Northwestern Electric Line to Abandon Meadville to Conneaut Lake
The Public Service Commission approved discontinuing the Meadville to Conneaut Lake leg of the Erie to Conneaut Lake electric railway via Meadville and Harmonsburg. Losses totaled 20184 for the year ending Jan 21 and 8148 for the five months to May 31, with a 34 percent drop in revenue versus last year. The commission also allowed Penn Public Motor Transportation to operate Harmonsburg to Bomneant Lake, but the service will not fully replace the protests.
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Public Service Commission
Northwestern Electric Service Company
Erie
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Harmonsburg
Penn Public Motor Transportation Company
The
Electric Railway Company
Bomneant Lake
Sheriffs from Crawford County Recount Raid in Canada
The Erie Times recaps a raid on sheriffs while at the Pennsylvania state convention in Port Dover Canada. District Attorney Culbertson calls the hotel room raid the most disagreeable affair he ever handled. The sheriffs say they will return tonight and salute critics with a tough stance.
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Erie Times
Pennsylvania
Port Dover
Ynt
Sterrett
Crawford County
Crawfor County
Pollet
American Legion
Brother
Canada
Crawford County Distri
Erie
Culbertson
Warren Boy and Leo the lion tour plans revealed
The article describes Frank Phillips handling lion Leo and a planned globe trotting tour with Leo and trainer Lee. It notes a three-car, five-man entourage including publicity man C G Pyle and a car for the calliope. The pairing aims for a shared circuit with jokes and sightings across venues.
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Globe
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Leo
C. CG Pyle
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Phillips
Calliope
Circus Stars Plan Yearlong U.S. Tour With Leo the Lion
A film company plans a yearlong United States tour featuring Leo the lion in a specially fitted car. Leo will perform daily in his cage at each theatre from New York to Frisco and beyond before returning to the Old Country.Phillips will handle the lion during performances with a six shooter and a four foot goad for persuaders if needed. European stops include England France Germany Italy Holland and the Balkans as the rest of the world tour is mapped by foreign representatives.
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Upi
New York
Frisco
Canadian
Rio Grande
Phillips
England
France
Germany
Italy
Holland
Balkans
Global headlines frame a mix of politics and sport
The piece surveys figures from Son Yat Sen’s tomb to boxing match hype between Tanney and Heeney. It notes Olympic era curiosities from stone age mummies to world welfare warnings, and credits Swedish rescues boosting international ties amid 1928 context.
Warren Y M C A Camp Teams Win In Two Contests
Warren youths at Camp Stow Chauitauqua Lake with the Y M C A competed against Camp Tonkahwha, winning 18 to 3 in baseball and losing the field meet. Seniors won 6 to 4. Seven Y team members led by Winetiter Culbertson Beckley-Creal and Smith excelled in pole vault long jump and sprint events. Winetiter and Culbertson set a 9 foot pole vault tie, while Culbertson posted a 5:48 mile. E P Hall praised campers fitness and morale, with Roger Gardner directing the boys work.
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Warren
Camp Stow
Chauitauqua Lake
Tonkahwha
Sid Kelly
Bevegino
Johnson
Kelly
Winetiter
Neil Culbertson
Jock Beckley
Gil Check
Tom Creal
Les Babbitt
Dave Smith
Culbertson
Beckley
Wincriter
Smith
Creal
E. P. Hall
Hall
Roger W. Gardner
Desperate Arctic Standoff Near North Eastlands Shore
STARTED FROM Korg and others faced temptations to reach a distant glistening shore only kilometers away as Finn Malmgren and two aides and Captain Sora vanished. The Krassin reports one man drifted away from camp while rescue hopes fade. Airplanes wait across the Arctic but landing remains unlikely and pilots fear landing may be impossible.
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North Eastlands
Finn Malmgren
Sora
Krassin
Ike
Arctic
Swedenic rescue effort in Arctic melts as relief hopes fade
Captain Thornberg reports rapid ice melt under summer Arctic heat. Four explorers on an ice encampment near the Italia disaster face imminent danger, with about 20 men previously lost in polar relief missions. The icebreaker Krassin races toward the post, two and a quarter miles away, to reach the stranded party before hypothermia or exposure seals their fate.
