Railways Award Big Car Contract in Pittsburgh
The Standard Steel Car Company won a contract for about 1.5 million dollars to build 1N¢ new street cars for the Pittsburgh Railway. Thomas Fitzgerald, vice president, said 83 of the cars will serve city routes while the rest will run on interurban lines. Delivery starts October or November with multiple voltage operation. Some cars will replace aging equipment under Traction Conference Board approval.
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Standard Steel Car Company
Pittsburgh Railwaypany
Pittsburgh
Lby
Thomas Fitzgerald
The
Railways Company
el-Pittsburgh
Fitzgerald
Traction Conference Board
Thrift Awards Honor Highland and Arthur McGill Pupils
Thrift army pins and Thrift Champion pennants awarded to Highland and Arthur McGill students for weekly coin savings. Highland 7B2 thrift champion room. Arthur McGill Grade 3. Winners listed by grade and enrollment numbers.
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Thrift Army
Highland
Arthur McGill
Highland School
Gillis Falls
Russell Warner
Allen’ Miles
Bobbie Young
Elizabeth Turner
Ella Wygonowski
Ida Wygonowek
William Dunlap
Irwin Moore
Lillian Dieterile
Huth Gibson
Genevieve McCalmont
Emma Seal
Jeanette Vogan
Earnestins Schmidt
George Conway
Joan Rudolph
Richard Renta
David Williams
Frederick McCaroic
James Pherson
Katherine Hoover
Jean -Charlebois
Luella McBride
James Goodchild
Elsie Morgan
Dorothy Patterson
Betty Baum
Jana Welsa
Thomas Gettings
John Robinson
Sara Lee Broida
Thelms Fox
Marguerite Hoffman
Betty Norrin
Marion Borgland
Heber Baldwin
George Conwar
Glen Boughter
Esther Cayen
Ruth Davis
Francas Hickack
Vivian Danking
Betty Johnatan
Nellie Simong
Milton Marks
Billie Pherson
Jane Steen
Ailments of young girls from Evanston Wyoming
A fragmentary notice recounts a woman’s tale of monthly ailments and relief from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The piece includes several named individuals associated with local schools and a Thrift Army pine winners list, plus student enrollments and a parade.
Rev Landis to Speak Tonight at City Rescue Mission
Rev George M Landis pastor of First Baptist Church will preach at City Rescue Mission service with the subject From the Pitt of Paradise A fine musical program by the First Presbyterian Church Quartet directed by Mrs Paul Browne Patterson
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City Rescue Mission
George M. Landis
Firat Baptisl
First Presbyterian Church
Paul Browne Patterson
County Library Service book added to New Castle library
An new book County Library Service details how California county libraries extend free book delivery to rural residents. Authored by Harrie C. Long, it explains steps to establish a county library, campaign and administration, and how libraries cooperate with agencies to broaden service to isolated communities in California, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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County Library Service
New Castle
California
Local Man Relates Of Fugitive Slaves Chapter
H Sumner adds a chapter to Underground Railway tale in The News. Two uncles of Sumner’s father David and John Young sheltered fugitives near New Castle at Indian’s Inn and aided their journey to Sheakleyville. The Young family, with an enslaver in Mercer county, supported liberty. Ebenaxer Lenny, an Indian War officer, was Sumner’s grandfather’s uncle.
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New Castle
H. Sumner
Mr. Summer
David
John Young
Indian’ S Inn
Sheakleyville
Young
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
Sumner
Ebenaxer Lenny
Lenny
Prescot
Westminster Man Accepts Call To Shadyside Church
Pittsburgh May 5 The Rav George C Vincent pastor of the South Park Presbyterian church Newark has accepted a call to Shady Side United Presbyterian church and will begin duties May 24. The pulpit had been vacant since November 1922 when Rev Dr John Knox McClurkin died.
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Pittsburgh
George C. Vincent
South Park Presbyterian Church
Newark
Shady Side United Presbyters
Shadyside
Iada Oyacant
John Knox McClurkin
Reverend Vincent: a storied path from Westminster to Newark
The article traces the career of Mr. Vincent, a long serving church pastor who graduated Westminster College in 1904, completed a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, and led multiple congregations including the Second Presbyterian in Monmouth and the South Park church in Newark. It notes his father Rev. Dr. W. H. Vincent and odd historical tidbits such as early ink from lamp-black and gal.
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Vincent
Westminster College
Oxford University
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
W. H. Vincent
North United Presbyterian Church
Perrysville Avenue
Byterian
Monmouth
Cohurch
Washington
South Park
Newark
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Casselman
James Elder
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Charles Perelman
Clyde, Shannon
Robert Wilkins
Dorothy Belles
Mary Johns
Harriet Kline
Frances Long
Mary L. MecCamb
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Pauline Nelson
Betty Crane
Edward Marvin
Alexandra Karidin
Jack Templeton
Haralsment
Dorothy Blim
Richard Canon
Elizabeth Porter
Billy Wheeler
Billy, Caven
Samuel Robinson
Lester Bratchie
Ferris Hartley
Lydia E. Pinkham
Evanston
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Lydia EB
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2Nd Avenue
Evanston, Wyoming
Williard Irwin
Charles Nolan
Harry Shannon
Bob Sypher
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Dorothy Ellison
Clariasa Duff
Mary Hays
Ruth Kahl
Myrabeth May
Marthe Pitzer
Virginia Seger
Edith Schindler
Earber Thompson
Miriam Woolcock
Frances, Shaw
Olive Benford
Marguerite Eckert
June Duff
Arthur McGill Ienoely Norman Pongtain
Bob Mackle
Bobby Cole
Bobbie ‘Dilley
Arthur Gilchrist
Sally Norris
Janet Chipman
Carol Hutchison
Dorothy Linz
Jean Cartwright
Wrnde
Earl Dean
Edward Eppinger
William Fehi
George Loudon
Don Ree
Alan Sherman
Lioyd Williams
Donna Jean Beall
Sophia Buchner
Mary Ellen Cannon
Emma Gibson
Helen Gibson
Mildred Lowry
Lily Smith
Oarade
John Phillips
Bettie Datis
Mildred Carpenter
Robert Howe
John McMichael
Warold Kahl
Ruth Schuller
Lois Lee
Bruce Douthett
Willamina’ Loudon
Donald Doug Jags
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Wrade — Bertram Bishop
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Jehn Hettenbaugh
Anna Johns
Jann Milles
George Muse
George Ramsey
Emily Reynolds
Donald Rhodes
Alice Robson
Florence Safier
Lois Marian Smith
Evelyn Swanson
Glenn Kellokg
New York
Martinique
Hotel McAlpin
A. E. Singleton
Rea. Mgr
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Broadway
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Pictorial Review
NEW Castle Dry Goods’ CO
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