Obituary notices for Clarence C Spicher and Louise Paul Miller
Obituary items report Clarence C Spicher of Johns n died New Year’s Day at 86 leaving twelve grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren, with brother Lewis T Spicher and sisters Priscilla Saeger Marec Habét King and Agnes Barkey named. Also noted are funeral services for Louise Paul Miller wife of John F Miller Westinghouse Airbrake VP, held at 222 Hawthorne Edgewood with burial at Homewood Cemetery. she was born in Faull’s Mills and active in Presbyterian leadership and missions, survived by daughter Mrs Alien S Davison six grandchildren and sisters Elizabeth Jessie Frances Paull.
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Hempstead
N. Y
Clarence C. Spicher
Johnsn
Lewis T. Spicher
Hillsdale
Priscilla Saeger
Canoe Township
Mare c Habét King
Montgomery Township
Eae
Agnes Barkey
West Vir- Birtia
Johm F. Miller
Westinghouse Airbrake Company
Hawthorne Street
Edgewood
Homewood
Mister
Faull’s Mills
Uniontown
George
Rebecca ‘Turner Paull
Pittsburgh Presbyterian
Edgelwood Presbyterian Church
Death of Oliver Swank to be observed in Emeigh church
Oliver Swank died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Emeigh after months of illness from a complication of diseases. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow at the Emeigh Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment will follow in East Ridge Cemetery. Surviving are his widow Mary Blanche Swank and daughters Mrs Blair Conn and Mrs Emery.
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Oliver Swank
Emeigh
Emeigh Methodist Episcopal Church
East Ridge
Swank Hadeen
Mary Blanche
Stock market snapshot with varied company quotes
The list shows numerous firm tickers and percent moves including Am Can Am T and T Coca Cola US Steel Intel Allied Chem and DuPont among others, with prices and daily changes indicating a broad market scan across sectors from energy to consumer goods and industrials. Strong entities include Am Can Chrysler Coca Cola DuPont General Electric and IBM with notable ups and downs across equities.
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Alr Reduc
Allied Chem
Auburn
Baldwin Lac
Bendix
Beth
Borg Warn
Borden
Briggs
Chrysler
Cora Prod Ag
Hudson Mat
Johns Many
Kennecott
Loews
Lorillard
Monty Ward
Nash Mat
Nat Dairy
Nat P
Hayy Nor Am Co
Penna RR de Pha Rdg Co
Phil Pete
Radio
Reading
Repub
Sears Roe
Spieg M Stern
St Brands
St Ges
St Oil NY
Studebkr
Tex Corp
Tranzania
Uni Aire Corp
Uni Corp
Uni Gas Im
US Steel
Vanadium
Vick Chem
West UN
West el
Mfg
Woolworth
Cure
Local Names to Be Noted in County Case List
Brigh, Breigh residents Mrs Prank Sample and Mrs Don Bolvitt joined by Hari Swank of Buthaida and Merle Swank of West Newton plus Miss Louise Swank listed at home in Clearfield County records.
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Prank Sample
Breigh
Don Bolvitt
Barnstore
Hari Swank
Buthaida
Clearfield County
Merle Swank
West Newton
Louise Swank
Because Light Still Burned A Christmas Memory Fragment
A fragment describes a neighborly scene where a switch from a pack prompts questions about being a good child. An affirmative answer promises Christmas joys while a negative one leads to life’s darkest moment until forgiveness arrives with a blessing and a gift.
Grange Plans Policies of the 1936 Convention
Grange leaders discussed policies for 1936 focusing on dairy rulings and potato control while pondering a tempering of sharp New Deal criticism. A contentious AAA critique surfaced from Dan D. Casement, asserting the program unconstitutional. An initiation ceremony at the Scottish Rite cathedral advanced 834 Grangers in a $2 million setting led by State Master J Audley Boak.