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Thornberg
Krassin
Deaths and Funerals in Warren Area Names of the Deceased
Funeral services are listed for Mrs. Perry Gage at Cambridges Springs First Baptist Church. Survived by Perry Gage husband son Dr. John Gage Akron and daughter Anna Gage Cleveland. Also noted are services for Jean Shirley Foulkrod at Kinzua and Gholson Victory in Russell. Lillian Anderegg services held at home. VFW Auxiliary to meet July 12 in Warren with plans for Northwestern Pennsylvania Council event on July 19.
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Perry Gage
Cambridge Springs
First Baptist Church
Jean Shirley Foulkrod
St. Kinzoa
Clyde English
Kinzua
O. H. Bloomater
Kinzwa M. E
Kinaua
Gholson
Vv. F. W
Ladies’ Auxiliary
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Northwestern Pennsylvania Council
Warren
Archery Contest Plans Invited Across Counties
Archers from several counties are invited to an archery meet at Carp Olmsted Boy Scout camp on July 25. Three classes will shoot at 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 yard ranges to crown class winners and award ribbons. Frank C. Roud, scout executive, sent invitations to Scout councils in Allegheny, Clarion, Venango, McKean, Potter, Erie, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
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Kucambe
Frank C. Roud
Allegheny
Clarion
Venango
McKean
Potter
Erie
Chautauqua
Cattaraugus
Swedish Lutheran Picnic Planned Thursday at Warren Outing Club
The Swedish Lutheran Sunday school invites all to its annualPicnic Thursday July 12 at the Warren Outing Club. An all day outing with a noon picnic dinner will include coffee cream and sugar furnished. A program of songs recitations games and sports is arranged. Committee for sports includes Miss Alice Anderson Mrs. George Hultberg Miss Edith Berkman and C. B Carlson. Mr J A Johnson oversees ice cream for the children in the afternoon.
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Swedish Lutheran Sunday School
Warren
Alice Anderson
George Hultberg
Edith Berkman
C. B Carlson
J. A. Johnson
Mrs Logan Wins Blind Bogey at Conenango Valley
Mrs Miller Logan won the Blind Bogey golf prize at Conenango Valley Country Club on Wednesday. Her score of 64 beat the lucky 66, with Mrs Murray Stoddart taking Class A low ringer and Mrs Raymond Elliott claiming Class B. Mrs Harry Lewis earned the most improvement in medal score as the weekly golf luncheon followed at 1 pm. Next week features a Monkey Tournament.
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Miller Logan
Conenango Valley Country Club
Murray Stoddart
Raymond Elliott
Harry Lewis
Hoover Team Expands as Eastern Campaign Office planned
A 2 to 4 speaker campaign push from Hoover HQ in Chicago. Tilson to launch eastern bureau in New York weeks later. Moses named director of plan and policy for the eastern campaign amid internal strife rumors. A July 28 eastern committee meeting in New York to start the organization, with weekly conferences planned. Curtis to be formally notified August 18 in Topeka, as both nominees prepare acceptance speeches. Hoover to begin western tour with a Chicago stop then Brule Wisconsin and San Francisco before Stanford notification ceremonies. A women’s committee meeting to mobilize female voters slated for late July or early August in Washington. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert to join July 20 to organize. Democratic Raskob named to run Smith's presidential campaign. Smith and running mate Robison of Arkansas and Reed of Missouri attend Houston meeting. Both leaders share similar rise from modest roots and favor repealing prohibition.
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Eastern Bureau
Tilson
New York
Hoover
California
Moses
Hoover Organization
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Work of the Nations Committee
Curtie
Curtis
Topeka
Kans
Stanford University
Cal
White House
Brule
Wis
San Francisco
Washington
Republican National Committee
Hoover-Curtis
Alvin T. Hert
Louisville
Republican
Hert
Democrata
Raskeb
John J. Raskeb
Alfred E. Smith
Eral Motors Corporation
Smith
Democratic National Committee
Raskob
Democratic Party
Joseph Robinsson
Arkansas
James A. Reed
Missouri
Houston
Veteran bar member Leain C Colburn in Somerset dies after heart attack
Somerset Pa July 11 Leain C Colburn a longtime member of the Somerset County Bar Association for 50 years is ill with a heart attack his condition reported serious.
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Somerset, Pa
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