New Castle Plans a Grand Community Mausoleum
Oak Park cemetery trustees push civic improvement toward a monumental above ground mausoleum in New Castle. The project offers 400 crypts, dry air ventilation, granite exterior, marble interior, and public subscriptions with plans reviewed at offices in the Lawrence Savings & Trust Building.
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New Castle
Oak Park Cemetery
United States
Circle Drive
American Mausoleum Co
Clyde
Lawrence Savings & Trust
State of
Pennsylvania
Mausoleum Company
Hermon Church Meetings and Community Gatherings
Mt Hermon prayer meeting at the church last Thursday evening was well attended Edith Stoner and Eva Forbes were guests of Mrs Irvin Stev anson last week. Men's league meeting Sunday afternoon at 4 All men invited. Pizor and Emery reunion planned at John Emerys near here Thursday June 20. James Ray of McCaslin welcomed by Hermon church members at his home last Tuesday evening a chair presented after refreshments. Music and games enjoyed. Men of various churches to meet at Princeton Tuesday evening to discuss plans for the 4th of July picnic.
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Edith Stoner
Eva Forbes
Irvin Stevanson
Pizor and Emery
John Emery
Near Here
James Ray
McCaslin
Hermon Church
Erie Conductor Killed in Erie Railroad Incident
Youngstown Ohio June 118 Hi ram McMahan a longtime Erie railroad conductor was instantly killed Monday at 11 o clock near Wick Avenue crossing. He was supervising a shifting engine and crew when the fatal event occurred.
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Youngstown, CO
Hiram McMahan
Erie Railroad
Wick Avenue
McMahan
Man killed by oncoming train at Wick and Champion streets
A 59 year old man was crushed to death when an approach of a fast west bound passenger train forced engineers and two cars to back onto a siding at Champion street. He was found beneath the engine with his head severed. Survived by a widow and five children, the family lives at 19 Willis avenue.
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Wick Avenue
Champion Street
McMahan
Willis Avenue
Dentist Appointment Canceled Recounts Odd Luck Quote
In a humorous note from the Detruit Free Press, a dentist call leads to a canceled appointment amid chatter that luck exists. The item riffs on the idea of luck with a wry line about the cancellation.
Farrell City Market Plans Big Expansion
Farrell Pa June 18 The City Market company voted to raise capital from 6000 to 10000 to enlarge its market house this summer. It will grade five lots on Spersman avenue and purchase ground to square up recent acquisitions. The two story cement block market house will measure 50 by 10 feet with a ten foot porch and weigh scales. A hay market and a garden, meat and grocery sales area will be added and the opening is expected mid August.
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Farrell
City Market Company
Spersman Avenue
Haywood
Federal Streets
Beechwood Improvement Company
Farrell Improvement Company
Railroad Workers Face Limited Summer Vacations
Railroad engineers firemen and trainmen expect few vacations this summer as demand for their services remains high. When vacations occur it is usually in winter, with workers often taking long trips across the western or southern regions at comparatively low cost.
Sunday Work Halted in Pennsylvania Yards
A recut order from the superintendent’s office stops work in local yards on Sundays except for essential tasks. No freight moves to mills or rolling stock repairs occur, giving workers a day at home with families. The shift spreads tasks across the week, easing the prior Monday Tuesday slowdown.
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Pennsylvania
Fred Koch Breaks Fishing Record on Lake Erie
Fred Koch, a famed Pennsy conductor, visited Cleveland to set a fishing record. He landed No 281 by Lake Erie, returning with a half bushel of fish jokingly called the finney tribe. Fellow anglers tease him for bringing so many home and saving money if markets held sales of herring at five pounds for a quarter.
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Fred Koch
Cleveland
Fred
Lake Erie
Resignation at Local P and L E Station Opens Vacancy
Dr J Maier ticket clerk at the P and L E railroad local office has resigned to join Robison oil. He has lived in New Castle about two years and many friends wish him well. The resignation creates an unfilled vacancy at the local office with no successor named.
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J. Maier
P. & L. E. Railroad
Robison Oil
Maier
New Castle
Pennsy Conductors James McArthur and Allen Schilstra Shift Nights
James McArthur and Allen Schilstra, two well known Pennsy conductors, return to night shifts. McArthur works the bat out crew at the Westside depot, while Schilstra handles the hump task moving cars for the number two furnace in red ore and coke.
