Westminster faculty resignations amid endowment progress
Westminster College saw five professors resign during yesterday's commencement events. Miss Sarah Pratt and Prof Lawrence announced resignations, with E L Beck and O D Hollenbeck also leaving, and Bertha Meuller not returning. Endowment funding reached 240000 dollars as plans for new faculty and programs were approved.
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Westminster
United Presbyterian School
College Board of Trustees
Sarah Pratt
Hillside
Lawrence
Columbia University
E. L. Beck
O. D. Hollenbeck
Bertha Meuller
Ion
Drowning suspected after body not found at Lake Hamilton dam
A man wearing apparel was found on the dam at Lake Hamilton in Youngstown. Officials believe he jumped into the lake and drowned. The lake will be dragged for clues and the search continues.
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Lake Hamilton
Youngstown
Cleveland financiers profit from Mahoning and Shenango sale
Reports in the financial district say Cleveland interests led by Myron T. Herrick realized a net profit over 1 000 000 from selling stock in the Mahoning and Shenango Railway and Light company to a eastern syndicate. New York brokers Harris & Williams purchased most holdings, with potential for broader consolidation and suburban service between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
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Cleveland
Financial
Myron T. Herrick
Mahoning and Shenango Railway and Light Company
Eastern
Gov. Herrick
Parmley Herrick
B. F. Miles
The
Browning Engineering Company
James Parmlee
New York
Mahoning and Shenango Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Clevelanders
Youngstown
Girard
Niles
Warren
Leavittsburg
Struthers
Lowellville
Edenburg
Hubbard
Professor Says It Should Be Gin When Child Is Two
An outspoken professor attacks the school system calling it bureaucratic and hostile to talent claiming erroneous authority over child development and education. He equates early guidance to excessive control and urges reform.
Union Church Services May Be Arranged
Church notices indicate that Union Church services may be arranged for May. Readers are advised to contact the church office to schedule worship times and confirm availability.
Sacred concert at Cascade Park with union church services
Manager Smith of Traction Company backs a July August outdoor sacred band concert at Cascade Park followed by a city minister sermon. The plan includes shared park meals and a measure to fund church work, with Billy Sunday’s July auditorium meetings as a later highlight. Continuous coverage on Page Eight.
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Cascade Park
Ministerial Association
Billy Sunday
Evangelist
Westminster Man Graduates With Highest Honors
Jas Clarke Bell of Greensburg Pennsylvania, a 1908 Westminster College graduate, earned top honors in the University of Pittsburgh Law School class of 33. The fellowship includes an instructorship. Bell, admitted to the Westmoreland bar, will practice with Albert H Bell and George E Barron and teach at the fall term.
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New Wilmington
Jas. Clarke Belle
Greensburg
Westminster College
Law School
University of Pittsburg
Bell
Westmoreland County
Albert H. Bell
George E. Barron
Carl Springer Wins $2000 Against Pullman Car Co in Pittsburgh
Judge Haymaker refuses to set aside a verdict awarding Carl Springer $2000 from the Pullman Car Company. The ruling extends liability for passenger losses, suggesting guards in sleeping cars. Springer, son of a New Castle jeweler, claimed jewels and a painted miniature were stolen from beneath his pillow on a New Haven to Pittsburgh trip.
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Carl Springer
Pullman Car Company
John Co. Haymaker
Common Pleas
Pittsburg
Springer
Pullman Company
Spring
New Castle
New Haven
Conn
Spypnger
Comppehy
Haymaker
C. B. Medard
Runaway Couple From Chester Arrested in Pittsburg
Elizabeth Privati, 14, and Joseph Hoeffer, 21, both from Chester, Pa., were arrested in Pittsburg while fleeing together to avoid an arranged marriage. Privati faces a charge of running away. Hoeffer is charged with enticing and abducting a minor. The girl cried describing her love for Hoeffer at the Central police station.
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United Press
Pittsburg
Elizabeth Privati
Chester
Joseph Hoeffer
Delaware County
Hoeffer
Central Police Station
Tax Season Rush At County Offices
The county treasurer's Office and county commissioners' office are the busiest areas in the courthouse this week as residents pay their taxes and seek tax information.
