Fragmented city notices from Warren Erie papers fade
The body of Frank B. Pilesi, 69, of Warren, returned from Erle after a fall in Hamot Hospital on October 12. Large cedar power poles move through Warren as replacements from St. Marys to Ridgway. Erie banks supply only part of a 6000 silver dollar request. The Marconi Bridge Club tourney to resume after wartime gap with 75 acres burned by a forest fire near Corydon. Five Erie divorces granted, two new actions started. an elderly Ridgway woman lost and found after hours pursuit. Rasselas W. Brown named Erie Rent Advisory Board president. Nine whooping cough cases in Erie. Erie to buy a radar speed meter for $1,015. Civil legal actions include $5,000 damage suit by Emelio Mangoni of Erie. Knights and Ladies to visit Spartansburg Methodist Church. Rent increases signed by 83 percent of tenants in five-state area. 82 percent nationwide. Blaine Shunk representing Scout District 3 at a meeting in Wilmington Delaware. Columbus Volunteer Tire Dept reduces debt by $1,000 after a fund campaign.
Rubber stockpile fire erupts near Butler New Jersey
Sparks from a blaze destroyed a 14 million pound scrap rubber pile at Pequance Soft Rubber Co in Butler New Jersey. The inferno produced three mile arcs and prompted hundreds of residents to wet their homes as insurance valued damage at $252,000. Superintendent Thomas Mace said wind shifted away from two neighboring piles and that burning brush likely started the blaze.
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Ty Asanemen
Butler
N. J
Pequance Soft Rubber Company
Thomas Mace
Mace
Union Marks Time in Strike at Galion Plant
The CIO UAW marks time in a nine week strike at North Electric Company in Galion with a 12 hour siege of 350 workers amid vandalism at the Kenton Ohio plant. Union seeks recognition and a wage increase. officials called off pickets to meet with company representatives on Monday to discuss issues and shut down the plant until the conference.
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Associated Press
Galion
CTO
United Auto Workers
North Electric Company
Kenton, O
Tlephone Equipment
Tactory
Edward Duck
Cio-Uaw
Company 1
Home Dry Cleaning Safety Note
Guidance warns that dry cleaning and spot removal must occur outdoors and be hung to dry completely to dissipate flammable and toxic vapors. It prohibits using gasoline and naphtha for home dry cleaning under any circumstances.
Texas Doctor Sentenced to Death in Chair
A Texas jury of ten farmers and two crafts brushed aside an insanity defense and sentenced Dr. Hoyd J. Ross, a San Antonio surgeon, to die in the electric chair for the May 25 killings of Willard York, his wife Gertrude, their 8 year old son John, and York’s mother. The verdict followed a brief deliberation after Ross admitted the shooting and his lawyers cited financial ruin and alleged mental illness. The defense planned to seek a new trial.
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Associated Press
LA Grange
Tex
Hoyd J. Ross
San Antonio
Gertrude York
Willard York
Ross
John
York
Fred Blundell
T. J. Flournoy
J. R. Fuchs
Kidney Fatigue Relief Promoted by Borsoma Tablets
An old advertisement touts Thompson’s Borsoma Tablets as a stimulant diuretic to cleanse the kidneys and remove waste from the blood, claiming relief from aches, pains, and nocturnal wakefulness. It also mentions liver and stomach benefits and lists 60¢ price. a crude aside references Golden Lax Tablets for constipation and a historical nod to Abraham Lincoln.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Abraham Lincoln
Mrs Minnie Harroun Dead. Meadeville Native Passes
Mrs Minnie Mae Harroun of 300 East South street died early today discovered by her daughter Mrs Fred Young after 10 am. Widow of Robert F L Harroun she had lived in the city about 36 years born January 27 1876 in Meadville. Survived by daughter three grandchildren two great grandchildren two sisters and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services at Davison Funeral Home Monday at 2 30 pm with internment Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Minnie Harroun
Minnie Mae Harroun
East South Street
Fred Young
Harroun House
Harroun
Robert FL. Harroun
Meadville
Pine Grove
Fall Injuries Fatal To Girl In Oil City
Twila Elder aged 19 died in Oil City Hospital from injuries after falling 35 feet from a railroad bridge into a sand and gravel bed in the Allegheny River. A witness, J N Smith, saw her stumble while crossing the bridge. Hospital officials cited numerous fractures and internal injuries with severe hemorrhages before death. She survived by her parents and nine siblings. funeral plans incomplete.
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Oil City
Twila Elder
Allegheny River
Union Fights Firing Of Death Bus Driver Taddie
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Bus Drivers Union protests the firing of Theodore Taddie, driver of the West Ridge Bus Co. bus that plunged 40 feet off Route 5 near Dunkirk after a September 15 skid. Two women died and about 20 were injured. Taddie was cleared of blame by Coroner Theodore Morse.
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Seul
Oon
West Ridge Bus Company
Theodore Taddie
Dunkirk
Mary Louise Noble
Fredonia
Deli Carey
Brig
Taddle
Brooks Memorial Hospital
Brotherhood of Railroad
West Ridge
Taddio
Theodore Morse
Brocton
Paroled mother of infant remains pled
An Erie County court placed a twenty year old Waterford mother on probation for a year after she was charged with concealment of a dead child. The body of the baby was found crammed in a suitcase near Waterford the previous September 26, and the mother was ordered to pay court costs. Judge Burton R. Laub handed down the sentence, noting the circumstances and placing the defendant on probation.
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Erie
Waterford
Brut County Cour
Burton R. Laub
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Tober
Frank B. Pilesi
Warren
Erle
Hamot
St. Marys
Idaho
Russell Baldwin
American Contract Bridge League
New York City
Marconi Bridge Club
Corry
Elk Township
Corydon
Youngsville
Scandia
William von Hacht
Rasselas W. Brown
Erie County Rent Advisory Board
W. J. McDonald
Railway Express Agency Inc
Robert Geraci
Emelio Mangoni
Mangoni
Knights and Ladies of
Clarence Commandery
Spartansburg Methodist Church
mid-Atlantic
Piet H
Blaine Shunk
Harborcreeks
Wumington
Delaware
Fuind
Columbus Volunteer Tire Department
Foster E. Davis & Son
North Center Street
North Corry Emblem
W.L. Armitage
Texas
Family of Four
Franklin St
Dial
Heiman Jewelers
Bors
Marjorie G. Tarbell
Murphy's
Sesson
Cardigans
Topp
Corry's Smart Women's Shop
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