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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
9
The Home Fan from Westinghouse is a full oscillating unit capable of cooling an entire room. It features a 90 degree arc, enclosed oscillating mechanism, three speeds, and quiet operation. Find a Westinghouse dealer nearby.
The grand international auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held its annual picnic at Cascade Park on Wednesday evening. About 100 guests attended with husbands and families of members present. a six o'clock dinner in the grove and various amusements followed.
Pittsburgh June 30 Kings vice crusader and former Iowa legislator failed to arrive as expected. He telephoned papers saying he had married Mrs Rachel Carr yesterday and promised a full statement on arrival. He planned to file blackmail charges against a Jew, threatening to rock the city with revelations.
The Pennsylvania Power and Light Company seeks authority to acquire a group of 10 power firms in a merger that would consolidate most of the public power system between the Susquehanna and Delaware rivers. Hearings cover charters in Dauphin, Schuylkill, Montgomery and Lebanon counties, with several listed companies including Bethel Lebanon and Swatara Lebanon. Additional hearing on the Fenn Public Service Corporation requesting permission to buy six small electric firms in Somerset County.
Discharged: William K Hagus of Highland Avenue Mrs Cora Bell and baby on Johns Street Mrs Ruth Howard Sharon Pa. James Tos Cabot Butler County killed when skull fractured by a falling rock in a sand mine operated by Standard Plate Glass Co in Gabor district foreman L Wamick found him dead Tolomei left widow and four children at Cabot $10 000 Er ie County Barn Fire destroys large Blair farm barn near Girard contents of barn and machinery lost some livestock perished loss about $10 000.
A fragmentary column blends rural bliss with local news. It notes Altoona’s Allegheny Water Company sale to Community Water Service of New York City, with the John Lloyd estate as large shareholder, and reports the death of Hugh Brown 18, a Penn State freshman from Philipsburg, struck by a live wire in a Morris mine, a distant echo of early auto horn invention.
Johnstown Pa June 30 Andrew Levar 46 was instantly killed when a large tree toppled onto him at his farm near Central City. He warned his son the tree would fall but was pinned beneath it. He leaves a widow and five children.
Harrisburg Pa June 30 Six new faces were among the seven appointees to the Pennsylvania Park and Harbor Commission announced last night by Governor John S Fisher. Paul Dy Wright and a former secretary were named to the board at the ceremony.
The resignation of a highway official in 1995 following a dispute with Governor Ford sparked a cabinet reshuffle. The list includes Pinchot, Frank, Wallace, Clarence D. Shenk, and J. A. Wurzbach, with Patrick G. Grant reappointed. all are from Erie.
A McKeesport man Sherman, 82, was killed and D Prankowitz, 30, bruised when a car crashed into J S Kohler’s machine in McKeesport. Sherman’s brother Dennis Sherman and Frank Trice escaped unharmed. Kohler’s car, parked without a light, involved the accident. Dennis Sherman Trice and Kohler were held for the coroner.
Crario Blair, 40, overseas World War I veteran, died in his home tonight from effects of gas exposure received in battle.
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