Christmas Party and Gift Exchange at Club Meeting
Santa arrived with a bag of presents for guests and dogs, as tables held items for assembly for Salvation Army. Mrs McClure wore a 1776 costume and recited Mistress Penelope's Christmas Dance. President Gardner Hill paid tribute to Miss Mary St Clair King with a gold gift as he retires, and Past President Thomas Sheehe offered a parting token.
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Santa Claus
Perro
Salvation Army
McClure
Penelope
Delaware
George Washington
Gardner
Hill
Mary St. Clair King
Thomas Sheehe
Mr. Hill
Lesk
Cheerio
Ethiopia Imposes Taxes on Big Game Hunting
Washington dispatch reports Ethiopia intends heavy levies on big game hunting to curb depletion. Elephants taxed at 125 dollars each with two permits, buffalo 160 dollars each with four, lions 15 dollars each with four, leopards 15 dollars each with one, antelopes 1.50 dollars each with eighty permits.
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Washington
INS
Ethiopia
State Department
A. E. Souchard
Ethopia
Leopards
I. Antelopes
Library Closed for Christmas at Indiana Free Library
The Indiana Free Library will be closed Christmas Eve December 24 and all day Christmas.
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Indiana Free Library
Marriage of Donnelly and Hankerson Announced in Clymer
The marriage of John Donnelly and Leona Marie Hankerson of Clymer was announced. They wed in the Clymer office of Squire Chris Butterworth on December 19 in a ceremony noted by the local paper.
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John Donnelly
Leona Marie Hankerson
Clymer
Squire Chris Butterworth
Rail merger plan prompts delayed congressional action
Senator Fess says interstate plan won't repeal need for legislation and expects a delay before rail unification. Parker says the committee will study the plan while awaiting changes from ICC. The 10 system proposal aligns with 1920 act. ICC can approve consolidations but cannot force them.
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Interstate Commerce Comminsion
Fess
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Parker
Congress
House
Commerce Commission
Commerce Committee
Lighting Officers And Contacts Listed In City Notice
The notice lists H. B. Raymond chairman at 309 North Sixth, Carl Douglass on Washington street, Paul Graff on Oak street, Walter Fiedler on Oak street, and TD. T. Holiday at West Pike plus Arthur Robinson, Gilbert Wolfenden, David Evans, and Morris Stern with respective streets and phone numbers for the West of Sixth and North of Philadelphia area.
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H. B. Raymond
North Sixth Street
Carl Douglass
Washington Street
Paul Graff
Oak Street
Walter Fiedler
Electric Supply Company
West of Sixth
David Evans
School Street
Morris Stern
Moore Hotel
Is There a Santa Claus Virginia Believes Forever Lives
A famous essay extols belief in Santa Claus as a source of faith, wonder, and childhood joy. It contrasts unseen truths with visible reality, praising faith, poetry, love, and romance as enduring forces beyond the tangible world.
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Virginia
Santa Claus
Stocks Edge Higher in First Minute Trading Before Holidays
Wall Street opened with modest gains on a light post holiday session. U S Steel rose to 163 1 2, Anaconda Copper to 72 1 2, American Can to 112, while rail shares fell on doubts about the railroad merger plan. Oil stocks rallied aided by crude pro ration extension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U. S. Steel
Anaconda Copper
Bethehem Steel
American Can
Bears
Rallisa
Oklahoma
Cruda
Allegheny Corp
Atlantic
Cisessee
Barnsdall A
Chrysler
Vox Wilinci
Motors
Tel
Teljes
SIM
Nevada Gopner Voces
Packard
Penn
Sinclair
Aged residents funeral notes include Grumbling and Smitten rites
Funeral services for Theodore Augustus Grumbling 74 of Center township will be held at his daughter's home 860 Taylor avenue at 1 pm Wednesday with Rev. Charles A. Williams officiating. Burial in Salem Cemetery. William B. Smitten 66 died Monday at 1 am. services were at his sister’s home Marchand at 3 pm. Burial in Marchand Cemetery. Smitten, a pioneer Indiana County resident, was born July 18 in the old Marchand homestead. He worked as a salesman and was sales manager for Wrought Iron Range Co. for 11 years. He later ran Oakland Trest roadhouse on the Punxsutawney Indiana highway. He married three times, leaves a brother Hugh Smitten and sisters Mrs. Ida J. Kinsell and Mrs. Iddo M. Lewis.
