County property sales stalled by lawmakers
Erie reports county officials await Senate action on Bill No. 19 to permit disposal of about $1,000,000 in county land. Backed by Scott Way and Assemblyman W. W. Waterhouse, the measure would end prior owner relists and accelerate land sales amid an adjournment threat. A sanitation note adds pigs weigh about 28 pounds more at four months under the new system.
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House
Scott Way
W. W. Waterhouse
Corry
Way
Oldsmobile
General Motora
Amecanobele
Storm capsizes boats strand hundreds on Presque Isle Peninsula
Thirteen people aboard boats capsized in Presque Isle Bay as a 50 mile per hour gale struck the area. More than 3,000 were marooned on the Peninsula after waves covered the highway. Small craft received aid. a Conneaut cabin cruiser was driven to Dunkirk before port. Damaged concrete roads and washed out sections are reported.
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Presque Isle Bay
Connewy
Peninsula
Erie Peninsula Gale Capsizes Yacht Club Boats Off Cas
A gale on the Erie Peninsula capsized four sailing yachts from the Erie Yacht Club near Casco Street docks. Eight men and two women were saved by coast guard craft covering the race course. About 3,000 fishermen and others were stranded on the highway break, with cars lined from Water Works Park eastward. Park police aided stranded tourists as the storm waned, towing several vehicles chained behind trucks.
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Erie ‘Yacht Club
Cascallé Street
Water Works Park
Water Works Reservation
Erie Hotel Prowler Captured Then Fled
A prowler, possibly armed, tried hotel doors on the fourth floor of the Richford Hotel in Erie and was captured by hotel staff then fled the lobby to the street. Police recovered a straw hat. description: about 25, 5 ft 7 in, 170 pounds, dark complexion, light tan coat, tan trousers, brown and white shoes.
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Erie
Richford
Funeral service held for Byron J Crowell at Bracken Keating
Byron J Crowell was remembered in a funeral at Bracken Keating Panerni Home with Rev Edwin F Armitage officiating. Nephews served as bearers and burial followed in McCray Cemetery family lot. Attendees listed from Ohio and New York including Crowell and Sterrett families and friends.
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Byron J. Crowell
Bracken-Keating Panerni
Edwin F. Armitage
O. HR. Crowell
R. D. Crowell
Percle McCray
Frank Crowell
Raymond Crowell
Leigh Crowell
Mterment
McCray Cemetery
Diste Haxbrouck
Jerry Barns
Dorothy Whitworth
Robert , Sterrett
Cleveland
T. H. Clapper
Ed Sterrett
Mckean
Martin Crowell
Russell Town
Lynn Crowell
Ned Crowell
Forestville
N.Y
Willis Chaffee
Lulu Birchard
C. H. Belknap
Erle
Juanita Crowell
Youngstown
Gertrude Crowell
Washington
Lynn Sterrett
Tudson, Anna
Clyde Tilley
Onion
Large Western Pa liquor raid nets 65 arrests
Meadville authorities along with 40 state agents and 12 city police conducted a sweep in the 1100 block of Weed City arresting nine proprietors of disorderly houses and 65 others. Large quantities of beer wine and liquor were seized and stored at the police station. Police estimate a crowd of about 600 watched as arrests were made and many offenders were fined in Meadville court.
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Meadville
State Liquor Control Board
Catriot
James Koski
Erie
Ghie
E. . Gibson
Uniontown
Pittsburgh
Titusville
Franklin
Gibson
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