Vigilance committee drives residents from Brewe township near Pittsburgh
A large group of Black residents in Brewe township fled after a vigilante order to quit. Wagons and trucks moved through McKees Rocks as Stowe Township police searched a hollow near West Park before dawn. An elderly white man was killed there and his 11 year old granddaughter assaulted and wounded by a Black attacker who escaped.
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Pitteburgh
Brewe Township
MeeKees Rocke
Stowe Township
West Park District
Peppered with Shot Farmer Lies Wounded in City Hospital
Atlantic City reports farmer Sey gnour McKeague aged 52 of Scullsille shot while harvesting tomatoes in his garden. He was found unconscious with abdomen and chest wounds and, partly regaining consciousness, was questioned by county detectives before slipping back into unconsciousness. Detectives pursued the crime scene with state troopers joining the chase.
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Atlantic City
Seygnour McKeague
Hoemtal
McKeague
Mas
Robbers Steal Bank Safe Off on Trailer
Cedar Springs Midh October 11 robbers forced entry into the Farmers and Mechanics State Bank and stole a safe weighing 6700 pounds containing cash and Liberty bonds totaling about £12000. The loot was loaded onto a trailer and carted away.
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Cedar Springs
Midh
Farmers’ and Mechanics’ State Bank
Carpenter Dies After Fall From Trestle in Beyertown
Henry T. Wise a 70 year old Reading railway carpenter fell from a trestle at Reading Tren com pany plant in Pottstown. He suffered a fractured skull and died while being rushed to Pottstown Hospital.
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Beyertown
Henry T. Wise
Reading Railway
Reading Tren Company
Pottstown
Pottstown Hospital
Berlin living costs soar as bread hits 76000000 marks
Berlin price index shows costs doubling in four days with bread at 76 million marks and milk at 2 1 2 percent per quart. Butter rises to 49 1 2 cents per pound and potatoes at 1 mark per pound as coal briquettes reach 52 marks per hundred. Officials warn prices may double within a day or two amid scarce goods and inflation fears.
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Berlin
California Slayer to Hang
Stockton Cal Oct 11 Alexander L A Kels Ledbutcher was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Howard Mezrvey Indorer on September 12. The execution date was set later. Kels had attempted to pass the body of the murdered man off in his own. In order to defraud insurance companies of 110000.
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California
Stockton
Cal
Alexander LA. Kels
Ledbutcher
Sue
Howard Mezrvey
Indorer
Kels
Hll
Orer
Robbery at pawnshop nets diamonds worth vast sum
Five men smashed a Columbus avenue pawnshop window with a brick wrapped in newspapers and stole nine trays of diamonds and jewelry valued at about 600 million. They escaped in an automobile. Two men died in a Wilkes Barre gas explosion at Woodward Colliery.
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New York
Columbus Avenue
Wilkes Barre
Woodward
Glen Arden
Stiuitiey PD
Ombraywshi
Wre
Gyillyo Cubben
Mrs Perrin's Recovery Surprises Friends
The letter from Willie Perrin of Pentstone Maryland describes severe illness with constipation and pain followed by dramatic improvement after taking Dreco. He reports restored appetite, weight gain, and renewed strength, crediting Dreco with curing years of suffering and calling it a personal transformation. Pearre's Pharmacy promotes the medicine with druggists carrying it nationwide.
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Willie Perrin
Pentstone
Tnoeo
Pearre
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J. Fred Main
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West Saint Street
Frederick
The
G.L. Baking Company
Frederick, Md
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Cannel Coal
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Carroll
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Quaker
North Market Street
Telephone
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Banea
Gnu Asco
Asco
Richland
Asco Coffee
Pride of
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Victor Bread Loaf & Its
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Asco Pork & Beats
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