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Page U
T. A. Grumbling
Theodore Augustus Grumbling
Center Township
Edith Engle
Taylor Avenue
Charles A. Williams
Salem Cemetery
William B. Smitten
Iddo
M. Lewis
Marchand
Indiana County
Archibald
Mary Jane Smitten
Caveda Academy
Wrought Iron Range Company
St. Louis
United States
Oakland
Punxsutawney-Indiana Highway
Laura Shomo
New Florence
Ina Key
Pasadena
California
Nancy Smith
Indiana
Margaret Hoffman
Rathmel
Hugh Smitten
Near Marchand
Ida J. Kinsell
Washington, D. C
Iddo M. Lewis
Highway crews plow 200 miles in county snow emergency
County Superintendent H. W. Geln reports 11 large trucks with snow plows in nonstop operation for 48 hours, clearing over 200 miles of improved roads. The heavy snowfall this morning suggests plows will stay busy through today and tonight.
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H. W. Geln
Will Observe Thanksgiving Day Coldest for Years
Mrs Lewis walked 10 miles through snow to attend a family reunion after an automobile could go no further. She braved snow covered fields to reach her destination on Thanksgiving Day observed in record cold.
Tarentum Y M C A Visits Indiana Varsity In Big Game
The local Y M C A hosts Tarentum Y M C A for a Thursday doubleheader with the Kellysburg Five and Meedes Crew providing the prelim. Tarentum, coached by A Hi Shook, brings a strong passing attack and has faced Westminster Carnegie Tech and W & J. Indiana Varsity meets Tarentum at 8:45 after a 7:30 opener, with last year’s Y squad hoping to repeat.
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A. Hi Shook
Kellysburg Five
Kellysburg
Meedes
Tarentum
Mr. Shook
Wesminster
Carnagie Tech
Indiana
Tarentum Y. M. G. A
Indiana Varsity
Two Dances At State Armory With Chink Lynn Orchestra
Chink Lynn and his recording and broadcasting orchestra will headline a Christmas dance at the Armory hosted by Company F, N. G. P. A large crowd is anticipated as music begins at nine and runs to one. John Warner will call the figures. last week set an attendance record.
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Chink” Lynn
Armory
Company F, N. G. P
John Warner
Prize Winners and Contest Thanks At Chevro Let Coach
The drawing for the free Chevrolet Coach was won by B C Newman with number 1086. Prize winners totaled 2 020 000 votes. Ross DeGaetano and S W Brinker the campaign manager thank all participants and wish a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to winners and supporters.
Christmas Cheer Brightens Indiana Holiday Observance
The city extends Christmas cheer through civic charity and theater outings. Biltz theatre offers Young Nowheres with Richard Barthlemess and Marian Nixon at 2:90, 7:10, and 9:00. Indiana Theatre features Red Dance with Dolores Del Rio at 7:00 and 9:00. A free morning show for children 14 and under at the Rial Theatre, a day of business suspension, and post offices with curtailed hours mark the holiday. The Evening Gazette will not be issued today.
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Richard Barthlemess
Marian Nixon
Indiana Theare
Dolores del Rio
Indiana
Evening Gazette
Salvation Army Christmas Dinner Distribution in Indiana
Salvation Army plans seven large bags of food and supplies for a five to six person family, to be distributed in Indiana towns, followed by a courthouse program for poor children with toys and clothing. The event features songs, recitations, plays, duets, and a toy distribution by Santa Claus assisted by Life-Saving Scouts.
