Folders Boost Roosevelt Highway Route Through Cory
More than 100000 folders for the Roosevelt Highway U S No 1 have been issued by the Association. The Scranton chamber will distribute 60000 folders to motor clubs hotels and chambers of commerce upon request. The folder features a new red and white cover a through route map from Chicago and Cleveland to Boston New York and Philadelphia and connects with routes in New England New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Canada. It includes 12 photos and highlights the highway as the Great East and West Trunkline with scenic views of rivers mountains and farmland along the route.
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Roosevelt Highway
U. S
W. Allison
Association
Chamber of Commerce
Scranton
Chambers of Commerce
Raymond B. Gibbs
East
Middle West
Chicago
Cleveland
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
New England
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Tidiana
Illinois
Canada
Allegheny Mountains
Delaware
Susquehanna
Allegheny
America
Sheriff Faces Fireworks Sale Ban Question in Hile County
Davis lacks authority to ban sales outside city limits. solicitor Sisson says no act grants sheriff power. Residents report vendors near borders. lawmakers may be asked to introduce a state ban. Erie city council previously banned sale and discharge after seven tetanus deaths. city will enforce again this year with prosecutions for sellers and distributors.
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Davis
Hile
S.A. Sisson
Miles B. Kitts
Iawity Council
Erie
Former Cory Resident Dies at 93 in Erie
William A. Wellmon, 93, a former Cory resident, died Wednesday afternoon at his son George A. Wellmon’s home in Erie after years of ill health. His widow Mrs. Wellmon died in 1918. One son survives. Funeral services will be held Friday at Alexander & Company’s Funeral Sailors at one o’clock, with interment in Grove Cemetery.
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William A. Wellmon
George A. Wellmon
Erie
Wellmon
Cory
Alexander & Company
Uolock
Grove Cemetery
Shower for newlyweds Briggs Burnett hosts party
Mr. and Mrs. H Russell Briggs received a lavish miscellaneous shower with over a hundred guests and $100 in money. Leon VanTassel provided visiting music and readings. After August 1 the couple will reside at 363 East Pleasant Street following a long trip to Virginia and the East.
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W. H. Burnett
R. D
H. Russell Briggs
Briggs
Marsha Burnett
Leon VanTassel
Burnett
Briges
East Pleasant Street
East
Virginia
Fireworks Sale Inquiry From 1929 Supply
The Journal receives a note from Mr Lindsley of Piet Avenue gist in reply to criticism over selling firework stands beyond city limits. He says his outside sale is not to defy the city ordinance, but to move an oversized stock to country buyers after attempts with outside dealers failed amid a busy traffic season.
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Journal Today
Lindsley
Piet Avenue
Journal
Pension Granted After 64 Years For Civil War Dependent
Henry Jackson now 68 in Red House Cattaraugus county will receive 1420 from the government as pension on a Civil War claim filed 1866 by his mother for an $8 monthly pension until age 16. Delays in filing kept payments pending for 84 years.
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Washington
Red House
Cattaraugus County
Daniel A. Reed
Henry Jackson
Jackson
Jonathan Jackson
City Sees Druggist Tam Lined On Fireworks Rumor
Local report denies taming illegal fireworks as Leon Lindsley of The First Avenue Druggist in Cambridge Springs notes dealers are allowed to dispose of stock on hand. Mrs H B Drought and her daughter Morah from Spartansburg visited the city for a day.
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Tam
Leon Lindsley
First Avenue
Cambridge Springs
Slice
Jean
H. B. Drought
Morah
Spartansburg
Diary May Solve Sea Mystery of War Time
A wartime diary claims a conspiracy aboard the Collins ship Cyclops, with a Barbados crewman among those involved. The vessel carried 15 officers 221 crew and 57 passengers from Brazil to Baltimore with manganese when it vanished after an explosion and a two-man escape. Meanwhile, Harry McGloin of Erie died from asphyxiation linked to a gas stove incident at his home.
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Efit
Barbados
West Indies
Baltimore
Brazil
Harry McGloin
Erie
McGloin
Warren to Get New Post Office at Liberty and Third
Warren July 3 definite assurance that the plot at Liberty Street and Third Avenue will be the site of a proposed new post office. Checks covering the purchase price were received and delivered to former owners. The government appropriation totals 290000 dollars with 60000 for site purchase and initial operations.
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Warren
Liberty Street
Avanaid Leasisin
Slabahen Daneer
M.C. A
Mletcher Parker
Warren National Bank
Messare
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