Morrisville Readies for Big Steel Boom in Bucks County
U S Steel breaks ground on a 400 million dollar plant along the Delaware River opposite Trenton. The Fairless Works will employ about 5,000 workers, adding finished steel products and a coke and coal chemical plant. The six mile riverfront site will transform Morrisville from a quiet farming town into an industrial hub by 1952.
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Lee Linder
Morrisville
U. S. Steel Corporation
Delaware River
Trenton
N. J
U. S. Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Fairless
Big Steel
Bucks County
Herman L. Margerum, Jr
Licking County to Probe Gambling in Newark
A special grand jury will investigate reports of gambling in Newark and Licking County next week. The jury will sit Tuesday. Judge Charles Hobtsberry urged any county or Newark residents with gambling information to appear, following a call by the Licking County Ministerial Association condemning widespread gambling and citing a local numbers racket.
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Newark
Licking County
Common Pleas
Charles B. Hobtsberry
Hobtsberry
Pleads Not Guilty To Baby Strangling
Cincinnati AP report: Mrs. Alma Winegardner, 30, pleads innocent to slaying her 10 day old son John and is held to the grand jury without bond. Detectives say she strangled the infant because it cried and made her nervous.
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Cincinnati
Alma Winnegardner
John
Walter Hart
Thomas Faragher
Winegardner
Capacity figures for iron and steel plant revealed
The report lists annual outputs including 916000 tons of coke, two blast furnaces totaling 1200000 tons of pig iron, and nine open hearth furnaces producing 1800000 tons of steel.
Fabulous Mine May Have Got 21st Victim
Vancouver report says the Lost Creek Mine may have claimed its 21st victim. Alfred Gaspard, 60, last heard from seven months ago after plane resupply in July, vanished in Pitt River headwaters. Legends tie the mine to an 1890 discovery by an Indian named Clumach who allegedly killed eight women and kept the mine secret.
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Vancouver
B. C
Lost Creek
Pitt River
Alfred Gaspard
Pitt Lake
Gaspard
New Westminster
Clumach
New Westminister
Rennel Concentrate touted by Ohio woman for fat loss
Blanche Kidd of Marietta Ohio claims she lost 40 pounds and eight inches from bust waist and hips using Rennel Concentrate. She details a home regimen with grapefruit juice and two tablespoons twice daily, promising easy fat loss and guaranteed refunds.
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Blanche Kidd
Marietta
Ohio
Rennel
Mother Claims She Was Slave For $3 A Week
In Cleveland, 60 year old Mrs. Amelia Hill filed a Common Pleas petition seeking 100000 dollars in damages. She alleges daughter Nellie and son in law Harry Berschig coerced her into signing a contract to perform all housework, care for their child, and stay indoors without consent. She says objections led to threats of institutionalizing her. Court records indicate she was treated for a mental illness.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas Court
Amelia Hill
Nellie
Harry Berschig
State Hospital Denial Aids Reporter In 1950 Case
Questioned by a reporter, Berschig denied the charges and said his mother-in-law misrepresented the case. He claimed the $3 was spending money and the contract was drawn up to keep her mind occupied during the last three months of 1950 at the state hospital.
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State Hospital
Berschig
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