One-Legged Youth Wins Sport Honors
Stanley Kutchumba, a Plains High School junior and one-legged catcher, rises in the Upper Luzerne County Baseball League after surviving a mine accident that cost him a limb. He plays with skill, using a cork prosthetic to backstop for Plains High and helps the team contend for pennant honors.
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William B. Loftus
International News Service
Wilkes-Barre
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Stanley Kutchumba
Stanley
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The
Plains High School
Luzerne
Plains
Metropolitan Apers
Duck) Walsh
Little Red
Kuthhumba
O'Mally
Plaing
O'Malley
Kutchumba
Steve O'Neil
Plains High
Plymouth
Dessoye
Ward Kin of New York Baker Tied to Death Held in $50,000 Bond
Ward, son of George Ward a New York millionaire baker, is jailed on $50,000 bond in the Clarence Peters death near White Plains. He lived in Darlington at age 15, later moved to Pittsburgh, and often visited Darlington and New Galilee where the Price estate summer home stood. He is nephew of the late Gawn Ward, a Beaver Falls hardware merchant.
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Darlington
Walter S. Ward
George Ward
New York
Clarence Peters
White Plains
N. Y
Ward
Pittsburgh
New Galilee
Old Price
Gawn Ward
Beaver Falls
Tri-County Odd Fellows Picnic Date Corrected
Officials of the Tri-County I O O F announce an error in last night’s list at Cascade Park The News. The correct picnic date is June 24. June 14 was published by mistake.
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Cascade Park
Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows Association
Law Of 1834 Says Women Cannot Be Arrested For Tax
In Pittsburg on June 3, West View borough tax collector W H Walker proposed arresting $50 anti suffrage tax dodgers, arguing the 1834 law could jail dissenters. A West View woman cited 1920 Pennsylvania digest section 20 714 which says no arrest for non payment of taxes for females found unsound mind, leaving the tax status unsettled.
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International News Service
Pittsburg
W. H. Walker
West View
Pennsylvania
Walker
Sun dial invention date noted as 556 B C
The record notes that the sundial was invented around 556 years before the common era. It attributes early time-keeping innovation to ancient civilizations without detailing inventors or places.
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Ben
Stevenson Cried Over Dickens Tale at Auction
New York June 3 The autograph letter of Robert Louis Stevenson sold for 150 at the Anderson Galleries from Charles Dickens material owned by Dr R T Jupp of London. The undated seven page diary style note, written at Bournemouth, recalls Dickens Christmas Books and Stevenson’s sympathy for others. Other Dickens items include Grip preserved for 210, a death letter for 385, Macready dedication note for 480, and a Georgine Hogarth writing case for 450.
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New York
Robert Louis Stevenson
William R. Heart
Charles Dickens
Dr. R. T. Jupp
London
England
Anderson Galleries
Bournemouth
John Knox
Stevenson
Dr. Jeyell and
Mr. Hyde
Grip
William C. Macready
Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens
Georgine Hogarth
Mathilde McCormick Will Not Battle in Chicago Court
Chicago June 3 Mathilde McCormick 17 granddaughter of John D Rockefeller will not seek court action to marry Max Oser Swiss riding master age gap over 25 years. Edith Rockefeller McCormick will not file injunction against Harold F McCormick consent but the fight ends privately within the family. A hearing on the petition was scheduled for today.
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International News Service
Chicago
Mathilde McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Max Oser
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Harold F. McCormick
Mathilde
McCormick Family Circle
She Certainly Was Women Friends Talk About Emma
A brief UTV style exchange quotes two women discussing Emma. One asks if she is happily married and the other affirms she is, joking that she must attend the theater for a good cry. The piece appears as a light social quip from the Indianapolis News.
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Emma
Indianapolis News
The New Spirit Hat Prompted a Family Moment
A brief domestic exchange reveals a new hat purchased by mother for herself but deemed too old for her. She then passes it to Ethel, as a practical gesture. The light scene captures a simple household decision and humor.
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Ethel
Anthony Wayne Land Grant In Mercer County Revealed
Mercer County records show a 500 acre donation land grant to General Anthony Wayne dating to about 1794. The grant, listed as No 77 in district 4, may reflect a government award for his Revolutionary War service, with no clear modern residence tied to the tract.
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Anthony Wayne
Mercer County
Mercer
County Recorder's Office
Wayne
Pennsylvania
Alegheny County
Family illness chatter from the Boston Transcript
A brief exchange recalls a family still suffering from rheumatic gout and neuralgia. A friend notes the father’s gout and the mother’s neuralgia, while clarifying no one in the hearing party is sick. The tone mirrors a casual social update in a newspaper notice.
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Boston Transcript
The Ridegroom and the Conveyance Marriage
A witty Life magazine quote frames a couple's union as a marriage of conveyances. The bride brings a sedan, a special touring car, and a racer to the groom, a playful nod to material gifts in marriage.
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