Shriners Meet for Annual Shrine Event in Erie
Erie on January 11 hosted hundreds of Nobles and Mystic Shrine members from across Pennsylvania for the annual business meeting and initiation of a large class of candidates. The Columbia Theatre housed the business and degree work while James E. Tait was named potentate succeeding Lytle Salisbury. Shrine Hospital officers and imperial council delegates were announced. The day closed with a traditional feast and the conferring of decrees.
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Erie
Nobles and Mystic Shrine
Pennsylvania
Columbia Theatre
James E. Tait
Lytleie Salsbury
Ma'a National Bank
Shrine Hospital
Impérial Council
N YC Line at Warren Cleared by Large Snow Plow
Warren January 11 reports say a big rotary snow plow is removing drifted snow from the NYC Rail road near Laono and other filled cuts. A worker repaired wires from the snow, the Falls section is chipped, and plow leveler and ditcher will move toward Paleoner then Dunkirk to open the line. A second plow from Paleoner to Titusville will finish the lower end, aiming to resume operation last night.
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Warren
Ndvices
N. Y.C
Laono
A Ineman
Tce
Paleoner
Dunkirk
Titusville
Missing Man Mystery Cleared At Silver Creek
Emon G Rob inson announced his brother Welter C Robinson, a former Silver Creek roofing contractor who vanished in 1912 at age 29, is alive and living on a Clarendon NC farm. A letter in handwriting, from the missing man, convinced the family and Lewis Robinson and Wallace W Robinson of his identity. The case, long baffling authorities and friends, spurred many theories from foul play to illicit activity. Robinson, once a fish and game warden, may have married since the disappearance and plans for a family reunion are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silvere Grausin
Van
Emon G. Robinson
Welter C. Robinson
Silver Creek
Clarendon
Emon Robinson
Lewis Robinson
Wallace W. Robinson
Con
Walter Robinson
Lake Erie
Canada
Yanks Move Inland Toward Major Pacific Battles
News from the front reports U S Army and supply craft pushing inland toward Manila with Lingayen and other towns under threat. Bridges being rebuilt for the advance as Yamashita diverts forces south of Manila and Mindoro and Masbate raids reveal Allied air supremacy. Naval movements near Leyte and Luzon continue amid signals of decoy strategy and fragile enemy defenses.
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Lingayen
Pangasinan
Luzon
Yamashita
Manila
Batangas
Mindoro
Marinduque
MacArthur
Japan
Leyte
Bataan
Spencer Davis
Associated Press
Thomas Kinkaid
Car Hit by Train at Clarendon Crossing
WARDEN Jan. 11 One car was demolished and another damaged in a three way crash on the Pennsylvania Rail at Clarendon crossing. James W. Haight of Clarendon stalled his 1934 Chevrolet on the tracks when brakes froze and an approaching freight train struck, moving it about 30 feet west into R. E. Christie’s parked car from Irvine. Haight escaped unharmed Christie’s car damaged about 40 dollars.
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Pennsylvania Rail
Toad
Clarendon
James W. Haight
R. E. Christie
Irvine
Haight
Christie
Erie wallpaper store fire causes $8,000 stock loss
Fire at the Harry A. Miller wallpaper store on West 26th Street caused more than $1,000 in building damage and destroyed $8,000 worth of stock. Fire started in the basement around 8:11 a m from faulty wiring and spread to the second floor via an abandoned hot air pipe. Firefighters faced poor street conditions as they battled the blaze under the direction of Chief Lawrence P. Scully and Assistant Chief Edward Planegan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Harry A. Miller
West 26Th Street
Harry Strick
Strick
Grant Dry Cleaning District
Ivan Wilkinson
Lawrence P. Scully
Thomas Kinney
No. 6
Wilkinsons
Edward Planegan
Scully
Lost Army Plane Searched Across District
Erie reports police and airport officials along the Pennsylvania Ohio border asked to lookout for an army plane whose pilot radioed a bailout near Youngstown after running out of gas. The aircraft was en route from Mitchell Field to Akron. no trace of plane or pilot has been found.
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Erie
Pennsylvania
Ohio State Line
Youngstown
Mitchell Field
Akron
Lince
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Gested
Torets Shivage “Stile
Shriners
N. YC
Hae Peet
Dupont
Deepwater
New Jersey
du Pont
U.S. Employment Service
W.M. C
Clarendon Crossing
Montgomery Ward Powerlite
Montgomery Ward Carry, Pa
Green Giant
Pillsbury's
SLADE
Dixie Margarine
I. OL
Mineral Water Mountain Valley Et Aqs
Jemima
Vax
Caila
Sunahi
Gorham
California
Jersey
Florida
Almeria
Doren
Uta
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