Peculiar Banking System In Egypt Says Missionary
Missionary Rev Roswell Caldwell describes Egypt banking as run through servants with multilingual clerks. Banks in Alexandria employ staff who speak many languages and patrons may sign checks in various tongues. Numerous foreign banks operate in Alexandria and cotton trade dominates loans secured by warehouse storage. Despite heavy cash handling, holdups are rare due to high arrest risk. Isabel Robertson named Miss Youngstown for Atlantic City pageant with judge Pauling James, who last year’s winner, among panel.
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Alexandra
Fehir
United Presbyterian Missionarisa
National Bank of
Egypt
Alexandria
Ihe Credit
Youngstown
Youngstown, G
Isabel EH. Robertson
Atlantic City
Son Of Big Auto Manufacturer Barred From Driving Car
Albert R. Erskine, 16, son of the president of the Studebaker Corporation, was forbidden in a Michigan City justice court to operate an automobile after an accident in which his car struck a Laporte boy, Herschell Cattlin, 14, who was also ordered to cease driving.
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Michigan City
Ind
Albert R. Erskine
Studebaker Corporation
South Bend
Laporte
Herschell Cattlin
Community Choral Singing At Beaver
Haydn's The Creation will be performed by the Haydn Choral Society at Geneva college Friday evening. The 75 voice group draws singers from Beaver Valley towns and the college summer session. If weather permits the performance will be on campus. otherwise in the college auditorium. Special goblets from Shadyside Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh will accompany the atlas and recitatives.
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Haydn
Geneva College
Haydn Choral Society
Beaver Valley
Orstoria
Shadyside
Chorus soloists and accompanists named in concert program
Irma Carpenter soprano Chauntey Parsons tenor Raymond Griffin bass. Mr T Harle Yearsley 1g Director of the chorus Mrs J Edger Knott and Miss Frances Magee are the accompanists.
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Irma Carpenter
Chauntey Parsons
Raymond Griffin
T. Harle Yearsley
J. Edger Knott
Frances. Magee
Agcam
Crazed By Drink Man Wounds Wife Then Hangs Self
Pittsburgh mother Charles Laupal a tailor attacked his wife with a hatchet after she reproved his drinking. He locked the basement doors tied clothing around a rafter and hanged himself. wife in Allegheny General Hospital with skull fractures.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Charles Laupal
Laupal
Nquor
Allegheny General Hospital
Canadians Chase Our Army at Queenstown Heights
Montreal readers learn about the July 25 1814 retreat of American troops from Canadian soil as General Brock’s forces defeated 4000 Americans at Queenstown Heights leaving 300 Canadians victorious in a historic chapter not found in schoolbooks.
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Montreal
Que
Battle of Lundy's
Lana
Montreal Star
Ganadian
Sir Tasac Brock
Queenstown Heights
Bar Low Necks Short Skirts In Spanish Temple
In Majorca the Balearic Isles, notices posted at church entrances warn that women dressed in short skirts or low necks are unworthy to enter the Holy Temple. The warnings end with a request not to spit on the floor.
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International
Adrid
Majorca
Balearic Isles
Oil in Second Sand in Venango County rocks Franklin well
FRANKLIN Pa Aug 40 barrel oil well largest drilled in Venango in over a year at Rockland produced from the second sand at 1100 feet. The first sand nearby has many producers but the second sand was inactive for about 10 miles. The well missed the peg in the first sand and was drilled deeper, signaling more drilling in Rockland.
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Franklin
Venango County
Rockland
Hia
Reports confirm Druse revolt in Syria actions
Reports from Jerusalem to Armaan confirm a Druse uprising against French rule in Syria. Tribes led by Sultan Ragsh-Pasha captured Sueida and seized machine guns and tanks. French forces reportedly evacuated Southern Hauran.
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International News Service
Syria
Jerusalem
Armaan
Late Ragsh-Pasha
Sueida
Hauran
Child dies after eating poisonous toadstools
Weston West Virginia August 7 A four year old Mona Belle Cochren daughter of merchant Fenech Cochran died near Noanke from eating a poisonous toadstool believed to be a mushroom her father often picked.
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Weston
W. Va
Pick
Mona Belle Cochren
Fenech Cochran
Noancke
Losing Love as a Tragedy and Guarding Hearts
Cynthia Gray argues in the Franklin News Herald that many letters seek guidance on reclaiming lost love, noting rising divorces. She advises removing petty quarrels, whining, tyranny, and lack of consideration to keep love alive, warning that fate can end relationships despite best efforts.
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Lima
Nort
Coop
Cynthia Gray
Franklin News-Herald
No Shooting In Evin Irishman Insists
Irish traveler Michael J Rowan, back from the Chicago International Rotary convention, urged Ireland to defend its name. He said Americans fear traveling to Ireland, believing false notions of violence and danger, and he vowed to assure visitors they would not be shot while in Ireland.
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Evin
International News Service
Dublin
Ireland
Michael J. Rowan
Chicago
United States
Rowan
Europe
Treland
Man’s hand lopped off at Wellsville tin plant
A laborer named Stanley Pete, aged 43, was injured when his left hand was severed above the wrist at the American Shoot and Tin Plate Company plant in Wellsville, D. C. The accident occurred while he was cutting scrap iron with large shears.
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Shiars
Wellsvill
D, C
Ang
Stanley Pete
Amerigan Shoot & Tin Plate Company
Terrorists Threaten Jews In Bulgaria
In Sofia officials report arrests of terrorists who mailed threatening letters to wealthy Bulgarian Jews demanding large sums. Initial rumors of an anti-Jewish mafia aimed at inciting pogroms were unfounded. police found isolated extortion cases linked to Macedonian Revolutionary Organization letters. Bulgarian authorities insist Jews have long been treated with equality and deny broader agitation.
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International News Service
SOFSA
Aug
Bul Farian
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