Oil City girl recovers from venomous snake bite
Anna Moynihan of Oil City has left hospital and returned home after a venomous snake bite at Walnut Bend. In Corry, thirty race horses are in training for forthcoming trotting events with anticipated crowds and eateries. Alfred Evans is appointed Kane postmaster to replace the late R. K. Godding. William Baxter learns he inherits $250,000 from Mrs. Amy Baxter of Syracuse, following his aunt’s death. Coudersport preps Old Home Week for August 26. Burglars rob Jamestown home of the City Engineer and police chief next door. Belmont’s Clark Bros. shops to be rebuilt at Olean near Town Line alley. An elderly farmer, Geo. Brewer, dies of natural causes. relatives sought. Judge Hindman of Clarion County dies at 59. vacancy likely to be filled by a Republican. Washington Pa becomes clubless as June ends, with local liquor clubs closed under Brooks high license law.
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Washingto
Washington County
J. A. Mellvaine
Owl and Moose
Avella
McKivine
Poisoning suspected in death of 14 month old girl
Died suddenly in New York. Mary Hirnie, 14 months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hirnie of Eighth Avenue, New York, may have been poisoned by highly colored candy. Dr D H Mackie of West 135th Street diagnosed poisoning as the cause. Coroner’s physician Dr Albert T Weston will investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Thomas Hirnie
Eighth Avenue
New York
D. H. Mackie
West 135Th Street
Albert T. Weston
Wedding at Interstrassen Fre donia NY for Llorence Moon
Last week Thursday a wedding took place at the home of Supreme Court Justice Warren B. Hooker in Interstrassen Fre donia NY. Miss Llorence Elizabeth Hooker became the wife of A Eben McWitt Moon son of General Manager DeWitt C Moon of Lake Shore railroad and Mrs Moon of Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstrassen
Fredonia
N. Y
Supreme Court
Warren B. Hooker
Llorence Elizabeth
A. Eben McWitt Moon
DeWitt C. Moon
The
Lake Shore Railroad
Moon
Cleveland
Engineer Killed as Storm Triggers Crossed Wires in Oswego
F Burton Lewis an Oswego New York city water station engineer was killed when he picked up a telephone during an electrical storm. Wires had become crossed with high tension power lines. Two others were struck but only slightly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Burton Lewis
Oswego
N. Y
Oakfield Woman Dies After Porch Fall
Oakfield widow Harriet Jackson, wife of Dr. A P Jackson, fell about 14 feet from a second story porch when the railing gave way. She died from injuries including a broken collarbone several ribs and internal damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Jackson
A. P. Jackson
Oakfield
Freight train accident leaves man amputee in Pennsylvania
Frank Messner of Leetsdale jumped from a slowly moving freight train at Springboro and was struck by wheels. He suffered a crushed foot requiring amputation. In New York the Mohawk valley drought ended after heavy rain with thunder and lightning harming crops. Farmers had hauled water for miles to stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Messner
Leetsdale
Springboro
Mohawk Valley
Amsterdam
Bellevue pastor’s wife commits suicide at East Caroga Lake
Mrs. Hogan wife of Rev Robert Hogan pastor of the Bellevue Re formed church Schenectady took arsenic at their summer home at East Caroga lake. Authorities say temporary insanity from a nervous ailment worsened by her husband’s recent appendicitis operation in Gloversville N Y.
Prohibition Nominates Chafin For President At Atlantic City
The national Prohibition convention in Atlantic City nominated Eugene W. Chafin of Arizona for president and Aaron Watkins of Ohio for vice president by acclamation after a single ballot indicated delegate preference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Prohibition Convention
Atlantic City
Narty
Eugene W. Chafin
Arizona
Aaron Watkins
Ohio
Dansville Industry to Move and Tragic Canal Finding
Dansville's Allen & Bailey Tag company will move to Caledonia in six weeks once its new concrete block building is finished. Caledonia parties will receive 3900 dollars and take 5000 dollars in company stock. The body of 17 year old Mignon Sockerbie was found in the Oswego canal near Syracuse. Her claim of a January marriage to a Syracuse man was denied by him, and her parents doubt suicide, fearing an accidental fall while she read a book by the canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen & Bailey Tag Company
Dansville
N. C
Caledonia
Mignon Sockerbie
Oswego Canal
Syracuse
N.Y
Senator Lorimer Ousted From Illinois Seat
The United States Senate, reversing its March 1 vote, removed William Lorimer as Illinois junior senator. By a 55 to 28 vote, he was found to have used votes secured by corrupt methods and his election declared invalid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
William Lorimer
I Ilinois
Senate
Lorimer
Columbus Accounts Reveal Costs Of 1492 Voyage
Palos ledgers show Columbus spent 14 000 pesetas on armament and about 2 000 pesetas plus six pesetas monthly for officers and crew. Eight months of travel accounted for roughly 4 400 pesetas in personal and living expenses. The total for the voyage lands near 36 000 pesetas about 7 200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Madrid
Palos
Spain
Christopher Columbus
New World
Columbus
Electrocution of Rat Short-Circuits Bedford Power Plant
A gray rat crawled behind the Bedford Heat Light and Power switchboard and was electrocuted, causing a short circuit that knocked the plant out of service. Attempts to restore current failed as the automatic switch tripped repeatedly after the rat’s death on July 18 in Bedford, Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Ind
Bedford Heat, Light & Power Company
Death Farm Mystery Claims Ninth Victim Near Mount Vernon
A fever dubbed the Death Farm disease has killed nine people near Mount Vernon Illinois. Victims suffer extreme pain with high fevers. The illness also affected local animals. livestock killed for food on the farm showed postmortem signs, while adjoining animals remained uninfected. Doctors have yet to diagnose the illness. one theory suggests diseased milk as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Ill
John Ackerman
Perons
Port Deposit youth hurls stone after ejection. conductor and rider hurt
In Lancaster Maryland, Henry Fender from Port Deposit Md was tossed from a Lancaster and Millersville trolley for using vile language. He hurled a large stone at Conductor George Moore, narrowly missing him and smashing a car window and seriously injuring Miss Millie Neff of Millerville.
