Death notices of Harvey R Martin and others in Punxsutawney
Funeral details and survivorship for Harvey Russell Martin 76 a Punxsutawney attorney with 45 years in the town. Also notes John H Holt 74 and Mrs Villa Guffey 90 with long local ties, plus John Domb 56 and Daniel W Brown 6. Services held in Marion Center Apollo Rossiter and Oakland cemeteries with family lists.
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Harvey Russell Martin
Punxsutawney
Samuel W. Ruin
Punxsutawney M. D
Indiana
Greenwood
Jefferson County Bar Association
Punxsutawney M. BE
Viola Lewis
Hugh P. Lewis
Samuel Rinn
Town
Eugene R. Martin
Seattle
Wash
John Martin
Marion Center
M. B
John H. Holt
J. A. Holt
Rochester Mills
M. E. Church
C. L. Moore
Hallie Brown
Verner A. Holt
Guy E H. Terpe
Carl Holt
Somerset
C. R. Griffith
Deaths of Theodore Blacey and Richard McGahan Link to California Burial
Theodore H W Blacey formerly of Blairsville died in Milford Massachusetts after a stroke. He served as secretary of the P R R Y M C G and led in Blairsville ministerial work. He leaves a widow and three sons. Richard B McGahan aged 57 died in Elsinore California after a stroke. He was a Blairsville native and brother to several Johns town residents. Funeral services were held and interment was at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles.
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John Domb
Rossiter Union Church
Ganoe Township
Philip Comb
Thyra Bee
Rhoda Smith
Harold
Virgil
W. M. Comb
Canoe Ridge
John Gaston
Dixonville
Charles Wolfgang
Juneau
Carl Noerr
Marchand
Theodore HW. Blacey
Blairsville
Millford
Mass
Blajraville Ministerial Association
Richard B. McGahan
Elsinore
Calif
Howard Stull
Charles H
John M. McGahan
Johnstown
W. J. McGahan
Pittsburgh
W. A. McGahan
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Los Angeles
Obituary notices for four residents continued in Clover Run area
Mrs Boyd Freedline aged 38 of Rossiter died at Indiana hospital and will be interred in Clover Run church cemetery. She leaves husband and children Bertha May James Boyd Jr Harriet and her parents Mr and Mrs Samuel Hadden and siblings. John Calvin Shannon aged 70 of Oakland avenue died at home and will be buried in Oakland cemetery. he leaves widow and brothers W C Shannon Detroit and A B Shannon Springfield Mo. Mrs Catherine Trindle aged 98 died at Hast Wheatfield township home of sister in law Mrs John A Bolar and will be buried in Armagh cemetery. widow of William Trindle, longtime East Wheatfield resident.
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Savilla Guffey
Apollo Free Methodist Church
Laurel Point
Sa~villa Guffey
Elizabeth Snyder
Apollo
Blairsville
Samuel
Elizabeth Oakes
John A. Guffey
Parks
James
Mineral Ridge, O
Lucy Ford
McKeesport
Scott Oakes
Butler
Daniel W. Brown
Daniel Wendell Brown
D. W. Brown
White Township
Joan
Paul
Donald
Frederick
Robert
Charles Williams
Town
Oakland Cemetery
Boyd Freedline
Clover Run
Rossiter
Indiana Hospital
Bertha
May
Boyd, Jr
Harriet
John Calvin Shannon
Oakland Avenue
Hiderton
Indiana
W. C. Shannon
Detroit
A. &. Shannon
Springfield
Catherine Trindle
Armagh
John A. Bolar
Hast Wheatfield
William Trindle
East Wheatfield
Many Lacquer Shades Are Available But Not Named
The Washington Post notes that about 11,500 distinct car lacquer shades exist, far more than common names can cover. It cites gray as an example with 428 tonal values, and adds that excessive variety wastes effort since monthly shade production rarely exceeds 200.
