100 years in the past in 1923
A taxicab loaded with gasoline at a filling station and being cranked for the beginning of a visit slipped itself into excessive gear, almost stunned its operator and went on a wild spree.
The machine had simply been “gassed” at a filling station on the northeast nook of South Park Avenue and South Avenue. The operator cranked the machine and the motor raced. The automobile evidently had been left in gear. The person on the crank finish narrowly escaped damage because the machine began, sped down the driveway, tore throughout the road and lunged right into a small touring automobile on South Park Avenue.
The touring automobile was knocked over the curb and throughout the sidewalk to A.G. Judd’s garden. One wheel of the touring automobile was shattered, the axle bent, the highest torn, a operating board demolished and spokes damaged on one other wheel.
The taxicab was operated by the Hilderbrand-Shafer Taxicab Co.
50 years in the past in 1973
Some 45,000 United Steelworkers Union members in District 26 have been anticipated to forged ballots for one in all 4 District 26 director candidates.
District 26 lined all of Trumbull, Mahoning and Ashtabula counties and elements of Columbiana County. There have been about 160 USW Locals within the district.
Trumbull County had 51 native unions with a membership of about 16,000, together with 4,000 from Republic Metal Corp. and about 2,900 members of the Copperweld Metal Specialty Co.
Candidates listed for District 26 director included incumbent Frank Leseganich; Robert Catlin of Warren, employees consultant of District 26 and president of the Trumbull Federation of Labor; Louis Skarosi, president of USW Native 1534, Basic American Transportation Corp.; and Frank Trainor, a employees consultant of District 26, understanding of the Ashtabula subdistrict workplace.
25 years in the past in 1998
If the geese insist on dropping, ahem, bombs, then town would combat again with rockets.
Warren deliberate a program utilizing “agricultural pyrotechnics,” or, principally, massive firecrackers, to scare the flocking geese away from fashionable recreation areas.
“What we try to do is encourage the birds to maneuver into unpopulated areas and away from areas used for recreation,” stated Metropolis Regulation Director Greg Hicks.
Utilizing pyrotechnics to relocate the birds was permitted by the Ohio Division of Pure Sources.
10 years in the past in 2013
Information of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation got here as a shock for a lot of. Others stated they have been conscious of the pope’s deteriorating well being and counseled him for putting the wants of the church first if he was not in a position to proceed assembly the calls for of the place.
The Rev. Thomas Elsweirth, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Warren, stated, “We as a religion neighborhood have gone by means of transitions like this with the demise of a pope. We could not know the precise scenario with Pope Benedict’s well being, however he has to chop again on doing issues.”
Benedict introduced he would retire Feb. 28, 2013, the primary pontiff to take action in almost 600 years.
The Rev. Richard Murphy, the president of Ursuline Excessive College in Youngstown who taught for 22 years, stated, “It was a really humble and significant gesture for him to place the ministry of the pope’s workplace and the wants of the church forward of himself. He’s being very accountable in his service.”
— Compiled from the archives
of the Tribune Chronicle newspaper
by Allie Vugrincic.
