Weekend auto tolls rise across Pennsylvania and nation
An International News Service survey details weekend motor crashes across Pennsylvania and other states. Major incidents include Greensburg and West Newton deaths, Pottsville pedestrians killed, and Philadelphia reporting three dead and fourteen injured. Nationwide toll totals fifty-one dead, 178 injured with Ohio highest on ten dead.
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New York State
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Indiana
Illinois
Texas
Oregon
Colorado
Wheeler Flynn Act funds map county road grants
Indiana County receives maximum six hundred thousand dollars under the Wheeler Flynn Act. The Department of Highways may spend the money on state highway and bridge construction or improvements in boroughs towns and townships without county aid. Counties may contract with the department to contribute funds for mileage, with priorities set by county commissioners before June first each year. The act bans using these funds for resurfacing or maintaining existing highways, directing investment only in new construction.
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Department of Highways
Department
Armstrong
Butler
Cambria
Clarion
Clearfield
Indiana
Jefferson
Westmoreland
Glen Campbell: Characters and unnamed listed figures
Mrs Aurelia Vanderhof widow and Eleanor Dalrymple appear in a scene. Loretta Sherwin and Prudence Bates are listed as landlady and daughter with Abigail Bates involved. The fragment suggests a continuation from page one with several named individuals and relationships in a dramatic setup.
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Aurelia Vanderhof
Eleanor Dalrymple
Abigail Bates
Loretta Sherwin
Prudence Bates
Beauties Praise Mello-Glo Face Powder
Women endorse MELLO-GLO Face Powder for pore minimization longevity and smooth spread. It promises purity with no irritation and a natural finish avoiding pasty or flaky looks. A French formula allegedly gives a youthful bloom while controlling shine.
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Widmann and
Teah
Tne
Belgian German Reparations Talks Face Quick Accord
Paris June 3 Bel gium and Germany near a settlement on depreciated marks left behind after evacuation, with experts hopeful a conference report can be signed before Wednesday night. The Dawes plan ends and the Young plan creates the International Bank of Payments to handle reparations.
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Robert W. Thompson
UNS
Paris
Belgium
Germany
Josiah Stamp
England
International Bank of Payments
Parker Gilbert
United States
Alma Mater Class Roll and School Symbols
Marks, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Alma Mater. CLASS ROLL Wendell Baird, Donald Barkey, Agnes Berry, Lenore Gaston, Flor ence Hall, Daniel Leinbach, Richard Lewis, Baird Lovelace, Thomas Love lace, Carl Mannerberg and Edward Smith. Class Golos, Orange and Black, Class Flower, Rose, Class Motto, Esse quam videri.
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Dorothy Pennington
Edna Tilaag
Hope Lewis
Alice Smith
Florence Hall
Jean Berry
Baptist Church
Heim
The
Agnes Berry
Thomas Lovelace
Daniel Leimbach
Carl Mannerberg
Edward Smith
Baird Lovelace
Richard Lewis
Wendell Baird
Donald Barkey
Lenore Gaston
James P. Whyte
Rosenthal
St. Michael's Church
St. Michael’s Church
Indiana County
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Cadman
Land of the Sky-Blue Water
Carl
Mannerberg
John D. Brooks
Department of Education
Wilson College
B. Martz
Daniel Leinbach
Yardstick plan to measure NATO navies faces Aug deadline
In London the major task is presenting a new yardstick to gauge relative strength of American and British navies. Discussion centers one method unseen before, aiming to reduce both fleets under Hoover's proposed international naval accord. Congress debates the 15 cruiser program with five ships to be laid down this year, while budget bottlenecks loom and bids are to be opened.
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Geneva
Congress
Hoover
Atlams
Bureau of the Budget
United States
Hoover proposes farm relief and tariff revisions amid looming summer recess
President Hoover presses agriculture relief and tariff reform as Congress nears a summer break. The administration aims to have the farm relief bill on the books within ten days while the tariff measure stalls in the Senate for about two months. Congress plans to adjourn from June 11 or 12 to September 9 after clearing census reapportionment and immigration quota repeal actions.
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Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Indiana hospital chief retires amid crowded wards plan
Eva F. Allison announces resignation after seven years as superintendent of Indiana Memorial Hospital citing overcrowding and workload. A search committee will seek a successor with broad experience to guide sweeping changes tied to a $250,000 fundraising campaign set for June 20 to July 1 to elevate the facility to regional prominence.
