Erie Engineers Dying and Local News From Meadville
The Meadville Tribune Republican reports rising mortality among Erie Railroad engineers with six deaths in six months including Mark Newcomb and Louis Byham. Pennsylvania potato crop guidance notes 1926 shipments far below 1925 due to market changes and motor truck use. Tidioute couple Levi Grant Head and Daisy Maude Temple earned a marriage license in Warren. A battery station fire caused by an explosion damaged the Prestolite Battery Station building.
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ERIE
Erie Railroad
Meadville Tribune Republican
Mark Newcomb
Alton Damon
Louis Byham
W. A. Smith
William Barry
Charles Mitchell
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
Tidioute
Levi Grant Head
Daisy Maude Temple
Recorder’s Office
Battery Station
Prestolite Battery Station
Pennsylvania Avenue
Warren General Tire Company
Protection Plus Insurance Offers Protection Plus Service
Protection Plus advertises insurance policies for property protection and adds advice and assistance in assessing risks. It claims to save clients money on premiums and often provides greater protection for the same annual cost, inviting readers to let them handle insurance matters.
Half Minute Essay on Mothers Day Spending
The Warren Tribune laments that mothers receive only flowers and candy on Mothers Day while cash would better honor them. The piece argues giving money would let mothers enjoy several days or nights, suggesting purchases like facial treatments or movie tickets. It notes that this alternative could reduce regret over aging and material excess.
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Warren Tribune
Death of venerable priest at parochial residence
The venerable priest Father Tracy, aged eighty nine, died this afternoon at the parochial residence on West Washington Street after weeks of illness. He had been ill since early April and had lingered in a critical condition with brief rallies before relapse. The city laments the loss of a lifelong church leader whose vitality marked his years of service.
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Catholic Church
West Washington Street
Father Tracy
Pennsylvania forest school announces June entrance exams
Annual scholarship examinations for admission to the Pennsylvania state forest school at Mount Alto will be held June 23 in selected towns. The state forest department announced the tests as observance plans for the school’s 21st commencement on June 15. The school, in operation since 1903, is among America’s oldest forest schools. An anecdote about a humorous mid western professor and a prank involving an alarm clock is included, plus a note on Chauncey Depew’s age and outlook.
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Warren County "Good Roads Association
Stewart
Harrisburg
Wheelock
Pennsylvania State Forest School
Mount Alto
State Department of Forests and Waters
Forest School
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Anne Benson 82
Mrs Anne Charlotte Benson died at her daughter’s Jamestown home aged 82 years 10 months 4 days She is survived by two daughters Bris Peterson and Mrs Arther J Hooker of Tampa Fla a son Fred G Benson three grandchildren two great grandchildren a brother August Anderson of Grand Valley Pa and a sister in Sweden Born in Sweden July 14 1844 she came to Jamestown in 1869 She belonged to the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church since 1879 and to the Ladies Aid Society and Foreign Missionary Society of that church Rev Fr M Tracy Corry Journal Father Tracy dies rector of St Thomas’
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Anne C. Benson
Anne Charlotte Benson
William H. Peterson
Halleck Street
Jamestown
Bris. Peterson
Arther J. Hooker
Tampa
Fla
Fred G. Benson
August Anderson
Grand Valley
Sweden
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Oakland Cemetery
Carl, Jr
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J. S. Bayer
Poplar Street
Grand Union Co
Warren
New York
United States
Grand Union Tea Co
Jamestown Post
Gertrude L. Davis
Prendergast Avenue
Jamestown- Frewsburg
Conenango River
Miss Davis
John A. Fox
Clinton Street
F. F. Koenig
Elavanna Avenue
Harry W. Boyd
Lafayette Street
Daniel J
Moynihan, Jr
Lincoln Street
Prince of Bath
Mich
United Press
B. V. Lesser
Warren Natl. Bank Bldg
LUM Brement Cos
Earth Sans
Chisholm & Breen
D’andrex
Errol
Kenneth
Turpin
Arabdiq LD Ae
Ken Maynard
Sonoro
WM. Haines
Sally O’neill
Harry Carey
Chauncey Depew
FR. M
Tracy Corry
St. Thomas
Childan
Redding Shoe CO
Business and
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