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James McArthur
Allen Schilstra
Jimmie
Westside
Pig Iron Contracts Near End of Year Fixed
Sharon Pa June 18 That there will be no heavy advance in the price of Bessemer pig iron during the second half of this year is indicated by the closing up of a number of contracts with valley pig iron producers. The Sharon Foundry company has just closed a contract for Bessemer pig for the remainder of the year at 14.25 at the furnace. It is thought there will be an advance in basic pig iron before long.
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Sharon
Bessemer
Sharon Foundry Company
Bessemer Pig
Petition for Keeping Child Sixteen Years
In the estate of Thalma Smith a minor child of William D. Smith guardian J P Lockhart Os car O Warner filed a claim for keeping Thalma Smith sixteen years at fifty dollars yearly or eight hundred dollars total. Thalma is daughter of Flora Van Sickle and step granddaughter of the petitioner who has cared for her since infancy.
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Thalma Smith
William D. Smith
J. P. Lockhart
Oscar O. Warner
Flora van Sickle
Contractor Sullivan Awarded Fifthousand Dollar Payment
The street committee recommended paying contractor Sullivan five thousand dollars on the Atlantic avenue grading contract. This marks the second payment on the project.
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Street Committee of Councils
Sullivan
Atlantic Avenue
Not Guilty Verdict In Varley Embezzlement Case
The jury found Sarah Varley not guilty in the Commonwealth's case accusing her of embezzling from Gallo Produce. The defense argued indictments did not meet the embezzlement statute requiring specific items, with 360 items listed but only three per indictment allowed.
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The
Commonwealth
Sarah Varley
Gallo Produce Company
Tragic Drowning After Narrow Train Escape at Mahoning River
In Warren Ohio on June 18 Jesse Leighton aged 19 and Clarence Werick aged 14 drowned in the Mahoning River after a boat ride near Leavittsburg. Their companion Edgar Leighton aged 17 rescued from the river bank while Werick could not swim and clung to Leighton in a fatal current.
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Edgar
Samuel Gephart
Young Werick
Leighton
Man's Death Found Along Bessemer Tracks Near Shenango Street
Leo Cole, a Bessemer switchman, discovered a man with a crushed head near the railroad bridge north of Shenango Street in Greenville. The victim, about 45, wore bloodstained clothing and carried a receipt for James P. O'Neal of the Sons of Vulcan, Kittanning, Pa., in his coat pocket.
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Greenville
Leo Cole
Bessemer
Shenango Street
Cole
the Sons of Vulcan
Kittanning
James P. O'Neal
Peerless Wins in Highland League Baseball
In a Highland League game Peerless beat Highland United Presbyterian 5 to 2. Haid and Knox with Hanna and Hannon shared battery duties. Haid struck out 17 and Hanna 11. Peerless had seven hits to three for Highland United. a one handed catch by Huchel stood out. Next Friday Trinity faces Car Works at Boyles field.
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Peerless
Highland United Presbytrian
Haid
Knox
Hanna
Hannon
Huchel
Trinity
Boyles
Queen Elizabeth and coal fires in London breweries
The article notes Queen Elizabeth disliked coal fire smells prompting London brewers near Westminster to avoid coal in their operations, changing heating and processing methods.
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Queen Bess
Elizabeth
London
Westminster
Lydia E. Pinkham Remedies Promote Hopeful Recovery
Reports from Platea and Walcott cite women describing nervousness backaches and sadness easing after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim improved sleep reduced crying and regained well being. Women are urged to write for confidential advice from the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Platea
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary Halstead
Walcott
N. Dakota
Amelia Dahl
Walcott, N. Dakota
Lydin E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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Rome
Appian Way
Lincolns
Grants
MacKinleys
Mt. Hermon
Erie
Detruit Free Press
Farrel
Spearsman Ave
Railroad News
Varley
Law
NEW Castle Dry Goods CO
East
Washington ST
R. S. McCulloch & CO
East Washington St
Ford
Universal
Detroit
Ford Motor Sales Company
Carson Bldg
Bell
North Mill Street
Union
Hutchison
East Brook, PA
O. K
Ty Food Inspector
R. OG. McBride
Chem!st
the Mineral Water Distributing CO
New Castle, Pa
Bell Phone
Union Phone
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