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Grange
E. B. Dorsett
Tioga County
AAA
Pomona
Dan D. Casement
Manhattan
Kans
Farmers Independence Council of America
NRA
J. Audley Boak
Lawrence County
Illness Calls Van Sweringen Brothers Into Focus
Illness sidelined M J from a pivotal sale as the Van Sweringen brothers formed Mid-America Corporation with G A Tomlinson of Cleveland and George A Ball of Munice Indiana. They drew collateral from a Morgan group after defaulted loans totaling about 50 million dollars, with the bank group suffering around 45 million in losses. O P Van Sweringen testified in a federal case defending himself against claims of personal liability for losses tied to Missouri Pacific stock. The brothers, once newsboys near Wooster Ohio, built a vast empire including Missouri Pacific Transportation, with nearly 55 million passenger cars produced since 1895.
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O. P. van Sweringen
Missouri Pacifi Railroad
MOP
Missouri Pacific Transportation Company
Wooster
Lindbergh ransom link to Fisch sparks new probes
In New York and New Jersey reports claim Isidor Fisch, Bronx furrier, used Lindbergh ransom funds in Germany for a steamship ticket and Reichsmarks. Ellis Parker denies contacting foreign detectives while Hauptmann faces new appeals and possible death warrant, with Condon and Gov Hoffman's efforts cited.
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New York
Ellis Parker
Burlington County
Europe
Isidor Fisch
Bronx
Lindbergh
Germany
Parker
Fisch
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
New Jersey
United States
Trenton
N. J
Washington
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hauptmann
Flemington
Harold G. Hoffman
John F
Jassie
Condon
Court of Pardons
Pinchot Sounds Alarm On Relief Politics
Former state official Pinchot told Republicans that government programs in Pennsylvania are being politicized with hospitals and mothers’ aid committees caught in the partisan fray. He warned work relief and direct relief may follow the same political route, and blamed rear axle troubles on a grabbing clutch issue.
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Pennsylvania
Pinchot
First Aid Class to Train 85 Highway Patrolmen
A 85 person class including 15 highway patrolmen begins a week of instruction in first aid Monday as part of a Red Cross backed campaign to reduce highway massacres. Students from five towns will learn splinting resuscitation and other first aid, with Red Cross plans to equip roadside stations and train volunteers to staff them at crash sites.
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National Red Cross
Red Cross
Flashes of Life Costly Justice in Philadelphia
Benjamin Hosen seeks $42 police restitution after a card game dispute. Rogen hires a lawyer and appeals to the superior court where judges spend a day on the case. total court salary for the day is $297. Cesare Robbiani, in Bingham Utah, steps aside for two women and is struck by a car, fracturing his skull. Friends Kozlowski and Gilman, ages 22 and 20, write the suspects’ car names in dust during a visit to Litchfield Minnesota. the car, later found abandoned in Minneapolis, is tied to the theft from Pedally. Boklowski gets 10 years, Gilman suspended.
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Philadelphia
Benjamin Hosen
Reid
Rogen
Superior Court
Dust 8St
Paul
Joseph Kozlowski
Boyd Gilman
Deserters Are $75,000 Heirs
Dee Pittsburgh reports Frank J. Christman, a 74 year old business man, found his wife and four children missing 24 years ago. Now, he learns they are heirs to a $75,000 estate as sympathetic passersby help after a car crash. The story notes his broken body was found after the vehicle incident and remained three days.
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Pittsburgh
Dee
Frank J. Christman
Christman of Philadelphia Building and Loan Case Unveiled
In a hush of mystery an investor named ee Wiser learned of a note left with a safe deposit tote. It reveals Christman, president of a Building and Loan Association, lived near Pittchurch all his years and found in September 1900 that his wife Mary Frances and children Susan Edith Mabel and Francis had left him. The legal advisor notes he returned home from work in Philadelphia and discovered his family deserted him. they were said to be in Chicago.
