Blackmail Foiled in Oil City Arrest of Extortion Suspect
Oil City detectives trap and arrest John Bromley, 48, for threatening to kill Mrs. A. C. Morck unless she delivers 20000 in cash. Bromley, who ran a repair shop, pleaded guilty before Alderman McCready and is held on 3000 bail. Authorities detail the extortion scheme with a staged money pickup that failed.
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Omerry
A. C. Merck
Ua John Bromley
JD. H. McCready
Oil City
Bromley
Oil Cuy
National Transit Building
Seneca and
Genter Streets
Sunday radio favorites with network listings and programs
Radio schedules crown Sundays with WABC WIZ WEAF NBC CBS choices from 9 to 9 thirty. The column also notes a tense extortion incident in a Nations Transit building where Bromley confessed to writing the threatening letters.
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United Press
WABC
CBS
Chicago
WIZ
NBC
WEAF
Rilsshin
Titusville Team Faces Spartansburg After Reinforcements
The Brunswick AC baseball team from Titusville meets Spartansburg this Sunday. Titusville beat the Merchants earlier this season, but Spartansburg has added three Corry players, attempting a different result.
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Titusville
Spartansburg
Brunswick AC
Sparta Merchants
Merchants
Sparta Boys
Corry
Ridgway Plane Damaged After Emergency Landing
Ridgway reports pilot Jay C Evans and G Logan Kane arrived from Cleveland in a monoprop airplane. Poor visibility and a busy landing area near a golf course led to a rough touch down injuring no one but damaging the propeller wheel and right wing. Children on the field scattered as Evans avoided harm, then skimmed the ground to stop safely.
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Ridgway
G. Logan
Jay C. Evans
Kane
Cleveland
DuBois
Evans
Logan
Pennsylvania
Pymatuning Funds May Be Tied Up by Legal Hitch
Harrisburg September 5. Pennsylvania water and power resources board prepared to award a 1.5 million dollar Pymatuning dam contract in Crawford County. Officials said unneeded funds may stay in the treasury as an unexpected balance and could be used for related engineering or state employee expenses until the attorney general issues a formal opinion.
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Harrisburg
Water and Power Resources Board
Shenango River
Crawford County
Attorney General Board
Treasury
Galena Valvoline merger expected to close in Franklin
Galena Oil Corporation and Valvoline Oil Company announce a merger with headquarters in Cincinnati. Stockholders will vote at a Galena office meeting as details from August 18 are ratified. Valvoline operates refineries in Waren and Butler Pennsylvania. Galena runs a Third Ward Franklin compounding plant. Stockholders will receive Valvoline stock at about 36.69 Galena shares per 100 Galena.
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Pranklin
Galena Oil Corporation
Valvoline Oi Company
Cincinnati
Galena
Valvoline
Waren
Butler
Franklin
Head of Ludlow Tannery Dead at Newton services
The funeral for Nathan Cutler, president of the J. G. Cutis Leather Co. of Ludlow, was held in Newton, Mass, with James A. Connelly and G. W. Olmsted attending. Cutler died at his home Wednesday at nearly ninety after twenty years of inactivity in his presidency.
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Ludlow
Newton
Mass
Nathan
Cutler
J. G. Cutis Leather Company
James A. Connelly
G. W. Olmsted
Cutter
Waterford man seeks county treasurer post
County resident Horn, raised in Waterford, Pa, attended local schools and Chamberlain Institute Randolph. He completed an accountants course in three years, earned New York State accountants certificate, then worked as route supervisor for United States Laundry Co. since 1915. He served as a sergeant with the 919th Infantry overseas, discharged in 1919, and ran for county treasurer four years ago, narrowly defeated. He appeals for votes to elect a graduate accountant as treasurer.
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Horn
Waterford
Teft High School
Chamberlain Institute
Randolph
New York State
United States Laundry Company
Wiie
919Th Infantry
Unclear fragments: 14 year old arrest ends sheriff probe
Fragmentary report notes a 14 year old involved in charges or arrest related to sheriff's operations. Details unclear due to garbled OCR text. No clear names, dates, or places can be confirmed from the readable portions.
Fragmentary 19th Century Fire and Inquiry Involving Church Figures
A garbled report recalls a fire incident and subsequent inquiry amid references to church connections and local figures. Names and exact dates are unreadable, but hints point to an August event, an attempted arson, and a social or election context surrounding a church and community leaders.
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John Bromley
Odessie H. Plate
Uneer Federal Reserve Bank
Miller and
Sibley
Galena OM Corporation
Delaware
Galena Signal Ol Company
Charles Miller
Joseph Sibley
Lawrence A
Taylor
Myans
Elton Swe
Sherif
Helu Anid
Folly
Culleyville
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