Miners Reject Company Offer After Suspension
Traders Coal Company proposed ending suspension at Plains Pennsylvania with a check off a 1 percent raise and $1 for day men United Mine Workers District 1 President Rinaldo Cappelini said the offer was rejected as it came from a single independent firm and not discussed by union leaders. It would have met all current contract demands and marked the first proposal in the ongoing crisis.
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Cinternational News Service
Wilkes-Barre
Traders Coal Company
Plains
United Mine Workers of America
Rinaldo Cappelini
Exoneration in Death of Son Sparks Father’s Mistake
Mercer Sept 5. Austin Flick, a New Vernon township farmer, was exonerated by a coroner's jury in the accidental shooting of his 19 year old son Ralph Flick. The coroner’s inquiry found the father mistook the youth for a shaken thief. The case underscores a tragic misjudgment in a rural home incident.
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Mercer
Austin Flick
New Vernon Township
Fila
Ralph Flick
Tragic Farmyard Shooting Ends in Mourning
A man shot his son by mistake while defending the farmyard from a thief. The boy, who had been taking chickens, was wounded as his father awakened by noise and fired in the yard. He returned home able to talk to his parents but died shortly after from a hemorrhage.
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Hig Parrets
Sermon Series on Life After Death at Alliance Gospel Tabernacle
Beginning Sunday evening September 6 and running through September, Rev. I. W. Lambert will preach at Alliance Gospel Tabernacle on Life After Death. The lineup includes Life and Its Meaning, After Death What, The Judgment Seat of Christ, and The Great White Throne Judgment. Questions about the dead, prayer for loved ones, and whether the dead know the living will be addressed.
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Alliance Gospel Tabernacle
Pearson Street
I. W. Lambert
Lambert
Ederle Awaits Time For Second Try At Channel
Miss Gertrude Ederle, American swimming champion, awaits a feasible weather window to attempt the English Channel a second time before autumn storms end attempts. Local forecasters debate conditions as she plans no swim before next week’s end.
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Cape Griz
France
Gertrude Ederle
English Channel
Misa Ederle
Heir To Fortine Quits Job After News Of Heirship
James Nolan, a longtime collector for the Mirors Telephone Co, quits his job after learning he is one of three heirs to an estate from Mrs. Matthew C. McMillan of Pittsburgh. The estate is valued at at least 2,500,000, with siblings sharing. Nolan jokes about needing a vacation as he departs.
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International News Service
Chicago
James Nolan
Mirors Telephone Company
Matthew C. McMillan
Pittsburgh
American Window Glass, Company
Nolan
Foster's Weather Prognostication Month Forecasts Frosts
Washington reports September will bring a moderate cool wave reaching into the far northwest by early month with killing frosts in northern and mountain country and possible hail in north central regions. Ten days of mild weather follow as a storm wave passes, with best outdoor conditions mid month. The MacMillan expedition signals an unusually early severe winter for the northern hemisphere.
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Weather Bureau
North America
North American
Europe
Washington
Sept.h
Corn Belt
Great Central
Northwest
Pacific
Atlantic Coast
Texas
MacMillan
Hem
Danes Plan To Blow Up Lusitania Sinking U-20 Wreck
Copenhagen reports the Danish Ministry of Marine will blast the wreck of German submarine U-20, which torpedoed the Cunarder Lusitania off Ireland in 1916. The U-20 ran aground at Warbøre, West Jutland, in late November 1916, as weather allows.
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International News Service
Copenhagen
Danish Ministry of Marine
Ireland
Warbdere
West Jutland
Mrs Phillips Among Top Local Income Tax Payers
Lists of income tax payers from the Internal Revenue Service reveal Mrs Pamphila A. Phillips paid $26,734.19 in income tax last year in Pittsburgh along with Calvin Smith's estate at $1,555.03 and P. J. Flaherty at $533.08.
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Department of Internal Revenue
Pittsburgh
Pamphila A. Phillips
Calvin Smith
P. J. Flaherty
Bethany Church to Elect Officers at Congregational Meeting
The Bethany Lutheran church at East Washington and Sutton streets will hold a congregational meeting to elect church officers. The annual election is scheduled for September 30.
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Bethany Church
Bethany Lutheran Church
East Washington
Sutton Streets
Man killed in car strike near Warren on Parkman Road
Joseph Blowns of Farrell died in Warren hospital from injuries after a car driven by Nick Hapjin attempted to pass a second vehicle on Parkman Road. Blowns fell from the road into traffic while reacting to the rabbit strike, suffering a broken back.
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Joseph Blowns
Farrell
Warren
Blonne
Nick Hapjin
Parkman Road
Hapjin
A. R. Convention Closes in Grand Rapids
Delegates depart Grand Rapids after the Grand Army of the Republic convention. John B. Inman of Springfield Wisconsin was chosen commander in chief for 1926. Des Moines, Iowa, selected as next year’s convention site.
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International Nova Service
Grand Rapids
Mich
Grand Army of the Republic
John B. Inman
Springfield
Illinois
Des Moines
Towa
Man Sentenced To Sixteen Years For Sands Home Robbery
Chester B. Miley, 22, of Adamsburg Mississippi, pled guilty in Pittsburgh criminal court to robbery conspiracy and felonious assault in an attempt to rob Lawrence Sands, president of the First National Bank. He was sentenced to from six to sixteen years in the Western Penitentiary in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Chester B. Miley
Adamaburg
Miss
Lawrence
Man's Wooden Leg Blamed For Chelsea House Fire
In Chelsea Massachusetts a fire causing about $1,000 in damage was blamed on a wooden leg. Ernest Taylor of 148 Chestnut street, owner of the leg, said it started after he knocked a kerosene lamp while searching his closet. The blaze damaged the house and furnishings.
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Chelsea
International News Service
Mass
Ernest Taylor
Chestnut Street
Taylor
Galen Father Of Medicine Foundational Medical Theories
The early second century foundations of medical science are traced to Claudius Galen born in Pergium Asia Minor. He studied in Alexandria and Rome where he wrote anatomy works and performed dissections on animals. His theory linked disease to the four humors bile blood phlegm black bile and to the four elements fire air earth water with corresponding qualities.
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Claudius Galen
Galen
Pergium
Asia Minor
Alexandria
Rome
Largest Smokestack Claimed By Anaconda Mont
Anaconda Montana proclaims a new world’s largest smokestack on its orders. The brick tower stands 5.6 feet high with a top diameter of 60 feet and bottom diameter 7 feet, built from 4 770 000 standard bricks. It vents the copper company’s reduction works and rises 47 feet above Philadelphia City Hall’s tower.
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Anaconda
Mont
City Hall
Thuladelphia
Mrs Jordan Returns From Eastern Trip
Mrs Nettle Jordan of Harlansburg has returned from a month in the east, visiting Miss Laura M Stevenson in Coffox Springs New York where Stevenson is improving. Jordan also saw Mrs Gertrude Mueller and her sister Miss Amanda Sterling, former Harlansburg residents.
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Nettle Jordan
Harlansburg
East
Laura M. Stevenson
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