Warren National Bank Expands Mail Service Across Northwestern Pa
The Warren National Bank emphasizes its mail banking system serving distant customers in Northwestern Pennsylvania. A large mail department enables safe, convenient handling for city residents and rural patrons, amid area destruction including a local school and Methodist church near the Allegheny river flats. Changes at P and E station planned for June 1 include G A Hanna as ticket and freight agent and other staff shifts. Paul Lyons’ body found after drowning near Olean, with funeral held in Olean. he was nephew of Jerry Lyons. A severe storm caused a lightning strike on an Allen block flag pole, damaging a Savings Bank chimney and no other harm.
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Paul Lyons
Olean
Vandalia
Jerry Lyons
Allen Block
Savings Bank
Warren items and events highlighted in town notes
Tiona oil sells for 1.78 dollars in Warren era notes. Oklahoma resident Homer Preston was in town last week. The Dragon high school annual went on sale early. The Eagles begin a June carnival week starting June 8 with J Frank Hatch Carnival Company at Recreation Park. Local sports report a printers ball team win 18 to 8 over cigarmakers. State Senator Hulings reports agricultural and school-law materials distributed. Mrs Elizabeth Glennon Davis dies in Ridgway. remains brought to Warren. Commencement for Warren High class of 08 set for June 9. Sub High to hold June 8 exercises. Jefferson street school pupils host song recital and festival with ice cream proceeds for piano fund. Oil City 1866 fire anniversary noted with $1,000,000 loss and 250 families displaced.
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Eagles
Warren
J. Frank Hatch Carnival Company
Recreation Park
Morrison
Shutts
Oggy Olson
Tribeau
Swanson
Hulings
County Commissioners’ Office
Elizabeth Glennon Davis
Ridgway
Memorial Day Observance by Warren G A R Post
Memorial Day program by Hopgs EBENN Post 336 Warren Pa May 27 1908 details parade and cemetery ceremonies May 30 with flag hoisting at 7 30 am and graves decorated at 8 am in Oakland and surrounding cemeteries including Irvine Indian Hollow Gladerun Smiths Kinzua Corydon Scandia Macks Corners and more. Leaders include Col Gardner and W E Rice Esq with address by Miss Margaret Kinnear.
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Dep
Warren
Ehrhardt
Oakland
City Hall
St. Joseph’s
R. H. Smith
A. Cook
Irvine
Indian Hollow
Gladerun
Smith’s
N. P. Curtis
Yankee Bush
Jackson Run
S. M. Cogswell
al Russell
H. T. Russell
L. B. Learn
Kinzua
D. G. Blackman
J. G. Pentz
Corydon
F. M. Williams
L. D. Flatt
Scandia
Macks Corners
Jacob Schuler
Akeley
Clendenning
Andrew Clendenning
Chandlers Valley
Eugene Chase
R.H. Smith
Pennsylvania Gas Office
William E. Brinkman
Reading
Margaret Kinnear
Warren High School
W. E. Rice
R. N. Stubbs
Library Theatre
James R. Mitchell
J. E. Wheeler
Barber Shops in Warren Set New Weekend Hours
Warren barber shops will close at 8 p m Friday and reopen at 11 a m Saturday forenoon under a weekend schedule dated 5 23 11.
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Warren
Notice to credit grantors regarding wife Burdessie Bates
Gro H Bates of Sugar Grove Pennsylvania warns against trusting or extending credit to his wife Burdessie Bates who has left his home and he will not pay any bills she contracts. Dated May 14, 1904. The ad adds a quip about the best time for a girl to marry.
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Burdessie Bates
Gro. H. Bates
Sugar Grove
Marriages In Buffalo and Warren Area May 1908
A series of notices records marriages: Clarence Metzger to Christina Curren in Buffalo on May 24 1908. Howard Goldfinch to Edith Crosby in Bear Lake Pa May 14 1908. C Axel Samuelson to Edith Haggstrom in Warren May 21 1908. Heath Ferry to Nettie Knupp in Warren May 22 1908. Fred N Pilling to Susie Ward in Matthews Run Pa May 16 1908.
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Goldfinch — Crosby
Bear Lake
A. A. Chapman
J. P
Howard Goldfinch
Panama
N. Y
Edith Crosby
Samuelson—Hagcstrom
Warren
Grace M. E. Parsonage
R. N. Stubbs
C. Axel Samuelson
Edith Haggstrom
Ferry
Obituary notices from Sugar Grove and surrounding towns
Obituaries report deaths of Sally Johnston Harmon 80 of Sugar Grove born Oneida County widow of Hosea Harmon. Mary C. Strickland 60 of Lander with husband Thomas and children Alec Carrie and Charles. Hulda Burch 80 longtime Elk Township resident. Thomas Brown 70 of Lander. George W. Strickland of Warren. Oscar Lind 35 of Sheffield with family survivors. Services held locally as listed.
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Harmon
Sugar Grove
Sally Johnston Harmon
Oneida County
Hosea Harmon
Warren County
Emily Pier
Corry
Abby Fulgerson
Frewsburg
N. Y
Hulda Burch
Burch
Elk Township
Sylvester Burch
Edward
John
Eliphalet
State Line
Kily
Onoville
Hill
Derby
Funeral held Sunday with interment at Sheffield
A funeral service occurred Sunday with burial at Sheffield. The brief notice notes the ceremony and final resting place, confirming the service took place locally.
