Warren County News Briefs Bridge Dedication and Local Then Now
A series of short items recount local events and plans in Warren including a newborn son for the Cochranes of Water Street, a concrete road project near Sheffield, a future children’s home on the Rouse farm in Youngsville, and meatless days suspended for April. Also notes a Boy Scout fire crew, a trolley collision, a draft case, and daylight saving start. Local marriages, arrests, and Liberty loan drive preparations are included along with school clock changes and civilians’ wartime activities.
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Liberty Loan
Warren
Red Cross Heroes Under Fire Remembered in War Dispatch
A Savannah, Georgia youth praises American Red Cross stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers serving in France. He notes they worked relentlessly under German fire, risking their lives to aid the wounded and convey them to first aid stations and hospitals.
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Washington
France
Savannah
Red Cross
Trawler Captain Fights U boat With Coal Shovel
In the North Sea a British trawler lacking a gun faced a periscope sighting from a German U boat. The skipper swung a coal shovel at the periscope, shattering it after three blows, leaving the submarine blind as the trawler escaped unharmed.
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London
North Sea
Bmarine
Pig Near Twins Born in St. Thomas Sows Eyes Two Noses
A registered Polin China sow owned by John F. Heckman in St. Thomas Pa gave birth to a piglet nearly twins. The creature has two noses, two mouths, two tongues, two sets of teeth and three eyes aligned on its head. The piglet remains alive and seems to be thriving.
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St. Thomas
John FE. Heckman
Student's food costs rise to thirty two cents daily
Greensburg and Jeanette, Pennsylvania report Roy R Mumma, a Carnegie Tech graduate now in the aviation service, living on 32 cents a day after formerly surviving on 23 cents. His diet includes bread milk cereals cocoa rice peanut butter fruit eggs meat gelatin oleomargarine and even pie as he supports a wife and a new private rank.
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Greensberg
Roy R. Mumma
Jeanette
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Tech
Mumma
Radiomechanics
Aviation Service
Sunbury Bride-to-Be Heads to Africa for Lutheran Minister
Sunbury Pennsylvania on March 26 Miss Serena Knapp departed for a 7000 mile journey to Liberia South Africa to wed Rev Charles H Brosious a Lutheran minister a former Sunbury resident who met his fianc e during a vacation here
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Sunbury
Serena Knapp
Liberia
South Africa
Charles H. Brosious
Mr. Brosious
Subpoena in Divorce in Warren County Court
In Warren County Common Pleas 13 March Term 1918 Libellant Charles W Thompson vs Victoria M Thompson Respondent Non est inventus return. Respondent must appear May 6 1918 at Warren Court House to answer complaint for divorce and show cause why bonds of matrimony should not be dissolved. Sheriff Geo A W DeForest Warren Pa directs and Attorney D A Arird signs.
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Warren County
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Guy Cochrane
Water Street
General Hospital
Sheffield
Rouse
Youngsville
Cramer
Raymond Martin
Ruth Cooper
C. E. Carlson
United Brethren Parsonage
Simon Huber
John Gookneck
Huber Wai
Boy Scouts
Conewango Avenue
Harry Bixler
Eld
Gus Obert
Dayton
N. Y
Buffalo
Allegheny River
Hulings
Easton
Keffer
Billy Smead
Charley Chaplin
Smead
Morganza
Army
Erie
Board of Education
Life Study Club
W. F. Bennett
Herbert G. Eaton
C. W. Benjamin
Camp Lee
Kottcamp
A. J. Hazeltine
Congress
Hazeltine
Georgia
Pig
Choo
the Warren Savings
Ted
Ee Ren Savings Ban
Tere
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
Chicago
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