Corry Boy Delays Cunard Liner Samaria by Fifteen Minutes
Charles T. Lusey, Corry boy, caused a delay in the Cunard liner Samaria bound for Liverpool when he and his wife misjudged the sailing time. Officials held the ship to allow them to arrive. Lusey was found with unpacked clothing and a shoe protruding from his pocket as he prepared to sail.
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Charles T. Lusey
Dublin
New York
SNDW
York
Samaria
Liverpool
Chava ‘T. Luszy
Toledo
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A mosaic of notes from Jamestown and Warren area papers recalls historic events and local notices. Mentions include Berlin era postcards, a Charles Lindbergh sighting, a memorial tablet for composer Whelbert Nevin, plans for a new filling station, and local society updates.
Crowded Corry Car Overshoots Roadside Embankment
On May 4 near Cambridge Springs two Ford cars collided in rain on a hill. Prank Safina’s five passenger coupe, following Mrs. Melissa Hurlbut’s Ford coach, slid off the pavement and over a 15 foot embankment. Hurlbut’s car rolled onto its side while Safina’s vehicle rolled several times. All occupants escaped unharmed. state patrolmen delayed moving the cars for safety.
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Meadville
Prank Safina
West 82Nd Street
Erle
Melissa A. Hurlbut
Liberty Street
Corry
Cambridge Springs
Safina
Pilot James H Ritter Dies in Atlantic City Crash
Captain James H Ritter age 38 owner of the Atlantic City Flying Service perished in a fatal plane crash at the municipal airport yesterday afternoon. Surrounded by about 6000 spectators the aircraft dove from 100 feet in a tail spin near the runway apron. Bodies were removed with hacksaws and Ritter died at Atlantic City Hospital. He served as an aerial machine gun instructor in World War I with the Eighteenth Division AEF and had around 2000 flight hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Atlantic City
N. F
James H. Ritter
Atlantic City Flying Service
Ritter
Johnstown
Amos and Andy Guests of Hoover Secretary
United Press reports Amos and Andy free man Gosden and Charles Corrett visited the Catoctin Maryland camp of Lawrence Richey secretary to the president. Washington Post notes a possible move in Republican circles to hire the team for President Hoover’s campaign next year. Richey dismissed the idea, saying they were social visitors only.
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United Press
Washington
Freeman Gosden
Charles Corrett
Amos and
Andy
Catoctin
Lawrence Richey
Two Bandits Executed For Killing Mine Payroll Guards
Two men Sigismund Szachewicz and John Nafus were electrocuted at Rockview for dynamiting a mine payroll car and killing four guards including Arthur Webb of Glen Alden Coal. The January 13, 1990 crime near Warrior Run left $32,000 scattered and four men dead.
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Rockview
United Press Bellefonte
Luzerne County
Rockview Penitentiary
Sigismund “Big Tok
Arrthur Webl
Scranton
Glen Alden Coal Company
Frank Bresirsky
Martin Shoylin
Martin Burns
Webb
Warrior Run
German Professor Killed in Auto Crash Near Victorville
Dr. Paul Josef Belar, former Berlin resident and associate professor in biology at Caltech, died when his car left a highway near Victorville and overturned. Three companions were injured. Belar joined Caltech in 1928 after leaving Germany where he was with Kaiser Wilhelms Institute of Biology.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Paul Josef Belar
Berlin
California Institute of Technology
Victorville
Belar
California Tech
California
Germany
Kaiser Wilksl Institute of Biology
Erie County Sabbath School Convention At First Baptist Church
The 65th annual Erie County Sabbath School Association convention will be held at the First Baptist church in Erie on May 31 to June 2. Dr. W W T Duncan of the History Methodist church of Pittsburgh is the chief speaker. program includes prayers, sermons, addresses by Miss Lillian Reed and Rev R A Thompson, and various department sessions led by local pastors and educators.
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Erie County Sabbath School Association
First Baptist Church
Cty
W. W. T. Dancan
History Methodist Church of
Pittsburgh
Duncan
Erie County
First Bapist
Blackmore
Carl
Pail
W- V- McLéany
Wayne Street
Terie
Convention
First Baptist
C. A. Blackmore
Paul
Captain Applebee
Corry Salvation Army
E. A. Hook
Orville Is. Bogenaburg
Hugh B. Speer
First United Presbyterian Church
Erie
Blackmore and Stall
Mirs
Uber
HO Beagle
United Brethren Church
Lillian Reed
Pennsylvania Sunday School Association
R. A., Thompson
First MF Church
North East
Edward Weber
Simerintendent
Presiding
Pranie Tompkinson
H. C. Mariwood
Penn
M. BE. Church
Sara White
White
Piret
My Big C
Vera Jasin
John Brauns
First Presbyterian Chirch
Marshall Pratt
Christian Education
William Coverdale
Geo
W. Wellburn
Penn's
Jas. Uber
Frank Wimer
Witt M. B
George W. Welburn
Star
Anoney
Advent Christan Church
W. M. Hall
St. Paul's
Sthesan
W. W. Dunicat
Emory Methodist Dutes
Wayne Furman
Wirst
Edinboro
Lloyd Shields
Wrst Baptist
C. V. Lick
CG. V. Lick
First
M. Church
Frank Nash
H. C. Markwood
First Presbyterian Church
Cloverdale
Br. Geo. W.wellburn
M. E
Vera Joslin
Arthur P. Zuel
Betty Buckley
R. N. Miler
Pentecostal Church
W. W. Duncan
Hmory
Pittseburgh
Barnett Bros Circus To Pitch Tents This Friday
Barnett Bros Circus announces afternoon and evening performances on the old fair grounds. The setup spans about four acres with a big tent for up to 6,000 in three rings, two stages, and a hippodrome track. More than 300 people and animals perform in rapid, precisely coordinated acts.
