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Fire kills teen in Nanticoke boarding house blaze
Fire from a kerosene lamp explosion in a Nanticoke boarding house fatally burned 15 year old Margaret Woldalyka. Two other residents Michael Froickesky and Jehu Idptak were severely burned and likely to die. Nearby, two railroad workers died and three were injured in a freight collision on the Arlington Road near St Louis. Additional notes report Mrs Mamie Prutaneis dying after ingesting acid, and Mrs Cora Catshall dying in Franklin from Africa fever. U.S. coinage in 1945 totaled 179,899.47 pieces with about 21 million pieces sent abroad.
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Wilkes-Barre. Pa
Jan. S
Nanticoke
Margaret Woldalyka
Michael 4Roickesky
Jehu Idptak
Arlington Road
St.Louis
Mamie PrUaneis
Rusia
Morgan Engineering Company
Cora Catshall
Africa
Franklin
United States