Swan sisters depart for Charleroi teaching posts
Misses Della Nora and June Swan with their mother Mrs Charlotte Swan of Waterstreet left on the 8 35 train for Charleroi where they are teachers in the city schools. They will attend their institute next week. The Rev and Mrs Frank Wood award and their family of the Gilbert ads Pacific Ocean are en route United States and will come to.
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Della
Nora
June Swan
Charlotte Swan
Waterstreet
Charleroi
Frank Woodaward
Pacific Ocean
United States
Indidha to Stay with West Side Clergy Family
Indidha will be with Rev. Woodward's parents Mr. and Mrs. A. E. B. Woodward of West School Street. Mrs. Annice Mitchell Curtis of Youngstown travels with her daughter Miss Vida MacCullough and sister Miss Jean Mitchell to spend August with Mrs. Ida J. Kinsel and Mrs. William A. Clementson at Locust Spring Farm Archibald Smitten homestead Marchand.
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Indidha
Rev. Woodward
A. EB. Woodward
West School Street
Annice Mitchell Curtis
Youngstown
Vida MacCullough
Jean Mitchell
Ida J. Kinsel
William A. Clementson
Locust Spring Farm
Archibald Smitten
Marchand
Wedding Bells Ring for Adams and Bride
SOCIETY notes report Bittinger as flower girl and a wedding breakfast after the ceremony. The couple, after visiting friends in Vandergrift, Clymer, Penn Run and Grove City, plan a Cooperstown N D honeymoon where Adams serves as assistant principal. Mrs George Prothero of Wayne Avenue hosted a parch party for forty guests including brides elect. Out of town guest Mrs George Watson Creighton of Harrisburg is visiting in Harry Wilson Sr. home.
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George McCowan
North Seventh Street
Smethport
McKean County
Helen Gleason
Anna McGowan
McGowan
Bittinger
Vandergrift
Clymer
Penn Run
Grove City
Cooperstown
N. D
Adams
George Prothero
Wayne Avenue
D. B. Taylor
South Fifth Street
George Watson Creighton
Harrishire
Harry Wilson
Church Street
Finances Continued As Banks Aid Markets
Finances continued noting that nations can mobilize yet American bankers show eagerness to place securities at current prices and exchange rates. They are willing to assist other countries by unlocking marketable securities held in American markets that might not be sold domestically.
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Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Chicago News
Paris
Namur
Belgium
Meuse
Sambre
Notable supporters listed for peace association drive
An oral support group says it is funded by donations from citizens opposed to war and notes life memberships as its funding method. It cites ex Presidents Taft and Roosevelt, ex Senators Root and Wetmore, former officials Bacon Wright Dickinson, and business leaders Gary Wanamaker Westinghouse among its patrons.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Root
Robert Bacon
Meyer
Dickinson
Wright
Wetmore
Warren
Judge Gary
John Wanamaker
H.C. Prick
George Westinghouse
That Hyphen Again. Jamie's Scotch Heritage Reflected
Jamie and his family walk home under a moonlit sky as his father and mother discuss heritage. The narrative weaves Scottish identity through plaid clothing, Scotch foods, and the grandmother’s birch lies near the family land. The child points to the sky and exclaims in a moment of wonder.
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Jamie
Hamburg
Sot
Beatetidul Shy
Mlackerel
Huddie
Little Change In Warfare From Contemporaries View
The piece reflects on Napoleon’s singular charm and stern presence at age 26, noting his expansive yet somber nature. It contrasts ancient and modern warfare, praising decisive battles and the enduring traits of leadership admired by peers.
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Napoleon
Bioth
Atul
Eaemy
Spain Fixes Flour Price with Argentine Wheat Sale
El Imparcial reports Spain will sell 25 000 Matric tans of Argentine wheat to flour mills at 353 pesetas per ton with Liberal credit. Mills will not raise flour above 477 pesetas per metric ton. The note cites a 34.5 percent markup from purchase to selling price and includes Consul Robertson Honey in Madrid.
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Spain
el Imparcial
Madrid
Robertson Honey
Hidden in Beer Case Spy Rides Past German Guards
Paris reports a Belgian tale of Georges Bezon, a German-occupied Namur fortification worker who turned out to be a Belgian spy. After Namur’s forts were rebuilt, Bezon evaded capture through Liege, slipping unseen from a cafe and nearly to the Dutch frontier at Esden, closing within twelve miles of escape.
