Pastor Predicts Coal Strike Not Likely To Occur
Rev Arthur W Brooks of St George's Protestant Episcopal Church predicts the threatened coal strike will be short in duration. He warned John L Lewis that a September 1 strike could split miners, cause losses, and lose public sympathy, urging an immediate agreement to avoid a hard winter and widespread unemployment.
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International News Service
New York
Arthur W. Brooks
St. George’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Brooks
Coolidge
John W. Davis
Lewis
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Atlantic City
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Lewis
America
What Did You See Rubber Salesman Displays At Beach
A rubber salesman shows his bathing cap line to a local bathing beach operator. A boy wears a badge advertising the New Castle Fourth of July celebration of 1910. A man struggles to write with a battered pen in the post office lobby. A bedraggled drinker promotes breakfast prices to Washington street pedestrians. A refined looking youth with a mincing gait ambles toward a mailbox on Washington Street attracting grins from a traffic cop and cronies. A real estate man surveys a property turned over for sale. A doctor carries a freshly purchased ledger for his office leaving the old one with bad accounts. A hot dog proprietor arranges candidate cards on the wall. A slender nineteen year old girl at Sleep In Camp Wilmington Junction eats fourteen feet of corn in one sitting.
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Wilmington Junction
Beauty of Alps Described by New Castle Woman
A New Castle woman describes the beauty of the Alps, reflecting on travel experiences and the idea of being a part of everywhere they've been. The group laments carrying light luggage yet misses an ice cream freezer, and someone in the crowd shows great enthusiasm for music boxes.
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Alps
New Castle
Montreux to Milan Journal of a Grand Alpine Tour
A travel diary excerpt describes Montreux on Lake Geneva with hotel views, Castle of Chillon, and mythic scenery. The writer notes Geneva with the League of Nations influence, Rothschild estate, Woodrow Wilson street, and crossings toward Milan, amid rain and clearing skies.
Bomb blasts rock New York City shops leaving families evacuated
A bomb exploded before two stores in New York City drawing crowds of panicked residents. Bigigi, the store owner, was rescued from wreckage with injuries as investigators pursue a vengeance motive amid threatening letters reported by his wife.
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New York City
Bigigi
Crash Near New Castle Leaves Five Cars Damaged
A Buick driven by an unnamed motorist failed to stop and collided with Fellorini's Flint and a Hudson from New Castle driven by Jess Martin. Charles Rigby and Pete De Garmo in a Hudson witnessed the wreck, braked, and the car overturned after skidding. Police cleared the blockaded roadway. De Garmo was arrested after an altercation with a woman and both men were fined $25 for disorderly conduct.
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Youngstown
Pete de Garmo
Rigby
Struck by Auto Dinsmore Hurt at Eastbrook
Dinsmore was hit by the Crowe car while crossing Eastbrook and knocked into an open car door. Crowe stopped nearby, assisted the injured man, and a Kelley ambulance transported him to hospital.
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Dinsmore
Eastbrook
Crowe
Mr. Dinsmore
Mr. Crowe
Kelley
Daylight thefts traced to Beaver Falls trio
Three Mexican men were identified in Beaver Falls as the thieves who stole suits from Norman Ehrlich Joseph Ehrlich and the People's Store between noon and 2 pm. Cardimas admitted purchases, Fernandez followed poker, Morales denied involvement. Police recovered most items. one car was used, a driver’s license issue noted.
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George Kennedy
Grover C. Syling
Messrs. Ehrlich
Mr. Fried
Cardimas
Market Street
McKeesport
Fernandez
Second Avenue
Pittsburgh
Mexico City
Morales
Orline Street
Detroit
Norman
Joseph Ehrlich
People’s Store
Norman Ehrlich
People’s Credit Clothing Company
Beaver Falls
Lightning Strike Kills Farm Worker Amid Hay Fire
A farmer died and two others were injured when lightning struck a hay load causing a fire. Leland Roenigk, 12, was thrown from a hay rake but not hurt as the horse bolted. Albert Roenigk, listed as the son of Henry Roenigk, was the deceased farmer with survivors including a widow and three sons.
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Roenigk
Leland Roenigk
Albert Roenigk
Henry Roenigk
Buffalo Township
Leland
William
Wayne
Dena Painter
West Winfield
William Faulkner
Leasureville
George Roenigk
Winfield Township
Prohibition Showdown Faces Congress Over Coast Guard Plan
Coast guard operations against rum smugglers end June 30, 1926 after a peak 1924 appropriation of 13 million for equipment and 10 million for first year. Officials say patrol success came from repurposing ships and men to rum row, with future winter duties shifting to life saving and navigation protection. Congress may hear calls to sustain anti smuggling with new cutters costing about 900 thousand dollars each.