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Greater Indiana Memorial Hospital
Indiana Hospital
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East
Allison
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Indiana Memorial Hospital
Gas Well Drillers Die In Explosion Near Butler
George B. Phillips and his son, drilling contractors for the T. W. Phillips Company of Butler, Pa, were killed when an explosion occurred on a Sugar Hill farm owned by Clive Boyd Hamm while drilling a new gas well. The men, part owners of the rig, had set up Saturday May 35 and were progressing through the week before the blast.
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Clive Boyd
Tragic death linked to engagement rumors in Camden
Miss Wilson daughter of John O Wilson a Camden lawyer died after being found beside her former fiancé. Roberts survived several hours but never regained consciousness. Conflicting stories surround the events though it appears they were not formally engaged, a fact widely assumed locally.
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John O. Wilson
Camden, Na Jy
Wilson College
Chambersburg
Roberts
Jealous Lover in Mooren Town Tragedy Leaves Questions
Milas Wilson and Roberts, tied by a troubled courtship, faced clashes over other suitors. A motor outing with John Collins and an unnamed woman is under investigation. Roberts’s death, ruled as suicide and murder theory, centers on a pistol found in his hand amid jealous rumors.
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Moorentown
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Calling
Asa Stackhouse
Horace Roberts
Hooton Hall
Emmer Roberts
Swarthmore College
Obituary notices from Clymer and Indiana area
Frank A Boyer electric welder near Clymer and member of Odd Fellows and Owls died. Funeral at parental home then Indiana Greenwood Cemetery. Mary E Woodside widow of Daniel Woodside died at Memorial hospital aged 61. Survived by daughter Ellen granddaughter Vera Mae sister and three brothers. Interment at Grandview Cemetery after services at Edgecomb residence.
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Glymer
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Christian Church of Indiana
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Mary E. Woodside
Johnstown
Daniel Woodside
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Southmont
Vera Mae Woodside
Derby Street
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Local Woman Recovers After Wreck Near Blairsville
The crash left Mrs. Saxton and five passengers needing medical aid after rescue by pays and motorists. They were taken to Dr. W. L. Benz's office in Blairsville. Mrs. Saxton later went to the local hospital. Her husband and four others suffered facial lacerations and bruises while Larrow and a companion escaped unhurt.
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Saxton
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King Absence At Trooping The Colors
King absent from the Trooping the Colors ceremony in London honoring his ailing nephew's sixty fourth birthday. Prince of Wales and Duke of York attended. guards on Whitehall parade grounds perform the precise maneuvers. The King’s illness marks the first time he misses his birthday ceremony despite long tradition. New peers named in birthday honors list from London.
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Five new peers and many honors for royal physicians and literature
The article lists five new peers and numerous honors including five privy councillors, 11 baronets, and 32 knights awarded to physicians who attended the King during illness. Notables include Lord Dawson of Penn, Sir W Farquhar Buazard, Sir Hugh Rigby, Sir Humphry Folleston, Sir Stanley Howett, Dr Francis Shipway, Dr L E Whitby, and others receiving orders of the Victorian and Bath. Literature figures Robert Bridges and John Galsworthy receive the Order of Merit. Women honored include Mary Pickford and Elizabeth Gordon for nursing service to the King.
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W. Farquhar Buazard
Hugh ‘Rigby
Humphry Folleston
Stanley Howett
Bath
Francis Shipway
L. E. Whitby
Frank Howitt
H. Graham Hodgson
Edward C. Dodds
Robert Bridges
John Galsworthy
Mary Pickford
Elizabeth Gordon
Convention of District No 12 meeting in Creekside church
The fifteenth semi annual convention of District No 12 was held at Creekside Methodist Episcopal Church on Tuesday June 11. Programs included devotions by Rev J K Boston greetings by Dorothy Walls a call and response by the local school superintendent a convention sermon by Rev C L Moore leadership training for the county superintendent of Christian education discussion on the Sunday School and law enforcement an address by the county president and business and elections before an evening session with Rev C B Held and Ray J McElvaine. Adjournment followed.
