West Chester Child Bride Honeymoon Despite Boycott
West Chester Pa Sept 1 A 12 year old girl Alice Jenkins and her 28 year old husband Tileham Henry Johnson began their honeymoon after a minister and two justices of the peace refused to wed them citing Alice s age. They sought a ceremony from another justice of the peace after being turned away from the church.
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Alice Jenkins
Tileham Henry Johnson
Alice
Pa News Weather Record and Raspberry Harvest Notes
The report notes a maximum temperature of 73 degrees for the period ending yesterday at 5 PM. Weather observer FP Johnson cites Pa News as the source and mentions a lower daytime high. A DOYS expert plans a raspberry picking excursion in the afternoon, while a grand jury urges purchasing the municipal golf course to expand the county home land holdings.
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Pa News
Weather Observer
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America
Ok Grand Jury
Cartlew
Bailey Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending Friday show a maximum temperature of 73 and a minimum of 46 with no precipitation. River stage at 5 feet. Year ago figures noted: max 69 and min 39.
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S. Pom
Czech Government Fights For Territorial Integrity
Prague reports a Czech government bid to defend territorial integrity amid Sudeten German pressures. Ernst Kundt, ally of Konrad Henlein, urged Sudeten Germans to await talks between Hitler and Chamberlain, stressing Germanism and homeland fate over Czechoslovak statehood.
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Ernst Kundt
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Neville Chamberlain
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More Schools Planned In County Under Thompson Bill
County Superintendent John C. Syling announced five rural districts have building plans underway as state and federal funding under the Thompson Bill supports up to 45 percent of costs with the rest financed over 30 years. Additional aid scales with property valuations and up to 80 percent of costs, plus $200 per closed school annually.
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Wampum
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No U S Loans For Belligerents In War Prep
Secretary Hull stated the State Department will not sponsor revisions to the Neutrality Act or the Johnson Act. The embargo on arms to warring nations remains mandatory, with any presidential action discretionary in undeclared conflicts and automatic if war is declared. Germany Czechoslovakia Britain and France are banned from loans. A separate dispatch from Berlin notes a German shipmast incident near the Elbe and a Czech report from Hamburg.
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Robert G. Nixon
International News Service
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Europe
United States
Hull
State Department
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Britain
France
New Castle
Roosevelt radio address avoids war crisis reference
President Roosevelt spoke from the White House Oval Room without mentioning the war crisis abroad. He praised the 1788 ratification fight and drew parallels with today, contrasting fearmongers of 1938 with present skeptics. He recalled his ancestor Isaac Roosevelt supporting ratification as he cited the long struggle for a Bill of Rights.
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International News Service
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Washington
Roosevelt
Isaac Roosevelt
New York
New Castle
World spotlight on Eduard Benes amid Sudeten crisis
In a sweeping international focus Eduard Benes the president of Czechoslovakia faces crisis linked to the Sudeten German minority as tensions mount over policy and regional tensions intensify on the world stage.
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World News
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
President Roosevelt Cancels Trips To Remain In Washington
Facing escalating European crisis over Nazi Germany and Czechoslovakia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decides to stay in Washington for at least ten days. He cancels a Chattanooga trip for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga and a Poughkeepsie visit for New York’s constitutional ratification anniversary, speaking from the White House.
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Robert G. Nixon
International News Service
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Europe
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Cordell Hull
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Norman W. Davis
United States
Steel Rail Falls Kill Workman at Groveton Plant
A steel rail fell at the Blaw-Knox plant in Groveton when a traveling crane dislodged it, killing Charles Kletel, 40, of Groveton, and injuring four others. Kletel died at Valley Hospital in Sewickley a few hours after the accident.