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Sheffield
Wetmore Library Donation Proposed to Warren County Bar
Edward D. Wetmore on behalf of the Wetmore family offers the late Judge Lans ing D. Wetmore's law library to the Warren County Bar Association. The collection holds about 1 506 volumes including complete sets of Pennsylvania and New York State reports. A March committee of Hon. W. M. Lindsey Hon. C. W. Stone D I Ball and W W Wilbur recommended accepting the gift.
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Warren County Bar Association
Edward D. Wetmore
W. W. Wilbur
Bar Association
Health lecture by Dr J N McCormack in Warren KY
Dr J N McCormack of Kentucky spoke in Warren at the Y M C A on health. He urged physicians to improve themselves for the public good and said incompetence is criminal. He illustrated his points with medical anecdotes before a large evening audience.
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J. N. McCormack
Kentucky
American Medical Association
Warren
McCormack
E. H. Beshlin
Kansas ex-Governor Morrill congratulates Dennison on PA Assembly bid
The letter from ex-Gov Morrill of Kansas to Arthur W. Dennison dated May 4 1908 praises his nomination for the Pennsylvania Legislature. Morrill notes Dennison's prior service as Appellate Judge of Kansas and recalls twelve years ago when he appointed him to that role.
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Judge Dennison
Assembly
Morrill
Kansas
Dennison
HrawaTuHa
Kas
Arthur W. Dennison
Akeley
Pennsylvania
The Horsey Girl and the Nagging Wife Allegory
A compact sentiment hints that a woman known as the horsey girl becomes a nagging wife, suggesting a moral about behavior and reputation in relational roles. The line implies social commentary on femininity and domestic expectations.
Real Estate Transfers Across Several Erie County Towns
Realty changes listed include multiple transfers in Farmington Glade Warren Spring Creek Conewango Tidioute Sheffield Cherry Grove and Warren totaling various prices from 1 to 1600 dollars. Parties include Nelson Sanden Hutchinson Dagger Jackson Hamlin King Farnsworth and others with estates and couples conveying parcels to spouses executors and new owners.
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Harry M. Nelson
Carl A. Sanden
Farmington
Lyle K. Chase
Josephine Nelson
Ludvig Schwanke
Glade
Salome Hertzel
Geo.Bartsch
Warren
E. E. Allen
A. J. Hazeltine
Robert Cox
Whitaker W. Baker
Freehold
S. S. Wead
R. D. McKelvey
Spring Creek
Amanda Stoddard
Melvina L. Swanson
Kinzua
Frank Scholton
Elma Williams
Columbus
Chas. B. Hamlin
Agnes G. Robinault
Conewango
J. A. Dagger
C. H. Tucker
Cathrine M. Tucker
H. P. Stone
Lena V. Dalrymple
John W. Henhart
Walter D. Cornish
Heath Barry
T. S. Stanford
Wm. P. Johnson
Cherry Grove
H. J. Muse
Dominic Heim
Death of Cora Stewart Firth at Farmington
Cora Stewart Firth, 34, wife of Frank Firth, died at home in Farmington Tuesday morning after an extended diabetes illness. She was born in Farmington township and resided there. Survived by husband, father W. H. Stewart of Farmington, brothers E. D. Stewart of Airmont Farm Warren and Robert A. Stewart of Warren. Funeral Thursday at 11 a.m. from the home. interment in Five Point cemetery. service by Rev. O. J. Gage.
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Cora Stewart Firth
Frank Firth
Farmington
Farmington Township
W. H. Stewart
E. D. Stewart
Airmont
Warren
Robert A. Stewart
Five Point Cemetery
O. J. Gage
Fire Destroys Columbus General Store in Lightning Strike
Last night's storm lashed the region as lightning hit the Columbus general store of Charles Simpson at 1 am. The building and contents were consumed by flames. Loss estimated around 2500 dollars, partly insured. The Bell telephone exchange was housed in the store.
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Corry
Charles Simpson
Columbus
Bell Telephone Exchange
Sudden Death at Youngsville
W D Kinnear was found dead in his Youngsville apartment Friday afternoon. He likely died of paralysis or heart failure after retiring Thursday night. A longtime merchant, he is survived by two sons and a daughter.
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Youngsville
W. D. Kinnear
Deafness Found In Eggs Hatching In Railroad Round House
Six weeks after a workman hid two dozen eggs in an abandoned toolbox inside the Pennsylvania railroad repair shops in Allegheny, a warm 103 degree environment caused a hatch of fourteen sooty chicks. A second hatch yielded twenty more healthy but deaf chicks, with a planned third hatch underway as clanging round-house noises continue.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny
Round House
Mont Alto White Pine sanitarium inmates rise to 135
The White Pine sanitarium for consumptives at Mont Alto reports 135 inmates with 360 more to be added as buildings finish. Daily consumption includes 71 gallons of milk and 150 dozen eggs, alongside a full menu of meats vegetables fruits bread and other market goods. Eggs are eaten daily for breakfast and twice weekly for supper with eggs and milk consumed between meals.
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White Pine Sanitarium
Mont Alto
Wanted Agents to Represent in Brie Territory
Print ad seeks agents for a five year plan to sell products with special features. Good earning potential offered. Address J. C. Browne 444 East 8th Street Brie Pennsylvania. Dated May 28, 1911.
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J. C. Browne
E. 8Th St
Brie
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G. A. Hanna
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Roy Marrer
Pat Burke
BTV
Home Matters
Tiona Oil
Homer Preston
Oklahoma
H. J. Dixon
Liberty Street
Trust Company
Walter C. Heasley
Warren Trust Co
Maryland
Oil City
Joseph B. Foraker
Gqhio
Law
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Suspension Bridge
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Walter A. Wood
Waltera
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