Obituary Notes for Joseph J. Porter and Scout Leader
Joseph J. Porter 39, manager of McGregor and Thomas Co., died after a bus back wheel struck him on East Water Street. A former Indiana Post American Legion commander and district Boy Scout commissioner, he succumbed in Indiana Hospital after injuries. Funeral services set with Robinson Funeral Home. details include Lutheran church rites and veteran honors.
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McGregor & Thomas-Dodge
Porter
Robinson Funeral Home
Arthur J. Pfohl
Zion Lutheran Church
Sofort Hayes H
Clara R. Portér
Mackayville
Clinton County
Lock Haven
Three Hundred and Fifth Ambulance Company
France
New York
Indiana
Consolidated Lumber & Supply Company
Gun Show Big Success in Indiana County
The gun and pistol exhibit at the Court House Friday night, under the Indiana County Fish and Game Association, drew a full courtroom. Featuring over 400 firearms, it stood as the largest collection ever assembled in Indiana, with officers G. G. Hill directing the event and many attendees turned away for lack of space.
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Court House
Indiang County
Indiana
G. G. Hill
Kidnapping Thriller Delays Bremer Banker Son Case
In St Paul on January 29 INS reports Adalah Bremer wealthy brewer waits for ransom negotiation as kidnapers keep silent for 12 days. Police chief Dehitt and DOJ agents act per elder Bremer request to stay out of the case while Werner Hannj visits Chicago amid Touhy gang trials. Continued on Page Two.
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INS
ST. Paul
Minn
Adalah Bremer
Edward G. Bremer
Thomas E. Dehitl
Bremer
Department of Justice
Harold Nathan
Chicago
Werner Hannj
Nathan
Touhy
John Factor
Prast
Man's Wounded Heart Sewn Up in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on January 29 surgeon Dr. Herbert L. Northrup successfully sewed a wounded heart. Joshua Graham, 28, was stabbed twice in a fight. The operation involved removing two ribs, placing two stitches in the heart muscle, sewing the heart covering, and closing the outer wound. Physicians called the condition excellent.
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Philadelphia
Herbert L. Northrup
Joshua Graham
International gold price up on new London rate
International gold price rose 2 percent to 132 shillings 54 pence per ounce in London trading. A premium of 10 percent over the French rate was noted as the market opened, with about $22.09 per ounce in U.S. dollars. A sale of 304 gold bars valued at 800000 pounds sterling, roughly $3.984 million, was announced at the new rate.
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London
Burns Fatal to Well Known Green Tp Man
Robert Patterson, 79, a well known Green township resident, died at Miners Hospital from second and third degree burns after a lantern exploded when he fell from a hay mow while working Saturday evening. Patterson had been ambushed and beaten by two masked men about three years earlier. His funeral is planned for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Salem Methodist Protestant Church, with burial in the church cemetery. He left a widow and a grown daughter, and spent much of his life in lumbering before settling on the McDowell farm.
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Robert Patterson
Green Township
Miners’ Hospital
Spangler
Patterson
Salem Methodist Protestant Church
Leland
McKnight
Church
Patterson Homestead
Jennie M. Patterson
Thomas
Magdalene
Dunkel) Patterson
G. Davis
Clymer
R. D
McDowell Farm
Byrd Party Struggles to Unload In Antarctic Bay
In Antarctica on January 28 the Ruppert expedition confronts cracking bay ice and dwindling supplies. Three times ice floes forced reloading, as Admiral Byrd notes no stable unloading space within twenty miles. Hay bales and a bull were lost to drifting ice during unloading.
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Jacob Ruppert
Bay OF Whales
Antarctica
INS
Hackay Radio
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Ruppert
Byrd
Coal Rates Ruled Unduly Prejudicial by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that carload rates on Bituminous coal from Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland to Kearny New Jersey for Erie Railroad delivery are unduly prejudicial though not unlawful. The decision compared these rates with those to Newark Harrison West End and Croxton New Jersey, noting higher charges in the Kearny route.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Kearny
N. J
Erie
Interstate Commerce Commission
Newark
Harrison
West End
Croxton
Fragmentary obituary notice from Albion area
A fragmentary obituary fragment mentions Americaty the foxs by death in Albion near Punx and recalls sincere feelings, quaint acquaintances, and a citizen of measure. The text is garbled and difficult to interpret but signals a death notice with local ties and personal references.
