New Castle Electrical Home Open To Public
New Castle hosts an Electrical Home exhibition at the southeast corner of Highland Avenue and Clenmore Boulevard built by J Clyde Gilfillan. The New Castle Electrical League led by H Lee Marvin cooperated on plans with lighting engineers to show fully wired modern accommodations including built in heaters outlets in every room and an electrically lit house number from June 10 to 19 hosted by Westminster College students.
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New Castle
Highland Avenue
Clenmore Boulevard
J. Clyde Gilfillan
New Castle Electrical League
H. Lee Marvin
Mr. Gilfillan
Westminster College
Electrician
G& J
Ford Agency Closing Out on Farm Machinery Sale
Universal Sales Company announces the closing out of its entire stock of horse drawn farm implements including harrows cultivators potato sprayers walking and riding plows potato diggers manure spreaders mowers binders rakes loaders washing machines harness farm trucks and wagons at greatly reduced prices. Visit Croton avenue to save money on the greatest sacrifice in farm machinery.
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Universal Sales Company
Ford
Universal Sales CO
Croton Avenue
Confesses setting fire to own store in Monongahela
A. B. Cowan, a 32 year Monongahela valley merchant, signed a confession admitting he set fire to his clothing store in the McIlvain building Sunday night. Firemen found candles around the store and a paper filled partition. The proprietor was in Pittsburgh. Cowan is jailed on arson charges. Loss is estimated at 2000 dollars with 15000 dollars of stock insured.
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Monongahela
MclIlvain
A. B. Cowan
Monongahela Valley
Pittsburgh
Efforts Underway To Pardon Shanklin In Meadville Case
Petitions circulate in Crawford and Mercer counties seeking parole for F M Shanklin the oil promoter serving two to four years in Western penitentiary after Mercer county convictions for fraudulent conversion and forgery. Attorneys plan to present to the next pardon board meeting. The cramer in Meadville is now under receiver care leaving many poorer but wiser. The Cat joke aside notes a planned marriage if Jack gets off next week.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
F. M. Shanklin
Crawford
Mercer
Western Penitentiary
Mercer County
Shanklin
Pardon Board
Meadville
Locomotive Ataxia Diagnosis Echoes Train Metaphor
A terse exchange frames a diagnosis of locomotive ataxia as a metaphor for a slow, faltering train. The quip highlights diagnostic uncertainty and the fragility of a critical system.
Beautiful Skin and Pimples Solution Story
A speculative ad highlights pimples blackheads and blotches as flaws to fix. It promotes S. S. S. as a century old remedy that purports to purify blood and help skin clear. The copy uses social pressures of beauty to push the product as essential for admiration.
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S. S
Vigilante System Reduces Bank Robberies in Indiana
Indianapolis June 10. Bankers credit county vigilante organizations for fewer robberies. Indiana Bankers Association secretary Frank H. Dunn cites 62 counties armed and ready as prep for the first annual state vigilantes shoot at Fort Benjamin Harrison on June 23 1928. Dunn notes eight robbery incidents last year totaling 87 009 dollars and seven in the past eight months totaling 14 000 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Frank H. Dunn
Indiana Bankers’ Association
Dunn
Bankers’ Association
Indiana
Fort Benjamin Harrison
One on the Colonel
A soldier asks for leave to help his wife with spring cleaning. The colonel says the wife warns the man is no use around the house. The soldier then reveals he is not married and claims two people in the regiment handle the truth loosely, naming himself as one.
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Ford Agency
Merchant
Mercer Counties
Mabel
Jack
G&j
G & J Heavy Service Cord Tires
Gasoline Consumers Association Distributors Dealers
W. H. Medard
A. B R. Watson
Dean Lamgon
Mt. Jackson
H. V. Kuhn
New Wilmington
Pred Seley and
H. B. Scott
Sharon Road
T. EB. Shaffer
Rose Point
G& J Tire Company
Gormally and Jeffrey
Essex
Stude Special
Maxwell
Nash
Hudson
Liz
State Auto Sales CO
N. Mercer ST
Highland Ave. and
Clenmore Blvd
Electrical League of
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