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Ee Wiser
Christmnar
Christman
Buildinng and Loan Association
Teseluge
Pittchurch
Mary Frances
Susan
Edith
Mabel
Francis
Philadelphia
Ifa
Chicago
Reading Is Minus Murder in Major PA Cities
Crime reports from five Pennsylvania cities show Reading had no murders in the third quarter of 1935 while Philadelphia logged 29 murders or non negligent manslaughters, Pittsburgh 19, and Scranton and Erie one each. Burglaries topped Philadelphia police reports with 621 cases. Pittsburgh led automobile thefts. petty larceny was most common in the other three cities. Pennsylvania’s murder rate for the first three quarters was about 33 per 100,000 population.
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Washington
Justice Department
Pennsylvania
Reading
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Scranton
Erie
Minneapolis Crime Probe Echoes Liggett Killing
A federal crackdown on Minneapolis crime conditions follows the Walter Liggett slaying. U S Attorney General Cummings called the city a poison spot of crime and two special assistant state attorneys general examined the midwest American for evidence against Liggett s killer. Mrs Liggett rejected a bid for a congressional probe, and Isadore Blumenfeld known as Kid Cann faces related inquiries as she recalls the assailant s grinning face.
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Minneapolis
U. S
Cummings
Walter Liggett
Liggett
Thomas B. Schall
Guilford
Taffeta and Net Frock Featured at Party Fashion Show
A children's Christmas party frock ranks among taffeta and net styles. A blue forget-me-not design on pink printed taffeta with grayish white net decorates a charming model, with a changeable blue and pink sash.
Watching Deer Opens Three Day Antlerless Season
More than 400 game wardens patrol 14 counties for a three day opening of antlerless deer hunting. Buck season closed yesterday, but doe and young buck may be taken today in Bradford Cameron Centre Clearfield Clinton Elk Forest Lycoming McKean Pike Potter Sullivan Tioga and Warren counties. State troopers cooperate to catch rule breakers and hunters may keep antlerless deer regardless of size. Dubois reports 2,641 vehicles and 10,878 hunters passing through midnight to 6 am.
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Bradford
Cameron
Centre
Clearfield
Clinton
Elk
Forest
Lyscoming
McKean
Pike
Potter
Sullivan
Tioga
Warren
W. C. Shaffer
The
Game Commission
Dubois
Dees
Cameron County
Pastry Outbreak Hits 48 in Philadelphia Areas
Police and health officials traced a pastry outbreak to creams and pastries in Roxborough and Manayunk. Victims suffered convulsions after eating cream puffs eclairs or Boston cream pie. Dr Wolcoff suggested metallic poison or bacterial decay as possible causes while pastry samples are tested.
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Philadelphia
Board of Health
Boston
Roxborough
Manayunk
Frank E. Wolcoff
Board of Health Laboratories
Prison Labor Shows A Profit In Four Years
Harrisburg report highlights prison labor division earning over 500000 in four years. No state subsidy provided. products sold to government institutions and agencies. Activities include sprinting weaving fabricating clothes shoes furniture brushes canning metal tags and growing nursery stock.
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Harrisburg
Department of Welfare
Santa Claus Car Slips Off Road Delays Christmas Visit
In Coatsville on December 12 a Santa Claus car skidded off a road and stopped in a ploughed field north of Reading. The trip to Central Park was postponed by one day as the candy load was ruined. He promised to return with more candy.
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Coatsville
Santa Clause
Central Park
Santa
Reading
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Louise P. Miller
Louise Paul Mill
Moorhead
Seckwear
Superba and Arrow
Hamley
Gladstone
Moorhead’s
Universal
Daniel
Arrow
Exsley
Grange Plans
van Sweringen
Clover Farm Stores
Associated Stores
Beller
Falrlgwa
MT. Holly
Isidore Fisch
ADI
Bingham
Utah
Cesare Robbiani
Congress
Schall
Santa Claus
Toll River Road
Atlantic
Atlantic Motor Oil
Atlantic Lubrication
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