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Court House
County Commissioners’ Office
Local Names List in Youngstown and Ellwood City
Fragmentary names include Herbert Loyd Gersbecker Nellie B Lewis and John J Wilson with ties to Youngstown and Ellwood City. Other entries list Katherine Hollerman Wayne Ellen Evans and numbers or codes that are unclear.
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Herbert Loyd Gersbecker
Youngstown
Nellie B. Lewis
John J. Wilson
Ellwood City
Katherine A. Hollerman
William Jordan
Wayne Two
Ellen Evans
Wands
Critique of American Education System and Bureaucracy
The author laments careless young girls and old maids governing schools, blasted by petty officials and red tape. Teachers are depicted as mediocrities while children endure overheated classrooms and wasted youth amid widespread mental distress.
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America
United States
Stepmother Suspected in Jealous Poison Plot Like Schenk Case
In Ohio Delaware June 15 Miss Merle Henkle 21 ill with arsenic traces says her stepmother Mrs Jessie Way Henkle poisoned her. Bond set 2000 dollars for September grand jury. Physicians report two months of arsenic in water. stepmother denies all, father supports daughter, case likens to Wheeling Schenk trial.
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Delaware
Ohio
Merle Henkle
Jessie Way Henkle
Sidis urges early child education reform to boost intelligence
New York reports Prof Boris Sidis argues against modern schooling methods he says produce mediocrities. He advocates beginning at age two by answering all infant questions to accelerate learning and claims by age ten a child can reach level of a current university graduate. He criticizes current schools for wasting resources and children’s energies.
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New York
Boris Sidis
Harvard
Tax Committee Members Again Fail to Attend
A tax committee meeting failed to reach a quorum as council members were absent. The board of revision on mercantile tax assessments could not hear cases though many petitioners were present, marking the second recent absent meeting.
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Tax Committee of Councils
School Board Under Fire in Johnstown Election
At a mass meeting in Johnstown, citizens passed a resolution asking the court to appoint a grand jury to investigate charges of corruption in the city’s recent school teacher election. Nearly all high school instructors were removed and a woman replaced a man, with accusations that capable teachers were ousted for political favorites. Indignation is reported throughout the community.
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Johnstown
Death Riv. Mrs. Joseph Kelsey at Volant and Mahion Clark
A death notice reports Mrs. Joseph Kelsey age 32 of Volant and Mahion Clark aged 67 of 1406 Hamilton Street. Funeral details are not provided in the fragment.
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Joseph Kelsey
Volant
Mahion Clark
Hamilton Street
Black Hand murder tale with knife wounds in Chicago
Police investigate a body found in a sparse area of Chicago with fifteen knife wounds. The victim, possibly Phillip Felko, resisted his killer, with flesh torn from hands showing a knife grip. A butcher knife lies nearby and a deposit book plus six ty cents indicate funds at the Polish Building and Loan association.
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Chicago
Phillip Felko
The
Polish Building & Loan Association
Warrant Issued for J J W Morrow Over Larceny Charge
A warrant for the arrest of J J W Morrow was issued in Alderman Mayne's court on a larceny by bailee charge. The information, by W S Mason, executor of Mrs Lillian L Hubbard's will, arises from Morrow's possession of the stallion King Bingen.
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J. J. W. Morrow
Alderman Mayne
W. S. Mason
State Senate of Pennsylvania
Lillian L. Hubbard
Mason
Morrow
Former Resident Weds Wednesday in Local Ceremony
Friends report the wedding of Harry Zimmerly son of Mrs Emma Zimmerly of this city and Miss Bertha Long daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Long of West Middlesex. The ceremony occurred Wednesday afternoon at 3 o clock.
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Harry Zimmerly
Emma Zimmerly
City
Bertha Long
Louis Long
West Middlesex
Jordan Family Reunion Attended By Local Guests
Mr and Mrs George McFarland and Mr and Mrs Homer C Drake attend the Jordan family reunion at Mrs Newton Nelsons home near Volant today.
