Salamanca crash injures four in Route 48 incident
Private Leele Wakefield, 23, Cuba, drivers a 1942 Plymouth deluxe sedan that collided with another vehicle near Route 48 and Broadway. Grace McLaughlin, 27, Eloira Rupple, 22, both from Selamenen Women, and Mrs Marys were hospitalized with fractures and shock. The St Marys police report the car, purchased through Beystone Motors, had a siren and was in service last week.
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Iivle Valley
Selamenen
Grace McLaughlin
Eloira Rupple
Salamanca
Broadway Road
Ouifhaugsas
Leéle Wakefeld
Cuba
Sir Marys
St. Marys
Fresh eggs and milk prices in city and vicinity
Local ads list 27¢ per dozen eggs, 38-02 for apples and 19c for apple butter, milk at 6 cans for 47c. Wilcox Grocery, service since 1902, advertises. The page also covers a series of local notices, court actions, school staffing changes, wartime deliveries, and community events across Meadville and surrounding towns.
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Wilcox Crocery
Grand Redding
Daisy Starkweather Redding
Adah Post
Jamestown
Amy Perkins
North Clymer
Elmer Redding
Ripley
Charles Redding
Frénch Creek
Hodzink & Mitchell Funeral Home
Panama
Union Cemetery
John Charles Paterson
Wills T Turk
Buller
Justice of the Peace Hi
Alfred Brooks
Emlenton
Priday
Charles Pierce
Powell Motor Co
Mercer County Crash Kills Five in Route 19 6 6 Intersection
A fatal highway crash near Mercer city left 5 dead including 47-year-old New Wilmington mother H Linton and six-year-old Geraldine Bartlett. Among the dead were Hugh Davis and three of his sons, trapping survivors Helen Davis and Walter Anderson while two other passengers escaped serious harm.
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Merghh
Mercer County
Miomtfer
New Wilmington
Mercer
H. 10
Linton
Maxtie Bartlett
Hugh Davis
Newcastle
John
Fred
Edward
Bartlett
Geraldine
Lifiton
Davis
Helen
Cochranton
Walter Anderson
Meadville
Ford To Ask Stabilization For The War
Detroit May 11. The Ford Motor Company lined up with wage freezing advocates for the war's duration in advance of a CIO UAW demand for a one dollar per day increase. Personnel Chief Harry Bennett said no salary rise while government is freezing wages and that Ford will seek a wage freeze for the war. He argued any increase would raise production costs for the government war effort.
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Root
Pittsburgh
C. D
Mts
Oil City
Walter Evans
Titusville
Meadville
Bee Coates
R H. Sterling
Hydetown
Meadsville
Wiliam Blaestey
Bradley Field
Whidsor Locks
Conn
Lar Sony
Stone
Fromyamihi
Robert Morkin
Pine Grove
Associated Press
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Otter
CIO
United Auto Workers
Harry H. Bennett
Bennett
Bennnett
Jalsb
Bennelt
Billy Conn In New Battle With Father In Law
Pittsburgh May 11 The Sub Telegraph reports Billy Conn former heavyweight contender and Joe Louis challenger broke his left hand last night at the home of his father in law Timmy Smith after a dispute sparked by Conn marrying Smiths daughter Mary Louise Conn and Smith had been at odds since last summer The fight ended with both men bruised as friends and relatives intervened Also draft boards in Ridgway and St Marys plan inductions with dozens of men slated for June 20 and early June 5
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Associated Fresh
Pittsburgh
Sub-Telegraph
Billy Cohn
Let
Timmy Smith
Smith
Conn
Joe Louis
Summer
Mary Louise
Sut-Telegraph
Colin
Britain Ready to Strike With Gas If Nazis Do
London reports quote Churchill warning Germany Britain could strike back with gas if Nazis unleash gas warfare. He says civilians should carry gas masks and warns that unprovoked discharges against the Soviet Union would be treated as against Britain. He pledges to wage war on a large scale against German military targets.
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Associated Press
London
Churchill
Germany
Britain
Crimean
Ghorehill
Hitler
Erie R R Freight Wreck Delays City Trains
Twenty cars of Erie Railroad freight wrecked with rails and ties damaged. Locomotive and four cars departed rails near Maple Avenue. a wheel axle sheared off and crossovers bent. Affected track from Maple Avenue to EY crossover required repair, causing westbound and eastbound passenger trains to be rerouted via the PRR system with delays of up to ninety minutes.
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Page One
Maple Avenue
First Avenue
Buffalo Division
Pennnsylvania
West End
Erie
P. R
Cory
Wreck blocks freight traffic as Kilnger hurt in cab crash
In Meadville a freight wreck halted traffic for hours. Conductor Joseph Kilnger was thrown from the cab and bruised but likely not fractured. Wreck crews from Meadville and Salamanca aided, removing hundreds of tons of coal and clearing the roadbed. State College 2012 graduates create a scholarship fund for unborn children with a $5,000 gift to invest in Waxyond for future tuition.
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Joseph Kilnger
Meadville
Salamanca
Main Street
Lso
Erie Railroad
State College
State Callege
Mrs Vance Carr Dies At Batavia
Mrs Vance Carr daughter of Mr and Mrs L Baker of Inion City and granddaughter of Mrs L D Watson of North Center Street Batavia was in ill health and died at midnight She lived here in youth and had many friends Services will be held at Batavia Tuesday at 2 pm She is survived by her parents grandmother a daughter Lois a son Duaney and two sisters and two brothers
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Meadville
Caroline Ac I~ Gill
Stichaw
315 Squadron
Eigil Air-Patrol
Sale Memorial
Civil Air Patrol
Bradford
Erie
Butler
Ol City
Greenville
Connellsville
Warren
Youngstown
Missouri Fox Hunters
C. Hall
Columbus
Titusville
Truman D. Bingham
Sali
Meisd
Bingham
Franklin
Washington Bridge
Prandin
Red and Gun Club
City Hospital
Crayford County
Byron Nichols
East Wayne
William Conley
Spartanburg
Eleanor Raymer
Seneca Street
Paul Fox
West Church Street
Zeng Hore
Union City
F.D
Russell Palmer
Navin
Dorothy Brandes
Main Street
Ravenna
Ver Waller
Elgin
Kenbeth Loveland
Som
Main
Barmy Brink
West Main
Floyd, Prelick
Spartansburg
Philip Ware
Corry
William Turner
Clayton Turner
East Main Street
Root’s
YMCA
Cour
F. B. Skinner
William Snewston
Vance Cant
L. 9. Baker
Ofinion City
L. D. Watson
North Center Street
Carr Pd
Batavia
Lois
Duaney
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CAMAY
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Baker Maid
Empire State
Saan Ey Renee
Wilson
Wing- Willi Star Stores
Lanston
South Center Street
Dial
Center Sales Co
William A. Stewart
Cranberry
W. C. Frantz
Printz
Venango County
Stewart
Sligo
Clarion State Teachers’ College
University of Pittchureh
DeJean & Cochran
Henry W. Beers
Union Township
Katalen Bears
Dunkirk
Michael Zimba
Zimbs
Raymond J. Bartkowiak
Holly’s
Bite County
Shanelal
Harvey My Wills
Feres
J. A. Lanston
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Oil Producers’ Association
Mércer
FORD
Billy Conn
NEW Battle
Zlaim
SIE County
Ghiney
Ridgway
Eyle
Erie R. R
Gabardine
Zuckerman
North Center
Corey Pa
A. M. Special
Vance Carr
Wembley
Easts
Priestley
Main Centar St
Ted
Vance
France
Lea
Banion Down Co
Iorouise
Perforst Ventures
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