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Albion
Punx
Legion Mourns Loss of Comrade R M Neville
A sorrowful tribute from Legion members honors Comrade R M Neville, praising him as a good soldier and true Legion member. The message expresses deep mourning and extends condolences to bereaved relatives during the January 27 service at the Tate residence.
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R. M. Neville
Tate
Isney
William H Young 68 Dies After Long Illness In Spangler
William H Young retired mine superintendent for J B Reiley Coal died at 8 20 p m Sunday after a four year illness at his Spangler home. A Cambria County lifelong resident aged 68 he was a son of Andrew and Rose Young and a St Edwards parishioner Barnesboro. Surviving are his widow Margaret McCormick Young and children John Youn Clairton High School instructor William Young of Butler Louise Evelyn Kathleen Esther Josephine at home and nurse Evelyn in Mercy Hospital Baltimore. He leaves brothers Frank and George and sisters Margaret Kirkpatrick Rose Gill and Mrs Charles Yeager Hastings and Mrs H J Lantry Spangler. (Continued on Page Two)
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William H. Young
J. B. Reiley Coal, Company
Mark. F. Hasinger
Claire Young
Spangler
Cambria County
Mr. Young
Andrew and
Rose
Buck) Young
Zeal Company
St. Edward's Catholic Church
Barnesboro
Margaret (McCormick) Young
John Youn
Clairton High School
William Young
Butler
Louise. Young
Kathleen
Esther
Josephine .Young
Frank Young
Pittsburgh
George Young
Elmira
N. Y
Joseph Young
Hastings
Margaret , Kirkpatrick
Roze Gill
Charles Yeager
H. 7. Lantry
Physician Wynekoop Defers Court Appearance in Slaying Case
Dr. Alice Wynekoop, 63, suffered a slight heart attack in a Chicago infirmary bed and could not appear before Chief Justice Finnegan for a postponement of her trial related to the slaying of Rheta Wynekoop. The judge reset the hearing for February 6.
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Chicago
INS
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Finnegan
Rheta
Dr. Wynnekoop
Gun Girl Goes On Trial For Death
Mrs Lottie Coll widow of gang member Vincent Mad Dog Coll prepared for trial in Bronx County court with two accomplices for the murder of Lillian Schwartz 19 during a hold up. She claimed she was framed and spoke of despair as the case opened.
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New York
Lottie Coll
Vincent
Mad Dog) Coll
Bronx
Lillian Schwartz
Stroud Loses Posts as Greensburg Board Shakeup
Ernest H. Cole will replace Robert H. Stroud as Westmoreland County Relief Board supervisor after a three cornered probe into a fatal automobile crash that killed Barbara McGee and Robert Hamberg. Coles also Fayette County director while Grotefend and Miss Wilkey resign. Coroner McMurray to hold inquest this week, with no bearing on firings.
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Greensburg
Ernest H. Cole
Robert H.troud
Harrisburg
Westmoreland County”Relief Board
Stroud
State Emergency Relief Boar
New Kensington
Katherine Wilkey
Robert
Irwin
Barbara McGee
Mahaffey
Clearfield County
Loral Relief “Board
Ey F “Cole
Final valuation on B and C Railroad in 1918
The Interstate Commerce Commission set a final valuation as of June 30, 1918, at 55,138,100 dollars for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Included is 22,144,645 dollars for working capital. The system covers about 6,852 miles of first main track, 1,689 miles of second main track, and 10,467 miles of all tracks.
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Washington
INS
Interstate Commerce Commission
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Pinchot Moved to Le Roy Sanitorium in New York
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, convalescing after shingles treatments, has been moved from St. Luke's Hospital to the Le Roy Sanitorium in New York. The relocation suggests progress toward recovery and provides a more centrally located residence than the former hospital on Morningsday Heights.
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New York
Guv. Pinchot
Pennsylvania
St. Luke's Hospital
le Roy
Fuel Hospital
President's Ball Advocates Hope For Children Losses
The piece urges support for infantile paralysis relief through the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia. It highlights the hardship for children struck by the disease and honors President Roosevelt and aides who aid this effort. Joe, once a swimmer and runner, is cited as a local example fighting back toward recovery after a sudden paralysis.
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Warm Springs Foundation
Georgia
Franklin D Roosevelt
Joe
Sally Rand Engaged To Be Married In Secret
Hollywood story reports that Sally Rand fan dancer is secretly engaged to Charles May known as Chizzy. Rand has spent five weeks at his bedside in a hospital room adjoining his, describing their five year secret engagement and his critical stomach illness.