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Namur
Holland
Namurrels
Namurrois
Germany
Belgium
Engineering Corps
Givet
Georges Bezon
Neufchateau
Georges Hezon
Bezon
Bexon
Georges Begun
Cheorges
Nemur
Cutch
Liege
Georget Bezon
Esden
Pan American road congress planned for Panama Pacific Exposition
The Leading Good Roads Associations of the United States outline plans for the Pan American road congress to be held during the Panama Pacific International Exposition. A five member executive committee led by Gov. Charles W. Gates and including W. W. Crosby and E. L. Powers will coordinate finance program publicity and arrangements with invitations to governors and Canadian provinces. The effort aims to unite officials from all states and many South American nations to advance highway improvements amid broad cooperation from railroads and other groups.
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American Road Builders’ Association
American Highway Association
Charles W. Gates
Vermont
W. W. Crosby
Maryland
EB Li. Powers
Good Roads
James H. MacDonald
Connecticut
J. E. Pennybacker
United States Office of Public Roads
Montpelier
Gates
W W. Crosby
E. L. Powers
United States
State Highway Commissioners
Work In Michigan Spending On Highways 110 to 1913
Michigan expenditures on highways from 110 to 1913 totalled 7 250 000 dollars. The report outlines the scale of road work funded over this period and notes the impact on state infrastructure and development.
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Michigan
British Columbia Lumber Bid for War Court Housing
Lumber firms in British Columbia asked to bid on a 500 million foot contract to build 100 two room houses in northern France. The homes would be funded and erected under a government pledge for areas with property destroyed in the war.
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British Columbia
Bs Ved
France
Wate
Average Life of a British Officer in Combat
A London figure shows the average life of a British officer at the firing line is 23 days, a cavalry horse lasts ten days in actual fighting, and an automobile about one month.
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London
Heaviest Hog Sells For Record Weight in Beeville
A Beeville Texas farmer from Goliad County marketed a hog weighing 810 pounds at eighteen months old. The animal sold for eight cents a pound, bringing the owner $6450 in earnings.
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Beeville
Tex
British transport Royal Edward sunk by German U boat
London Aug 18 reports the British transport Royal Edward torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Six hundred men were saved from 22 officers 1 850 troops and 220 others. The vessel carried reinforcements to Sulva Bay Gallipoli and was escorted by destroyers through the Aegean Sea.
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Royal Edward Hava
Great Britain
Turkish Asia Minor
Gulf of Smyrna
Hie
Armairalty
Reyal Hdward
Sulva Bay
Gallipoli
Aegean Sea
Royal Fdward
Dardanelles
Constantinople
Asia Minor
France
Belgium
Egypt
South Africa
Servia
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
India
Bhieg Reliance
Royal Edward
Otto Hersing
Wilhelmshafen
Triumph
Majestic
Man pours acid on wounds after snake bite
Harold Hadley in Sharon pours carbolic acid on bite wounds after three snake bites fearful of poison. He is burned and a doctor is summoned. In Pittsburgh, 74 year old Mrs Frances Hulka of Sharpsburg is killed instantly by a train on the Conemaugh division of the Pennsylvania railroad.
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Kittanning
Steven Giluski
Cadogen
Armstrong County
Kittanning Hospital
Allegheny River Coal Mining Company
Sharon
Harold Hadley
Pittsburgh
Frances Hulka
Sharpsburg
Conemaugh
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Ff Hi. Ray
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South Seventh Street
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N. N. Swenk
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Reading Standard
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Blairsville Road
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Brody
New York
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Phyllis Moorhead
Indiana State Normal School
Oakmont
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Act of Assembly
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Leslie Pattison
White Township
John Russell
J. T. Hoover
Smickburg
John M. Malcolm
White
J. C. Conner
Jay D. Hill
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HM. C. Williams
A. J. Boucher
Raylie
Walter EL. Ayers
John C. Wells
H. Kk. Neal
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F. M. Smith
Blairsville
Elmer E. Carney
Leven Shaffer
George S. Griffith
South Mahoning
John W. Miller
James M. Nichol
East Mahoning
James A. White
H. M. Lowry
Walter H. Jackson
Register and Recorder
J. Blair Sutton
J . Weaver
J. Clair Longwill
J. M. Marshall
John Bennett
W. B. Waener
Brushvalley
D. P. Bothell
Washington Township
C. M. Sides
Ezekiel Somerville
Cherry Tree
J. W. Smith
Canoe Township
William W. Brilhart
J. C. Moore
W. N. Liggett
James W. Mack
John M. Gamble
William F. George
John D. Adamson
Rayne
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James Speedy
R. J. Hood
West Wheatfield
J. A. Palmer
G. T .McCrea
H. B. Buterbaugh
Indiana Borough
J. Willis Wilson
Indiana, Pa
Court of Common Pleas
J. N. Langham
Fortieth Judicial District
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Miles C. Young
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la Suisse
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State Department
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