Tornado Ravages Erie County and Conneaut Docks
A violent storm tore through Erie County striking Drake's Mills near Corry and Meadville severing trolley lines and flooding the downtowns. In Conneaut the harbor dock collapsed destroying the Brown electric conveying bridge and damaging multiple buildings. No fatalities reported but thousands of dollars in damage and several unroofed structures.
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Erie
Badinesi
Drake’s Mills
Here
Corry
Wentter
Drake's Mills
Edugora
Meadville
Warren
Conneaut
Lake Erie
Ue Brown
Veach Edges Into Charmed Quintet
Ty Cobb stars in the American league section with three hits yesterday lifting his consecutive games with hits to 22. In the National league, Cruise leads closely followed by Roush as the dive leaders are listed with teams. Veach and Sister are noted among the players, with Cobb, Detroit and Rousch, Cincinnati highlighted in the standings.
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Ty Cobb
Cruise
Rousch
American Cobb
Detroit
Speaker
Cleveland
Metnnis
Philadelphia
St Louis
Veach
National Cruise
St. Louis
Gar! Rousch
Cincinnati
Fischer
Pittsburg
Grob
Horneby
Sturgeon Feeding Methods Described By Zoological Society
The Zoological Society Bulletin details sturgeon feeding along modily bottoms, using four barbels to detect shellfish. It senses clam siphons, pumps sand away, and swallows the mollusk while discarding shell. A second method plows sand to expose prey and lifts sand through gills to find small organisms.
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Zoological Society Bulletin
Uus
Pulaski District Holds A Fine Convention
The 22nd annual Pulaski district Sunday School association convention was held at Harbor United Presbyterian church with good attendance and a strong program. Officers were elected and department superintendents named, despite a heavy evening rainstorm that limited participation. Columbus notes report efforts to solve vagrancy with a census, railroad trespass enforcement, and proposed state colonies for the jobless, under council guidance.
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Pulaski
M. W. Leslie
M. John G. Nothdurft
J. A. Breckenridge
Harriet Blanchard
WM. French
Mary Walker
Merle Murdock
4. C. Orfutt
James van Melur
Ella Porter
Marparet Walker
Frank Ghapin
James Black
George Allen
Gun Confiscation Follows Odd Water Experiment
A foreigner named John Trastehner faced police after a revolver was seized in Neshamock township following an unusual science demonstration. The incident began with a glass beaker experiment showing aniline behavior when heated, then shifted to a county detective and constable confiscating the weapon from the foreign national.
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Nere Anotter
Leslielor
Nesharnock Township
Hasward Leslie
John Trastehner
Hastehner
Suspects Escape After Red Cross Fund Theft Attempt
Officer I Moore reports three men acted suspiciously near Royle Liquor Store on South Jefferson Street. They fled after a June incident, while the group allegedly raised about 25 dollars for the Red Cross fund.
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I. Moore
RED Cross
Royle Ilquor
South Jefferson Street
Lawrence Chayet
Hey
Mway
Medicine dropper and its uses in dosing accuracy
A London physician reported experiments with a medicine dropper showing drops vary with orientation. Drops from a vertical dropper were smallest, while holding the dropper at angles increased drop size, risking incorrect dosing up to one quarter larger than intended.
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R. P. Garrow
London
Roar of Gun and Cause
A Kansas City Star report explains the physics of gunfire, describing how a sudden burst of hot gas from burning powder expands rapidly inside a confined cartridge space. The pressure drives the bullet forward, creating the loud sound as the gas escapes.
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Kansas City Star
Lightning Thrills Bathers Defy Storm at Mill Beach
A large crowd, over a hundred bathers, continued swimming as a storm approached. Some sought cover but most kept swimming, boasting fine water conditions and a season’s largest crowd. Bathers question city about redressing rooms.
Presbyterian Music Night For Navy League Benefit
In a Friday church event by The Knitters at New Paste and Sharon, concert by sailors and boats musicians to aid the Navy League. Bring a silver offering. Also notes historic fact about the Housatonic sinking by a submarine in 1864, with reference to the first American vessel sunk in hostilities.
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Presbyterian
New Paste
Sharon
Navy League
Washington
Wales
Charleston Harbor
H. L. Simley
Enormous Chinese Classic Enters British Museum Library
The Chinese department houses a vast work of 5,020 volumes. Printed from copper type by Jesuit missionaries, it spans 28 centuries of Chinese literature. Initiated by Kangxi, the project engaged a commission for 40 years, finished after his death, and is divided into six knowledge branches.
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British Museum, Library
China
Kang-he
Kang
Neross
Kank
Wee Girls Contribute to Navy League
Lightning struck the home of 5 C Stickle in Princeton for the fourth time in five years causing minor damage. Little girls selling Red Grass flower booths in Brown and Hamilton store raised 25.24 dollars Tuesday, donated to the Navy League for patriotic emblems and future sales Thursday and Friday and again Tuesday and Saturday next. Call Bell 1843 to order flowers for any purpose.
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5. C. Stickle
Princeton
Brown and Hamilton
Navy League
Erle
Bell
Socialist Editor Arrested Over Selective Service Law
JOHNSTOWN Pa June 27 Fher K Cockrey editor of the Rockwood Pioneer Socialist publication was arrested Saturday night by Sheriff Lester Wagner of Somerset county and after 24 hours in the county jail was taken into custody by a deputy U S marshal on a charge of failing to register under the selective military service bill Mrs W Hi Sidley of Pine Street will entertain the Lotus Kensington Thursday afternoon
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Johnstown
Fher K. Cockrey
Rockwood Pioneer
Lester Wagner
Somerset
United States
Grange Cancels Friday Evening Meeting
North Teaver grange will not meet next Friday evening despite a recent News issue announcement. Dates for the next meeting will be announced later.
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Grange
North Teaver Grange
Recruiting Slow for Regular Army 1917
Washington June 27 Soldiers respond to President Wilsons proclamation calling for 70000 volunteers for the regular army come in slowly. Only 11451 men were obtained yesterday, nearly doubling the weeks low daily total, but officials remain concerned over the absence of many volunteers for the unit first to face the Germans in France. United States authorities refuse to change the name of Mt. Ratulette Tacoma.
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Washington
Wilson
France
United States
Mt. Ratulette
Tacoma
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Erie County
America
Oss
Capitol
Amelia
Cor Heamily
Ohio
West Virginia
Hayes
W. Crapper
Fourth Presbyterian Church
W. B. Torter
Hennsil
Ania
Columbus
Council For National Defense
Union
Inder
Wustrisn Arro Bombz
Manarossal
Isonzo
Knitters
Encyclopedia of the Literature of
the Strausse Mirshberg Co
Youngstown
Waite
The
Strauss-Birshberg Co
Youngstown, Ohio
Stickle
Stickle Place
WEE Girls
Totes Kensington
W. Hi. Sidley
Pine Street
Lotus Kensington
Regent Theatre
Rex Beach
Kathryn Williams
Pitt Theatre
Regent
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