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International News Service
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Corpe Aday
Charles Kletel
Groveton
Blaw-Knox
Eletel
Valley Hospital
Sewickley
Salespeople Will Hear Pittsburgh C Of C Man
Henry W. Stanley, director of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce trade extension bureau, will speak at the first Public Meetings for Newcastle salespeople in the Senior high auditorium on Thursday evening September 22. The event, sponsored by the National Salesmen's Crusade forces, aims to provide a sales clinic with Stanley sharing insights on vital topics.
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Louis B. Round
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Texas
New Castle Lions Club
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Penn Power
Fire Truck Upsets. Veteran Fireman Killed in Accident
Leechburg Pennsylvania February 60 year old Lee Haven oldest active member of the Leechburg volunteer fire department was killed and 12 others injured when a combination fire truck overturned two miles from Leechburg as it returned from a celebration in Payette county. Dale Hawk and John Cressey rode the truck and suffered minor injuries. Wreckers lifted the overturned unit to recover Haven body as police noted dampness on the macadam road may have caused the loss of control.
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International
Leechburg
Haven
Payette County
Greensburg
Dale Hawk
John Cressey
Sncident
R. M. Groves
Mussolini to Speak Sunday in Europe Crisis Broadcast
Premier Mussolini will address the European crisis from Trieste on Sunday morning. A National Broadcasting Company plan will carry the speech via short wave rebroadcast at 5 30 a m EDT with Raine translation.
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Castle
Woman Pleads Guilty in Mercer Station Slaying Case
Mercer Pa Sept 17 a 33 year old Grove City resident Mrs Prances Hoffman Day pleaded guilty to murder manslaughter and robbery in the Mayers 1936 slaying of Howard Sidley at a filling station. Other defendants Fred Goodin and William Redfoot faced trials or sentencing while further court actions were noted in the tied case.
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Cinternational News
Si Mercer
Howard Sidley
Grove City
Mayers
Prances Hoffman Day
Fred Goodin
Worth Township
William Redfoot
Harrisville
Parker’s Landing
Sidley
LeRoy Palmer
Palmer
Duffs Leave Addis Ababa Mission Family Furlough Start
Rev. Clarence Duff, a Presbyterian missionary from Lawrence County, and his wife with six month old son Donald James left Addis Ababa Ethiopia after the Italian expropriation of mission property. Duff, acting superintendent since Dr Lambie’s departure, led closing duties and they plan to reach Lawrence County soon via Philadelphia.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Clarence Duff
Lawrence County
Donald James
United States
Lamble
Duff
Philadelphia
Claim 1000 German Airplanes Ready To Make Czech Attack
London Daily Mail dispatch from Berchtesgaden reports German airplanes are ready to strike Czechoslovakia if Hitler orders. It says 25 000 Sudeten refugees will form a free corps inside Germany to aid in restoring order, while massed planes await a Fuehrer order.
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Czechoslovakia
London Daily Mail
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Sudeten
Germany
Fuehrer
Reich
Tenigne
Mrs Katherina Hellsurs 79 Kop pel Harvey
Obituary note for Mrs Katherina Hellsurs aged 79 of Kop pel Harvey. The record lists a likely misread address at 415 Spruce street and an associated spelling variant.
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Katherina Hellsurs
Koppel
French Leaders Will Confer With British Cabinet
British cabinet in emergency session invites French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Courtois Bonnet to London to discuss the Czech crisis. Daladier and Bonnet travel to London to confer with Prime Minister Chamberlain and assess possible compromise to avert war over the Sudeten issue.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Paris
Ivy
Ney Castle
State Probe Will Resume Tuesday
Harrisburg dispatch reports the house graft investigation moves toward a climactic showdown as all individuals tied to a $150,000 legislative scandal involving "boughs beer and movie legislation" prepare to face former attorney general D. Margioti. The probe committee schedules each witness to testify next week to confront the truth of his statements.
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Attornney
D. Margioti
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Fragmented voice on enduring constitution and reforms
A distorted reminiscence extols the U S Constitution as a living framework, noting past giants who defended it and acknowledging ongoing and future changes. It hints at fear among detractors of the framework and asserts its continued force in law.
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