New Books Available From Local Library Reading List
Miss Alice Sterling announces a partial list of new library acquisitions reviewed by Independent Woman. Notable titles include Song of the Years, The Fashion in Shrouds, Wisdom's Gate, Death of the Heart, Three Harbours, The Patriot, Dynasty of Death, Grandma Called It Carnell, Waterway, Rebecca, All This and Heaven Too, Generals Lady, Royal Regiment, Valiant Woman, And Tell of Time, Tree of Liberty, Fifty Years a Woman, Images in a Mirror, The Buccaneers. Public library endorses the selections. half the list appears now with the rest to follow.
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Alice Sterling
Independent Woman
National Business and Professional Women’s Club
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Margery Allingham
Margaret Aver Barnes
Elizabeth Bowen
Three Harbours
van Wyck Brooks
Pearl Buck
Taylor Caldwell
Bertha Damon
Eleanor Dark
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Rachel Field
Esther Forbes
Royal Regiment
Gilbert Frank
Sheila Kaye-Smith
Laura Krey
Elizabeth Page
Ishbel
Sigrid Undset
Edith Wharton
The
Public Library
Miss Sterling
Eastern Roads To Lower Rates
Eastern railroads announce drastic passenger fare cuts on coach and Pullman travel, with a distance based schedule reducing basic coach rate from 20 cents to 24 cents a mile for short trips and lowering rates in 50 mile blocks to 1.7 cents a mile for journeys over 901 miles. Frederic E. Williamson of the New York Central led the announcement, which will be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval.
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International News Service
New York
Frederic E. Williamson
N. Y. Central Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Doctor Attributes Quints Weight Gain to Tonsil Removal
A physician links the quintuplets weight gain to tonsil surgeries last fall. Marie shows marked gains, and the siblings now resemble each other in size. Weights Among the five remain tightly clustered within a three and a quarter pound range. Progressive gains follow a strict feeding schedule and age five marks.
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Quints
Marie
Yvonne
Emilie
Annette
Bell employees cited for hurricane relief work in Bell System
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania workers earned Theodore N. Vail special citation and bronze plaque from the National Committee of Award for their prompt restoration of telephone service in the north Atlantic states during and after last September's hurricane. The committee's report notes their decisive action and teamwork.
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North Atlantic States
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Theodore N. Vail
Bell System
National Committee of Award
Noteworthy Public Service Acts by Telephone Employees
The meeting in New York focused on recognizing notable public service acts by telephone workers during 1938. The findings and commendations were released today by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, highlighting exemplary conduct and service.
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New York
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Carpenter Ants Work On Trees On North Pine Street
North Pine Street hosts a large hard maple in front of Mr and Mrs Henry Webster where carpenter ants bore holes five to six feet up from the base. City forester Owen Fox says these black ants damage maples dogwood and some oaks. Holes yield a sawdust mound at the base. A drill-like end on their body bores into the trunk. A remedy is to insert a sharp wire into holes to destroy borers then seal with bees wax. A note recalls Daniel Webster allegedly buried a horse with bridle and saddle to keep it standing for eternity.
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North Pine Street
Henry Webster
Owen Fox
Daniel Webster
Marmola Tablets Advertises Slimming Aid for Fat Persons
An old fashioned ad promotes Marmola Tablets as a weight loss aid for individuals with hypothyroidism. It claims 30 years of public use and over twenty million boxes distributed, recommending four tablets daily and stating no cure all claims. It cautions consulting a physician and notes the formula is included in every package.
Pymatuning Dam Level Is Normal
Harrisburg reports show the Pymatuning reservoir at 1007.62 feet above sea level, well over the spillway, with ample water flowing to maintain Shenango river flow. When spillway flow declines gates will open to preserve normal mouth discharge, mitigating past summer low flows that threatened Sharon’s water and industry.
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Harrisburg
Pymatuning
Department of Forests and Waters
Shenango River
Pymetuning
Sharon
Three Divorces Filed and Local Tax Note Update
Three divorce actions were filed in the Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts office. Names include Charles Hoffman and Anna Hoffman on cruelty grounds, Louise Duddy and Edward Duddy on indignities, and Dorothy Bulyan and Benjamin Bulyan on cruelty. Also noted: personal property tax four mills not on current cards. gravestone vandalism at Valley View Cemetery with stolen flag holders and emblems and damaged soldier markers discussed.
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Office of Prothonotary
Clerk of Courts
Charles Hoffman
New Castle
Anna Hoffman
Louise Duddy
Edward Duddy
Dorothy Bulyan
Mahoning Township
Benjamin Bulyan
Thomas C. Edmunds
Frank Holliday
Valley View Cemetery
Student leaves hospital after lab blast injuries
Lawrence Briggs of Russell Pa a student at Slippery Rock State Teachers College has recovered enough from a laboratory explosion weeks ago to leave Jameson Memorial hospital where he had been treated for the loss of several fingers on his right hand The News by mail price listed 1 year for five dollars
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Lawrence Briggs
Russell
Slippery Rock State Teachers College
Jameson Memorial Hospital
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Westell’s Bicycle Store
Washington St
J. R. Rick
Motor Car CO
East Washington St
Haney’s
Haneys
Axminster
Royal Wiltons
Haney
Whittall Wiltons
Hanew SN
Dr. Dafoe
White
McGoun
BELL
City Forester
Court House Hill
Samuel T. Hoover
George S. Pontius
Hickory Township
Walter Vern Sayers
Thomas J. St. John
Shenango Township
Bertha Buzzelli
Dona Parascenzo
Ellwood City
Virginia D. Lammaro
M. L. Mervis
Ada N. Offutt
Eva L. Perrine
Sarah H. Griffiths
Jessie McB. Peterson
Dayton Thorobred
Merit Oil CO
Jefferson St
Japan
Bo.ac
Spencer Paint and Glass
Mercer St
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