Drunken brawl leaves man dead near roundhouse
In Warren a group of eight to ten tramps fought and killed Edward Sullivan. A. J. Traverse identified six assailants, including Quinn Gorman Winters Pratt and the one armed black man. Police arrested several, coroner's inquest held, possible suspect at large. Sullivan, about 40, slight bruise, skull fracture, residence unknown.
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Edward Sullivan
P. & E. Roundhouse
A. J. Traverse
Roundhouse
Pierse
Preston
Whitcomb
Edward Suallivan
Tis
Thomas ‘Quinn
Titusville
Quinn
Pierce
Justice Perry
Michael Hoskins
Susquehanna
John Gorman
David Winters
John Pratt
New York
Greenland
Undertaking Establishment
Justice
Pratt
Winters
Warren
Oscar Nelson
P. & EB. Railroad
John Johnson
Wintcomb
Thomas Quinn
McKean
Meadville
Gary
Leroy Sibley
Sullivan
States Prison
Edie
McKean County
Bradford
Family of Five Killed in City Explosion
At Kolass home in the northern city area a catastrophic blast killed Joseph Kollass his wife and three children. Debris scattered across the yard with severed heads and mangled bodies found. a neighbor’s child and the Kollass mother were injured. Cause remains a mystery with theories of nitro glycerine or a dynamite cap.
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City
Joseph Kollas
Kolass
Kollass
Joseph Fessner
Dr Greene Neruura blood and nerve remedy founder of free advice
The article extols Dr. Greene of 85 West 14th Street New York as the discoverer of a remedy and founder of a free letter correspondence medical service. It promises exact disease descriptions and explicit symptom explanations with no charge, claiming success in nervous and chronic diseases and urging readers to write for a symptom blank to regain health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Greene
West 14Th Street
New York
Greene
Rioting Huns Scour Coke Regions as Arrests Mount
Rioters and murderers totaling ninety four have been seized around Assoxy Town Pa on April 5. About fifteen hundred Poles Huns and Slavs march through coke regions while Sheriff Wilhelm leads two hundred deputized riders in pursuit. They seek L R R Davis president of the Miners union as Frick works shut down and tension rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assoxy Town
Coke
Sherif Wilhelm
L. R&r. Davis
Miners’ Union
Frick
Governor Tillman Seizes South Carolina Police Powers
The South Carolina governor Benjamin R Tillman proclaims emergency power to assume sole control of municipal police and marshals to enforce liquor laws. A volatile clash at Darlington escalates to gunfire injuring and killing, with citizens vigilantly resisting enforcement. A leading- citizen committee will confer with the governor as violence and property destruction continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin BR. Tillman
South Carolina
Darlington
Tillman
Benjamin R. Tillman
State of
The Farmer’s Wife Needs More Intellectual Pleasures
A call to improve rural family life urges farmers wives to seek variety beyond daily toil. The piece argues women deserve books, social time, and town outings to guard health and civilization. It extols mothers’ justice, essential maternal role, and long, happy lives for family stability.
Night poems and medicines in a Warren Pa ad
An odd advertisement blurs poetry with medicine and offers pain relief products. It includes references to Brown and Co. Drug Store and L. G. Noyes & Co. Druggists of Warren, Pa, promoting OYe Cure for rheumatic conditions and other remedies, all in an early 20th century style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown & Co
Anthous
Promise City
Jaws
L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren
Warren County Children Aid Society News Report
A Warren County auxiliary to the Philadelphia Children’s Aid Society details its aims to remove children from almshouses, place them in homes, and protect them from neglect. With about twenty-five children aided, ten placed in free homes, and several awaiting adoption, the group appeals for citizens’ support and notes its non sectarian stance and county partnerships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Ald Society of Pennsyliated Institution
Eastern Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
C. Als
Western Pennsylvania
Pitsburg
Warren
Hinkley
Warren County
I. G. Lacy
C. A
Rouse Hospital
Pittsburg Society
C. A.S
Pittsburg
Randolph
W.A. Hall
Cc. W. Stone
J. C. Fox
R. Brows
L. B. Hoffman
M. Beecher
J.B. Best
R.W. Teese
Treasury
Toom
Children’s Aid Society of
Misreaded verse and patent remedy ad vignette
A garbled mock ballad imitates Little Jack Horner praising a tonic for liver and stomach ailments. The piece touts Pierce’s Pellets and Dr Sage’s Remedy with grand claims, a $500 reward for an incurable catarrh case, and pricing in cents for remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Horner
Jack
Dr. Sage
Dragert
Our Man About Town on Whistling and Society
A lively column notes fewer men and boys whistling on streets, praises a whistling streetcar transfer agent, and wonders if women’s whistling as self support diminished male cheer. It discusses park plans for Allegheny river, name changes for a street, and calls for hazing reform from the Phi Kappa Psi convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Maclowan
Allegheny River
Glade
Lam
Phi Kappa Psi
Peacher's Institute in Old Clarendon Showcased Local Teachers
In Old Clarendon on March 11, Miss Mary King opened Peacher's Institute to welcome teachers. Superintendent Putnam led devotions and the national ode America was sung. Numerous talks covered self examination, primary arithmetic, drawing, history, literature, penmanship, and ideal teaching. W J Bloomfield secretary notes the day as a success with praise for Miss King and the organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Clarendon
Mary King
Putnam
America
Institute
Grace Pierce
Stoneham
Afr. Sibble
Mamie Austin
Gandy
Armstrong
Sheffield
Anna Bucckbee
Edinboro State Normal School
Pansy Propa
Miss Courson
Virginia
Weimsburger
Tiona
Josie Corbin
Bloomfield
North Clarendon
Dolly Corbin
Tommy Corbin
Edna Denziston
Miss Snyder
Warren
Prof
Exton
Glade
Terry
John
McCaleb and Mealy
W. BR. Couse
W. E. Henderson
Miss King
W.J. Bloomfield
Old Folks Concert at Baptist Church Promises Novel Program
Do not miss the Old Folks Concert at the Baptist church this evening. A new program features tableaux of a New England interior, old time choruses and solos, male and female quartets, and a Doll Drill by eight little girls with rag dolls. Organizers expect a good audience after much preparation.
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Baptist Church
New England
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South Carolina War
Thildee
S Ald Society
Jon B. Bes
Second St
Warren Pa
Dack Horner
Man
Tolstoi
France
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