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Coast Guard
Florida
Gulf
Rum Trust
New York
Congress
Rum Patrol
Coast police solve murder for insurance
Investigators linked a complex murder to insurance payouts. A warrant was issued for Schwartz, chief suspect linked to a cellulose company executive. Barbe's body identification relied on scientific clues, with a global search for the missing engineer ongoing.
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Coast Police
Schwartz
Alice Schwartz
Barbe
Plumbers Plan For Improvement
STATE COLLEGE Pa Aug 8 Improved service to the public is a natural development to be expected as a result of the first plumbers conference conducted last week under the auspices of the Pennsylvania State College department of industrial education. Pennsylvania is the first state to institute such a program for promoting apprenticeship and apprenticeship education in the plumbing and heating industries. W P Loomis head of the department says the State College conference was the first step toward a national movement. Representatives of master and journeymen plumbers associations the State Federation of Labor the State Department of Public Instruction the National Trade Extension Bureau and vocational teachers took part. The State Department of Public Instruction has been asked to co operate and to call a second conference at Harrisburg on September 16.
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State College
Pennsylvania State College Department of Industrial Education
Pennsylvania
W. P. Loomis
Journeymen Plumbers
State Federation of Labor
State Department of Public Instruction
National Trade Extension Bureau of the Industries
Harrisburg
Youngstown Woman Found Strangled Along Railroad Right of Way
The body of Mrs. Lee Johnson, 28, was found four miles from Youngstown beside the Youngstown and Sharon railway right of way. Authorities believe she was attacked and strangled, discovered by a Lloyd Construction Company employee.
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International News Service
Youngstown
Lee Johnson
Youngstown and Sharon
Lloyd Construction Company
Deaths Of The Day In New Castle Area Obituaries
Brief notices report the deaths of Mrs. Julia DeThomas at 29 with funeral at St. Lucy's Church and interment in St. Vitus cemetery, plus burial arrangements for Edna Mae Armstrong and Armina Adams Stoyer. The notices list survivors, residence details, and service times.
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Frank DeThomas
Cedar Street
New Castle Hospital
Dominick DeBacco
Andrew
Laura
Delphi
St. Lucy's Church
St. Vitus
South
Edna Armstrong
Edna Mae Armstrong
Butler Avenue Extension
S. B. Copeland
Third United Presbyterian Church
William Wilkison
Theodore Armstrong
James Baker
Abe Stoner
Alton Stoner
Paul Young
Graceland Cemetery
Armina Stoyer
Armina Adams _ Stoyer
Henry Stoyer
W. H. Aubel
Smithfield Street
Stoyer
The
Reformed Church
W. H. Rubel
City
W. D. Stoyer
Philadelphia
Homer Allison
Mercer County
Jennie Shaw
Scranton
N. D
M. D. Artherholt
Transfer
I. S. Stoyer
Butte, Mont
Otto Mischke
Youngstown
Walter Crabbe
George Timblin
Clarksville
Aubel
St. John’s Church
Delaware Township
Great Dane Attacks Stuffed Mountain Lion in Store
A Great Dane entered the Army and Navy store Friday at 2 PM and attacked a stuffed Mountain Lion on the floor. Clerks removed the dog, but he lingered all afternoon near the shelf, hoping for another chance at the toy.
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Army and Navy
Dog Poisoner Sought After Dozens of Pets Die
Bloomsburg, Pa. officials probe a rash of dog deaths, with at least twelve poisoned by strychnine in two neighborhoods. Five dogs died in a two square mile area in one night, prompting a wide investigation into the crime.
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International News Service
Bloomsburg
Weather outlook shows showers in parts next week
The forecast covers August 10 to 15 with showers likely from Wednesday or Thursday in the North and Middle Atlantic states and occasional showers in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions. Temperatures run near normal, with fair to partly rainy days in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys.
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International News Service
Washington
North
Middle Atlantic
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Great Lakes
Upper
Mississippi
Missouri
Coolidge Refuses Federal Aid to End Coal Strike
President Coolidge remains firm against federal intervention in the coal crisis. Secretary Hoover, after a conference in Swampscott, says the president believes industry should settle its labor relations and hopes the anthracite sector will resolve the wage dispute on its own. London power stations burn as much as 600 tons daily.
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Cinternational News Service
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
London
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