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Newspaper

Lancaster Gazette

Location

Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 16, 1936

Page

5

Farmers Institute at L U January 24 25 program

The Liberty Union Farmers Institute will be held in the LU auditorium Friday and Saturday January 24 and 25. Speakers include Mrs Florence Sharp Workman of Chesterhill Ohio and Mr Asa C Mattern of Fredericksburg Wayne County Ohio. Workman will address Your School and You A Dollar and Its Worth and Just Neighbors. Mattern will speak The Game is On My Boys and It

Liberty Union Farmers Institute L. U Florence Sharp Workman Chesterhill Morgan County Ohio Asa C. Mattern Fredericksburg Wayne County Workman Valparaiso University Ohio University Washington

Costs Too Much Institute Topics for Saturday Program

Mrs Workman will address the group on The Daily Diet and Readings while Mr Mattern presents How Much Land Does a Man Need and Look Unto the Hills. Morning sessions start at 9 00 and afternoon at 1 00 with lunch served in the school cafeteria Friday and Saturday. The annual Institute play a three act comedy to follow Saturday night with no high school orchestra concert.

Annua] Institute

Kiwanis Ladies Night Planned After January Meeting

Lancaster Kiwanis held its January 15 meeting at the Elks home with Ben Miller and others directing the program. A Lancaster High School boys quartet performed and Don Muller spoke on extending Kiwanis. A Ladies Night event is set for Friday January 24 at 6 30 at Martens Hotel with the Education Committee in charge.

Lancaster Kiwanis Club Elks Ben Miller Paul Emier Ray Jewell Norrie Beasley Wilam Aken Ted Alfred Leroy Ridter Bob Bruney Dick Reed Lancaster High School Kiwanis Don Muller Smith Brothers Benson Hilan E. Larsen Lawrence, Mars Tthe Martens Hotel Donnally Neusbam Ray Kennard Charles Flanking

Prominent Milwaukee Doctor Proposes Goitre Treatment

A longtime Milwaukee specialist, Dr. Rock of Department 1073 Box 737, promotes a non surgical goitre method after research claims it is not a disease. He has published a book on the treatment and will send it free to interested readers who write him today.

Milwaukee Yiss AeAs Rock Wis Rock

The Great Waltz Opens to Rave Chicago Reception

The giant operetta The Great Waltz featuring Leonard Rockey of Lancaster in a large cast opened at the Auditorium Theatre Chicago the night after Christmas. Critical enthusiasm matched public appeal as the production is headed for a run of months in the metropolis. Lancaster residents who saw it in Cincinnati on route to Chicago praised the spectacle as one of their most enjoyable theater evenings.

Vvie Leonard Rockey Lancaster Auditorium Theatre Chicago Metropols Cincinnati New York

Edith Maxwell Denied New Trial in Slipper Beating Case

In Wise Virginia on January 18 Judge H A W Skeen refused Edith Maxwell a new trial for beating her father Trigg Maxwell to death with a slipper after he threatened to attack her for staying out late with a boyfriend. The verdict carries a 26 year prison sentence as defense counsel was granted 60 days to file a petition with the State Supreme Court. An appeal to the State Supreme Court is anticipated.

Wise H.A. W. Skeen Edith Maxwell Trigg Maxwell Sheen Edith State Supreme Court of Appeals State Supreme Court

Brocker Corset Shop Ad Highlights 109 Percent Off

An old advertisement for Brocker Corset Shop at 111 North Columbus Street promotes 109 percent off specials. The brief notes a sale event with emphasis on large discounts and location. The item focuses on a retail prompt typical of period storefronts.

Brocker Columbus Street

Market Reports Synopsis From Vercoe & Co List

Market reports with New York block and curb quotations furnished by Vercoe and Co Columbus Ohio dated January 16. Highlights include Am Can A T T Coca Cola Dupont Gen Elec Gen Foods Kroger Libbey Owens Ford Mont Ward National Distillers Owens Illinois Glass Stand Brands Woolworth Westinghouse Electric U S Steel Chrysler Ford Motors and other industrials chemicals oils and utilities with bets on steel coal and oil equities.

New York Vercoe & Co Columbus Ohio CURB Am. Gas & Elec Seagram Cities Svc Blee Bond & Sh Lone Star Sehenley Ostirs So. Penn

Death tunnel tale fuels probe of Gauley Bridge deaths

Hearing into the Gauley Bridge tunnel project charges contractors dodged state safety checks and allowed lethal silica dust. New York social worker Philippa Allen testified that dry drilling created dense dust, workers lived in unsanitary conditions, and a boy died with burial rushed to cut costs. She cited 476 deaths and 1,500 illnesses among workers on the 3 1/2 mile diversion tunnel for New Ka nasha Power Co. near Gauley Bridge.

Washington Gauley Bridge W. Va Philippa Allen New York Hel Vito Marcantonio RR. N Kanawha Power Company Miss Allen Rinehart & Dennis Co Charlie-Jones Gomeca Allenni

Investigator Probes Tunnel Deaths At Gunley Site

Miss Allen testifies that the company knew many deaths would occur and claims victims were buried on a family farm near Summerville. She cites rumors of field plowing at Gailey Bridge and accuses contractors of withholding medical care while permitting a gambling club to operate. Contractors deny reports, stating conditions were as safe as engineering allows.

Miss Allen Summerville Gailey Bridge Vand Rinehart-Dennis Co Gunley Tunnel P. H. Faulconer

New Philadelphia pupils urge fair review of Hauptmann case

A letter from 119 Welty Junior High students in New Philadelphia Ohio to the New Jersey Court of Appeals requests justice for Bruno Hauptmann. The pupils raise questions about witness testimony and proof, arguing there is no conclusive evidence of guilt and urging a careful, law-based reconsideration before any verdict.

Trenton N. J New Jersey Court of Appeals New Philadelphia Fair Ave. NE Ohio Bruno R. Hauptmann Bruno Hauptmann Jassie Fish and Lindberg Lindbergh Welty Mary Maugeri

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