YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2014. There are 68 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1537: Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, dies 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.

1861: The first transcontinental telegraph message is sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

1936: The short story “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Vincent Benet is published in The Saturday Evening Post.

1939: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra record their signature theme, “Let’s Dance,” for Columbia Records in New York.

1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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1989: Elonna McKibben, the Howland Township woman who gave birth to quintuplets Sept. 9, has been told she has cancer, news that her mother says she “is taking like a trooper.”

David T. Matak, vice president of Everflow Eastern Co., says Boardman’s rules for drilling oil and gas wells in the township added $10,000 to $15,000 to the cost of drilling a well and added 12 to 18 months on its drilling schedule.

Girard City Council hires the Trumbull County Animal Welfare League to be the city’s dog catcher at a cost of $5,000 a year.

1974: Youngstown police vice-squad officers raid the Mahoning Follies Theater, Foster Art Theater and Park Burlesque Theater, confiscate the films being shown and arrest the three managers on charges of violating state obscenity laws.

Some 1,000 members of Local 627, Service Employees International Union, will receive a pay increase of 30 cents an hour under a three-year contract with Youngstown Hospital Association.

The board of trustees of the Western Reserve Transit Authority authorizes Secretary-Treasurer Abe Harshman to seek a $300,000 loan to tide the agency over until subsidies allow it to operate in the black.

1964: The United Auto Workers Council votes overwhelmingly in favor of recommending to their members that they end their strike against General Motors.

Lutherans in the Youngs-town area will unite in a Reformation Day service at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church at Oak Hill and Evergreen avenues. The Rev. Charles Lundquist, Bethel Lutheran Church pastor, is in charge.

1939: Eight candidates for Youngstown mayor differ on many issues, but all agree that the city’s $5 million PWA improvements program must be completed.

William J. Brown, secretary of The Vindicator Printing Co. and its director of national advertising, is chairman of the annual Red Cross roll call.

An extremely dry summer reduces Lake Milton to one of its lowest levels in its history, seriously threatening the Valley’s industrial water supply.