Community Notices From Indiana Area This Week
Local items recount quilting parties visits by residents to kin and friends, club meetings and social events. Names include Townsend Hanna Anderson Moorehead Phipps Mauk and others with references to Apollo banquet and Pioneer area churches.
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South Bend
Barnett
Robert Dunmite
Dorothy Townsend
Vandercritt
R. V. Hartman
New Kensington
Alshouse
Luella Anderson
Zions Valley
Mac Anderson
Kelly Reefer
Gastown
Sam Beighley
Maria
Sara Smith
Apollo Motor Club
Apollo
Janet Townsend
H. H. Hanna
Wendell Devers
Anderson
James Moorehead
Indiana
Clara Townsend
James Phipps
Homer City
Howard Barnett
Walter Port
Pens and Pencils Arrest Explain Seattle Oddity
Patrolman B A Sands arrested Jule Gorham on Main Street near First Avenue for possessing five pens and three expensive pencils. Gorham was held on an open charge as officers noted the unusual pairing of writing tools rather than a crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
White Coat
B. A. Sands
Jule Gorham
Avenus
Main Street
Gorham
Victim Recalls Hours Adrift In Puget Sound
Sam G Ward Jr twenty three year old bus driver describes being lashed to his overturned skiff in Puget Sound after leaving Three Tree Point. He endured hours in icy water until a bank teller J B Harrison found him near his home facing the beach and brought him to City hospital. He said tides and waves prevented rescue as boats passed without seeing him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Sam G. Ward, Jr
Puget Sound
J. B. Harrison
City Hospital
Sam Ward
Bellingham
Three Tree Point
Vashon Island
Ward
Parrot Pokes Fun in Akron tale of John and Polly
A humorous Akron vignette recounts John nicknamed Papa and his parrots. Polly the first parrot mocked police beer inquiries by directing officers under a platform. Six months later an inquest found no beer with Polly the second, provoking a quip that a scoffing parrot is better than a squealing one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Ohio
Papa
John
Polly
Ana Ha
Magistrate Flog and Burn Gypsy Girl in Lynching Case
Berliner Tageblatt reports from Pressburg that a village magistrate in Czechoslovakia punished a Gypsy girl, seventeen, for theft by flogging in her mother’s presence, then hanged her from a tree branch and set brushwood alight beneath her, a case described as lynch justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
Pressburg
Czechoslovakia
Beating Her Husband Tracked By Jealous Detroit Woman
Mrs Lucille Cott, twenty, dressed in masculine clothes to shadow her husband Carney twenty six in Detroit. She followed him to protect him from other women. He confronted the stranger in a dark corner and knocked him down. Police took Mrs Cott to a hospital and searched for the masked assailant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Lucille Cott
Carney
Sawdust Dummy Thwarted Highway Robberies in Georgia
Officers investigated holdup complaints on a highway near Bliggold Georgia and found a dummy man stuffed with sawdust on a rope to block the road as vehicles neared. Deputies saw two boys run into woods as they approached, Sheriff E B Land said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Bliggold
E. B. Land
Ancient Scalpels Exhibited at Chicago Museum
Display at the Wield Museum of Natural History features ancient Roman gurglen instruments, some akin to modern surgical tools, illustrating historical medical practices.
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Chicago
Wield Museum of Natural History
Social notes from West Wheatfield and nearby towns
West Wheatfield residents and neighbors list weekend visits and calls among families in Mount Tabor Heshbon Johnstown and Punxsutawney. Individuals include Mr and Mrs Billie Lichtantel, Billie Dias, Guy McConnell, Russell Palmer, Rose Palmer, Gladys Deemer, Florence Wagon, Maude McCormick, Frances Work and others with routine social calls, visits, and shopping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Lichtantels
Mount Tabor
Billie Dias
Heshbon
Harry Smith
Guy McConnell
Russell Palmer
Roy Palmer
Tabor
Rose Palmer
Hashbon
C. B. Empfield
George Palmer, Jr
Loth
Near Heshbon
Johnstown
Harry Lewis
Porter Berry
al- Ndauippa
George Jeffries
Blair Lewis
John McAdoo
Deckers Paint
Maude McCormick
Baltimore
Frances Work
C. R. McCullough
Indiana
George Pollock
Punxsutawney
Charles Bowers
Marion Center
C. A. Oberlin
H. W. Oberlin
William
Homer Pifer
George Johnson
Funxsutuwney
R. H. Knox
Indiana and
Livermore
S.C. Work and Sons
Rufus and
Floyd
C. C. Bowers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Auda One
THUR
FBI
SAT
Walter Huston Phillips Holmes
Lawrence Tibbett
New Moon
Grace Moore
Mary Astor
Grant Withers
J. M. Cunningham
Philadelphia Street
Borough of
County of
State of
Pennsylvania
the Savings & Trust Company OF Indiana
Fred Dilts
Leland Hanna
H. M. Kimmel
Henry Townsend
O. M. Anderson
Motor Club
B. B. L. M. Club
Edna Hanna
Mids Bess Wherry
Ira Weaver
Harry Mauk
W. C. Brown
Fred Humer
Wm. Frew
Rossiter
Tom Pemberty
W. C. Smith
Dorothy
John Parson
Near Town
Parkwood
Malverna Black
Guy Terpe
K.L.C.E
Terpe
Rev. Mohney
St. Marks Church
Esther Homan
O. Sherman
Jane Peffer
Samuel Peffer
C. Wetzel
Harry Peffer
Harry Little
I. M. Lewis
Pittsburgh
Wm. Fulert
Day Douds
Plumville
McIntyre
Wm. Little
Alex Cunningham
Jas. McKee
Blairsville
Frank Henry
Billy
J. R. Learn
W. AL. Henry
Alex Hwing
G. L. Stewart
Kent
H. J. Stiffler
Prince of Wales
Tream For Musica
Ae Tee
Hotel Biltmore Orchestra
Fox
Lown
Duke Ellington
Cotton Club
Leo Reinmen
Johnny Marvin
Gene Austin
Silas C. Streams
Indiana, Pa
Victor Records
Moorhead
Bradley
Dandy
Tim’s
Glover
Manhattan Make
West Wheatfield
Rochester Mills
R.W. Wehrle & Co
Philadelphia
Tudiana, Pa
the Savings & Trust Co
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