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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1925
Page
1
A report on efforts by a joint Philadelphia engineering committee and public utilities to harmonize street paving plans with track construction by the P R T. The aim is to reduce traffic obstruction, cut congestion, and improve relations between city government and public works.
District Attorney Gardner opened the case accusing Bell of falsifying entries in bank ledgers and falsifying reports to the State Banking Department with a charge of embezzling 800 648 dollars. Conviction on all counts could yield up to 70 years and a 70000 dollar fine. Jury of seven with Mrs. Della Nauser foreman.
The Gas Commission will review United Gas Improvement Company proposals for amending and extending the city gas works lease. While the company is respected for efficient property management, key issues arise over the management fee, mortgaging rights for extensions, and lease assignment without city consent, demanding careful examination by the commission and taxpayers.
Governor Pinchot visits Indiana county continuing his inspection tour. He notes hospital well kept yet outgrown and urges a larger facility funded by state and local support. He praises hospital management, comments on election law recommendations, and attends Rotary supper and church meeting in Punxsutawney. Mrs. Pinchot accompanies him, assisting with medications and visiting Normals School and the hospital.
The tropical disturbance moving northeastward in the Atlantic was forecast to hit port by 10 o'clock this morning. The Munson liner Fed Bird was ashore off Miami and was floated. The Weather Bureau reported the disturbance was approaching from the southeast and continuing northeastward.
Two county women are reported dead in an incident referenced on the first page. Details are sparse in the readable text, but the item indicates fatalities affecting local residents and warrants follow up for names, ages, and circumstances.
The article notes that from 1020 to the start of the current year about 26 billion dollars were spent on residence and industrial building in the United States, with this year adding roughly 7 billion to reach around 32 billion. It examines investor options from home ownership to direct property purchases and cautions about land speculation. It also highlights high grade securities tied to large building financing, especially first mortgage bonds, as conservative, safe returns for invested funds.
Roy Campbell died at 2:30 a.m. in Center township at his grandparents’ home from pneumonia and complications. He is survived by his parents three sisters Elsie Esther Ruth and Clara Jane grandparents and his nurse Miss Nevada Buchanan. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at his late home conducted by Rev. R. J. Roberts, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
The anthracite operators meeting in Philadelphia rejected Pinchot’s basis for settlement calling his plan expedient and not arbitration. They oppose a board of investigation that would raise wages and insist prices rest on supply and demand. Weather may affect when a settlement is reached amid public demand for immediate resolution.
Mrs. Joseph B. Baker carried the hands of the performance, while Mrs. Walter H. Jackson guided the organ and orchestral blends. The two musical organizations, under the director and organist, formed a trimvirate praised for original, delightful music and engaging audition. The program opened with Mrs. Jackson at the organ performing Samson et Delila, Sta bat Mater, and Creation, showcasing masterful organ leadership before the processional.
A crowded social and town notices column shows Mrs Habble visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs William D on Oakland Ave. Avendias resident E R Haslet was in Indiana yesterday, Rev J Fleming of Creekside spent the day with friends in Indiana, Thomas of Home attended business in the court House, carpenter Guy E Pearot of Rochester Mills visited town, A Plowley of Sheloctan shopped in Indiana, C M Harmon of Creekside spoke with Indiana acquaintances, Walter Roof of Homer City called on friends in the Court House, F D Dunlap of Clymer was in town, J B Goodwin of DuBois spent Monday in Indiana, Merle Huey of Hillsdale secured a hunting license, A W Lydick of Homer City improving after illness, Mrs Lisle Galbreath and family Thanksgiving with Oren Weaver in Erie, Miss Charlotte Williams of Warren and Miss Marian Williams of Mount Pleasant returned to school after Thanksgiving, J H Green of Penn Run visited the Gazette, Mrs W A Byers shopping in Indiana and stopping by the Gazette, Miss Kathleen Shaffer left for Mason Frederic School of Beauty Culture in Pittsburgh, Irvin Glasser and Ben Pollock hunting in Mahonings, Clyde Woodward headed to Mahaffey for deer hunting. The Austrian Hymn noted in a stately musical program with singers in vestments. arias from Creation Elijah and Messiah performed with high praise. The event highlighted notable Indiana artists Rosa Wollrath Buchkeit, Mrs Howard Way, Mrs Kirby Gile, Mrs Vernon F Taylor and Mrs David Blair.
A. E. Moaten & Co. reports on Vandergrift Building affairs in Fittsburgh Pennsylvania detailing developments, costs, and project status with emphasis on local business activity and construction updates.
The valuable library of General Kuropotkin, once offered for 2,000,000 dollars by an American millionaire in 1914, has been turned over to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Union in the Los Angeles area. The will had planned for a czarist commission to receive the 8,000-volume collection, but the Red Council now holds it. Also, William Wilkinson, known as the bishop of Wall Street, is reported dying in New York on December 1.
An evening of Ora Torino performances features double quartets single quartets and mixed quartets with keen understanding and pleasing interpretation. The combined choral numbers are described as magnificent and the evening as well spent and worthy of repetition.
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