Ben Franklin Student Dies After Sled Collision
Anthony Damato a 15 year old student at Benjamin Franklin Junior High died after his sled crashed into a bob sled on the Lutton street hill in Sutton. He died at New Castle Hospital from internal injuries with funeral services planned at St. Vitus Church.
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Lutton Street
Anthony Damato
West Sutton Street
Pollock Avenue
New Castle Hospital
Capitola
Benjamin Franken
Carmine Demato
James
Louis
St. Vitus Church
St. Vitus Cemetery
Bloomsburg Car Barn Fire Caused by Short Circuit
Bloomsburg Pa Jan 6 a short circuit according to an official investigation caused a blaze just before midnight destroying the North Branch Transit company car barns plus several passenger cars a work car snow plows and sawyers with losses put at about 150600 a residence beside the barns was partly damaged by the fire.
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Qincerhational News Service
Bloomsburg
Northlanch Transit Company
Coast Radio Revels Echoes of Legends and Weather
The narrator recalls listening late at night to a coastal radio station, boasting of a broadcast thrill and a sharp wind chill around thirty-threes. He muses on historical names and wonders if the coast might yield more western songs as he fiddles with the dial.
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Columbus
Horatio
Alexander
K. Cy. G
Hannibal
Napoleon
Seven More Mills to Start at Shenango
D S Pyle general manager of Shenango Works says orders have been received to start seven more hot mills on Monday January 12. With these in operation the Shenango Plant will run 35 of 40 mills about 87.5 percent. This signals a likely industrial upturn and will bring back many part time hot mill workers. Orders for four mills at the New Castle Plant may be reissued soon.
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D. S. Pyle
Shenango
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Build New Schools in Nine Districts of County
Lawrence county saw extensive school construction in the past year per County Superintendent C. F. Ball. Mt. Jackson, a 10 room brick at $100,000, led the new buildings for North Beaver. Union added four rooms and Scotland expanded eight, making it among the largest in the county.
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Lawrence County
County ‘Superintendent of
C. F. Ball
Lawrence’ County
Court House
Mt. Jackson
North Beaver Township
Union Township
Sunny Avenue
Scotland
Wayne Township
Burnstown
Park Gate
Vvolant
Bessemer
Taylor Township
West Pittsburgh
Big Beaver
Glenkirk
Portland Cament
Sappery Rock
Florence McKinney To Serve Term In Correction House
Florence McKinney faces one to five years in the Detroit House of Correction for complicity in the murder of Cora Raber. Zupke, serving a life term for the killing, is the other involved party. McKinney, 19, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact. The crime occurred aboard Zapke’s car on a country road last August.
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International News Service
ST. Joseph
Mich
Florence McKinney
Detroit House of Correction
Cora Raber
Emil Zupke
Marquette
Fred Franz
Zupke
Cora May Raber
Glendora
Zapke
Miss McKinney
Miss Raber
Coolidge Post Office Pay Fight Flares in Senate
The Coolidge administration presses drastic economy as the Senate weighs the veto on the postal salary bill. Administration spokesmen warn a House reenactment could follow if the veto stands, while supporters seek enough votes to override. Both parties argue the bill on its merits as a final roll call looms.
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William K. Hutchinson
Washington, Dan
Coolidge
Issay
Senate
Wall
House
Hte F
Senate Post Office Committee
Reed
Republican
Pennsylvania
Wadsworth
Remblican
New York
DIA
Warm spell to linger in Pennsylvania for several days
Pittsburgh dispatch reports that mild January weather persists across most of Pennsylvania with the local Weather Bureau predicting the warmth will continue for a few days. Forecasters note above normal temperatures and light winds, with no major storms expected in the near term.
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Penial
Naval
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Bank president’s son shot during Pittsburgh ransom bid
Two bandits forced Lawrence Sands, president of the First National Bank, to order $29,000 sent home. While the banker telephoned for the money, his son fled the house and was wounded in the left side by five shots. The robbers fled without loot and were not found by police.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Lawrence Sands
First National Bank
Sands
Young Sands
Mrs Sweetin In Jolly Mood During Journey To Prison
In St Louis Mrs Wigie Sweetin the Joliet poisoner of Wilford Sweetin appeared cheerful and talked with reporters during a twenty minute layover en route to the penitentiary under Sheriff Grant Holcomb. She wore a Sunday best and showed no signs of distress despite the conviction and transfer.
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International News Service
ST. Louis
Joliet
Gay Walla
Wigie Sweetin
Wilford
Grant Holcomb
Mount Vernon
Warren Among Five As Coolidge Mulls Attorney General
President Coolidge weighs five candidates to replace Harlan Stone as attorney general with Charles Beecher Warren of Detroit among the leading contenders. Warren, former ambassador to Japan and Mexico, had a White House visit before Christmas and is a prominent Republican lawyer. Senate action on Stone’s Supreme Court nomination clouds the timing of the announcement.
