Comedy Week Opens at Rex Theatre With Star Lineup
The Rex Theatre presents a varied slate led by First National's Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath with Jimmy Finlayson and Dorothea Mackall. Also showing Sporting Goods with Dix, Laugh, Clown, Laugh with Lon Chaney, and Buzz Barton in The Pink Kid, highlighting a week of vaudeville style cinema and comedy.
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REX Theatre
Hishard Dis
Paramount
Sporting Goods
Rex
Dix
Lon Chaney
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Veiere
Sex
Thetre
Lionel Barrymore
Herbert Brenon
Loretta Young
Nils Asther
Bernard Siegel
Gwen Ler Gisby Fitz-Gerald
Buze Barton
FBO
Grand Theatre
Buzz
Olean Woman Fatally Burned Saving Cow in Barn Fire
May 14 in Olean Mrs Kate Petrasey 58 died at Olean General Hospital after a barn fire she entered to rescue a cow. John Rossella 46 suffered severe facial burns in the same incident. Fire believed started by a lantern carried earlier. In Warren May 14 a well at Irvine Islands near Warren Axe and Tool Co. plant produced strong output and was deemed promising with plans for more wells. Grosh and Ruhiman said the Glade sand was reached at 740 feet and gas pressure hindered rig operations as crews prepare to drill further.
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Olean
Kate Petrasey
1611 Avenue
North End
Olean General Hospital
John Rosella
Bourdex
Petrasey
Warren
Groach
Ruhiman
Qwell
Irvine
Warren Axe and Tool Co
Red Grosch
Gest
Sunday School Supt Slayer Fires Death at Church
Sunday school superintendent B T Tyrrell Fell presided as Phillip Clark was shot and killed at the First Christian church just as a Mother’s Day sermon began. The shooting followed an argument over Tyrrell resigning and alleged marital trouble tied to attorney Tyrrell. The article also notes film showings at the Grand theatre featuring Irenah Dressing and Reginald Denny farce The Cheerful Fraud with cast members listed.
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Reginald Denny
Universal Jewel
William A. Seiter
K. R. G. Browne
Gertrude Olmstedd
Otis Harlan
Emily Fiteroy
Charles Gerrard
Gertride Aster
Almond Cultivation Advances Since 1880 Era
A fragmented note outlines almond cultivation tracing its origins to the Mediterranean and marking the first imperial style cultivation in the United States since 1880. It references historical spread and early adoption without detailed names or dates.
Funeral Held at East Branch for Mrs Linda Starkweather
Funeral services for Mrs Linda Ann Starkweather who died at Corry hospital last Friday afternoon were held Sunday at Dobbs Corner Church near East Branch Pa with Rev H L Beagle officiating and the West Spring Creek church choir singing. Large attendance and abundant floral offerings marked the service. Interment followed in East Bray cemetery with bearers Merle Wright Grayton Rounds Archie Starkweather Wilbur Starkweather Don Danford and D Maxwell assisting.
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Linda Ann Starkweather
Corry Hospital
Dobbs Corner
East Branch
Hlf, Beagle
A. B
West Spring Creek
East Bray
Merle Wright
Grayton Rounds
Archie Starkweather
Wilbur Starkweather
Don Danford
D. Maxwell
Luncheon Notice for Hotel Corry Event
A notice invites Woman's Club members who attended Current events class this year and have not yet signified attendance to notify Mrs. Gerry Kinteald by Tuesday evening about the Incheon Wednesday luncheon at Hotel Corry.
Soldier of Fortune Barclay de Tolly Russian Field Marshal
Michel Andreas Barclay de Tolly, born 1701 and died 1818, was a Russian field marshal and descendant of a Scottish family that settled in Russia in the eighteenth century. He fought Napoleon in Germany, later commanded the Russian army, and was made prince for his service.
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Michel Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Russia
Napoleon
Ger Hiary
Youths Admit Slaying Farmer in Strongstown
Three youths, Millard Mardis Dennis Harman and William Campbell signed a written confession from Nanty Glo police stating they planned a robbery and killed farmer Frank Carney at his Strongstown farm. They said they obtained 10.50 from the dead man after the attack and were placed in the Indiana county jail on murder charges.
