Plumville Notes Include Movements and Local Events
Plumville updates show J. Walls and family moving to Main Street, W. J. Moore adding to his garage, and D. W. Donds expanding a rear dwelling. The Robt Orr family hosts church visitors. multiple residents return or travel to nearby towns. Engagement announced for Miss Rose Katherine New and Edward V. Henigin in Blairsville. wedding planned in June.
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J. 3. Walls
Indiana
Grand Union Products
Main Street
W. J. Moore
D. W. Donds
J. S. Clark
Grant Town
W. Va
Rebecca Marshall
John Silk
Homer City
Smickatburg
Arthur Stoddard
Sam Chapel
Indiana Hospital
Delma Whitsell
Rosmayne
Robert Orr
Gill
M. BF
Ad Vance
Clara Flynn
Vanslergriit
Hannah Aluchell
Sam Olsen
J. N. Cochran
Genevieve
Grace Hebrank
Ford City
Harry Hilberry
Summerville
Homer Hillberry
Rose Catherine New
Edward V. Henigin
Blairsville
Boy Scouts Bird House Contest Winners Told
About 162 county Boy Scouts competed in Indiana County Council’s fourth annual Bird House contest, with 184 houses entered from 15 communities. Fifteen top entries, five from each division, will tour the state capital Harrisburg and Gettysburg battlefield, after display at the Indiana newspaper office.
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Boy Scouts
Indiana County Council
The
Indiana Kyvening Gazette
Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Robert Templeton
Clymer
Willian Simpson
Indiana
Guy Kanable, Jr
Edgar Sullinger
Homer City
Raymond Christie
Aristotle Clever in Evading Royal Wrath
In Athens Aristotle safeguarded writings, instructing Alexander the Great during his youth. Alexander protested that lectures prepared for his instruction were published, seeking exclusive access. Aristotle replied that the works, in their current form, require the author's interpretation, which was reserved for him.
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Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Athens
Pupi
Alexander
Kansas City Star
Lightning hole in glass baffling New York window
A New York plate-glass window developed a perfect round hole after a thunderstorm. Three workers heard a distinct report as glass fragments fell on one man, yet no bullet or object was found. Officials attribute it to a mysterious lightning prank by Jupiter Lonans.
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Jupiter Lonans
New York
Disraeli and his elusive birthplace lore
The piece recalls Lord Beaconsfield's uncertain belief about his birthplace in Bloomsbury with Hart Street and a Bronze tablet on the house marking where he did not live as a child. It notes his 1830s Bloomsbury visit to a room he recalled and a late anecdote about refusing a farewell visit from his sovereign to avoid sending a message to the Prince Consort.
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Disraeli
Lord Beaconsfield
Bloomsbury Square
Hart Street
Charles G. Harper
London
Bloomsbury Square House
Harper
Prince Consort
Motors Lift Bridge On Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
The Pennsylvania Railroad installed an 808 gasoline engine generator set to power lift motors on its Chesapeake and Delaware canal bridge lacking central station power. A 110 kilowatt gas engine drives two 120 horsepower motors. The lift span, carrying two tracks, weighs 700 tons and can rise to clear water by 90 feet awaiting boat passage.
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United States
Pennsylvania
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Central Station
Iguanas Display Remarkable Versatility and Temperament
An article notes iguanas in Australia can run like a horse swim and dive climb trees burrow and defend themselves. They may fast for weeks sleep months and also eat almost anything including snakes socks or jam tins, per Mr. Torry.
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Australia
Torry
Love Story Scene With Ring Box Proposal
A couple shares a quiet moment as he asks a question, she leans close with a loving gaze, and he presents a jewelry box revealing a sparkling ring. A dog named Jenny trots toward the pasture as a dawn light appears on the scene.
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Ana
Shu
Gaucho with Douglas Fairbanks at local cinema
A three day engagement from May 7 to 9 features The Gaucho starring Douglas Fairbanks. Showings run Monday through Wednesday at the neighborhood theater, promising brisk action and classic adventure on the big screen.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Death notices and local events from Indiana County
Rilsworth Bird aged 66 died at his Kellysburg area farm after urgenic poisoning suffered while working in a barn. Survived by widow Josie Stitt and son Leo Bird plus several siblings. Funeral at Blairsville Presbyterian Church with burial in Blairsville Cemetery. Also notes Elizabeth Adams Colley 78 of Townstown. John K. Smith 68 of Sprankles Mills. Poultry Club meeting at Indiana Court House May 4 with State College specialist. State highways to be oiled includes routes through Cramer to Johnstown and Saltsburg to New Alexandria. Pensions granted to Mrs Sara Ann Gunham, Mrs Mary Wheeler, and John A. Russell. Plumville School play raises $90.35 for equipment.
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Enlsworth Bird
Rilsworth Bird
Robert McElhoes
Kellysburg
Sebetha
Kan
McElhoes
Josie Stitt
Blairsville
Leo Bird
Chicago
A. Li. Bird
Placentia
Cal
Mary Laub
Tarentum
Dora Yeagley
Verne Nedrow
Ida Bird
P. F
A. J. Bird
Confluence
J. Norman Hunter
Blairsville Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth, A. Colley
Elizabeth Adams Colley
Townstown
Jacob Adams
William Berkheimer
Louis Berkheimer
Johnstown
John HK. Smith
John K. Smith
Effie Baughman
Sprankles Mills
Matthew Finely
Dubois
Edward Thompson
Summerville
Biffle Baughman
Poultry Club
Marion Center
Indiana
Poultry Record Clubs
Court House
H. B. Kaufman
Kaufman
State College
Cramer
Armark
Homer City
Livermore
Saltsburg and
New Alexandria
N. L. Strong
Sara Ann Gunham
Rimersburg
Mary Wheeler
John A. Russell
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Pete Chocker
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Johnstown Hospital
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