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George McFarland
Court Street
Homer C. Drake
County Line Street
Jordan
Newton Nelson
Volant
Little Case Heard at Court
Commonwealth versus Robert B. Little charged with false pretense. Little, an employee of P and L E company, faced a claim by Pennsylvania Building and Loan on a mortgaged Mahoningtown home. A lawsuit over a $1000 error and witness A D Newell testified Little’s veracity and honor.
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Commonwealth
Robert B. Little
Little
P. & L. E. Company
Pennsylvania Building & Loan Association
Mahoningtown
A. D. Newell
Seventh Ward
Four Arrested Pack Up After Mayor Orders Eviction
The quartet, Anerea Busterwitch John Birwitch Evert Donelly and C. Martin, arrested on suspicion, faced identical sentences of 30 minutes to disperse after meeting the mayor.
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Anerea Busterwitch
John Birwitch
Evert Donelly
C. Martin
Akron visitor Horace Miller visits Stitzinger family
Horace G. Miller of Akron Ohio is visiting Ernest Stitzinger and family for a short stay with the hosts in the area.
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Horace G. Miller
Akron, C
Ernest Stitzinger and
City Garbage Cop Vows Action at City Dump
H. J. Cohen, city garbage collector and special police officer, intends to prevent rubbish dumping at the city dump this summer. Informations are being drawn up and will be served today. The officer says considerable rubbish has been dumped recently and is enforcing measures to stop it.
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H. J. Cohen
Funeral services held for Ernest P Stevenson at home
Many friends and relatives attended the Thursday morning service at 10 30 at 215 North Beaver Street. The Rev Dr D E S Perry of Trinity Episcopal Church led the rites. Interment followed at Oak Park Cemetery with pallbearers Mont McGill Herman Workman Joseph Schefnecker Charles ONeillvert and Charles Streib.
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Ernest P. Stevenson
North
Beaver Street
D. E. S. Perry
Trinity Episcopal Church
Oak Park Cemetery
Mont McGill
Herman Workman
Joseph Schefnecker
Charles O'Neill
Vert
Charles Streib
Rockefeller and Others in Senate Attack on Trusts
Senator Pomerene demanded criminal prosecution of John D. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil and tobacco trust magnates. He argued their methods ruined many, questioned whether symbols of American power or oil barrels define the nation, and urged Attorney General Wickersham to act immediately. Continued on Page Eight.
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Washington
John D. Rockefeller
Pomerene
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
Senate
Rockefeller
Pomerone
Wickersham
Union towns ship man Jameson Mayberry celebrates 93rd birthday
Jameson Mayberry of Union towns ship is 93 and hosted a family gathering at his daughter Mrs Abram Brenard's home. Born on the same farm, he remembers early New Castle days. Thirty five guests attended with lawnside dinner and reminiscences including relatives from Youngstown Cleveland Struthers and Bessemer.
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Jameson Mayberry
Union Towns
Abram Brenard
Mr. Mayberry
New Castle
Covert
Kahrer
Youngstown
Charles Mayberry
Cleveland
Struthers
Bessemer
Sudden Hail Storm Ravages Crops Near Eastbrook
A sudden hail storm near Eastbrook caused extensive damage to gardens orchards and crops with two inches of hail falling in a short period. Farmhand T S Barnes reported shredded lettuce onions and cucumbers and stripped peaches while several windows were broken. A separate death near Babylon L I involved Mrs Josetta Coonan O Neil who died of apoplexy believed triggered by fear after a screech owl swooped near her window earlier in the day.
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New York
Josetta Coonan O’neil
Babylon
L. I
Eastbrook
T. S. Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Grove City College Plans Major Campus Expansions
Grove City Pa June 15 The board of trustees met and approved rapid growth including a new dormitory for men a science hall recitation rooms and possibly a gymnasium with multiple improvements to begin at once.
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Grove City
Grove City College
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Ness
Billy’’ Sun
Ings
Clarke Bell
University of Pittsburg Law School
Pullman Car Co
Schenk
Merle Henkele
Tessie Way Henkle
Philip Felko
J.J. W. Morrow
Mrs. Stevenson
John D
Union Towneship
Mrs. Brenard
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