War news and local notices spread across Union City area
Letters from soldiers in France bring relief as Capt Lawrence B Tidd and Sgt Leon Barnes are reported safe from POW status. Community fair plans add events including a draft horse show. Parole violations and court actions touch local residents as Gwynne Vaughan Jr missing in action is listed as in France. Meantime polio cases rise in Bradford while local jobs and farm work face shortages. Meadsville hosts civic gatherings and Odd Fellows Home expands to serve outsiders.
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Union City
Harry Barnes
War Department
Tsgt
Leon Barnes
France
Jamestown
Gwynne H. Vaughan
Port Erie
Ont
Cartada
Gwynne H. Vaughan, Jr
War Department of
Hille
Vaughan
Marie Cole Vaughan
Eugene
Oregon
Frank Wilcox
Buffalo
OPA
Thomas J. Reese
Ihauto
Davidson-Fogle Lumber Co
Meadville
Odd Fellows Home Association of
Western Pennsylvania
Odd Fellows
Rey
Harold Woods
Pennsylvania
Warehouse at Warren Robbed
Warren Pennsylvania reports robbers stole a calculating machine a type writer hydraulic jacks and office equipment from the Duty Construction Company during the night. Loss estimated between 500 and 1000 dollars.
George Jaggi 78 Died at Clymer Monday in illness
George Jaggi 78 died at his home in Clymer Monday after a long illness. Survived by wife Eva Foster Jaggi, son Henry at home, four grandchildren, brother William Jagli of Columbus, two sisters Mrs B J Dailey Albion and Mrs Josephine Bryant Federalshoro MA. Body at Spitzer Funeral Home. services Wednesday at 2 pm with Rev Frank Shope officiating. Interment in Asbury Cemetery Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jagat
Frank Shope
Asbury Cemetery
Union City
Polio Strikes Local Children In Warren County
In Warren County two new polio cases emerged over the weekend. Four year old Joseph Hunsberger of 324 Water Street and Rex Ireland, 14, Spring Creek, are hospitalized at Warren General, both isolated with other cases and under quarantine. County medical director Dr. B S Briggs says no community measures will be taken until a school age child is affected.
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H. J. Grant
de- Jean & Cochran
Lt -Meadville
Crawford County
W. H. Brennen
John C. Davis
City Hospital
Linesville
V. Barsdale
Mercer Pike
Frank Wilcox
Harry Riley
Glyde Re Drake
Union Gill
8Th
Cherry Streets
Riley
Bergt
Joseph Lynch
Warren
Joseph Hunsberger
Harry Hunsberger
Water Street
Warren General Hospital
Rex Ireland
Spring Creek
B.S. Briggs
Reverend Edwin F. Armitage Named Pastor at Elgin Charge
Rev Edwin F Armitage was named by the Elgin Conference of the Methodist Church as pastor of the Elgin charge. The assignment includes the Elgin church and the McCray and Ridge churches in Concord township. He has been supplying these churches and will leave wartime work at the Aera plant to move nearer the churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ev. Wowin Armiage
Erle Conference
The
Methodist Church
Elgin
McCray
Ridge
Concord Township
Mr. Armitage
Aera
Concord
British Take Le Havre and Yank Forces Enter Germany
Allied forces push beyond the Moselle and Rhine as Hodges' troops sweep northeast capturing Luxembourg City and approaching Koblenz. American Third and Seventh Armies join near Sambernon, west of Dijon, reclaim much of the Maginot line, and secure power plants and fortifications as heavy fighting continues six miles south of Nancy at Port Saint Vincent.
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LE Havre
Germany
Page
Moselle
Reich
Third
France
Sambernon
Dijon
Third Army
Associated Press
Edward D. Ball
Nancy
Port St. Vincent
Allied Breakthrough Across Moselle and Dutch Border
British Second Army breached the Moselle front and crossed the Netherlands border as part of a wider push toward Berlin. German reinforcements from Denmark and Holland attempted a stiff stand north of the Albert Canal, but were driven back with heavy casualties, the fiercest since Normandy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moselle
Second Army
Netherlands
Kleve
Aachen
Berlin
Denmark
Holland
Albert Canal
Normandy
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NBC Shreddies
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Cory Hospital
Betty Wood
West Congress Street
Michael Sokalski
Corry
John Freno
East Broderick Street
Lyceum
Rexall
Powell Motor Co
Worth Center ST
Mwhare
Stig Mirrtek
Alea Nent Mottay
Tuenday Tor
Raymond Tidd
Fifteenth Street
S-Mall
Lawrence B
Tidd
Frannce
Tida
Lynn Sill
Beaverdam
Dial
Eric
Elmer L. Evans
Harold Haas
Allegheny County
Hattie Carnahan
Leroy Search
Haas
Frank Wil
Otis Warren
Lewis Pierce
Pierce
Pred Trawick
Penn Avenue
Trawick
Bradley Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Erie
Richard H. Whitehill
Olt City
Priilly M. Jeakins
WRC
Rosé Westley
Worth Street
Prank D. Geiger
Air Corps Reserve
Bradford Hospital
John Foster
Mt. Alton
Bruce Spencer
Rixford
Emporium
Silver Creek
Allen Augusta
New Orleans
Mayville
Hanover
Augusta
Sfive Lyceum
Olean
Fréd Bell
North Barry
Charles B. Bell
South Union Street
New
Federal
Lindsley
George Jaggi
Clymer
Laake
Edwin F. Armitage
Spartansburg
THEIR
Pennzoil
van Cise
Eran
Smith St
Deal
His
Corey's Greatest Clothiers
Oleo
Campbell's Tomato Soup
Salerno Graham Crackers
Stakely’s Peas
Wox
Hamburg
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