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...Johnstown, N. Y.: "Health authorities reported 24 cases of infantile paralysis today in the Johnstown-Gloversville area...
Engaged. Lenore Kight, 22, No. 1 U. S. free-style woman swimmer; and Cleon Wingard, 24, Johnstown, Pa. athletic instructor; in Homestead...
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...Charles D. Copeland, a Westmoreland County Judge. The Philadelphia Record, party organ in Eastern Pennsylvania, has damned Candidate Copeland as an anti-Rooseveltman and "Mellon's messenger boy." A Democratic ticket more comic than formidable is: William McNair, Mayor of Pittsburgh, for Governor; pugilistic Eddie McCloskey, Mayor of Johnstown, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold...
...three brothers, Colonel Bradley was born at Johnstown, Pa. His father, Captain Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs...