Behind the News of a bygone town life on the Erie line
A nostalgic roster recalls daily scenes along the Erie Railroad with station master, agents, grocers, piano players, and workers at depots and streets. Figures such as Jack Hastings Mark Gray Charley Henderson Johnny Cullen and many locals appear amid trains, telegrams, music shops, and small commerce, painting a vivid slice of town life and leisure.
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Jack Hastings
Erie
Mark Gray
Elgin
Riley
Union City
Pennsy
Maj
Pool Root Q
Root Furniture
Charley Henderson
Austin
Johnny Cullen
West
Ern Union
Harry Paulton
Cap TL
Beebe
Herhite
Spirit Hill
Gerry T. Kincaid
Center Street
George
Lem Knowlton
Helen
Fed Lauer
Wells Fargo Express Company
Nellaters
Florence Smith
Lyric Ceatre
Tommy Keating
Jack Lacey
Oscar Frita
Colmibus
Tom Shannon
Lee
Dan Nast
Ale Cafe
Costello Brothers
Main
Concord Streets
Roy Larson
Amuse-U
Joe Shamburg
North Center Street
Dan Mitchell Uiling
Charley Trimble
Shields
Supreme Court
Squire Nantes
Ale
George Capwell
Bert
Waltz
Carry City Electric
Davison
Journal
Géthia
Don Graker
Washington Street
Second Avenue
Innis White
Ted” Keete
Ag- Ums
George Hitchcock
Dail" Perris
Knode
Corry High
Bresnet
Squire Truesdell
Jack Gaffney
P. RR
RH Palmer
Harry Auer
Board of Education
Charley Powell
Willie Ward
Frank Babbitt
Connie Lyons
Bert Jourdet
Auto Dealers Plan Meeting at Cambridge Springs
Auto dealers from nine Pennsylvania counties plan a banquet and meeting at the Hotel Bartlett in Cambridge Springs on Tuesday evening November 27 at 6 10 PM. Hd Payton of Cleveland will speak and NRA representatives from Ohio New York and Pennsylvania will attend along with state and county code officials and local organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Erie
Crawford
Mercer
Venango
Clarios
Forest
Warren
McKean
Potter
Bartlett
Cambridge Springs
Hd Payton
Cleveland
NRA
Ohio
New York
John Leahy
C. B. Yount
Ashtabula
L. L. Putney
Chautauqua County
F. Ti. House
Claude S. Klugh
State Advisory Committee of Pennsylvania
George C. McWarland
Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee
F. L. Shellenberger
Dist
H. W. Gleason
Corryites Drawn For January Jury Service
Corry residents were drawn in larger numbers than usual for January court juries in Erie on Saturday. One hundred jurors were selected for service as about two hundred civil cases are anticipated. Names include John F Austin C F Bliss H A Brockmann Thomas Clark and others from Corry and surrounding areas.
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Corry
Chis Court
Erie
Jewelry Auctioneer Slain. Body Found in Barrel
The Brooklyn jewelry auctioneer Alvin Brunner, believed murdered at a Columbus store, was found shot and stuffed in a barrel in a Cincinnati garage. Police seek his secretary Tose Burns as detectives note $12,000 in diamonds missing from the Columbus store.
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Unisoeres
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Columbus, O
Alvin Brunner
Tose
Burns
Columbus
Brunner
Franklin Civil War Vet Patially Hurt
Franklin Pa November 26 The funeral for John Jefferson Hum 88 Civil War veteran will be held at the home of his son George Huff Wednesday. He died after a fall down a flight of stairs at a son Arthurs Lamartine home then contracted pneumonia.
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Franklin, Pa
John
Jefferson Hum
Alull
George
Huff
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Arthur
Lamartine
W C 7.0 Institute of Erie County Woman's Christian Temperance Union Meets
The regular monthly meeting of the Erie County W C T U will be held Wednesday December 8 at the Cranesville Methodist Episcopal church with Albion Union as hostesses. Delegates from state and national conventions will give five minute reports at 2 PM. Speakers include Rev K E Shindledecker and Rev George Palmer. A tureen lunch will follow at 5 30 PM. The evening program at 7 30 PM features devotions by Rev Williams, a reading by Miss Lowise Shindledecker, and a playlet titled Weighed in the Balance.
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Erie
George Palmer
Cranesville M. EB
Williams
United Brethren Church
Cranesville
Lowise Shindledecker
Grounds for divorce. Salem judge grants divorce after persistent drunkenness
In Salem Massachusetts Judge Edward B. O'Brien granted Helen L. Lewis a divorce from William Lewis after she testified he stayed drunk for twenty three consecutive days. The case cites sustained intoxication as grounds for dissolution of the marriage.
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Salem
Mass
Massachusetts
Helen L. Lewis
Alfred, Ilc
Edward B. O'Brien
William
Two Lifers Seek Clemency From Board
Two convicted men in separate cases ask the state board of pardons for clemency and sentence reduction. Haryon Ware, 22, tied to a Coco store murder, and Franke Wojnarowski, 47, jailed for the death of his wife, seek reduced terms. They face differing fates with prior executions in one case and deportation talks in the other. A separate item notes Pete Lump escaping injury when a beer truck crashed at a railroad crossing in Big Prairie, as 25 kegs spilled.
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RIB
Peniten- Haryon
Dos. Ware
Franke Wojnarowski
Hile
Btnte Board of Pardons
Ware
Wojnatowsls
James Parker
Ray Parker
James Wilson
Pillegring Cocco
German Street
State Penitentiary
Rockview
Coco
Wojnarowski
18Th Street
William J. Hirt
Mortimer BH
Graham
Poland
Big Prairie
Pete Lump
Mansfield
Automobile Believed Located in Kidnapping Case
Philadelphia police report a bloodstained automobile believed tied to the October 20 kidnapping of William Welse was found, with evidence suggesting a struggle. The car was kept secret pending fingerprint analysis by experts.
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Philadelphia
William Welse
Texas plans huge flood campaign with federal aid
Texas schedules a broad federal aided river control push totaling about 47.5 million dollars with a 2.6 million dollar Neches River bridge project and flood protections on the Rio Grande. The plan aims to save water for arid lands and reduce flood risk with U.S. assistance and PWA financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Neches River
Austin
Tex
Uncle Sam
Texas
IBMS
Texas Legislatue
Thetate
Brazos
PWA
Qerkes
Colorado River
Fite
Tasuil
Brooklyn
Rio Grande
Palacios
National Guard
Cathedral Word Euthedra Derivation From Greek Roots
Fragmentary note discusses a Greek origin of a term related to cathedral and bishop's throne. It references words resembling euthedra or enthed ent and hints at etymology within church terminology. Further readable details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
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Cambridge
Hotel
Raymond
Hoyt W. Alverson
J.T. Barker
Bilis
Bush & Sweet's
Fisher Ames
Frank Miller
Spring Street
Wi Street
R. J. Murdock
P. R. R. Freght
Sam Jacobson
Abel Gumbinsky
One Price Clothiers
George Stowe Thistling
Guy Simmons
E.R. R
Johny Stufflebeam
Ravilla Sackett
Harriet Swan
Hattie Bonsteel
Fairview
Janary
Amoridis
Eilis J. Harvey
Grant Hosier
Andrew Jones
Marie Metnnes
William J. Spiesman
Leon Wright
Mark Curtiss
Wattsburg
Enié
J. J. Mulherm
Franklin
Patally
United Pres
Washington
Bernard Shaw
London
C. L. Pletcher
Buffalo
Root’s Furniture Store
South Center Street
Penna
W.C
TWO Lifers
Joseph Ware
Frank Wojnarowski
Broadway Jones
Louise Nolan
Weiss Automobile
United Prose
Tone 1
Winw
Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation
Etta Kett
Jers
Smith
Eagh Toler
Earl
Antu
Stra
Paul Robinson
Nener Ebth College
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