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Ong Ta Wee
Carney Farm
Carney
Campbell
Chautauqua Home Gutted In Weekend Fire
A fire on the third floor of Mr and Mrs Charles Smiths Foster Avenue home Saturday evening caused extensive damage before local volunteer firemen extinguished it. Mr Smith alone in the house discovered the blaze around 7 PM and believed it started in the chimney.
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Chautauqua
Charles Smith
Foster Agenue
Pine Grove Cemetery Association Annual Meeting Notice
The living original members and all others who have paid for perpetual care are invited to the Pine Grove Cemetery Association meeting to reelect fifteen directors. The election will be held at the office of C. L. Alexander, manager, 115 North Center, promptly at 7 oclock on Monday evening May 14. B. S. Rowb.
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Lota Whera
Lola
C. L. Alexander
North Center
Classified Advertisements Page Proclaims Variety of Listings
A long list of newspaper classifieds outlines services from home ads to employment, automotive sections, and notices. It includes an Administrator's Notice for Almon Morton and a Card of Thanks to express sympathy for Mr. Peter Madison and family, with homestyle notices and local business categories.
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Automo Ave
Dimbo
Deak
Wstate
Farma
St—Suburban
Beter Madlaon
New York Fish Peddler Freed After Tombs Prison Escape
Robert Weiner, a New York fish peddler, is freed of a first degree murder charge as the New York Court of Appeals overturns the Tombs prison escape conviction. The panel ruled evidence did not warrant the conviction and there was no new evidence for a second trial. Weiner had been convicted of aiding three inmates in a shootout that killed Warden Peter Mallon at Sing Sing during the escape attempt.
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Sing Sing
Ossining
N. Y
Robert Weiner
New York
Court of Appeals
Tombs Prison
Peter Mallon
Supreme Court Reverses Ohio Contempt Case in Antitrust Fight
The Supreme Court reversed an Ohio Federal court ruling in a criminal contempt case against Jacob A. Goldman and associates over alleged violations of the 1916 anti trust law. The lower court threw out the case for not filing within a year, a decision the high court overturns.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Ohio
Jacob A. Goldman
National Cashaginceay Company
Ausis
Offennes
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Montmartre
Paris
Eee
Warren Eastside
Irenah
Allan Dwan
First National Pictures
Robert Kane Iy
H. E. Warmer
Clive Brook
Lois Wilson
Lilyan Tashman
Journal
HOTEL
Corry
Pine Grove Cemetery Association
B.S. Rowb
E. E. Guignon
Malta
Stair Granite & Marble Works
Washington St
Corry, A
Reed
Weat Smith Starling
E. Main St
J. F. N. Barton
Tony Jackson
Spring St
Livestock
Himer
Warnshouse
Clymer
South Center St
West Pleasant St
Congress St
W. Cooke
Fairview Street
West Church Street
M. Cohen & Sots
Abt
Rooma
Bath
Plena Ant Street
South Center Street
Roma
J. B. Patterson
Wayne Street
Frederick St
Plessant
Parker's Grocery
We Farkor
Pleasant St
Minst Church
St. Phone
Brook Street
Oas
Scott's Crossing
King St
Sciota Road
Orel ‘Tompkins, Corry
Bala
Sali
Edwin Crapser
Bentley
Ruth Whitaler
Batt
Harry Nielson
Sony
B.C
Elgin
John Carpenter
Imortgage
Standard Screw Company
TM Barlow
Drie
Barlow
G. H. Barlow
Standard Automatic Products Co
Standard Turnbuckis Co
Standard Screw Co
Aera
Almon Morton
Bricounty
Pénnsylvania
Hersby
Register of Wills
Erie County
Pennsylvania
Millard Morton
Administrate
Walter L. Peake
Gerry
Corry Pyle
Mali Wight
Maygill
Imorro
Informe Mell Com
Penn Chan
Jurvanis
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