Sheffield to Build New Hotel on Fire Site
Sheffield awards the contract to Offerlee and Smith of Warren to construct a three story brick hotel with about thirty guest rooms on the site of the recently destroyed building. The project will be led by John Baldensperger. Peter Anderson of Mayville, aged 83, died in a brush fire last Friday after his clothing likely caught fire while burning stumps. He was found near the blaze. Baptists Conference in Corry discussed uniting the French Creek Association and will revisit at Warren in September. Mrs Olive Shank of Columbus died at Corry Hospital after ten days as a patient. She leaves a husband two children and her mother Mrs Lenore Curtis of Columbus. funeral in Columbus conducted by Mrs Clara Watson of Jamestown.
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Sheffield
Offerlee and Smith
Warren
John Baldensperger
Peter Anderson
Mayville
N. Y
Oil Creek Baptist Associations
Corry
French Creek Association
Olive Shank
Columbus
Corry Hospital
Lenore Curtis
Albert Curtis
Clara Watson
Jamestown
State Hospital
Lawrence Davis
Judge Davis
Allegheny County
State Hospital For the
North Warren
New York
Roy S. Goss
Brookville
Goss
C. M. Mayhood
Conewango Creek
Berdine
Mayhood
A. R. Shirley
Warren Rifle Champions of United States
Warren Pennsylvania outshot Cleveland Ohio 994 to 986 to win the United States championship of the National Rifle Association Indoor League and claim the war department trophy at the Central Armory. Keller and Andrews each fired perfect 200s for their teams.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Warren
Warren Rifle Club
United States
National Rifle Association
War Department
Engineers’ Rifle and Revolver Club
Central Armory
E. W. Sweeting
H. O. Wheelock
F. A. Keller
Dr. E. G. Haynes
F. Peterson
J. Humphrey
E. P. Cole
W. C. Andrews
F. F. Tindall
G. L. Hale
Theodore L Putnam Dies Sudden in Russell
Russell obituary reports Theodore L Putnam longtime Pine Grove township justice of the peace died suddenly at his Russell home Saturday morning He was born December 30 1834 in Farming ton township Warren Co Pa and served as county commissioner and auditor earlier in life Survived by son Homer M Putnam daughters Mrs Daniel H Gregory and Mrs Clinton Lewis and six grandsons four granddaughters Funeral held at his home Tuesday afternoon. Also brief items include John Gustafson severely injured after falling through a floor opening at Chau tauqua Storage Jamestown and Sheffield Commencement plans with Rev J W Smith speaker and ten graduates list.
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Theodore L. Putnam
Pine Grove Township
Russell
Mr. Putnam
Clinton Lewis
Farmington Township
Warren County
Daniel
Betsy Barrett Putnam
Abigail Akeley
Homer M. Putnam
Warren
Warres Co
Daniel H. Gregory
Jamestown
Russell Cemetery
John Gustafson
Scandia
Chautauqua Storage and Transfer Company
Gustafson
Wallace Livery
John Stockholm
Our Hunters Must Wear License Tag
Governor Tener approves the Davis resident hunter's license act for Pennsylvania. Non residents taxed for two years and unnaturally foreigners barred from hunting. License costs $1.00 yearly, issued by the state game commission via county treasurers. Hunters must wear a numbered tag while hunting, at least one inch high, and no licensing for under 14. 14 to 16 require parental consent. Penalty for hunting without a license or failing to show it is a $20 fine.
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Pennsylvania
Tener
State Game Commission
Veterans to Carry Identification Tag at Gettysburg Camp
The Get tysburg sem i centennial commission requires each of about 40 000 veterans at the July camp to wear a large ship ping tag. The double sided tags will hold name post state delegation home address vital stats and an emergency contact.
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Gettysburg
Coon
Vitrol
Wonderful rug making machine excites textile men
A rug making machine promises high speed fabric clipping and automated rug assembly. It handles 2,520 cloth clips per rug, placing them in canvas to complete one six foot by thirty inch hearth rug in under a minute with only clipping as manual labor.
Automatic spring clips pick up cloth strips from platform
The machine uses spring clips to efficiently grasp cloth strips from a flexible platform and convey them to the next processing stage, automating handling and transport.
Danger In Water Supply From Urban Sewage
The article discusses water pollution from sewage and factory refuse as a major health risk. It notes streams near cities are contaminated, with occasional typhoid outbreaks among users, and mentions tanbark plants sawmills and coal mines as other pollution sources.
Filling Barometers Trick for Clean Tubes
Amateurs who refill barometers struggle with air residues that spoil the vacuum. A method uses a hollow swab made from a tightly wound iron wire coil and cotton yarn to wipe bubbles from the tube surface as mercury is drawn through. The procedure leaves the tube clean, dry, and nearly air free.
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Scientific American
New System Finds Ship Channel Obstructions At Sea
The United States coast and geodetic survey reports a wire drag method has discovered nearly 100 rocks wrecks and other ocean bottom hazards at harbor entrances and passages. The device reveals obstructions that could have caused shipwrecks, saving lives and millions of dollars by exposing hidden dangers.
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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States
Lanama Enal
Pacific
Blankets of Bark From Ecuadorian Forests
In Ecuador native people make blankets from demajagua bark cut from a five to six foot section of the tree. The bark is dampened, beaten to increase flexibility, peeled, and sun dried. The resulting blanket is soft, light, fairly warm, cream colored, rollable, and durable for several years with normal use.
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Ecuador
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Mayville Farmer
Columbus Lady
Warren Rifle
Harry Clawson
Warren Street
Liberty
Second Street
Albert R. Shirley
Schenectady
Bert
Godfrey Hale
Godfrey. Hale
Casper Hale
Eddy Street
Milwaukee
Wis
Moulder’s Union of
Moulders’ Union
Hale
Clarion
I. M. Shannon
M. C. Shannon
Federal Grand Jury
Pittsburgh
Second National Bank of Clarion
Harry L. George
Miss Evans
Secor
Opera House
A. Secor
Elizabeth W. Evans
Franklin
Harvey Evans
Postoffice
Grant
Adams, Moran, Smith and
Dodds
James Robinson
Union City
Jacobson Machine Works
Chicago
Sacramento
J. P. Albert
Busti
J. W. Winger
Grand Valley
New York States
Winger
Chautauqua County
Chandlers Valley
Chautauqua Lake
City of Cincinnati
Chautauqua Steamboat Company
City of New York
City of Buffalo
City of Pittsburg
J. W. Smith
Presbyterian Church of
Alice Bloss
Carmellia Strauble
Ruth Steele
Harold Epstein
Ethel Hadden
Coos
Dennison
BAUS
Dennison Brothers
Masonic Temple
Bldg
Warren, Penn
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