Portable phonograph sale and holiday trip notice
Fragmentary ad style text lists a portable phonograph priced at 1500 and items at 25 and 27 dollars. Mentions Victor Shop and The Barlow Hardware with scattered place names. Includes a reference to dancing at Columbus Pavilion every Friday and a Larson’s orchestra offering supper, with garbled lines about gathering attendees and bringing two people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor
Barlow Hardware
Columbus Pavilion
Larson
Local notices shout prices and events in Jamestown area
City and Vicinity items mention low potato prices, groceries, and daily deliveries by Wilcox. A Ford of road safety is urged by George Jens of Erie Motor Club with notes on headlights and traffic rules. Various ads cover dry cleaning, fireworks ban, dances, bankruptcy, and local happenings at Jamestown and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will J. Wilcox
George W. Jens
Erni Motor Club
Clyde D. Wilcox
Myrtle Tilburg
Corydan
Allegheny River
Callaridge Walker
North Center
Jamestown Post
Chautauqua Lake
Lawn
Myrehuits
Veidron Park
East Main Street
Bila Boucher Black
Beaver Pa
Inter Minty
Warsen
Pennsylvania
Pny
Black
Ella George
Washington
Victory
Sfes
B. Wood
South Street
Superior Dry Cleaning Co
Nast
DuBois
Auitarion
Local notices and obituaries from Allegheny river drowning
Dry cleaning by 10 Friday and shop hours noted. Masons and firemen callers urged to meet at the corner by the Post Office and attend a funeral for William Cullen. Drowning victims Joan Warsythe and Mara Beal recovered near Pilenton after grappling at four hundred feet from shore. incidents involve local groups and a page 3 advertisement from Nast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Steen
Bort Corry No. 5
Mome Watchmen
William "Cutten
Stanford Hose
William Cullen
Joan Warsythe
al Mara Beal
Allegheny
Pilenton
Hugh Wear
Roads Under Close Patrol Over Holiday
Harrisburg dispatch reports state patrol orders issued by the Acting Secretary of Highways directing intensified patrols during the holiday period. Motorists are warned to observe traffic laws as fines for violations rise and police aim to reduce reckless driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
Holiday
United Pre
Harrisburg
State Patrol
Wifort
Escaping Gas Claims Life Of Ditch Digger
One man died when escaping gas followed by a gas blast at a ditch digging site at the Sesqui Centennial grounds. Four workers were overcome and three were hospitalized with injuries, including Gene DicDonigle of Chester, a 43 year old plumber, who died. Firemen also suffered exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Phlladelphia
Gene DicDonigle
Chester
Joseph Burns
Gus Tien
Thompson’s Barasma Kidney Tablets Praise Ad
An old ad touts Thompson’s Barasma Kidney Tablets as a wonderful medicine for back pain rheumatism and rundown condition promising relief or money back. It claims quick reliable tonic effects cleansing the system and imparting vigor with druggists in Gorey selling for 30 cents a bottle. It also promotes Golden Lax Tablets as a vegetable laxative for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Gorey
Power of Garlic in Sailors' Superstitions
An old belief claimed garlic and onions could harm a magnetic compass and mislead sailors. The superstition warned against using garlic aboard ships to avoid compasses going astray.
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Wing-Willi Star Stores Inc
Corry
Canadian Packing CO
Swift
Rosebud
Libby
Phose
Tireen
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City, Pa
Women's Law Iipes
Gary Bennett
Grover
Smuxfi
City
Pittsburgcs
Monarch
Ingel
Frank A. Wilcox
East Main St
Bott
Moung
Nori
Ai” Willer
Cervites
Senwirys
Atin Sessle
Jamil
Willy
St. Eleebath
Karl NM. Lyons
Hedeavor
Cawley
East Spring Street
Corellia Geesing
Anderson
Stora
Walker, Tudor
Noth Tenster Street
Opposita Hotel Grandin
Sarah Sreichs
Watford
Jeanne Burm Fuuney
Barlow
L. D. West
Jemichal Lith
Barlow Hardware Co
Colegrove Millinery
Donmuanit Murch Af Cobintme
Wiley
Parker
H. Weiss
Eagle Street
Boll
Lord Baltimore
Condra Pharmacy
Tae Rexall
Sam Jacobson & Co
One Price Clothiers
Penna
General Motors
Asi Us
Frigidaire Electric
Elecdevelopment CO
East 10Th Street
Ene
Citizens National Bank
Thursdas
Lan
Citico
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