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Army
Indiana
Salvation Ring
Court House
S. M. Kanarr
Fredie Little
Mae Cook
Catherine Stiles
Amelia Brown
Justin Drop
Howard McHenry
Solo
Jesus
Trea
Cassian
Santa Claus
Christmas on the Bowery Drab and Depressing
The Bowery scene near Salvation Army headquarters sees men seeking entertainment and cheap liquor. Many drinkers buy hard liquor for 5 to 10 cents or make bay rum and denatured alcohol mixtures. Some beverages send drinkers to hospitals, and Christmas feels especially bleak.
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Salvation Army
the Bowery
Refused Thugs Demand Ends in Death in New York
Elias Ellmond a 60 year old shoe clerk in New York refused robbers demand for a wife's inexpensive gold signet ring. The bandits fired injuring him and took $7 from a cash register before escaping. Ellmond died on the way to the hospital.
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New York
Elias Ellmond
Ellmond
Eilmond
Freighter Harmony Leaves Grounding After SOS Near Nantucket
The Norwegian freighter Harmony, grounded fifteen miles south of Nantucket, proceeded toward Providence after SOS calls were received at 10:50. By 11:35, officials reported she was out of danger and moving under her own power, prompting a one hour local broadcast halt.
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New York
INS
Harmony
Providence
Nantucket
Massachusetts
Suitor Kills Girl Then Shoots Self in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on December 24 a 17-year-old girl, Fanny Bosh, was killed after being shot by her 36-year-old suitor Michael Kowal of Baltimore. Kowal, who also wounded himself with four shots, remained in critical condition in a local hospital. The incident occurred after repeated rejections of his marriage proposal as Kowal followed Bosh to her Castle Shannon home.
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Pittsburgh
Fanny Bosh
Castle Shannon
Michael Kowal
Baltimore
Oliea Say
Kowal
Ford Desires Wisdom Gift for Christmas Aid
Detroit, December 24 Henry Ford, the millionaire auto magnate, likens himself to Solomon and says he desires wisdom this Christmas. He urges national action to bring every worker back on the job as the best present to the country and seeks wisdom to know and do what is best for all.
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Detroit
Solomon
Henry Ford
Ford
Avery Busipee
Points on People in Indiana Area Shoppers and Visitors
Mr and Mrs J Walter Bennett and daughter of Strongstown were among Monday Indiana shoppers. Miss Jeannette Kreppa of Pittsburgh visited friends in Indiana over the weekend. Michael Rorke proprietor of the Indiana Hotel and H D McGinnes of Pittsburgh prominent impersonator and entertainer motored to Punxsutawney yesterday where Mr MacGinnes entertained before the Rotary Club. Hon Horace Thompson prominent banker and businessman of Marion Center paid his Indiana friends a visit. William M Henry of Penn Run transacting business in town yesterday. Floyd Smith of Glen Campbell was among Monday visitors in the Court House. George W D W and J W Duncan prosperous farmers of Buffington Township were attending to business. Deputy Sheriff Eugene Wilson Clair Borland and Fred Dilts conducted a sheriff's sale in Glen Campbell yesterday afternoon. E M Johnson of Blairsville was among Monday Indiana business visitors.
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J. Walter Bennett
Strongstown
Indiana
Misa Jeannette Kreppa
Pittsburgh
Michael Rorke
Indiana Hotel
H. D. McGinnes
Punxsutawney
MacGinnes
Rotary Club
Horace Thompson
Marion Center
William M. Henry
Penn Run
Floyd Smith
Glen Campbell
Court House
George W
D. W
J. W. Duncan
Buffington
Eugene Wilson
Clair Borland
Fred Dilts
E. M. Johnson
Blairaville
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Rail Merger
Moorhead
Hore Lighting
State Armory
James L. Kilgallen
Broadway
Brooklyn
Bronx
Bowery
D. Bouck
Bepdasy Savings Bank
Wallace Winchell
Colonel Winchell
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