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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
20
Mil dred Walton a 26 year old graduate nurse from Brooks ville Pa leapt to her death from a 14th floor hotel Adelphia room in Philadelphia. She left two notes and telephoned a doctor, saying no one is responsible for her death and a brave person to live.
Rev. Dr S M Gordon a 76 year old retired Methodist minister from Greenville cut an oak in woods near Greenville believing it belonged to a farmer who gave permission for exercise and firewood. The oak actually belonged to S W Orr who sued in Mercer before Justice Thomas McClain Jr. The justice will visit the woods to inspect the tree.
Jane Bollinger and Dorothy Metzler of Troop 16 have been asked to aid as guides at the Lawrence County Garden Club Flower Show to be held at the Cathedral on June 13. They will assist attendees with information and directions.
Mr and Mrs William Wolfe of Painesville have returned home after visiting at the home of the former's father William Wolfe of Bolt Street.
Mrs. W. F. Jones of Newell Avenue, confined at home for some time due to injuries from a fall, is greatly improved and beginning to recover.
Oscar W. Riley of New Wilmington road received a Geneva College degree becoming the fourth in his immediate family to graduate. His sister Myrle earned in 1926, Dorothy E. in 1932, and John Samuel in 1933, making the Riley family 100 percent Genevan.
In Kansas City Missouri two Negro youths were arrested after police found them huddled around a stove in a garage they had broken into. One youth told the officer they entered to steal the stove but it was too hot, so they waited for it to cool. The article then notes kerosene use against mosquitoes in tropical zones.
Pittsburgh June 6 Esther Fish 34-year-old widow remains in jail awaiting hearing on felonious shooting charge after the man she wounded Irving Zamore is hospitalized in critical condition. Zamore reportedly told authorities he did not want her released because she would disturb him at the hospital and his condition will guide whether a hearing is advisable.
John W. Slayton, 73, longtime New Castle resident and Socialistic leader since 1897, died at his Mt. Lebanon Pittsburgh home. He guided Trades and Labor Assembly activities and ran for Pittsburgh mayor, Pennsylvania governor, state supreme judge, and congressman. He helped lead the 1909 pressed steel car workers strike in McKees Rocks. Born in Charlottesville Virginia, he later lived in Ohio before settling in Pennsylvania. He leaves widow and four daughters, including Mrs. John Heinz.
In Vandergrift Pennsylvania attorneys for the Italian Union Mutual Benefit Society plan a Dauphin county action to force the Pennsylvania liquor control board to show cause why the society’s liquor license not be renewed. The license expired last January and the suit argues enforcement of Vandergrift’s dry property deeds lies with the Vandergrift Land and Improvement Company.
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