Pearson to Broadcast from Erie on Friendship Train Night
Drew Pearson, famed columnist and radio host, will come to Erie November 16 with the Friendship Train and broadcast from the city that evening. Othmar B. Wuenschel, vice chairman of Erie's Friendship Train Committee, announced the schedule placing the train in Erie at 4 p.m. and Pearson's nationwide broadcast at 6 p.m.
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Drew Pearson
Erie Erie
Erie
Othmar B. Wuenschel
Waenschel
Pearson
Wuenschel
WLEU
Los Angeles
Calif
Six flee from burning home in Erie blaze
A Bearsarge family of six including an expectant mother escaped their eight room frame house on Townline Road R D 3 as it burned to the ground after a 5 35 a m alarm. Neighbors said Marjorie awakened to flames and woke others before fleeing into the snow with the rest of the family and a guest. Firefighters saved a nearby barn and houses. loss estimated at 11000.
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Erie
O. G. Kerstetter
Townline Road
R. D
Kearsarge Pire
Clive G. Lyons
Mayville Firemen Save Home in Early Snow
Mayville firemen battled a morning blaze on Nettle Hill road near Summerdale, saving a house but not the garage, car, or carpenter tools owned by William R. Rackley. The Saturday fire caused $650 in losses and is under investigation as to its cause.
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Mayvilly
Mayville
William R. Rackley
Nettle Hill
Summerdale
Matthew Koch
Rasselas Mother of Four Commits Death by Own Action
Mrs Joseph Gelsick a 93 year old mother of four children aged 3 to 17 was found dead at her home on the Rasselas road near Wilcox Elk County coroner Stanley Barratt said a verdict of death by own action. The coroner noted a long nervous history and prior threats of self harm. State Police from Ridgway reported two shots from a double barreled shotgun with the first shot through the ceiling and the second fatal. The shotgun and shells were hidden but found by Mrs Gelsick.
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Kane
Joseph Geislek
Rassélas Road
Wilcox
Elk County
Stanley Barratt
Barratt
Gelsick Hao
Ridgway
Fred
Gelsick
State Old Age Assistance Rises Slow in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania's old age assistance rolls increased nine percent since World War II, far below the national rise of 19 percent. About 90 000 cases are open for relief, with 193 per 1 000 residents over 65 in need, compared with 254 nationally. The program targets seniors with insufficient relatives to support them.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvar
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Assistance
Union City Man to be Buried Here
Union City remembers 7u year old Gordons sewer who died after a three year illness at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. Survived by parents Seaver and Mrs Seltzer of Union City R D 1 two sisters and a brother, Shirley Bedow Norma Selizer and Nealan Seltzer. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Union City Amity Church at 2 p m with interment in Pine Grove Cemetery after a family home prayer service.
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Gordons Sewer
Union City
Cleveland Clinic
Ollowing
Seaver Seltzer
Shirley Bedow
Norma Selizer
Nealan Seltzer
Union Amity Church
Union City Amity
J. E. Baler
Pine Grove
Former Erie Mayor William J Stern Dies in Hospital
Erie Nov 10 William J Stern former mayor of Erie and longtime civic leader died Sunday at 12 25 am in St Vincent s Hospital age 83 due to complications of advanced age He served as Erie s chief executive from 1912 to 1915 and was mayor when the commission form of government began in December 1913.
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Erie
William J. Stern
L Ite
St. Vincent's Hospital
Stern
Civse
Died Saturday Evening Fred L Lines
Fred L Lines of Ohio street died Saturday evening after 8 o clock Born December 7 1870 near Spartansburg He lived around Centerville and Tryonsville later moving to Corry Jamestown area He was a carpenter and worked at Corry Jamestown Mig Corp since April 28 funeral Tuesday at 2 pm Sunnyside Cemetery Centerville with Bracken Keating Funeral Home in charge Surviving wife two daughters two sons and a sister
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Fred L. Lines
Onio Street
Spartansburg
Erma Kelsey
Centerville
Tryonsville
Lines
Corry- Jamestown Mig. Corp
Oil Greek United Brethren Chapel
Corry-Jamestown Lodge
T. A
Vella M. Lines
City
Emil Dingus
Erle
Carl G. Lines
Kenneth Lines
Cochranton
Clarence Cook
Riceville
Bracken- Keating
Sunnyside
Former Corry High Grad Died in Ohio
Mrs Nellie M Hub Bard Fowle a Corry High School graduate class of 1880 died in Columbus Ohio after a heart ailment Funeral service was held at Carroll Weir Funeral Home Columbus and burial at Amaranth Abbey She had lived in Columbus 57 years and was a longtime Corry resident
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Corry
Nellie M. Hubbard Fowle
Coumbus
Powle
Carroll-Weir
Columbus
Amaranth Abbey
Fowle
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Frank
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