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George E. Durno
International News Service
Washington
Coolidge
White House
Harlan Fiske Stone
Senate
Stone
Supreme Bench
Charles Beecher Warren
Detroit
Japan
Mexicy
Mexico
Cleveland Republican
Warren
Haney
Supreme Court
McKenna
Eight Killed in Mauritius Train Wreck Near Beaubassin
Eight people died and fifty were injured in a Mauritius Island train wreck near Beaubassin, as reported from Port Louis. Dispatches confirm the disaster occurred on the Mauritius rail line with multiple casualties and injuries.
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International News Service
London
Beaubasain
Mauritius
Indian Ocean
Port Louis
Log Cabin Tales From Mercer County and Ohio Homes
Readers share memories of log cabins in Mercer and Lawrence counties near Pulaski and Columbus area. Letters recount childhood cabins, layouts, chimneys, and rooms, plus a Worthington Ohio cabin profile and a 1985 note about a New Castle Pa reader recalling a Washington county birth cabin.
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Mercer County
Merce County
Pulaski
Lawrence County
K. Gilliland
Pulaski, Pa
Columbus
Ohio
North Street
Worthington
O. Worthington
New Castle
Columbus Girl Shot After Leaving Taxi
Ruth Kendig of Columbus died from a chest wound after alighting from a taxicab in front of her home. The driver W Frm Mitchell said Kendig identified Fred Witmer as the shooter before she became unconscious at Grant hospital. Police seek Witmer as the primary suspect in the fatal shooting.
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International News Service
Columbus
Ruth Kendig
Fred Wilemer
Kendy Wnce
Grant Hospital
W. F. Afftehell
Witsens
Mitchell
Hohm
Iter
Mitchell de Mi S Kendig
Witmer
Auto Drivers To Be Examined On Wednesdays
Car drivers licenses will be issued by State Highway Patrol at the Jefferson and Grant streets corner on the second and fourth Wednesdays from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m. The change from first and third Thursdays is noted and motorists should prepare for the new schedule. License plates must be plainly visible and rigidly bolted so they cannot swing or be hidden by tires or bumpers.
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State Highway Patrol
Jefferson and
Grant Streets
Porch Flyer Theft Reported in January Incident
Mrs. C wonus of Ununning Lam Avenue reported to the police yesterday that her Plexible Flyer had been stolen from the rear porch of her home in January.
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Wonus
Cvs
Ununninglam Avenue
Body Found In Ellwood Shack Sparks Murder Mystery
Bones of a boy under seventeen found in a burned Timber Wolves shack near Park Gate Ellwood City. Pathologist says human remains. possible identity Luigi Noschesi fourteen. Investigators question who killed him as coroner schedules inquest for January 7 in Ellwood City.
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Timber Wolves
Park Gate
Ellwood City
Ritchie
Time Mercy Hospital
Pittsburgh
Jack M. Dunlap
Dunlap
Neschesi
Ellwood
Luigi Naschesi
Generoso Neschesi
Ritenie
Luigi Nosehesi
Luig
Crescent Avenue
Elwood City
Joseph Statti
James Joseph
Richard Means
J. P. Caldwell
Mersey Hospital
Luigi Noschesi
James P. Caldwell
Contest Over Will Of Gompers Filed
Washington Jan 1 a contest over the will of Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor was filed today by his widow Gertrude Gompers 41. The estate valued at 30000 is contested in the district supreme court. Mrs Gompers alleges a second will made just before his death cut her off with dower rights due to fraud coercion and undue influence exerted by Samuel J Gompers para her stepson
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International
Washington
Jan
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gertrude Gompers
District Supreme Court
Gompers
Samuel J. Gomes
Death Notice for Anthony Pamaco Aged 15
Anthony Pamaco of 2 West Dutton Street died. Mrs Mary Wines of 7 Buona Visa Virginia is named in the notice.
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Anthony Pamaco
Dutton -Street
Mary Wines
Buona Visa
America Still Hopeful France Will Make Offer
Washington January 6 officials hoped that the allied finance ministers meeting in Paris would clarify world finances and open negotiations to fund France debt within weeks. France’s refusal to propose a real plan disappointed Washington and raised questions of sincerity, but officials noted Paris may tie a commitment to Dawes plan milk from Germany.
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Paris
George R. Holmes
International Pendane Cee
Wasilingtos
France
Adminisurgion
Finonce
Washington
Youngstown Deaths From Explosions And Accidents
Charles Kerrigan, 19, died after a pits oiline can exploded on a construction job in Youngstown. Mrs Tsabet Betty, 102, oldest resident in Gallipolis, died from injuries after a fall. John Drabisin of Youngstown died from injuries after a fight with another man. Thirty-three people were killed in accidents in Youngstown over the past year, per police records. William Gety, 19, a non resident of Swissdale district, was the latest death.
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Charles Kerrigan
Youngstown
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Arthur Memeter
Ball
Correction House
Son
Charles B. Warren
President Coolidge
William Shipe
Washington County
Mr. Seved
Fra Witmer
Vuath Kendig
Tn Pine
Will of Gompers
America
John Drabisin
William Gety
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