Dollar Day set to draw five counties to New Castle event
Commissioner Junius Radeker says Mercer Beaver Butler and Mahoning counties plus Lawrence will help attract a record crowd for the Dollar Day sale next Tuesday. He urges merchants and residents to welcome visitors and notes the dollar's buying power will surge in New Castle, with bargains advertised by leading stores.
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Board of Trade
Junius Radeker
Radeker
Mercer
Beaver
Butler
Mahoning
Lawrence County
Mr. Radeker
United States
New Castle
Dime's Party Finds Friend In Australia
Jimmy Dime and his fighters including George Chip and Tom McMahon landed in Australia with a forged passport story. J J Brittain, a Beaver County native in Sydney, aided them after finding Pickerel had left the consular service. The tale shows a coincidence of couriered introductions and wartime travel logistics.
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Jimmy Dime
George Chip
Tom McMahon
Australia
J. C. McCready
J. J. Brittain
Sydney
New South Wales
New Castle
Dime
McCready
George Pickerel
Youngstown
U.S
Pickerel
Mr. Pickerel
South America
Bittain
Beaver County
East Palestine
Brittain
Consul Brittain Aids Dime Party In Australia
An American Consul General letter to J C McCready of New Castle Pa recounts assisting James Dime and companions who were denied boarding at Sydney for lacking passports. After statements were taken, they were allowed to land and travel without further restrictions. The consul warns entrants must have passports and notes his Pennsylvania roots and long service since 1897.
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Vania
McCready
Dime
Brittain
American Consular Service
Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
J. C. McCready
New Castle
James Dime
James Pickeral
South America
East Palestine
Beaver County
Pennsylvania
J. J. Brittain
Grant Street Woman Burned By Blaze
Mrs. O. C. Waddington of 810 West Grant street was burned on the face and hands and her hair singed in a fire at the family home this morning. The blaze started when a child overturned a miniature moving picture machine. The household self extinguished the flames before firefighters arrived. neighbors alerted the department.
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O. C. Waddington
West
Grant Street
Jury retires in case of window breaking at grocery
The jury in the Commonwealth versus Joe Secash and Mendel Jegres retired after noon today. They faced charges of breaking a window at the Calvin Smith grocery on Long Avenue.
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Commonwealth
Joe Secash
Mendel Jegres
Calvin Smith
Long Avenue
Injunction case continued over McKinley street dispute
Judge Emery this morning continued the injunction case of Joseph Gerlach against the Standard Steel Car Company until final hearing. Gerlach claims the company is filling up McKinley street and damaging his property.
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Emery
Joseph Gerlach
Standard Steel Car Company
Gerlach
McKinley Street
Monastir Evacuated By Bulgars and Allied Advances
Monastir, base of the Bulgarian army in western Macedonia, reported evacuated by the Bulgars. French and Russian troops entered Florina. allies foresee Florina's fall and a push toward Monastir. Servian forces rout Bulgarians near Florina and press the pursuit on the western Macedonian front. British raiders operate along the Salonika front with Doiran artillery bombardment and village raids.
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Rome
Monastir
Macedonia
London
Salonika
Central
Florina
War Office
Struma
Dzuma Komaja
Gudeli
Doiran
Luncheon Honors State Sunday School Leaders
The county and district secondary division superintendents and state and county council members of the Sunday School association were hosted at a Friday luncheon in the Y W C A by W J McKnight of Eastbrook. Attendees included Mrs J L Stratton Mrs Mary McCord Mrs James Black and several Misses.
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Sunday School Association
W. J. McKnight
Eastbrook
J. L. Stratton
Mary McCord
James Black
Helen Rodgers
Mary Jane McKnight
Ella Porter
Myra Paland
H. L. Marvin
Lake Geneva
Wis
Pulaski
York
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Two Masked Men Shoot Rail Depot Victim in Beaver
In Beaver Pennsylvania on September 16 two masked men entered the P and L E depot and shot Sam Romick 29 after he refused to yield a seat. He lies wounded in Rochester hospital as a suspect J Shumaker is arrested at Woodlawn.
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International News Service
Beaver
P. and L. E
Sam Romick
Rochester
J. Shumaker
Woodlawn
Russians Drive Back Turks at Mush
The Russian war office reported no major action on the western front. On the Caucasus front Turkish forces were driven from trenches near Sarafkhan and west of Mush, retreating toward the Kozamgiaduk pass.
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Mush
International
Petrograd
Russian War Office
Caucasus
Kalkit
Sarafkhan
Kozamgiaduk Pass
US Troops in Big El Paso Battle Filmed by Movie Crew
Troop F at Camp Stewart watchs as Fox Film crews stage a mountain siege near El Paso with U.S. Cavalry and Massachusetts infantry actors. A captured American girl and Mexican foes feature in the melodrama "A Woman's Hatred" while real troops endure mock combat and gunfire.
