Legion Starts Campaign for New Members
Legions across the area began a 1928 membership drive led by Commander Fevell E. Putnam. Donald E. McComas directs the effort with six canvass teams to exhaust prospect lists, aiming for a strong early report. Gavin, deputy commander, stressed efforts to keep towns vibrant as Pennsylvania industry wanes.
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Campegne Fevell E
Gavin
Venangocon Commerce
Pennsylvania
Legion
Legion Posts
Ladies’ Auxiliary
W. J. Knupp
Fage
Two Persons Killed by Autos at Altoona
In Altoona Pennsylvania Sally Hubbert a 55 year old department store clerk was killed when struck by a car driven by Edward Dibert. William Scott three was severely injured with a fractured skull while playing along the highway at Newburg a suburb of Altoona.
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Altoona
U.P
Sally Hubbert
Edward Dibert
William Scott
Mercy Hospital
Newburg
Local Characters Comment On Style And Sleep
ABE MARTIN quotes Artie Small noting customers leave with hale tonic and five bottles. Miss Germ Williams adds she once suffered insomnia but now counts calories until sleep ends.
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Drugeist Artie
Germ Williams
Hoover Hoists Campaign Finale in California Swing
The 1938 New York American notes Herbert Hoover ending his campaign in California ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Alfred E. Smith returns to New York to finish campaigning. Wall Street shows shifting odds on the race with Smith and Hoover. oil and steel shares rise as markets await results. A pipeline dividend jump and a stock move near 360 percent also draw attention amid election weather.
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Herbert Hoover
California
Coolidge
Alfred E. Smith
Wall Street
Smith
New York
Hoover
Governor Smith
Stadison Square
Kiwanis Players Hold Dress Rehearsal Sunday
Kiwanis members rehearse the Spirit of Warren at Library Theater Sunday at 1 45 PM with Miss Carmen Milliren and Miss Betty Field leading an all Kiwanis cast. Two song hits by Pete Eaton headline the show ahead of the Tuesday midnight public debut.
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Warren
Warren Kiwanians
Library Theater
Library Theatre
Kiwanis Club
Kiwwanis Players
Carmen Milliren
Betty Field
Patricia Lavery
Two Men Drown When Auto Goes Into Canal
Two men died and two others escaped with minor injuries when their car plunged into the Welland Canal at Crowland township near St. Catharines Ontario. The accident occurred today as the party rode in the vehicle, with authorities reporting the drownings and narrowly avoided fatalities for the remaining riders.
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ST. Catherines
Ont
U. P
Welland Canal
Crowland Township
Brother of State Commissioner Dies in Hanover
William Buller aged 78 longtime figure with the state fisheries commission died at a sitter’s home in Hanover from a heart attack. He was a brother of J R Buller the current state fish commissioner. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Hanover
William Buller
State Fisheries Commission
Buller
J. R. Buller
Warren Tribune Surrenders to Warren Morning Mirror
The Warren Tribune ceases publication after four years ten months and 24 days and is consolidated with the Warren Morning Mirror. The Times Publishing Co. buys the Tribune's plant and mailing list from William H. Watson, with Emory C. Cook of the Chamber of Commerce explaining the move as reducing newspaper waste and advertiser drain. Subscribers will transfer or be credited, and the plan has broad support from merchants and community leaders.
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Warren Tribune
The
Times Publishing Co
William H. Watson
Donors
Warren Morning Mirror
Tribune
Morning Mirror
Mirror
Republican Morning Mirror
Warren Chamber of Commerce
Emory C. Cook
Warren
Cook
Warren Tribune Co
Walkers
Retail Merchants Bureau
Bueau
Silva confession branded false in Bridgewater hold up case
Frank Silva's confession to the Bridgewater hold-up, linked to the Vanzetti case, is declared false by Joseph Sanmareco. Sanmareco, one of Silva's three supposed confederates, denied involvement in a letter from Charlestown state prison, where he serves life for the 1920 killing of Patrolman William Clancy.
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Boston
U. P
Frank Silva
Bridgewater
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Joseph Sanmareco
Silva
Outlook
Sanmareco
Sanford Bates
State Commissioner of Correction
Sanmarco
Charlestown State Prison
Inn Proprietor Killed After Being Struck by Auto
New Buffalo Pa Nov 3 W H Kep ler 60 inn proprietor was struck by an automobile and died several hours later after he became confused upon seeing the approaching car. The vehicle was driven by Robert Hamilton a student at State College.
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New Buffalo
W. H. Kepler
Robert Hamilton
State College
Romanian cabinet led by Bratianu resigns in Bucharest
Dispatches from Berlin report the Roumanian cabinet headed by Premier Vintila Bratianu has resigned. Advices from Bucharest say the regency accepted the resignation, signaling a political shift in Romania.
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Berlin
Vintila Bratianu
Bucharest
Accused Husband Denies Year-Old Murder Claim
In Ithaca New York on November 3 Michael Meeker was arrested in Dryden after his wife accused him of murdering their 14 year old son a year earlier to collect a $4500 life insurance payout used to buy a farm near Ithaca. Meeker told St Louis officials the boy was shot during a holdup and kept silent in custody.
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Ithaca
U. P.J
Inia
Michael Meeker
Dryden
Fear for safety of five in plane over Northern California
Five people believed aboard a San Francisco bound plane vanished after departing Corning at 7 18 p m in a storm. The craft was last seen two hours later over Chico 25 miles away bucking heavy winds and thick rain clouds. Passengers named include H Putnam of Portland C R Adams of Portland and Miss Mildred Devitt of Seattle with two pilots.
