Jamestown drum explosion injures worker cutting 50 gallon drum
May 20 Jamestown. Frank Tanski of Paleoser an employee of the Weinsmein Company was seriously injured when a 50 gallon drum he was cutting with an acetylene torch exploded in his face. He was rushed to Jamestown General Hospital with severe head lacerations and shock. Police say fumes remained in the drum ignited upon heating.
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Jamestown
Frank Tanski
Paleoser
Weinsmein Company
Lauiski
Jamestown General Hospital
Architects Seek 5400 From Baldwin Estate
The estate of George Daniel Baldwin is sued for 5400 per day by Shutts Morrison & Woul for an architectural fee. Defendants are executors Mabel L and J Robert Baldwin. The claim covers drawing plans for a $150000 three story apartment building at Sixth and Chestnut streets, begun April 1 1940, then cancelled.
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Erie
George Daniel Baldwin
Shutts & Morrison
Woul Architectural Fim
Mabel L
J. Robert Baldwin
Baldwin
Sixth and
Chestnut Streets
Shutts and Morrison
Spartansburg Grange hosts traveling Bible event at Hydetown
Sparta Grange led Crawford County Pomona Grange to Hydetown for a Bible program with thirty three members in attendance. A full program followed with singing readings, moving pictures, and a skit titled Little Nell the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter. Next Saturday the group will confer first and second degrees on a large class of candidates.
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Spartansburg
Sparta Grange
Crawford County
Pomona Grange
Hydetown
Burl Chelton
Rae Smith
Corrie Wald
Lyell Carr
Prof. Carr
Arthur Scouten
Fanny MacCray
Lawrence Scouten
Gilbert Scouten
Mark Blakeslee
Eldred
Floyd Dooher
Marjorie
Kane
Glint Smith
P. J. Dooher
Wirt Ingram
Elsie Sturdevant
Charles Hood
Charles
Erie
Mollie Snapp
Clarence
Glyndon
Aychie Gibson
Harold
Pern Sayre
Joseph Eastman
Calvary Baptist
East Lynn
Mass
The
Baptist Church
Girl 14 Dies of Gas Fumes in Meadville Cottage Tragedy
Mary Low Heveker, 14, of McKeesport, died in Meadville City Hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a French Creek cottage. Her father August Mercker, 67, survived. official verdict ruled accidental death with damp air and an open window contributing to the fumes.
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Meadville
Mary Low Heveker
McKeesport
Irl
French Creek
August Mercker
Daniel Maloney
Crawford County
Maloney
Officer on Trial for Maltreating Americans
An Allied officer in Tokyo, once mess officer at a Japanese prison camp, faces trial amid affidavits from former prisoners alleging abuse. Alvan Carpenter, head of the Allied legal section in Tokyo, says affidavits have been sent to Washington. Navy records identify the officer as a 0 year old who served in 1926 after navy enlistment and was captured at Corregidor, later freed in October 1995 and treated at Oakland Naval Hospital until January 24, 1946.
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Allied
Tokyo
Rick
Alvan Carpenter
Allied Headquarters
Washington
Navy
Annu Vis
Corregidor
Oakland
Gelf
Defendant fined for being late for trial in Erie
Lawrence Poster waited weeks at the Erie county courthouse for his theft case. He arrived an hour late triggering contempt of court. Judge Burton R. Laub discharged the previously impaneled jury, forfeited Poster’s $4,600 bond, then remitted it but held him in contempt. Poster owed a $15 daily fine and costs for the bench warrant.
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Erie
Lawrence Poster
Erie County Court House
Court House
Burton R. Laub
Foster
Poster
Laub
Cunningham Service Held This Morning
Rev. Francis J. Graves of St. Thomas Church led a Requiem Mass at 9 20 am for Mortimer Cunningham and others. Burial followed at St Catherine's Cemetery in Titusville with Mr and Mrs L W Knepp and Mrs Elizabeth Williams of Cleveland in attendance from afar.
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Francis J. Graves
St. Thomas’ Church
Masy Ak
Mortimer Cunningham
Walsh
Bayard Bogham
Clarence Mixer
Ralph Weicht
Bk Gatherine
Titusville
L. W. Knepp
Elizabeth Williame
Cleveland
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Baldwin Estate
O. Winatis
Indy
Harold Wallace
Butler
Faith Wallace
Joy
Methodist Church
B. F. Firth
Agnes Gater
John Newman
Glenn Wilber
Paul
Mollie Dewey
Edith Murphy
Ruth Blakeslee
Thompson
John Newnan
Anna Newman
Rebekah Lodge
W. 5. GC
Mae Miller
Corry
Mildred Halfast
Emery Coates
John We
Glenn Steadman
K. Arden Bennett
Clair Lindsey
Charles Searem
Masonic Oifer
Sherman
N. C
Paul Allen
Alfred Lord
Corry Hospital
Karney
First Baptist Church of
Buick
W. W. Waterhouse
Corry, Pennsylvania
Gates
ESSO
Carl N. Gates
E. Main
Shamburg
P Phillips
Truman
Lucien LeLong
Penelec
Ine
Pennsylvania Electric Company
E.T. Cherry
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