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Washington Post
Size of Balsa Trees in the West Indies and Central America
Baka trees grow in Puerto Rico Cuba Jamaica Trinidad and other West Indian regions as well as in Honduras British Honduras and Guatemala. They reach 40 to 60 feet in height and 1 to 3 feet in diameter. Best development occurs in open forest clearings and along watercourses with ample moisture, and growth is rapid. The lightest wood comes from the fastest growing trees which reach 12 to 18 inches in diameter within four to five years.
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Puerto Rico
Cuba
Jamaica
Trinidad
West Indies
Honduras
British Honduras
Guatemala
Composition of Snow
The atmosphere contains a small amount of ammonia and it is possible for the snow falling through the air to gather up some of this ammonia, just as it carries dust minute organisms and impurities from the air. After the first snow has carried down these impurities the remainder of the snow that falls is clean and practically pure. Newly fallen snow is very largely air varying from three to thirty parts of air to one of ice crystals.
Birds Lose Flight After Nesting in Far North
After young whistling swans hatch their parents molt so extensively they lose flight. They fall prey to natives who kill them in nesting areas in the Far North. The Arctic breeding Canada goose also often loses flight due to a heavy post breeding moult.
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Arctic
Bill of Wrybill Bends Sideways Neat NZ Plovers Bill Shape
The wrybill of New Zealand, a unique plover, is named for its bill that bends sideways near the top toward the right. This deformity helps it reach tiny crustaceans and other creatures hiding under rocks beyond the reach of straight billed birds.
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New Zealand
Camels Endure Harsh Desert Diets Eating Any Vegetation
Camel beasts of burden show minimal food needs. They consume whatever desert vegetation is available, tolerating dry and tasteless fare and even thorns with apparent ease. These animals adapt to harsh desert conditions, eating plants others would avoid.
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Desert
Bank President Suspended Sign Mentioned in Texas Story
The Boston Transcript recalls a Texas tale where a bank president swindled depositors causing the sign to read Bank Suspended. The embezzler was caught and strung up, with grim humor the lynchers placed the notice beneath a tree.
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Texas
Boston ‘Transcript
Taxed for Cussing Builds Church in La Guayra Venezuela
A historic note explains how fines collected from profane parishioners funded the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in La Guayra, now a popular ascent from the port to Caracas. The account mentions the church’s origin, the coastal road, and the region’s picturesque northern South American scenery.
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la Guayra
Venezuela
Caracas
Venezzuela
South America
Ta Guayra
Ita
Francis Drake
Henry Morgan
Sausages and Bananas Described in Quoted Verse
A National Provisioner excerpt mocks a school composition about food wisdom. It contrasts sausages and bananas in architecture, texture, and eating style, noting sausages are stuffed or human made while bananas are natural and attached to the stem.
Lancastrian School System Arrives in America
The excerpt traces early public education in the United States and England, noting Joseph Lancaster’s 1798 free school in Southwark and De Witt Clinton’s interest in public schooling in New York. It explains the Lancastrian method with pupil monitors assisting one teacher, capable of guiding up to 1,000 students.
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United States
England
Joseph Lancaster
Southwark
de Witt Clinton Becme
New York
America
Bottomless Pitch Lake At La Brea Draws Tourists
Trinidads Pitch lake at La Brea spreads vast asphalt fields said to have no bottom. Visitors note the Land of Hummingbirds nickname as it recovers holes dug into pitch. Port of Spain, the main city, houses about 200000 people, predominantly black, with Hindus visible in turbans and robes.
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Trinidad
la Brea
Port of Spain
Two Bigler Brothers Ascend As State Governors In 1851
John Bigler and William Bigler, brothers born in Pennsylvania of German descent, were elected governors of California and Pennsylvania respectively on the same day in 1851. John, born 1804, later died 1871 after two California terms. William, born 1814, served as Pennsylvania governor and U.S. senator before dying in 1880.
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John
William Bigler
California
Pennsylvania
John Bigler
United States
Alien Literacy Law Expands Reading Requirements
The law requires aliens over sixteen to read English or another language, with exemptions for physical incapacity. It allows admissible aliens or U S citizens to bring in or send for close relatives including parents and grandparents over fifty five, spouses, and widowed or unmarried daughters if they are otherwise admissible.
