Local notices mix with updates across Ridgway era events
A sprawling miscellany from Ridgway and surrounding towns reports a fire believed caused by spontaneous combustion on Tryongilleen homestead, civic plans for Ridgway's street directory, a county auditor’s update, a WBA meeting with a card party, hospital moves, camera ads, and local society items. Also noted are Old Home Day at Kellettville, Virginia Kingsley named acting postmistress at Pleasantville, the death of Chas Drake, and a Jamestown wedding at Warren's First Baptist Church with attendants and best man.
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Tryongilleen
Hemivell Witte
Peftuiyivanse
Behe
SS Marys Gazette
Mary and
Martha
Presbyterian Church
Spring Creek
Erie
Crawford County
Bb, Blue
Haristown
Kellettville
Virginia Gertrude Kingsley
Pleasantville
Titusville
Chas Drake
Coll Hdwin L. Drake
Palive
Jamestown
Myrtle Wilcox
Cleveland J. Wilcox
West Fourth Street
Edward L. Vincent
Sdrai J. Vincent
Smithford
Pitst Baptist Church
Warren, Pa
Roy S
A. MacDougal
Mary Boland
University of Buffalo
Austin W. Samplin
Bisheniton
Polish American dance to aid St Marys church at Columbus hall
City and vicinity items report a Polish American dance on Saturday night at Columbus hall from 8 to 12 to benefit St Marys church of Columbus. Also noted Coty the perfumer died near Paris at 60 after pneumonia. Violet Hilton and fiance Maurice Lambert travel but no wedding due to attorney advice. A gasoline truck fire on Lakes-to-Seas Highway near Van, driver John Smith, owner Wolverine Empire Refining. Other small notices include Democratic committee protests, church society meeting, air mail glider flight, Jamestown fire crew, a wanted checks suspect, and local erector and bridge tournament awards.
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Certo
Will J
Wilcox
Columbus Hall
Gond
St. Mary's Church of Columbus
Ate —W Francois
Coty
Paris
Violet
Wolverine Empire Refining Company
Reno
John ‘Smith
G. G. Martin
Democratic County Committee
J. R. Grandy
Sandycreek Township
David L. Lawrence
Democratic State Committee
Martin
Ann Arbor Mich
Hartmore
O'Meara
White House
Washington
Jamestown
Hazard Street
Eric
Adam Lehner
Sassafras Street
Catherine Johnson
J. W. Brown
Lehner
Crawford M. Woods Co
Breezes From North Bring Midwest Heat Relief
United Press reports cooling winds from the north provided relief to the midwest, where a severe heat spell left scores exhausted and more than 700 dead. The heat, described as the worst spell in many areas, continued to affect the eastern half of the country with scattered hotspots remaining extreme.
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North
Midwest
United Press
Kansas City
Butte Faces General Strike and Guard Mobilization
In Butte Montana on July 26 a mining writer reports the threat of a general strike and potential martial law as officials and unions weigh a promise by Governor Frank H. Cooney to mobilize the National Guard. Union leaders vow to respond if the guard is ordered out, warning they will pull every union man in town for the job.
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Ac Buipte
Mont
Rocky Mountains
Frank H. Cooney
National Guard
Tars & Copper Sningra
Choate attacks state liquor monopolies at governors meeting
United States Alcohol Administration chief Joseph H Choate criticized state liquor monopolies noting they require large political machines and raise costs pushing consumers to bootleggers He argued such systems cannot meet public service demands without vast organizations and strong business skill Also in Arkansas execution of mass murderer Mark Shantz was postponed to after September 17 by the state supreme court justice order
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United Prese
Little Rock
Ark
Mark Hl Shantz
T. H. Humphreys
State Supreme Court
Appeal Seizure of Mint Slot Machines
The Mills Novelty Company appeals a July ruling that its $17 mint slot machines seized as gangplank devices are unlawful gambling devices. The case, argued before the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court in Pittsburgh on September 26, follows a lower court destruction order that was upheld by the Supreme Court. Pending the ruling, the machines will not be destroyed. In other news, Fernando Hull, age 75, left Ohio for the first time to visit Wheeling with relatives.
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Unitea Eres Philadelphta
Mills Novelty Company
State Supreme Court
Pittsburgh
Mills Company
Sipreme
Sips For Court
Jower Court
Supreme Court
State
West Virginia
Fernando Hull
Ohio
Wheeling
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Lyle Bewley
Lie Comvent
Corry Country Club
Virginia Edson
Kathryn Purcell
L. B. Roelofs
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Erie County
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Charles M. Carter
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