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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
5
The notice urges wage earners to protect their families by opening a savings account. It promises safety and instant access, stating one dollar starts an account and four percent interest, compounded semi annually, will be paid on deposits.
Reports from Braddock describe IVy pulling a tiger's tail causing two fingers to be severed. A separate shooting trailing mental distress ends in James Burns's suicide by rail. Incendiary fires hit Warren area buildings, with no clues to the arsonists.
Work has started at the New York navy yard on the battleship New York, to join sister Texas as the world’s largest warship. Keel laying is planned for next month with christening anticipated in September 1912. The ships will mount ten fourteen inch guns and feature a five two-turret layout, signaling American naval design advances praised by British observers. Commander Robert Stocker leads the project with Naval Constructor John Eliot Bailey as his top assistant.
Henry Beechner a longtime Cohocton resident employed by Foulis Bros. was killed at Jerome D Flint farm while preparing to slaughter a young steer. The animal tripped him with a twisted rope and trampled him causing fatal internal injuries. He spent 40 years in Cohocton and is survived by his parents and several siblings.
A six ton cheese is being built in Appleton Wisconsin under a federal contract for 50 000 photographs. The series traces farming to final product on a special flat car and will be viewed by at least five million people with the Agriculture Department archiving the images in Washington.
Mrs Homes-Fancy and Mr Homes recall a quarrel sparked by a saucepan thrown at a hat. She says she could never do such an act. he replies that affection prevents it. She notes she lacks a new hat, confirming the domestic oddity.
A mob of about 490 men dragged Ezekiel Walker from Coatesville Hospital after accusing him of killing Special Policeman Rice. They chained him to a hospital cot and burned him alive, despite his attempts to escape as a crowd of around 2,000 watched the horrific act.
A heavy Tuesday rainstorm relieved Steuben county drought fears and refilled the city reservoir as floods overflowed streets where storm sewers failed to keep pace. The town of Hornell sees renewed water supply after months of scarcity and hose bans due to low levels.
A cyclone swept south of Bradford Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon destroying Apple orchards a Browntown school house and oil derricks. Lightning during the storm struck and destroyed a crude oil tank on W H Emery's lease.
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