14 Dec 1929
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1929
Page
1
The text explains that lift mainly comes from wing suction on top surfaces, favoring monoplanes to avoid biplane interference. It notes dope composition, wing area effects on lift, and how angle of incidence and velocity increase lift. It also describes solo flight as a student progresses after dual instruction and a light anecdote about Brubaker.
Citizens decorate homes with colored lights for the holiday season as the Chamber of Commerce and partners sponsor an Outdoor Christmas Lighting Contest. Prizes will be awarded for memorable displays and residents are urged to participate by mailing the coupon from Page Two.
An inquest revealed the boy was struck after exiting a car and taken by Robert to a physician. He was sent to Dixonville hospital where crushed ribs and two punctured lungs caused his death two and a half hours later. Witnesses from Clymer Hillsdale and nearby areas testified.
A man described as tall with a hunting cap and coat drove the car that side-swiped a vehicle near the scene. The jury found him guilty as indicted after court pleas by DA Earle Miller and attorney Bruce Sciotto. He, a longtime R and P Coal employee, faced shock from neighbors and officials.
A dense schedule lists multiple churches with service times and events. Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Free Methodist, Evangelical, Second United Presbyterian, First Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Zion Lutheran and St Bernard'sCatholic details include morning and evening worships, Sunday School, youth forum, prayer meetings, sacraments, and special musical offerings led by various pastors.
A schedule of morning and evening worship across churches including Vespers at Church of God with Salvation Army events, Christ Episcopal corporate communion, and First United Presbyterian sermons and choirs. The day features varied programs from 2:00 preaching to 8:00 evening services and special musical offerings.
Scoutmaster of Troop No. 1 of Punxsutawney led a meeting with many wives present as two council sessions each year welcome ladies. The nominating committee's recommendations elected J. Norman Hunter as president and a slate of vice presidents, treasurer M. S. Mitchell, and numerous scout commissioners for the Indiana County Council for 1980. Honorary members include J. S. Fisher and others. the group aims for a strong year in Scouting and notes achievements of 1930 and upcoming report in 1981. Coatesville Lukens Steel will install a tall sprinkler system to reduce fire hazard.
Funeral services for John G. West will be held at East Ridge Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon. Interment in church cemetery. Miss Mary Ann Stapleton aged 65 died Thursday. services Monday at St James Catholic Church with burial in the church cemetery. James P. Moyer aged ? will have 9 AM Monday services at St Joseph's Catholic Church. burial in church cemetery. James Campbell 82 Civil War veteran died at Hastings Home. services Monday 9 AM at St Bernard's Catholic Church. burial in church cemetery.
The audience favored Alice Quinn as the likely pilgrim to Niagara Falls while Elinor Gordon avoids matrimonial snares. Nancy Prescott, Gertrude Dickie, and Virginia McNaughton deliver strong turns as schemer, ally, and haughty sister in law. The cast lists Rob Mathews through Annabel Spriggins with Peggy Jane Clements and others in a village farce built on marriage stakes.
Choice now sits as the Senate's newest member and must yield to each elder on assignments due to seniority. Republican leaders note Grundy must acclimate to the Senate's "Jackasses" before becoming eligible for a major committee. The key post from the committees chair is the Appropriations chair to Wesley L. Jones of Washington, who has begun his duties. Jones's promotion reshapes the panel.
In Washington reports show Senator Johnson may swap chairs with Gould or Hatfield while Lafollette eyed for Finance. Robinson may join Foreign Relations and Steiner to head Appropriations. Grundy’s seat sparks criticism from Gov. Fisher during Pennsylvania Society dinner in New York.
The Golden Jubilee celebration featured hostesses Mrs Irma Barth...mew and Mrs Walter H Jackson performing ballads. Mr Robert Kline closed with magic tricks from a mail bag to astonished guests. Former members Dr and Mrs W G Chambers State College Dr and Mrs C Paul Reed Nemazolin Mrs Greenlee and Mrs Edward Sutton Pittsburgh attended.
James L. French 25, a Hazelwood machinist, leaped from the second story of an alleged speak easy in Pittsburgh after a federal raid. He died on impact. French had been a patron the previous night. a washroom break preceded the fatal jump as agents prepared to depart.
Two people died and three were seriously injured when a car collided with a coal truck on the William Penn Highway near Export early today. Esther Marie Hall, 35, of Delmont, and Charles Hickey, 19, of South Wilmerding, died soon after. Elrose Hickey, 16, suffered severe body lacerations. Elizabeth Brill, 40, Swissvale, was cut about the head, and John Y Connell, 18, Curtisville, wounded with head and body lacerations.
The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia jurisdiction were named beneficiaries in the Pittsburgh heiress Virginia A. McKee’s will. A decree of the Orphans Court awarded the Masons $822,577.74 for a memorial stone cottage at Elizabethtown, while most of the $2,627,545 estate goes to charity and Pittsburgh’s poor.
Wilmington Delaware December 14 Ive McKinney a famed aviator and crew member of the airship Question Mark which set an endurance record recently is in critical condition in a local hospital. He suffered a fractured skull in an auto truck collision near the city last night doctors plan surgery today to try to save his life.
Indiana County notes list local residents returning from Clinton County with fine bucks. It records numerous visits, errands, and social mentions including court, business, and shopping activity. Notable names include Charles Griffith, J C McGregor, J Roe MacMichael, and many others across towns like Saltsburg, Smicksburg, and Smicksburg. The piece closes with franchise news for motor buses Pottsville to Millersburg and a Gazette Classifieds nudge.
A chain of visits and callers crosses Indiana and nearby towns with relatives and friends dropped by homes in Mayview Vandergrift Apollo and Johnstown. Nurses students and workers frequent hospitals and Presbyterian Hospital Pittsburgh while family gatherings occur at the homes of Rocco Prato Remaley Henderson and other families.
Henry Crosby, a young poet and realist, had his ashes sent to France with his widow who sailed alone aboard the Berengaria. The ashes will be placed atop an ancient windmill at Ermenonville estate where the couple lived. Crosby was found dead with a pistol in his hand after a friend’s apartment inquiry. nearby lay Boston society matron Mrs Josephine Rothh Bigelow, both victims of gunshot wounds.
Ballantine McCullough, famed friend of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill, died at 90 in Ogdensburg. Born in Ogdensburg the man went west as a boy, helped discover a gold mine in Arizona, and earned a small fortune. His death was attributed to pneumonia after his only son was killed in World War I.
Marmon dealer Dale Sourwine traveled from his local area to Indianapolis Indiana for the annual jubilee of automobile distributors and dealers from the United States Canada and Europe. The event drew over 600 representatives from the industry.
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