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Lancaster
Henry Fender
Port Deposit
Lancaster and Millersville
George Moore
Millie Neff
Millereville
Internal burn death shocks Rochester in autopsy report
Will iam Eckle of Rochester died after heat prostration with an unusual internal burn. Surgeons found the heart brain liver and lungs withered as body temperature remained near normal. The report attributes early decomposition of vitals to the internal burn prior to death. Farmers see 17.5 percent price increase on July 10 versus last year per Victor Olmsted of the agriculture department.
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William Eckle
Rochester
Reckle
Victor H. Olmsted
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Five Districts Set For Warren County Contest Prizes
Many candidates are at work in a Warren County contest divided into five districts. Each district will receive a set of dishes and a couch, with the five grand prizes awarded to the top five counts. Districts cover Sugar Grove Freehold Columbus Pittsfield Spring Creek Brokenstraw Deerfield Eldred Southwest Triumph Limestone Watson Farmington Conenango excluding North Warren Pine Grove Elk Corydon Pleasant Mead Kinzun Cherry Grove Sheffield Warren city North Warren Glade township.
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Warren County
Sugar Grove
Freehold
Columbus
Pittsfield
Spring Creek
Brokenstraw
Farmington
Conenango
North Warren
Pine Grove, Elk and
Corydon
Voting coupon and vote-by-mail incentive offer
A page notes a voting coupon worth 100 votes for a candidate named in a blank, to be mailed to The Mail office. The article lists a tiered payments schedule in various currencies with escalating vote values up to 25000, including inconsistent garbled figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cory Ghee
Pair of EVERSHARP shears offered with subscription
A promotional notice offering a free pair of EVERSHARP SHEARS with every one year subscription. The blades are claimed to resist dulling via a patent tension spring and thumb screw. Enclose six cents for mailing if mailed. no extra charge for delivery by the candidate or office pickup.
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Eversharp
Baby Falls from Train on Fremont Curve
Reed Fairbanks, a three year old from Salt Lake City, fell from a fast moving Union Pacific passenger train near Fremont Nebraska on a curve but escaped with only slight injuries. The incident was reported from Omaha Nebraska on July 18.
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Baby
Omaha
Neb
Reed Fairbanks
L. R. Fairbanks
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific
Fremont
Orangemen Meet in Glasgow Conference Opens
The triennial conference of the Imperial Grand Orange Council of the World opened in Glasgow on July 18 with many speeches declaring Ulster’s opposition to home rule. Andrew Weir of New York pledged 100,000 Orangemen in the United States to support the cause.
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Glasgow
Imperial Grand Orange Council of the World
Ulster
Andrew Weir
New York
United States
Big Crop of Potatoes Predicted
Heavy rains ensure an exceptional potato crop with new potatoes selling around 65 cents in Minneapolis, down nearly one dollar per bushel in a week. Car lot shipments begin Monday and dealers expect market prices near 35 cents, the lowest for early home products in a decade. Other produce drops seen include wax and green peas from 3 dollars to 1 and green peas from 1.25 to 75 cents per bushel.
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Minneapolis
Man Perishes After Bee Pursuit in Rochester
John J. Helfen died in a Rochester hospital from head injuries after falling while chasing a bee that had stung him on Sunday. The incident occurred the day prior, with Helfen later succumbing to injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
John J. Helfen
Smallpox in Indiana Prohibits Public Meetings
Terre Haute Indiana July 18 public meetings religion social or fraternal have been prohibited at Janesville due to smallpox concerns.
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Indiana
Terre Haute
Ind
Janes
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Ronen
Anna Moynihan
Oil City
Walnut Bend
Corry
Alfred Evans
Kane
McKean County
R. K. Godding
William Baxter
Meadville
Amy Baxter
Baxter
Coudersport
Jamestown
Jones
Johnson
Olean
Clark Bros
Belmont
Whitney Hub
Pennsylvania
Town Line Alley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Kelletville
Geo. Brewer
A. L. Weller
Kellettville
Hindman
Clarion County
William A. Hindman
Clarion
F. J. Maffett
Harry R. Wiilson
Tener
Washington, Pa
Justice Hooker
Drys
Nams
Chafin
Canal
Mount Vernon, III
Deerfield
Eldred
Southwest
Triumph, Limestone and
Watson
Townships
Pleasant, Mead, Kinzun, Cherry Grove and
Shefield
Warren
Glade
Rupert Hughes
Philadelphia
Morris L. Cooke
Department of Public Works
Harry Hoenig
Hoenig
Vincennes
John L. Dayson
Plainville
Edwardsport
del Vinee
W. & H. Walker
Warren Mair Herrs
Pittsburgh, Pa
Scribner’s Magazine
Fifth Ave
New York City
Warren, Pa
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Pullman
Cape May
Wildwood
Ocean City
Anglesea
Sea Island City
Holly Beach
Avalon
Stone Harbor
New Jersey
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