Tragedy in Philadelphia: Wignall kills wife and son then himself
Police report Herbert Wignall, 48, shot his wife Laura, 44 as she slept, then killed son Herbert Jr., 12, before turning the pistol on himself. The boy escaped with a mouth wound and police found the elder Wignall dead in the bedroom. a nephew recounted family tensions over a daughter.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Wignall
Laura
Herbert, Jr
Wignall
William Drake
Wiznak
Marketing of Graded Potatoes Across Pennsylvania
Local efforts aim to cut grading costs and ensure uniform quality and adequate volume for major market outlets. Potatoes have undergone extensive grading in Erie Venango Clarion Lancaster and Somerset counties with cooperative grading and marketing expected to spread statewide before the 1835 crop ends. Bureau inspectors report net returns of ten to thirty cents more per hundredweight from graded sales versus partly graded stock to hucksters or local buyers.
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Erie
Venango
Clatlon
Lancaster
Somerset
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Markets
Milk and Ice Cream Rules Proposed by Industry Groups
Station and the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers work on recommendations for minimum standards in milk and ice cream production and handling. The discussions aim to improve quality control and public safety across the sector.
Descendants of Pioneers Dead in Somerset
George R. Scull, 78, descendant of Western Pennsylvania pioneers and former district attorney, died at his home. He headed the First National Bank and Somerset Trust Company, was active in politics, and his Quaker ancestors settled in Chester from Bristol, England in 1865. He left a widow, two daughters Anna and Mrs. E. Cook, and a son John, with family in Pittsburgh.
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Somerset
George R. Scull
Pennsylvania
First National Bank
Somerset Trust Company
Scull
Mnanelal Alretes
Seull
Bristol
England
Chester
John Seull
Pittsburgh Gazette
Alleghenies
Robert S. Scull
Edwid
Pittsburgh
John
Anna
E. ¥. Cook
Advisory Health Council to review ice cream plant proposals
Dr. MacBride-Dexter chairs the Advisory Health Council which will consider submissions from the Association of Cream Manufacturers regarding ice cream plants. A meeting with representatives of the Dairy and Ice Cream Machinery Supplies Association, Inc. will be held soon with Dr. MacBride-Dexter.
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Advisory Health Council
MacBride-Dexter
Dairy and Ice Cream Machinery Supplies Association, Inc
MacBride-Dexler
Todd Mystery Deepens In Thelma Todd Death Case
District Attorney Baron Fitts questions Mrs West about her identification of a foreign looking man driving a phaeton seen near the scene as 20 witnesses are summoned to the grand jury. Coroner’s jury called the death accidental from carbon monoxide but officials seek to prove the case details and timing. County Chemist R J Abernathy to testify.
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Vine Street
Santa Monica Boulevard
Baron Fitts
Thelma Todd
Mrs. West
Fitts
Grand Jury
Comedienne
Dreath
R. J. Abernathy
WPA funds ready for 800 sanitary toilets in Indiana County
Funds are available through the WPA for labor in building 800 earth pit toilets in Indiana County. Ten residents will pay for materials. school districts may also pay for materials. The project uses U S Public Health Service specifications and is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
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WPA
Indiana County
U. S. Public Health Service
Pennsylvania Department of Health
State Department of Health
Actress Todds Death Probe Deepens With Autopsy Tests
The inquiry hears Mrs West disputing the accidental death claim while Mrs Wallace Ford testifies Miss Todd phoned at 410 PM to say she was bringing a guest who would astonish her. Autopsy surgeon A F Wagner says death could have occurred under the circumstances.
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West
Miss Todd
Wallace Ford
A. F. Wagner
Mystery Deepens as Foreman Seeks Independent Clues
Reports say the grand jury foreman George Rochester received new independent information, hinting at a possible solution to the bizarre mystery. The inquiry notes a search for a so called mystery guest and mentions a New Year’s party planned by Miss Todd which would introduce gambling at her estate.
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George Rochester
Fitts
Miss Todd
Obituary notices for Wright and O'Brien residents of Punxsutawney
The obituary notes the death of Jefferson Wright born January 6 1984 in Hillsdale who worked for the B RB and P Railway and left behind a mother and several children including Merrill Gard Nora Jane and siblings Ada Bunch Elva Wright Join Wright Blair Wright. Funeral arranged at the Blair Wright home Punxsutawney with interment in Hillsdale. Anna Cape O’Brien widow of James O’Brien aged 73 died in Adrian Hospital after heart trouble born March 20 1680 in England married 1878 and long time Punxsutawney resident. She was a devout member of the community enduring two weeks of illness.
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Hillsdale
Jefferson Wright
Punxsutawney
B., RB. & P. Railway Company
Wright
Punxsutawhey
Merrill
Houston
Texas
Gard
United States Navy
Nora Jane
Ada Bunch
Howard
Kansas
Elva Wright
Indiana County
Blair Wright
Punxsulawney
Penn Street
Anna (Cape) O'Brien
Anna Cape O'Brien
James O'Brien
Adrian Hospital
O'Brien
England
Major industrial stocks listed in early trading
A long string of company names appears, including Am Can, Am Tel, Am Tobacco, General Electric, Coca Cola, Phillip Morris, Westinghouse, U S Steel, Ford, IBM, and many others. The list reads like a market summary of active equities and corporate tickers on the trading floor with no narrative context.
