Salvation Army aids Beyer fire victims in Indiana
The Salvation Army surveys homes of 18 homeless families after a Beyer blaze. Captain and Mrs. Flinn visit victims, with Beyer and Plumville residents offering help. Local aid is short of clothing and bedding, prompting collection of furniture, quilts, and shoes. A truck will collect items on Wednesday. call 364-Y to arrange pickup.
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Salvation Army
Beyer
Indiana
Salvation Army Office
Salvation
Shuman Held on a Serious Charge in Johnstown
F S Shuman of Johnstown was arrested by Constable Thomas Moorhead and brought to Indiana to face fraudulent conversion charges. He posted 3500 bail after waiving a hearing. Allegations claim he sold 3000 to 4000 dollars worth of stock in Universal Folding Trunk and Box Co to Momer City residents, with a plan to back the Mazziz Planing Mill in Homer to manufacture folding trunks. If the plant wasn’t bought, subscribers say he owed their money back, leading to the arrest last Saturday.
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F. S. Shuman
Johnstown
Thomas Moorhead
Indiana
Squire Charles McLain
Shuman
Universal Folding Trunk and Box Company
Momer City
von Was Chase
Mazziz
Homer
Saturn
Woman Dies Crossing Rain Slick Rail Bridge
Webster Massachusetts June 7 A race with death across a tressle above the Maanexit River ended in tragedy for Mrs. William Nowosadko 56 as a handcar of the New York New Haven and Hartford Rail line struck her near the end of a twelve foot crossing. Four men aboard fought to stop the car on slippery rails but she was hurled to the rocks below and died.
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Webster
Mass
William ‘Nowosadko
New York, New Haven and Hunrtford Railroad
Amnesia Case Missing Man From Blairsville Area
A 28 year old man Josephine Annechine, last seen Friday morning in Blairsville, is missing amid amnesia concerns. Police in Pittsburgh and nearby cities hold a description and search the region as he wandered after leaving home for a shave. He is described as five feet five inches tall with a peculiar medical history.
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Joseph Annechine
Paul McGillick
Blairsville
Josephine Annechine
Annechine
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
Iowa Senate Race Casts Light on Coolidge Era
Washington views Iowa primary as pivotal with Brookhart challenging Cummins in a clean cut anti administration contest. The result signals broader caps toward November and the 1928 presidential race, testing the capital’s reach in the great middle western grain belt. Des Moines notes focus on the national implications of the Republican split.
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Washington
Iowa
Washlington
Albert B. ‘Cummins
Smith W. Brookhart
Brookhart
Senate
Coolidge
White House
Great Middle Western
Juni ea youths held for court
Glenn Gaston and Alfred L Faipler, Juni eau youths, were arrested by state police on Wednesday for robbing a shack near the Ed North farm used as a farmhouse. They admitted guilt, waived a hearing, and were freed on $1000 bail to await the next court term. The pair entered via a broken kitchen window Tuesday night, stole dishes, utensils, a phonograph, and a morris chair, and intended to sell the phonograph after moving it to Mr Kline in Rossiter. Police recovered the phonograph. Bowers of Richmond allegedly burned other goods to avoid implicating himself.
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Punxsutawney
Glenn Gaston
Alfred L. Faipler
Juneau
North Farm
Gaston
Faipler
Bowser
Richmond
Kline
Rossiter
Nelson, Brooks and Stacey
Bowers
Mental Clinic to be Held in Indiana County Red Cross
The Indiana County Chapter American Red Cross will host a monthly Mental Clinic in the chapter room at 40 South Ninth street on Wednesday June 9. The Executive Committee urges all patients in need of psychiatric treatment to attend.
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Indiana County
American Red Cross
South Ninth Street
Sergeant Uncapher Visits Indiana and Creekside
SERGT HERE ON FURLOUGH Sergeant John Uncapher stationed at Fort Meyer Virginia is visiting with friends and relatives in Indiana and Creekside.
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Sergt
John Uncapher
Fort Meyer, Va
Indiana
Creekside
Health inspection of county underway this morning
County health officer W W Brilhart began yearly sanitary checks in Diana County. State Health Department outlines procedures for water and sewage standards, urging boiling water from doubtfully pure sources, avoiding shared drinking implements, and improving privy construction to prevent fly access.
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Indiana County
W. W. Brilhart
State Department
State Department of Health
Harrisburg
Guests in the Carney Home Visit Indiana Kin
Mrs Casper Smith and her son from Cleveland Ohio visit her parents Mr and Mrs Clarence Carney of North Third Street and grandmother Mrs Mary Carney of Walnut Street. Mrs Smith formerly Miss Slara Edna Carney has not been in Indiana for eleven years. Timkin and New Departure bearings for autos and trucks Auto Parts Co N Sixth Street opposite the Library 42x.
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Casper Smith
Cleveland, O
Clarence Carney
North Thirt Street
Mary ‘Carney
Walnut Street
Timkin
Auto [Parts Co
N. 6Th Street
Aquitania Becomes Floating Cathedral in Ocean Service
The ocean liner Aquitania was a floating cathedral as cardinals archbishops bishops monsignors and priests conducted services on twelve altars. The clerical delegation to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago offered prayers for the congress’s success.