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Creekside Methodist Episcopal Church
J. K. Boston
Dorothy Walls
C. L. Moore
Gilbert Parnell
Indiana High School Seniors Present The Tightwad Farce
The Senior Class of Indiana High School will stage a three act farce tomorrow at 8 15 p m The Tightwad by Robert Keith. The production is a model professional show with a New York run behind it Curtain rises on a middle class Sinois home where amusing complications unfold. The cast includes Russell Mack Fran Shea Ruth Wadding Harold Overbeck Mary Stewart Harold Fulton David Livingston Ray Corbett Florette Barnard Daryl Livingston and Don McGaughey.
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Robert Keith
New York City
Sinois
Russell Mack
Fran Shea
Ruth Wadding
Harold Overbeck
Mary Stewart
Harold Fulton
David Livingston
Ray Corbett
Floretta Barnard
Daryl Livingston
Don McGaughey
U S W V Members Meet in DuBois
The Mid Western District Councils of the United Spanish War Veterans held their monthly conference in DuBois with over one hundred attendees. After the Weber Hall meeting a luncheon was served, with Indiana members including Mr. and Mrs. George T. McHenry Major H. W. Fee and others present alongside representatives from Clearfield Ridgway Altoona Johnstown and Tyrone.
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Movie Men to Be Arrested
Chicago June 3. Corporation Counsel issued warrants for the arrest of F Herbert Stern Barney Balaban and other officials of Balaban and Katz Corp over stage appearances by 4yearold Davy Lee child film prodigy at their theatre. Women groups and juvenile associations protest claiming violation of state child labor law and city ordinance.
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INS
Herbert S. Stern
Barney Balaban
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Peska
Davy Lee
Flyers Hope to Hop Tomorrow on Atlantic Flights
Old Orchard Beach Me June 3 IN S4 storms over the Atlantic cleared today and crews of the Paris bound Yellow Bird and Rome bound Green Flash hoped to be airborne tomorrow morning. The Yellow Bird made a final pre dawn test flight to practice night flying and ensure the fuel mixture of benzol and gasoline was correct for the voyage.
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Old Orchard Breach
Atlantic
Will Rogers Story on City Folk Farming
A humorous Will Rogers anecdote contrasts urban folly with rural know how about poultry farming. A rich city woman plans a high tech farm and imagines parrots guiding egg collection, while a farmer notes the hen cackling indicates eggs are laid, underscoring practical wisdom over flashy schemes.
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Swarthmore College awards honorary degree at 57th commencement
Swarthmore College honored landowners with an honorary degree during the 57th annual commencement exercises. Degrees in course were awarded to 109 students. The Ivy medal for top scholarship went to Thomas TM Brown of Washington DC, with Miss Helen C. Robinson of Lansdowne also honored. Rev Joseph Fort Newton of St Pauls Overbrook delivered the baccalaureate address.
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Thomas ™. Brown
Washington, D. C
Helen C. Robinson
Lansdowne
Joseph Fort Newton
St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church of
Overbrook
Ambrose School Reunion Plans For June 5
Interesting plans are being made for the Am brose School annual reunion. The event includes an elaborate program and a picnic basket dinner at the noon hour on Saturday June 4.
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Bing
Ambrose
New Castle legislator badly injured in auto crash
Bart Richards, longtime New Castle newspaperman and state legislator from the New Castle district, was hospitalized with a crushed hand after a car overturned on a hill. One finger was amputated, and another may be amputated, as doctors assess injuries sustained when the vehicle pinned him beneath it.
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Former P M to Penitentiary for Embezzlement
Everett McBride former postmaster at Dravesburg Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to embezzling 38844.15 of post office funds and was sentenced to one year in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta by Judge Nelson in a federal court here. The shortage, traced to 1928, was discovered January 29 and had been used to speculate in the grain market.
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Everett McBride
Dravesburg
Atlanta
Nelson
McBride
Tate
R and P Coal Co League Results and Schedule
Summary of games played on June ls including Helvetia against Al Helvetia Waterman and Nu Mine versus MeIntyre at Coal Run with Ernest in action at Coal Run. Schedule lists June 4 matchups Helvetia at Waterman and Nu Mine at MeIntyre with Coal Run hosting Ernest.
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Waterman
Nu Mine
Tucerne
Ase Bede Eee
Yates Lore
Mrs Hoover Degree Card of Thanks Swarthmore Notice
Card of Thanks from Mrs Hoover and family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness in Swarthmore Pennsylvania dated June 8. Mention of Harry Richard and a father and son relationship appears in garbled text.
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Swarthmore, Pa
Harry Richard
Harry
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