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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1929
Page
12
Councilman Walter Tyler announces a city boat for saving lives has arrived and rests at the police station. It will feature grappling hooks ropes and a motor to reach drowning scenes and summon help from distress lines and Carnegie Steel cooperation.
San Francisco police joined a broad search for Eugene F. McClaren of Warren Pennsylvania, heir to a pioneer family, who vanished from the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles last March and is believed to have come to San Francisco. He is well known in Northwest Pennsylvania.
Grove City Pa June 20 Walter Knauff who lives near here will be ordained into the Lutheran ministry at Ravenna Ohio by his brother Rev Homer Knaull of Beaver Falls Pa. After ordination Knaull will become pastor of Evangelical Lutheran church Ravenna with another brother Rev George Knaull of Castle Shannon serving nearby.
International News Services reports Zachary Demas of Mors Pa uses summer ice hauling as Grange style training. The 19 year old plans to join Washington and Jefferson College in fall to try out for the football squad, after playing at Mars High School and Bellefonte Academy.
The auxiliary schooner Migrant, built for Carl Tucker of New York, slid down the ways at George Lawrence & Sons yards. Designed by Henry J. Gielow, the 168-foot yacht cost $850,000, features teak interiors, 20,000 square feet of sail, and a 950 horsepower diesel. It will join the New York Yacht Club fleet.
International News Service reports Detroit police captured Joan Susian alias Polack John the last Jaworski gang member eluding law. Three pistols a shotgun and jewelry were found. Susian faces murder charges in Ohio and Michigan linked to the Jaworski gang and its Pennsylvania terror era.
Officer James Wysner reported this morning that someone broke the lock on a door of Cripps Hardware on South Jefferson Street. The door opened to a stairway in the upper part of the building and nothing appeared to be missing.
Ruth Harvey, 17, a California hitch-hiker, travels coast to coast on a 6000 mile hike from Santa Monica May 7 toward New York. She has not accepted a ride in 5500 miles and plans to write a book after reaching Washington. She notes few offers from women and hopes President Hoover will sign autographs.
A range of handbags and accessories are showcased including a tan pigskin bag with a real combination lock, trim Morroco leather models with bronze clasps, and enamelled closures. Exhibits feature panama swan motifs, wool embroidery, Crepe de China bags, and evening bags reembroidered with clasps designed for formal wear.
Paris fashion notes say bags at smart accessory shops are getting larger in size and capacity. The article observes shoppers gravitating toward bigger proportions to meet practical needs and evolving style trends.
International copy reports Boston University co-eds adopting a cooperative housekeeping plan at the Bay Street dormitory. Each resident cooks and cleans, costing about 4.80 weekly per student for meals and room, with Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Franklin announcing the effort will continue. Lilian Rateh and Bessie Swarts serve as cooks and oversee duties to share the workload.
Washington dispatch reports Paul Mellon son of the Secretary of the Treasury, recently graduated from Yale with writing tendencies. A stray note mentions his interest in journalism as a career. In Oakland California, Scott Blater calisforates Kangaroo whisky, causing a bizarre leap by a near-naked man. A police officer intervenes as the scene spirals into a chaotic display with onlookers.
A torn OCR fragment mentions a lassoed creature in the prairies and a figure named Slater, with garbled phrases suggesting a complex scene or chase. The text is incomplete, lacks clear actions, dates, or locations, and cannot establish a definite report.
June 20 report notes near completion of a new lobby at the St. Louis Court House. The space features a Breed 40 R on St 580.100, with blue and blue tones described as a favored evening wear backdrop.
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