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Aquitania
INS
Chicago
Fisher Wins Pennsylvania Primary Nomination by Plurality
Harrisburg June 7 The final two counties Butler and Wayne filed returns three weeks after the ballots were cast. The state board will notify the sixteen successful candidates in four parties of their nominations for the November general election. William St Ware Philadelphia won the Republican nomination for United States Senator by a plurality of 81 426.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
State Board of Elections
Butler
Wayne
State Board
William St. Ware
Philadelphia
United States
Mystery of 1874 Charley Ross Kidnapper Solved
New York reports the long missing Charley Ross, abducted from Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1874, may be identified by a man claimed as Ross. Mrs. Pierre Starr led two months of evidence gathering to prove the birth right and estate hopes, with no money sought. The case haunted American justice since the father spent $61,000 chasing the six year old.
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New York
Clairley Ross
Philadelphia
New York World
Charley
Pierre Starr
Starr
Charley Ross
Germantown
Stillmans to visit Baby Guy in Quebec estate
New York June 7. Mr and Mrs James A Stillman left for Grande Anse Quebec to visit Baby Guy. The child, at the center of a paternity denial in Stillman’s divorce action, is staying at the "home in the woods" linked to the banker’s fight over paternity with Fred Beauvais, an Indian guide. Friends say the couple’s stay duration is unclear.
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New York
INS
James A. Stillman
Grande Anse
Quebec
Baby Guy
Stillman
Fred Beauvais
Canada
Rev Fiscus Returns to Old Home After Fifteen Years
The Rev N S Fiscus of the First Presbyterian Church Seattle spent Saturday with his sister Mrs Anna M Henderson in North Ninth Street. He had been in Baltimore as a General Assembly delegate and this marked his first trip back to his native county in fifteen years. He is an alumnus of Indiana State Normal School. Also notices list for sale steam radiators by E R Lumsden Co Indiana Pa and that the Treasurer's Sale, advertised for Jane 9, has been postponed to Monday, June.
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N. S. Fiscus
First. Presbyterian ‘Church
Seattle
Wash
Anna M. Henderson
North Ninth’ Street
Fiscus I
Baltimore
General Assembly
County
Indiana State Normal School
Youngsters Raid Gardens in East End
Authorities report a group of youths nightly raiding garden plots in the East End. They recently stole banana onion plants from a Church Street garden, making the seed scarce.
Visitors from Los Angeles meet Indiana friends
Mr and Mrs Henry Horstman of Los Angeles Calif are visiting with friends and relatives in Indiana. They are staying with Mrs Fanny and Carrier Gessler on Philadelphia street. Mrs Horstman is formerly Miss Jennie Kessler a native of Indiana.
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Henry Horstman
Los Angeles
Calif
Indiana
Fanny
Carrier Gessler
Philadelphia Street
Horstman
Jennie Kessler
Loved Miss Bow Slashes Wrists
Robert S. Savage, found with slashed wrists in Los Angeles, had a photograph of Clara Bow before him. Police say the act followed a weeklong courtship. Bow said she discouraged him and would visit to offer comfort.
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Los Angeles
Robert S. Savage
Clara Bow
Miss Bow
Savage
Commencement Honor at St Francis Loretto June 7
Commencement of St Francis College to be held Tuesday at St Michael's Church Altoona. Rt Rev John J McCort bishop will preside. Dr John Doyle, college president, marks silver jubilee of priesthood. Mass features jubilarian celebrant with several priests assisting in ceremonies.
Fire Tower Sees Heavy Visitor Interest This Season
The Chickaree Fire Tower near the William Penn Highway two miles west of Alundy's Corner in the Gallitan District closed for the season after a great fire year. Wardens swiftly extinguished fires, and 793 visitors in May plus about a thousand visitors in two months showed wide public interest in forest protection.
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Chickaree
William Penn Highway
Alundy’s Corner
Gallitain
Indiana
Cambria
Westmoreland
Blair Counties
Arthur Wuterbaugh
Wehrum
Cornerstone Laid Ceremony At First United Church
A Sabbath service marked the laying of the cornerstone for the new First United Presbyterian Church building in Indiana County. The ceremony featured Mendelssohn selections, scripture read by Rev Oscar B. Emerson, a prayer by Rev R E McClure, and choral readings, concluding with a Bible-responsive dedication.
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First United Presbyterian Church
Indiana County
M. L. Kemper
Second United Presbyterian Church
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Monday Music Club
Oscar B. Emerson
D. D
Methodist Episcopal Church
Indiana
R. Be, McClure
First United Presbyterian Church of
Pairsville
My Rock
James R. Rogers
Pollock
Pealer
Houk
Edewards
Lieut Governor Nominee Arthur James Visits Luzerne County
Hon Arthur I H James Republican nominee for Lieut Governor and Mrs James stayed with Mr and Mrs William Smith in North Sixth Street. James praised Governor John S Fisher as a leading public asset and said he would be honored to work with Fisher for four years after the tea cent primary.
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Arthur IH. James
Luzerne County
James
Enoch Thomas
Thomas
William Smith
North Sixth Street
the Gazette
John S. Fisher
Thaw denies plans to remarry Nesbit in New York
In New York Thaw meeting denials on remarrying Evelyn Nesbit and aiding her son Russell. He cites friendly Atlantic City talks with Nesbit and Russell, hints at possible involvement in her life, and plans to spend days in the city to work on his life story. Nesbit says Thaw remains attached to his family and may pursue divorce from Jack Clifford.
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New York
INS
I. K
Thaw
Atlantic City
Evelyn Nesbit
Russell
Miss Nesbit
H. K
Ilesbit
Jack Clifford
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State Council of the Knights of Columbus
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Grant Smith
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Preston McIntosh
Kittanning
Rober McIntosh
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Lickingville
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