Local items mix finds and plans across town
A resident finds a so called penny in pattons but uncovers a genuine 1849 California five dollar gold piece. Community notes mention low pupil counts in some relief classes, local boxing buzz, utility rate cuts, civic debates on municipal lighting, and staff changes in state agencies.
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California
Jerry Cole
Erie
State Armory
Clifton Howard
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Guy Simmons
Arthur Goggins
Clymer
Christensen Garage
Hej
W. J. Eaton
Union City
Golden Rule Clik
Russell Byler
Corry High
Doc" O'Hare
Curley
Williams
Doc" Bennett
John Blair
Doc” Reese
Hollow Lake
Upper
Ontario
Bear Creek sewer project nears one mile of pipe laid
City engineer N R Dickson lists nearly 1 mile of sewer pipe laid under the RWD program in recent months. The Bear Creek project used about 2800 feet of pipe with labor costs covered by Relief Works. Specific street totals include 829 feet on West Frederick 687 on West Irving 516 on West Congress and 292 on Zing for 4618 feet overall. No current RWD projects exist. council may authorize new ones soon.
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Bear Creek
N. R. Dickson
Frederick Street
Irving Street
Congress
Zing Street
Councl
School Head at Erie Retires at 3500 A Year
Erie paper reports John C. Diehl will retire as superintendent of the Erie school system with an annual pension around 9300. he declines a 1935 school director run. Colum bsus eighth grade commencement features diplomas for local students. ceremony includes programs, songs, speeches, and presentations by Principal M. S. Bonney and the Columbus Orchestra.
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Diehl
H. Ray Harris
Corry
John C. Diehl
Coolidge
Nat
Columbus
W. H. Garnett
Spring Creek
Apna Topolich
William Hudson
Columpus Township
James Bartoo
Douglas Bogart
John Brown
Donald Carter
Marion Howles
Walter Jankowski
Edward Jukes
Ruth Deans
Alice Kiuzma
Doris Moore
Anna ‘Topi] Vich
Subcolina
Bandura
Ralph Hamilton
William Hanson
Edith Christensen
Embert Crane
Mary Bacha
Frank DeLury
Mtss
Marjorie Mullroy
John Carroll
John Peterson
Jamestown
Charles Swanson
Community Church
Young People's Society
Delia Armstrong
Ira Wickwire
Studebaker's Miracle Ride Put Through Severe Tests
Studebaker engineers subjected the 1935 Commander to two extreme tests. Driver Luther Johnson completed 108% miles over a tough Pennsylvania Railroad bed to Indianapolis, averaging 33.1 mph. In a second round, the same car raced the Dixie Flier near Momence, Illinois, demonstrating endurance against a crack train.
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Studebaker
Walter J3. Merick
Pennsylvania
South Band
Indianapolis
Dixie Flier
Chicago and Astern
Momence
Luther Johnson
Studehater
Johnson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Will Porter Victim of Heart Attack in Cambridge Springs
Will Porter, prominent local mill owner in Cambridge Springs, was found dead Wednesday evening due to a sudden heart attack. Mrs Porter discovered the body when she went to the mill after his usual dinner-time delay, and Porter was a well known resident in the vicinity.
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Will Porter
Cambridge Springs
Fire at Stoneham Station House Rouses Town
In Stoneham Massachusetts a blaze confined to the station house basement drew bystanders who, prompted by passerby Frank Peterson, 28, shouted warnings and kept people clear as local fire crews battled the flames.
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Stoneham
Mass
Frank Peterson
Two youths held in Kane area theft case
Kane May two youths from the C C Camp at Highland are held at Durant City awaiting a hearing on breaking and entering and larceny. They were arrested Wednesday night by Trooper C M Mathias. Withrow Spencer, 18, pleaded guilty. Joseph Williams, 17, pleaded not guilty. The case relates to a break in at the F B Golden store at Higston Corners near Ute camp barracks. Officers sought witnesses for Williams alibi as they search for robery details including candy cigarets hashights and batteries.
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Joseph Williams
Williams
Charge Ex Erielte With Taking Fat Relief Job
Amour W Motley an ex head of the state employment bureau testified in New York City before an Aldermanic relief probe. He said he arrived March 26 and was offered the National Re employment Service post paying 4200 dollars yearly. He denied being brought to New York for a fat relief job and said he has held several conferences since taking the post.
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Columbus
Hastile
Olof
Glen Miller
Akin
Johm Dillinger
Dillinger
Baby Face" Nelson
Loreal
Sto 2
C. F. Brown
Roosevelt Highway Association
William A. Walker
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Jack Lucey
Marion Street
State Highway Department
RIN
Amour W. Motley
Erieste
State Employment Bureau
New York City
National
New York
Aldermanic Committee
IL 4S
Beals Held After Chair Attack in Elk's Restaurant
Charles W. Beals, 19, of 27% Blm street, arrested at 2:85 yesterday on disorderly conduct and to appear in police court. He allegedly struck John Shamber over the head with a chair at Elk's Restaurant on Center street. Shamber received three stitches at Me Oi Chiy Hospital for a head wound after an argument with Beals, per police.
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City
Charles W. Beals
Blm Street
John Shamber
Elk’s
Bilis Krause
Center Street
Shamber
Me Oi Chiy
Beals
Waterford Boy Has Close Call
Carl Guyer, returning from Erie after assisting an orchestra at a dancing party, left the pavement near North Mein street and crashed into a lawn tree. He suffered a broken collarbone and other injuries, was taken to Woodnau Hospital, and the uncle’s car owned by Staley Craker was wrecked.
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Waterford
Carl Guyer
Erie
Guyer
J Wren
Levant
Joon
North Mein Street
Carl
Woodnu
Staley Craker
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la California
Ray Greene
Crawford M. Woods
Denver
Reich
Walter B. Shaw
North East
Department of Labor and Industry
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center Street
Corry, Penn
Ex-Erielte
Lloyd P. Stryker
Chia
Wards
Montgomery Ward
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