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San Francisco
Corning
Calif
Chico
H. Putnam
Portland
C. R. Adams
Dozen Added To State Hunting Casualty List
Harrisburg reports a dozen more hunters injured or killed in Pennsylvania incidents. Constable Charles Emery of Chester Springs was beaten by four men on a patrol to keep gunners off private lands. Frank Steff, 15, Mammoth, hospital with a shattered lower right arm from an accidental discharge. Albert Snyder, 18, Greensburg area, wounded in arm and side from gun discharge. Four others in Berwick territory wounded. Bryon Golder Nescopeck shot in face and limbs, Ros Ryman Nescopeck minor wound, David Cancuse and Gordon Stout shot arms and leg and cheek, Clarence Collins near Spring City struck in leg, Orie Edwards lost three fingers, Clifford McCartney’s gun misfire caused armpit and shoulder injury, Louis Volpe Philadelphia shot in face and arm near Norristown.
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Harrisburg
U .P
Pennsylvania
Charles Emery
Chester Springs
Frank Steff
Mammoth
Mount Pleasant
Albert Snyder
Greensburg
Latrobe
Berwick
Golder
Nescopeck
Ros. Ryman
David Cancuse
Gordon Stout
Clarence Collins
Spring City
Orie Edwards
Searighta
Clifford McCartney
McCartney
Altoona
Louis Volpe
Philadelphia
Norristown
Club to Discuss Prohibition as Campaign Issue
The Life Study club at the Y will hold its third meeting of the season next Tuesday. Supper at 6:30. Discussion on Prohibition as an election issue led by Earl G Miller from 7:00 to 7:50. Election returns will be broadcast in the lobby via radio courtesy of Earl G Sandell.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Life Study Club
Earl G. Sandell
Sandell Auto Electrical Co
Prohibition
Earl G.O' Miller
Bell 1000
Missing 14 year old Teddy Dreier feared kidnapped
Teddy Dreier, a fourteen year old resident of Plainfield New Jersey, has been missing for over a week. He is about four feet tall, weighs 80 to 90 pounds, with brown eyes and hair. Police believe he is in the hands of kidnapers and are seeking him.
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Plainfield
N. J
Teddy Dreier
Shove
Curtis ridicules Smith immigration stance in Missouri speech
In Moberly Missouri on November 3 Senator Charles H Curtis Republican vice presidential nominee attacked Governor Alfred E Smith on immigration and prohibition. Curtis argued Smith would loosen immigration bars and criticized Democratic administrations as extravagant. He cited John Sharp Williams and pledged to end the tour in Topeka after Easter election eve.
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Moberly
U.P
Charles H. Curtis
Curtis
Alfred E. South
Convection
Tammany
Kansas City
Topeka
Charles Curtis
Jee
Moberly, Mo
Gov. Smith
Tammany Hall
Appeal in Superior Court in Pittsburgh Hearing
Lucy Jones sues her mother Mrs Harmon to obtain livelihood expenses from Harmon estate. Superior Court in Pittsburgh set for Monday November 28 to hear causes arising from Warren County matter. Attorneys for Harmon seek cation and guardian ordered at last hearing to negotiate a monthly amount. judge required at least 70 dollars monthly.
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Lucy Jones
Rose E. Harmon
Ppttsburgh
E. H. Beshlin
J. B. McGill
Brs. Harmon
Warren County
Harmon
D. A. Arud
Miss Jones
Prohibition agents seize 100000 gallon still in Reading
Reading Pa November 3 prohibition agents broke into an old foundry and found a 110000 gallon still in full operation. Ten employees were arrested as guards overpowered to reach the scene with several workers lifting to the roof and others to the cellar.
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Reading
Hoover Renews Plea For Farm Vote In Campaign
President Coolidge virtually predicts victory for the Republican ticket in a telegram to Herbert Hoover after Hoover's St. Louis speech. The White House released the message, praising Hoover for fitness to be president and his clear, candid campaign with information, maturity of thought, and sound conclusions. The telegram closes with praise of Hoover's fitness and faith in the people, and notes the speech as the concluding address of a campaign series. Page 2.
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Washington
Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
St. Louis
White House
Cooldige
Hoover
Jon
Missouri
Piva
Campaign Log Shows High Spending in 1928 Race
New York Governor Alfred E. Smith spoke in Brooklyn for the Democratic ticket and prepared a final Madison Square Garden address. Herbert Hoover received nationwide boosts from President Coolidge in a telegram. Campaign spending nears 12 million dollars, with Republicans spending about 5 million and Democrats around 4 million, per national committee reports. Hoover pledged farm relief progress before harvest. Senator Charles Curtis attacked Smith’s prohibition stance in Moberly Missouri and opposed a Tammany Hall leadership. In Dayton, Senator Joseph T. Robinson criticized Hoover over monopolies and price fixing, introduced by James M. Cox.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Brooklyn
Madison Square Garden
Dayton
Ohio
Joseph T. Robinson
Hoover
James M. Cox
Weather forecast hints rain in western Pa with cold snap
The forecast suggests western Pennsylvania will see rain and a possible Sunday morning chill. Warmer conditions are unlikely as a cooler air mass moves in.
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L. H. Gavin
Oil City
Abe Martin
R. R
Arthur Brisbane
Joe
Mountain
New Jersey
Kiwanis
Constable
Hunters
Miller
President Coolidge
Democratic
Republican National Committees
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