fires drive family from Erie home
Erie January 3 wires sparked Tuesday and Wednesday fires. A coal gas blast at 143 a m Tuesday blew a stove pipe from a heater, forcing Barney Patoski and his wife with two children to flee in night attire. Loss about 75 dollars. quick fire department response. A separate basement fire at 882 Browns Ave in a grocery meat market began Tuesday noon, smoldering for two hours and causing 1500 dollars damage. Pro prietors Archie Nero and Russell Miller operated the shop. Chimney fires were contained at 213 West 10th Street, 1826 Buffalo Road, and 1920 East 20a Street.
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Erie
Barney
Patoski
Ash Street
Browns Ave
Archie Nero
Russell Miller
Gus Anderson
West 10Th Street
Francis Grojek
Buffalo Road
R. C. Hansen
East 20A Street
Erie Police Seek Gunmen After New Year Gas Station Robbery
Erie police pursued two gunmen who on New Year’s Day robbed a gas station attendant at West Portland, North Carolina, taking 16 dollars in cash a watch and a quantity of gas and ad. The suspects fled toward Erie in a Graham Paige sedan with Wisconsin plates, described as swarthy about 25 years old, 150 pounds, wearing dark overcoats and hats.
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Erie
West Portland
N. C
West Lake Road
Graham Paige
Wisconsin
Dramatics Class to Be Organized Monday in Corry
Corry plans an F E R P dr amatics program led by Thomas Joslofy with the Theatre Guild in tie up. Classes at Junior and Senior High schools start next Monday at 7 30 p m. About twenty five residents have enrolled and Roelofs aims to double that. Cost is free and instruction covers costuming makeup stagecraft elocution pantomime and dramatic history.
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Corry
Thomas Joslofy
Roelofs
Theatre Guild
Roelots
Roelos
Oil City Makes Big Hold Loans
Oil City reports home owners and loan corporation bonds totaling 85,292.61 placed in Venango County during December, bringing total loans closed since July 1, 1934 to 287,964.42. Indications point to January closing many loans to avert foreclosures. checks and bonds totaling 80,005 await disbursement by county attorneys for final payments.
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Oil City
Jan
Oan Corporation
Venango County
Lloans
J. A. Corrin
Smallest horses on display in Ogden stall scene
Two of the world’s tiniest horses are believed kept in a stable near Ogden Utah. One is 28 inches tall and 51 inches long from nose to tail. Her colt stands about 2 inches high and 28 inches long.
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Ogden
Utah
Boys Held for Murder in Companion's Death
Two Butler county youths face murder charges in a fatal shooting that ended a confrontation at a fair. District Attorney J Nezley notes the Halloran boy fired the fatal shot after Geibel fired twice at young Oesterling and missed. The defendants, among the youngest ever charged, were turned over to parents with a January 10 hearing arranged by Coroner M B Headland.
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Qesterling
Wendle's
Clarence
J. Nezley
Halloran
Geibel
Young Oesterling
Butler County
M. B. Headland
Byrns Assumes New Duties as House Speaker
Edward W. Lewis reports in Unity Press that Joseph W. Byrns was formally elected speaker of the 74th Congress, the first Tennessee man to hold the post in a century. He urged progress and to heed the electorate while taking the rostrum after a roll call vote that drew cheers. Byrns has served in Congress since 1909 and occupies the speakers’ chair once held by Henry T. Rainey.
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Washington
Juni
Tali
Joseph W. Byrns
Bertrand Sneil
George J. Schneider
House
Burns
Congress
Henry T. Rainey
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