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Newspaper
Warren Tribune
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1927
Page
13
Lodge & Shipley shell stills ranging from 300 to 12,000 barrels capacity 15 to 50 feet in diameter and 10 to 35 feet high were knocked down in an auction. Equipment details indicate large capacity stills offered for sale.
Northville Michigan reports Eddie Stinson, designer of the Royal Windsor monoplane, unable to explain why a fire started upon a forced landing near St Johns Quebec. He cites a cigarette ignition and friction as possible causes and finds the other report about a second fire line hard to credit, per United Press.
Washington Sept 3 The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to acquire control of the Huntingdon and Clearfield Telephone Company for 550000 and to acquire the Summerville Telephone Company for 400000.
Philadelphia report states Selphia surpassed the sidermauic borrowing limit by over 40 million dollars per City Controller Hadley in a 34 year survey. The effort aims to challenge a 1,004,000 contract for vee building construction, with the current administration allegedly exceeding the limit by more than 30 million.
Ralph Emerson Gimber of Girard married Miss Barpsta Sterrett at the First Lutheran church in a full ring ceremony conducted by Reverend C A Dennig. There were no attendants. After a motor trip to Buffalo Niagara Falls and Toronto they will reside in North Girard.
Radio schedules list Saturday Sunday and Monday five best features with stations WE AF WLS WDAF WPG WIZ WOR and others. Entries include Peggy Ann Mediterranean National barn dance and Paul Althouse tenor Marie Tiffany soprano with times and stations. Derrick’s note recalls old remedies and references Tribune.
Readable fragments show Saturday and Sunday radio schedules with WEAF WLS WJ station times and programs. Listings include orchestras dance music theatre and reports from WEAF WLW and others across cities like Cincinnati Cleveland Buffalo and Atlanta with times and featured performers such as Tiffany Althouse and Giley Orchestra.
Three men died and nearly a dozen were injured when a Southern Railway passenger train collided with a Big Four freight six miles east of Princeton Indiana. The deceased were Thomas Nelson 89 of New Albany Indiana and engineer Leonard Wilson 88 of Princeton with the Big Four train.
In a National League game Philadelphia faced New York and Brooklyn against Boston. Ferguen Wilson Barnes and Cummings contributed for New York while Mueller pitched. Petty DeBerry Greenfield Gibron appeared for Boston. The partial scores show scattered innings and final tallies reflecting a doubleheader style summary.
Mr and Mrs Marshall Hansen and daughter Betty with Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hansen return from a motor trip to Watkins Glen Syracuse and the Toronto fair where 136000 admissions were recorded. Frederick Printz will usher at the Norquist Mace wedding at First Presbyterian Jamestown. Pittsburgh visitors Mr and Mrs Richard Gubbraith Smith see friend Jim Warren. The Colts and Waiters return from Canada. James Cordin of South Bend stayed with Rev Dennig and toured Ridgway. Victoria and Thomas Croft head to Owen Sound with Dr S J Wallace kin for a visit. Miss Ed Croft joins them on return. Thomas plans to enter Collegiate College. Don P Keelor of Freeport and Elizabeth Burns of Steubenville expected to spend days with Stella Keelor and daughter Marjorie.
Ruth Ritts age 12 died of infantile paralysis marking the first Butler County case this year. She was the daughter of Elias Ritts vice president of the Butler County National Bank. Specialists from Philadelphia and Baltimore failed to save her during a visit to Ohio.
Reports from European coast say south winds 15 to 20 mph or more affected Captain Frank T. Courtney on a flying craft from the United States. Winds along the Atlantic hindered the air voyage from England to the Azores, with stronger gusts likely over open sea.
A terse market roundup lists numerous stocks from Allied Chemical to Woolworth, with price hints like 165, 2% and 61% in various lines. It mentions NYSE members Kay Richiras and Co and notes CURB MARKET listings including Cities Service and General Electric among others.
A gas station theft attempt near McCalmont station failed when an automatic alarm sounded, detaining a man identified as Henry Tinrack, 64, of McCu mant school road Price. The incident followed several prior thefts, and Tinrack was taken to state barracks for questioning.
Haines and Carmen Hill, top right handers of the league, meet in the Cardinals final appearance of the season at Forbes Field home of the Pirates. Haines has been tough on the Pirates and manager OFas well hopes he stays sharp to limit Pirates gains in the pennant chase as weather draws a half holiday crowd of 25 066.
Harrisburg September 3 Frank F Leedy heard noises in his chicken house and armed with two guns pursued the intruder. He shot a red fox he thought to be a pet and then consulted the state game commission about a bounty. A man named Herman Blooms arrived later enraged that the fox had escaped from his home.
Two insurance agents Edward J. Cros and Sidney S. Nelson were arrested in Camden on embezzlement charges. Investigators say shortages may total thousands of dollars from South Jersey routes for the National Company.
Harrisburg reports checks totaling over 4.0 million dollars mailed to 231 school districts as state aid payments. Listed recipients include Altoona Butler Connellsville DuBois Erie Meadville Johnstown Uniontown and others. Also 77 thousand dollars mailed to fourth class districts.
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