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Hollywood
Sally Rand
Mer Flance
Charles
Chigzy” Mayon
Miss Rand
Chizzy
Treasury balance report and receipts noted
Treasury balance as of January twenty sixth shows 497,784,702.42 with customs receipts at 22,669. The item references Washington and an INS dateline, and includes garbled trailing notes about windshield frost products and a Newstaid listing.
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Treasury
Washington
INS
M. T
Roosevelt Gold Monetary Bill Faces Broad Congressional Push
President Roosevelt s new gold monetary bill wins House path after Senate rejection of hostile amendments. The program covers vast aims from St Lawrence waterway treaty ratification to a sweeping tax bill, while major public works and Navy aviation funding loom. Wheat farmers will be canvassed on potential production regulation as part of the broader farming and economic policy push.
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Roosevelt
Congress
William K. Hutchinson
Washington
INS
House
Senate
White House
Wheeler
Montana
St. Lawrence Waterway
Uncle Sam
Administration For Public Works
Civil Works Administration
Army Aviation
Navy
Independent Offices
Fea
Navy Department
G. H. G. Air Force
Dern
William 5
Neal
Star
Haring
Fage Rao
Italian Mail Plane Crash Near Ceara Brazil Jan 1929
Four Italian airmen on a trans Atlantic attempt from Rome to Buenos Aires survived a forced landing near Fort Alcazar Ceara Brazil due to missing radio weather reports and poor conditions. Rescue plans were organized. ambulances dispatched, with crews facing difficult access to the crash site.
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Buenos
Aires
Rio
de Janeiro
Imen
Rome
INS
Buenos Aires
Fort Alcazar
Ceara
Brasil
Blue Law Turmoil Rages as Old Johnstown Hears Edits
Johnstown, Jan 29. The Blue Law dispute nears resolution as city council reconvenes to review the issue. Mayor Eddie McCloskey had vetoed business closures last week, leading to 88 summons. Police surveyed all open businesses, recording proprietors and workers names to avoid future criticism.
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Johnstown
Ohen More
Ayor Eddie McCloskey
Traylor Suffers A New Setback In Health
Chicago Jan 29 Melvin A Traylor president of First National Bank suffered a sudden setback in health today, weakening from a heart condition at his home. Physicians cited an attack of cardiac weakness as the cause, noting his condition remains grave though stable.
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Chicago
Melvin A. Traylor
First Na Habad Bank
Yas A
Howling Gale Sweeps Pennsylvania Cold Wave
A severe windstorm from the north drove subzero temperatures across Pennsylvania. Reports describe damaged trees, disrupted fuel supplies, and widespread frost while officials issued advisories as the cold front persisted into the night.
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Peninsylvai
Penii
Samuel Ingull and Insull case on residence permit petition
An inquiry into Samuel Ingull's situation and Insull's registration appears to involve a request for a new extension residence permit. The interior ministry processes the petition and related registration actions are to be considered by the appropriate authorities.
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Samuel
M. Laskaris
The
Insull
Interior
Alisa’s . Registration’ Office
Daladier Heads New French Cabinet Formation
Paris Jan 29 Daladier former premier heads provisional task of forming a new cabinet. He informed President Lebrun he would decide this afternoon after consultations with political leaders aiming to form a four radical Socialist coalition cabinet. He seeks to secure ministers to resign to rebuild the government.
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Paris
Daladier
Prem
Soci
Acee
Lebrun
Politica
Tower
Ste
Scout Fete Tonight Prompt Scout Council Election
A fragmented item notes a scout fete tonight and an election at item nine cents. The readable text mentions council and La but details are unclear.
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Inoh Porta
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Jos Porter
American Legion
Irene Helen Robbins
Warren Delano Robbins
United States
Canada
Alexander Cochrane Forbes
Boston
Ottawa
Ad.olph Bremer
Burns
Man
Robert Paterson
Plan Services
St. Bernard's Church Hall
Price
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Legion
Joseph
Mark Hasinger
Gun-Girl
Westmoreland Co
GWA
Allegheny County
Twa
B. & C. Railroad
Pinchot
Homer
Warm Springs
Franklin
Warrentown
Mada
Ship
Old Johnstown
Traylor
Bond
Scout
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