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United States
Railway Bridge Built Across Tree Tops in California
A railway line in California spans a deep ravine by using the tops of trees as supports. Stumps were cut to level the banks and timbers laid across, forming a bridge that London Tit-Bits says is quite safe despite its unusual construction.
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R. R
California
London
Mongolia splits into Inner and Outer regions
Mongolia is a vast Central Asian tableland once under Chinese rule. It now comprises Inner Mongolia, increasingly absorbed by China, and Outer Mongolia, a republic with close relations to the Russian Soviet Federation.
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Mongolia
Central Asia
Inner Mongolia
China
Quter Mongolia
State Teachers Colleges Elevate Teacher Preparation
Henry Klonower outlines the shift from city and county normal schools to unified State Normal Schools and their transformation into State Teachers Colleges. He notes rising standards, two to four year professional training, and the growth of college graduate teachers from seven percent in 1920 to thirty one percent, with ongoing demand for better prepared, mature teachers.
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Pennsylvania
Phi Sigma MP
State Teachers College
Henry Klonower
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Lancaster
Reading
Chester
Erie
Scranton
McKeesport
Klonower
State Normal Schools
Engineering
Medicine
Law
Social News From Rossmoyne and Surrounds
Mrs R W Simpson of Georgeville called. Mrs John Fennel and son Victor visited with relatives in Rossmoyne over the weekend. A notices list guests from Plumville Dora and Blairsville areas. White pepper is well ripened black pepper.
Strongstown Social News Highlights Local Visits
Strongstown residents report visits and family events. Arthur Gibson and wife from Culver called on Annie andrlack Tuesday evening. Clarence Rankin and wife welcomed a daughter born Tuesday at Mendenhall hospital in Johnstown. Frank DeArmy and nephew Hartly DeArmy were business callers on Hallwood Tuesday. Memorial hospital patient Edgar Artemus of Johnstown has a fractured arm and is not much improved.
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Strongstown
Arthur Gibson
Culver
Annie Andrlack
Clarence Rankin
Mendenhall Hospital
Johnstown
Rankin
Grace
Frank DeArmy
Hartry DeArmy
Hallwood
Edgar Artemus
Iin Memorial Hospital
Nancy Mardis
W. FB. Jackson
Cyrus Fall
W. Ch. Troxell
J.P. Ondrizek
Indiana
Mabel Duncan
W.T .Ronnett
Clarence Trankin
Chience Rankin
Berk Peddleford
Wriday
W. Tt. Bennett
Mabel Duntan
Marl Stites
Wugh Borling
iMra
Edna DeArmy
Tinily
S. Gressley
Spruce
W. D. Bennett
West Wheatfield Social Notes and Local Visits
Mrs Jesse Bracken spent weeks with relatives at Brackenridge Mrs Russell Palmer visited Mrs St W Clawson at Fresh Bon Arville Shoup is confined to home with mumps George Palmer and Darry Smith attended the basketball game Friday night at Armagh Roy Palmer and Chester Empfield visited New Alexandria Friday They bought a horse while there Forty three Secretaries of State have been lawyers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Bracken
Brackenridge
Russell Palmer
St. W. Clawson
Freshbon
Arville Shoup i4
George Palmer
Darry Smith
Armagh
Roy Palmer
Chester Empfield
New Alexandria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Theodore E. Stacey
Rossmoyne
R. W. Simpson
Georgeville
John Fennel
Victor
Fennelton
Henry Bikin
Delmer Whithell
A. PF. Bikin
A. M. van Horn
G. H. Elkin
Paul Elkin
Plumville
R. Boyd Elkin
Dora
D.C
Wells
Guy Pearce
Clark Good
Ebensburg
March Furniture
Axminster
Vanities
West Wheatfield
TV Gan
ROY Henry Marble and Granite Works
Pennsylvania Avenue
Apolia, PA
Patronize Progress
India
In Motor Company
North 8Th St
Indiana, PA
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