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...Heinz Co., and to the Red Cross as well. When Mr. Howard Heinz, president of H. J. Heinz Co., saw the devastating effects of the St. Patrick's Day flood, he immediately gave us two cars of food products-one for Pittsburgh and half a car each for Johnstown and Wheeling-at the same time presenting us with his check for $5,000. . . . With reference to the implication in your statement that the Heinz Co. donated the food because of inability to determine what the cans contained, it may interest you to learn that through letters stamped...
Died. Frederick Henry Harvey, 41, vice president of the famed Western Harvey railway restaurant chain and dining car service (for the Santa Fe) founded by his late grandfather; at Johnstown, Pa., when the airplane which he was piloting bashed through electric powder lines, burst into flames, burned him & his wife to death...
...high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
...flood's path, Pittsburgh's were hardest hit. When telegraphic facilities failed, Hearstmen on the Sun-Telegraph managed to get a long distance connection with the New York American, had Arthur Brisbane's column "Today" dictated over the wire. In it Mr. Brisbane announced that "Johnstown, Pa. has its second important flood," went on to wonder "whether engineers could not have arranged to let the second flood run around the city instead of through...
...20th Century bootleggers made it a hideout. When he was a boy, Amos Kilgore Gordon of Parkersburg, W. Va. used to visit his grandfather's farm on Blennerhassett Island. He remembers swimming out into the river with his brother to collect driftwood logs washed down by the Johnstown Flood. When he grew up, he went to work for Standard Oil, is now vice president and treasurer of Standard of Louisiana. Last week Mr. Gordon bought up all the rest of Blennerhassett Island that his family did not own. The Federal Government, naturally, has never attempted to preserve...