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U. S
el Paso
C. Hugh Blair
Camp Stewart
Fort Bliss
Texas
New Castle
Lawrence County
Fox Film Company
Juarez
U.S. Army
Massachusetts Infantry
Lawrence Co
Wilson Enlists in Canadian Army Divisional Signal Corps
W. G. Wilson of New Wilmington, who left home last Sunday, reports he is in Toronto en route to Quebec to join the Division al Signal Corps of the Canadian army. He enlisted under the British flag last Tuesday after seven years in the U S navy. The Wilsons are well known locally.
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W. G. Wilson
New Wilmington
Toronto
Quebec
Signal Corps
Wilson
United States Navy
Los Angeles
Cal
I. W. W. Blamed For High School Fire
Scranton authorities blame Industrial Workers of the World for a two week strike related fire at Duryea high school and for dynamiting Frank Loughney’s Pittston home. Mr and Mrs Loughney are seriously hurt. A birth is reported for Ralph and Mrs McWilliams as Lillie Kiefer is named.
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International News Service
Scranton
Industrial Workers of the World
Duryea High School
Frank Loughney
Pittston
Loughn
Local Man Fatally Injured Near Erie Tracks
Peter Gordon 36 of New Castle was found by Erie railroad tracks in Youngstown near Westlake crossing at about 1 a m. He suffered a skull fracture and other injuries and was moved to City Hospital in critical condition.
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Davenport
Captain Davenport
New Castle
Horner
Youngstown
Peter Gordon
Erie Railroad
William Gilmore
Westlake
Gordon
Masked man shoots boarding house proprietress in Pittsburg
Phillip Carey 40 of Braddock wearing a Zulu mask bursts into an East end boarding house dining room at noon and fatally shoots proprietress Mrs Anna Bray 35 as she buys garden truck. Carey then shoots himself in the temple. Both rushed to hospital. Bray dies. Carey reportedly a former husband of Bray and is dying.
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International News Service
Pittsburg
Phillip Carey
Braddock
Anna Bray
Carey
Pittsburg Hospital
Bray
Frick Optimistic on National Prosperity Says War Not Sole Cause
Pittsburg officials and Henry Clay Frick credit strong domestic demand for steel and industry for ongoing prosperity. He argues the war did not create the wealth and that financial and industrial conditions remain splendid.
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Pittsburg
Henry Clay Frick
Frick
United States
Gen Basil W. Duke Dies in New York Hospital
Gen Basil W. Duke one of the Civil War era cavalry leaders died at Presbyterian hospital in New York at age 78. He had come from Louisville for treatment and after the war practiced law and wrote several books on war topics.
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Conternational News Service
New York
Basil W. Duke
Presbyterian Hospital
Louisville
Duke
Appointed Collector C M McNickle Named Tax Collector
Judge Emery appoints C M McNickle as tax collector in Hickory township today. McNickle steps into the role as the township seeks efficient tax collection and governance.
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C. M. McNickle
Hickory Township
Emery
Surface Cars Attacked By Street Mobs
Rioters attacked surface cars on multiple lines in New York as violence resumed during the traction strike. Police halted mobs after arrests, with rioters fleeing as crews repelled assaults on Broadway Lexington Ave and other crosstown points. Officials prepared prosecutions against labor leaders on conspiracy charges.
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New York
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
One Hundred
Seventh Street
Lexington Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Twentieth Street
Interborough Rapid Transit Co
New English Car Weapon Terrifying at Somme Front
Frederick Palmer reports a breakthrough as armored motor cars cross trenches and shell holes for the first time in ten weeks of the Somme battle. British forces advance from Flers toward Bapaume and reach Martinpuich and Courcelette, marking a shift from slow infantry progress to mechanized action.
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London
the Somme
Bapaume
Flers
Martinpuich
Courcelette
Harold Guilty of Attempted Holdup
Harold Harold found guilty of attempted holdup in the case of the commonwealth against Al Harold. Agnes Sypher alleges he shoved a revolver at her face and demanded money near Grant street Shenango. Harold claimed an alibi at Arthur Whitaker's Warner street home. A related case with Frank Norris as prosecutor ended in a nolle contendre plea.
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Commonwealth
al Harold
Agnes Sypher
Miss Sypher
Harold
Grant Street
Shenango
Arthur Whitaker
Warner Street
Frank Norris
Nolle
Death Record of Py M Kemmerling and Family Mention
Death record notes Py M Kemmerling aged 60 of Tariko Missouri and four day old Musman Kimer Musman at 427 West Grant Street. The fragmentary notice identifies a family bereavement with limited address details.
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Kimer Musman
Grant Street
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Western Pennsylvania
S. S. Association
New York City
Park Avenue
Union Square
New Wilmington Man
Ralph McWilliams
Jefferson Street
H. C. Frick
I. R. T. Aims
LABOR
Frederick Palmer
British Army of the Press of the
Agnes
Sypher
PY. M. Kemmerling
Tariko
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