Fraternity Cancels Banquet After Grove City Tragedy
The Pan Sophic Fraternity at Grove City College called off its annual banquet planned for Saturday due to the death of Edwin Leslie, president of the sophomore class, in what is described as one of the saddest college incidents. His funeral in Sharon drew faculty and students. Parish and festival notices followed with details on Vacation Bible School, prizes in a window display contest, and a June Festival, including a baccalaureate for 60 graduates led by Dr. H. C. Swearingen.
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Grove City
Pan Sophic Fraternity
Grove City College
Edwin Leslie
Sharon
Bible School
The
Presbyterian Church
R. G. Walters
Hoffmeister
Shelly
Shaffer
Lieut
Kelly
Dayton
Ohio
United Presbyterian Church
H. C. Swearingen
St. Paul
Swearingen
General Assembly
Grove City College Bible School
State Bank Robber Sentenced To Death
George Burke, convicted of first degree murder tied to a Beaver Falls State bank robbery, was sentenced to death by electrocution in criminal court. Judge Frank E. Reader heard eloquent motions for a new trial. Burke proclaimed his innocence and claimed never to have been in Beaver Falls. Defense did not indicate further action.
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Beaver Falls
George Burke
State Bank
Frank E. Reader
F. G. Moorhead
J. Rankin
Burke
Sharpsville Furnace Modernization Begins Work
Sharpsville Pa June 13 Work has started to rebuild and modernize the Sharpsville Furnace owned by the Allen S Davidson company. The project will enlarge the stack and double capacity, install a skip hoist, convert to mechanical charging, add new ore bins and a casthouse, with completion expected around October 1.
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Sharpsville
Allen S. Davidson Company
Oliver Building
Pittsburgh
Don’t Spoil Your Child’s Hair By Washing It
A vintage health note warns against common shampoos with harsh alkali harming the scalp. It endorses falsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure greaseless and cheap. Two to three teaspoonfuls in warm water create a rich lather that cleanses, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft and manageable.
Broadcast Bill's Radiolays
A playful reminiscence by William E. Douglass about radio discovery and a town party. The narrator details buying a wireless set, earmuffs, and a loud radio addition, then attends a dance with an all night party and a fiddle player from afar. A 1922 copyright note and a bear-related legislative veto note conclude.
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William E. Douglass
Swift
Cee
Brussells
Joe
France
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co
Youngstown Man Arrested in $25,000 Forgery Case
Ralph T. Trotter, 27, once a Truscon Steel bookkeeper, is held in Los Angeles on forgery charges. He allegedly forged Truscon pay checks totaling 25 000 while using the alias Howard C. Williams. He vanished from Youngstown July 1, 1921, leaving a fiancée in Ashtabula and no contact with relatives.
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Youngstown
Ralph T. Trotter
Trucson Steel Company
Los Angeles
Trotter
Truscon
Howard C. Williams
Con science Club Forms Over Duck Egg Fund
Oakland attorney John R. Terrell proposes a Con science Club to support Duck Egg a longtime object of charity. He begins the fund with a $1 subscription after criticizing past rocks thrown at the old Chinese. Membership grows quickly and Duck Egg may live in comfort in his final years.
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John R. Terrell
Oakland
Conscience Club
International Police Force Contemplated in Europe
Paris reports a plan for a great international police force to pursue criminals globally during Richard Enright’s European visit. Officials in Paris and Enright declined to confirm the accounts as no official word was released.
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International News Service
Paris
Richard Enright
New York City
Enright
Club Formed to Aid Aged Chinaman in Grass Valley
Sacramento June 13 report notes a Duck Egg Conference club created to feed and support an old Chinese man known as Duck Egg e. members pay 50 cents each. The club formed amid historical anti Chinese sentiment to help the elderly man avoid starvation.
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Sacramento
Grass Valley
Duck Egg Conference Club
California
Bears Kill 30 Sheep Man Quits Business
COUDERSPORT Pa June 13 John F Stone a lawyer farmer of this place long active in sheep husbandry in Potter county is quitting the sheep raising business He was among those who asked for help in the matter and now retires from the field
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Potter County
State Game Commission
Stone
Coudersport
John F. Stone
Twelve Soldiers Reported Massacred in Dardanelles
A dispatch from London reports twelve British soldiers captured by Kemalists in the Dardanelles were massacred. The Venice Academy, closed six years ago, reopens with Titian’s Ascension moved to the Frari church.
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London
Dardanelles
Venice
The
Academy
Italy
Titian
Frari
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W. J. Kelly
Broadstreet
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Cuticura
Cuticura Laboratories
Dept
Malden
Mass
Uticura
Braunstein Advertising Agency
East North Street
Bell Phone
Citizens
South
Jefferson Street
Jas
Keck
Prop
Columbia Grafanola
H. R. Boyd
Washington St
Sharpsville Company
Percy B. Walls
Highland Avenue
W. J. Offutt Company
NEW Castle and Butler
New Castle
W. J. Offutt CO
Builer
Teel
Bill
Dern
Cripps Hardware Co
Young & Griffin Coffee CO. Inc
New York, N. Y
Harry G. Preston
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