Cooksville Robbery Memoir Reveals Flight and Frail Alibi
A narrator recalls a tense Cooksville night when a burglary vanished into rumor and fear. Madeline awakens the narrator, a van ity case and a platinum wrist watch go missing, and a drugged fog lingers. A post scene letter from the culprit explains a chaotic escape and plans to delay an elopement until return to the city.
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Cookeville
Cooksville Daily
Madeline
Nora
Attered
Tarnation
Cooksville
New York
I Want My Man Gossip In Mrs Jones Kitchen
A town gossip known as Old Ironsides, famed for heavy braces, chats with Mrs Jones in a kitchen about modern girls. She rails at Sadie and other office women for chasing men, while Sadie announces her afternoon marriage to Mr Munton concluding their hurried nuptials.
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Mrs. Jones
Ironsides
Sadie
Ellie Brown
Jimmy
Community Thanksgiving Visitors and Local Guests List
A local roundup lists residents and visitors over Thanksgiving. Names include JERICHO residents Mr and Mrs Jacob St Clair and Hart McClain with daughter, Heiple and Snoddy families visiting, Wakefield, Lichtenfels, and Queery relatives in nearby towns, with Johnstown and Derby, Penn Run, Brushvalley noted among gatherings and callers. The piece records social calls and family dinners during the holiday period.
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Jericho
Jacob St. Clair
Conemaugh
Hart McClain
Joe Hall
Frank Heiple
George Snoddy
Derby
Ola Snoddy
Dorothy
Derry
John St. Clair
Pitcairn
Levi Wakefield
Youngwood
Pearl Wakefield
Howard Queery
Greensburg
Myre
Ray Lichtenfels
Johnstown
Annie Liebold
Billy Lichtenfels
What’s Doing at the Theatres and Local Notices
The Progress lists theatre showings for December with Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer in Conquest and other films and performers. It also notes Thanksgiving guest visits by local residents and promotes gift subscriptions, quoting rates for Indiana county and out-of-county deliveries, plus Christmas greetings and editorial prompts.
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Indiana County
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Inda Miller
Ecu
Man
Charles Wakefield
John McDowell
Lena
Heiple
Frank Ferrier
Kenneth Hendricks
Francis Heiple
Pontiac
Harvey B. Strong
Near
Penn Run
Roy Schrecengost
Wayne
Helen
Nolo
Sandy Moose
Glenn
Ruth
John
Blair Miller
Wilford Evans
Brushvalley Township
Harold Nortum
Indiana
MANOS
Conquest
Greta Garbo
Charles Boyer
Irene
Dunn
Gary Grant
Knight Without Armor
Marlene Dietrich
Robt. Donat “Rove
Bruce Cabot
Beatrice Roberts
Gilbert Roland
Marsha Hunt
J. Hutchinson
G. Murphy
Miss Aldrich
E. M. Oliver
W. Pidgeon
Martin Frye
Seward
Edwin Fry
Leland Carney and Son
William Gillen
Vince
Boyd Learn
Belsano
Junior Stutsman
Dorothy Lingar
Smokeless
George R. Martin
Clymer
Europe
Martin
Vienna
Budapest
Munich
Berlin
The
Progress and
Pittsburgh Post- Gazette
R. D
Santa
Ing Ote Eenne
Philadelphia St
Penna
R. E. Young CO
Gompers Avenue
Indiana, Pa
Shick Electric
Remington Rand Razors
Ronson Lighters
Dunhill Lighters
Dunhill Pipes
Luxenberg
Eigin, Waltham, Hamilton, Westfield, Bulova Watches
Shaeffer
Citains
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