Pirate Gridders Lose Uniforums
Pittsburgh fire destroys the West End Steam Laundry and White Star Linen Supply plant, causing an estimated 60 000 loss and driving 20 families to the streets. The blaze damages the Pirates uniforms, with 30 000 building loss and 20 000 equipment loss. Two firefighters injured, Captain P R Miller burned by a fluid explosion, Hoseman James Flaherty hurt in a fall.
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Pittsburgh
West End
Tuma
L Sundry
White Star Linen Supply Company
Pittsburgh Pirates
Footlss
P. R. Miller
James Flaherty
Obituary notices for O'Brien Hill McCombs and Smith in Blairsville
Obituary notices list Mrs O Briens death and survivors in Punxsutawney and England. Mrs August Hill of Summerville dies. funeral in Summer hill Lutheran Church with interment at South Fork Cemetery. George S McCombs, 43, of Cleveland formerly Homer City, dies of heart attack. WWI veteran. Thomas Gamble Smith, 72, dies in Blairsville after months of illness. survived by two daughters. funeral in Clawson home with church rites.
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Mary {Key) Hill
August Hil
Summerville
Summerhill Lutheran Church
South Fork
Paul
Arthur
Mary
Hilda Hill
Eric Hill
Ehrenfeld
Fred Mileski
Robert Ruelek
August Key
George
Blairsville
C. B. McCombs
Wilkinsburg
Rebecca Baker
Homer City
Annabelle McCombs
Johnstown
White Haven Memorial Park Cemetery
Cleveland
Thomas Gamble Smith
W. L. Clawson
North Spring Street
Young Township
Simon Smith
Sarah (Rumbaugh) Smith
Clarksburg
Nancy (Thompson) Smith
Frank Clark
Clawson
J. W. Mountain
Ebenezer Presbyterian Church
J.C. Stuart
First Presbyterian Church of
Soil erosion demonstration tour on 4 acre woodlot
A recent weeks long soil erosion demonstration on a 4 acre Walker woodlot drew an audience as Extension Forester Frank Murphy from Penn State led a thorough tour. He delivered impromptu lectures on farm woodlot culture and related forestry practices.
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Walker Woodlat
Soil Conservation Service
Frank Murphy
Penn State College
Drunken driving warned by Pennsylvania Motor Federation
The Pennsylvania Motor Federation urges motorists to avoid mixing liquor with driving. President S Edward Gable states several drinks impair ability and urges reporting zigzagging drivers to police. The campaign stresses deterrence, tougher penalties, and public cooperation to remove intoxicated drivers from roads.
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Pennsylvania Motor Federation
A.A
S. Edward Gable
M. F
Federation
Erosion control field days highlight farm woodlot profits
Agent John Warner and Mr Murphy direct demonstrations on Walker farm woodlot to show profitable timber improvements. Salvage cutting on an adjacent acre yields fence posts mine props and chestnut posts while stressing that 75 percent of state saw timber grows on similar farm woodlots. Timber conservation rests with farmers.
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John Warner
Murphy
Walker
Indiana County
Walkers
Walkers Place
Conciliation Up To Thirteen Faces Council Disapproval
A draft resolution approved by the 13 delegates was to be submitted to a public council session at 11 90 a m EST today. Addis Ababa reported Ethiopian commander Ayale said his forces defeated Italians near Aksum. Northern Ethiopian army repulsed a second assault south of Makaia, halting the first offensive.
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Mussolini
Committee of 13
Addis Ababa
Dedjazmatch Ayale
Taldsaze
Aksum
Andrue Berding
Associated Press
Asmara
Erlres
Dee
Saly
Makaia
WPA director warns supervisors over sympathy to program
Pittsburgh December 19 WPA District Director John F Laboon threatened dismissal of any supervisory employee not in sympathy with the Works Progress Administration program He stressed the warning covered only supervisory staff and not relief officials He called for municipal cooperation stating without it WPA will not support those unwilling to work and criticized officials for lacking interest in citizens needing jobs He defended WPA aims as restoring morale and questioned efficiency in dollars and cents.
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Pittsburgh
John F. Laboon
WPA
Works Progress Administration
Associated Press
Laboon
Wiliam N. McNair
Halsey, Stuart and Company of
New York
William N. McNair
McNair
Takkaze River front clashes and political shock in London and Paris
Ethiopian forces faced renewed aggression as Fascist troops pressed along the Takkaze river. In London, Prime Minister Baldwin was met with unusual silence in the house of commons. Sir Samuel Hoare resigned as foreign secretary stating that fear of a League fracture, not Italian threats, drives policy. In Paris Laval was rumored to consider resignation following Hoare's example.
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Takkaze
Fiers
Makale
Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
Samuel Hoare
League of Nations
Paris
Richard G. Maslock
The
A. P
Pierre Laval
Chamber of Deputies
Women strip rings in protest at Italian consulate
Fifty Pittsburgh women marched to the Italian consulate and removed wedding rings from their fingers in a protest inspired by Italy's Mussolini era policy to fund the government. The act mirrors a similar move by Italian wives and underscores wartime political tensions.
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Pittsburgh
Italy
Mussolini
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