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Barnet Bros. Hig & Ring Circus
Barnett Bros
Etrcus
Grolini
Fall Fatal to Man in Sharpsburg Pa
Angelo DeSoto, 40, of Sharpsburg, died after falling down a flight of steps. Coroner reports the death as instantaneous. The body was taken to the morgue for a post mortem examination.
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Sharpsburg
Angelo DeSoto
Shirpsburg
Confession by Driver Solves Gordon Murder Case
May 25 report states chauffeur Shlitten confessed to driving the car in which Vivian Gordon died. He named Harry Stein as the actual killer and Samuel Greenberg as helper. Stein indicted. Greenberg to be arraigned. Shlitten and Lewis to be held as material witnesses. Evidence details include motive of robbery and preselected murder spot in Van Cortland Park.
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United Press
NW York
Vivian Gordon
New York
Harry Shutten
Harvey
Harry Stein
Samuel Greenberg
Greenhauer
Stein
Greenberg
Shlitten
Toey Lewis
English
Shitten
Miss Gordon
Stelm
Fonnenu
Gas drilling expands in Clymer region by Jamestown firm
A Jamestown based company named Columbia Puel Incorporated has begun drilling for natural gas in Clymer and North Clymer, New York, with leases covering over 4,000 acres. The first well on Henry Teculver’s farm targets gas in paying quantities, with multiple depth sand tops identified and neighboring shallow wells already supplying domestic gas. The venture follows months of land leasing in the Shantauqua Uplift, amid other local firms like Republic Light Heat Power Toledo Oil and Acme Drilling active in the area.
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Tioga
Jamestown
Columbia Puel
Clymen
Sharman News
New York
Stte
North Clymer
Clymer
Henry Teculver
Ten- 33
Section 10
Gaa
Columbia Met
Shautauqua
Clymér
Republic Light, Heat & Power
Toledo Oil Company
Acme Drilling Company
Prison Riot At Varidalia Ends With Fires And Clashes
Prisoners led by Charles Rogers and others ignited multiple buildings after a fence breach. Guards fired buckshot as inmates surrendered, injuring Wong and about a dozen others. Police, firemen, and the National Guard contained the disturbance. Chief Hubbard was knocked unconscious but recovered.
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Charles Rogers
William Simonds
Arthur Ragan
Charles Lewis
Wong
Varidalia
GC. A. Hubbard
Fiere
Gov. Emmerson
Aulet
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Erie County Sunday School
ALSN
Cunard
Hudson
Eginning
Henderhy
Charlie Lindbergh
Hendeicie Hutson
Thang
Gerry-Jamestown Manufacturing Corp
St Halt
Charles ©. Hillstrom
Atthesterton
Ind
Jamestown Post
Varvish
Ollowing
State Highway Department
New Haven
Conn
Wthelbert Nevin
Zalmectt
North Center Street
Philip Zalznectt
Cities
Frances Mater
Pis
Catholic Daughters of Ammurica
Kane
Te Warren Times-Mirror 13
Garry
McGerry Astbet
Warren National Bank
McGarey
General Persting
Andre Tardieu
Mary Lewis
Parla
Prince of Wales
London
Byince
Princess Takamatsu
President Hoover
Valley Forge
Clarence Commandery
Knights Templar
Grand Commandery
Brie
Asuuly W. Thompson
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army Forces
United States
Pennsylvania
Oil City
Beavers
Allason
Toda
Ray d. Levis
Westyvite
Tatter Place
Hamot Hospital
Trie
Steel
General Motors
Ayfe
Ford
Melissa Hurlbut
Punx
SY Flier
Hoover
Lupescu
Romania
Mina
Magia Tupescu
Carol
Marie
Savoy
Italy
Mme, Lupescu
Maris
Nicholas
Circus
Probak Blades
Condra Pharmacy
Rexall
N. Centar St
Corty
Gordon
Frank O'Day
Niagara Falls
Regus
Enna Jrutice
Newhouse “Shoehouse
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