Twenty Years Ago Notes From Journal Files
John Martin a Pen gangia Railroad agent moves into the Munger house on East Smith Street. City Council names Stevens chief of police Duane Shults street driver for First Ward, B Vogill street commissioner, Mark Gray special policeman. Corry Wair Driving Park officials elected J J Desmond president and others at Bliss lodge installation in Erie. Desmond family to sail April 19 for England for five to six weeks. Ward Powell returns home from Carnegie to Pittsburgh for Easter vacation.
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John Martin
Pengania Railroad
Munger
East Smith Streel
Alexander
Stevens
I. A. Pung
Board of Health
Duane Shults
B. Vogill
Mark Gray
A Reno Judge Looks at Divorces and Marriage
United Press reports Judge George A. Bartlett of Reno argues to ease divorce restrictions, noting marriages fail for personal adjustment rather than adultery. He claims 1929 saw one divorce per six marriages, with nine in ten divorces uncontested and cruelty a major factor. He contends marriage should be saved and ennobled, not undermined.
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Allen Smith
United Press
New York
George A. Bartlett
Reno
Putnam's
Bartlett
Llack
Sunday’s Five Best Radio Entertainments
Radio schedule listingWAC CBS network 7 00 outing Klein US Department Commerce WEAR NEC network 7 15 p.m Maurice Chevalier Wag NEC network 8 15 p.m Radio hour WABCG CBS network 10 00 mi Jeane Crawford WEA NEC network W157. mo Famous trials.
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WAC
CBS
Klein
Department + Commerce
Wear
NEC
Maurice Chevalier
Wag
WABCG
Jeane Crawford
WEA
When Those Factories Are Built by a Greenwich Villager
Heywood Broun shares a Greenwich Village conversation about the Soviet five year plan hailed as history making yet seen as an experiment. The critic foresees factories, mines, and power projects expanding but questions Russia’s ability to use complex equipment without a revolutionary shift in character. An American engineer warns machinery wears out from careless handling, testing the real adaptation after construction.
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Heywood Broun
Greenwich
Russia
Germany
Britain
Mayville Woman Acquitted in Poisoned Candy Case
Belmont April 1 Florence W. Burch 38 of Mayville was acquitted of first degree attempted murder in the Chautauqua county poisoned candy case. The jury's 11 to 1 first ballot vote and unanimous second ballot verdict came after hours of deliberation. Burch walked from Allegany county courthouse a free woman as Justice James F. Norton received the oral verdict.
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Belmont
Chautanquil County
Florence W. Burch
Mayville
Allegany County Court House
Chautauqua County
James F. Norton
Warsaw
Probeshooting of Erie Man Found in Woods
Erie April 11 Joe Clanetta 28 of 224 E 2nd street Erie was shot to death Thursday in Schenectady His body with a bullet in his temple was found late Thursday morning in woods near South Schenectady He died at Ellis hospital at 6 47 p m Sheriff Howard G Klein Schenectady investigated the shooting Friday Authorities probed whether Clanetta ended his own life A discarded six shot revolver and ammunition lay nearby two boys found the body while searching for duck eggs
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Erie
Joe Clanetta
E. 2Nd Street
Schenectady
Voy
Hoplites
Clanella
South Schenectady
Ellis Hospital
Howard G. Klein
Schenect
Arms and Deficits Balance in Postwar Expenditures
Analyzing the US deficit, the article notes it closely equals about three quarters of a billion dollars spent on the army and navy. It argues war winnings aside, military costs are 160 percent higher than before the war, with Britain as a comparison. Reducing arms outlays could shrink the deficit and promote peace and domestic economy.
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United States Treasury
Great Britain
Norway claims new Arctic land amid icy humor
Captain Daehn, a Norwegian whaling inspector, says new land with lofty peaks has been found in the Arctic, likely west of Greenland and to be claimed by Norway. World reaction is muted as Arctic real estate drifts through snowy doubt while Canada hints at polar claims and Norse humor about ice persists.
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Norway
Daehn
Arctic
Greenland
Canada
North Pole
Fighting Chestnut Blight Threat to Native Trees
Chestnut blight attacks trees across the country with rapid spread. Experiments proceed hoping to develop a blight resistant tree to save native stands.
Daily Lessons in English by W L Gordon
A compact daily lesson notes common usage and pronunciation. It introduces the word intersperse meaning to scatter or place here and there among other things and illustrates it with a sentence about meadows interspersed with lagoons.
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W. L. Gordon
Answers to LOOK AND LEARN 4 questions
Edison invented the iconograph and motion picture machine. Custer's Last Stand occurred in Montana. Septuple means sevenfold. The common animal absorbing water through its skin is the newt. Lisbon is the capital of Portugal.
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Lisbon
Thomas A. Edison
Montans
Sevenfold
Portugal
Altitude and Airs in Wisfia Night Reveals Quilli Willeh Shake
A fragmentary report from Wisfia describes a night scene with the spowling qwilli Willeh shaker and Ratp faye Dene. The readable bits hint at local figures and a nocturnal performance affecting the town atmosphere.
New Attorneys Seek Practice in Ridgway
The Ridgway area reports a shift in local legal work as the county bar notes past shortages of Blackstone students aiming to practice locally. Five petitions for admittance are pending alongside recent admittee William A. Henry, with applicants including William K. Reid Harold Shannon John Conrad Matthew Crawford and Clemens Simon from nearby towns and universities.
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Ridgway
Apri
Scussion County Bar Association
Blackstone
Bar and Tale
Brookville American
Bar Association
William A. Henry
Willam K. Reid
W. S. Reid
University of Pittsburgh
Harold Shannon
L. &. Shannon
John Conrad
W. N. Conrad
University of Michigan
Matthew Crawford
Reynoldsville
University of Pennsylvania
Clemens Simon
Sykesville
Happiness Recipe Phere Four Yo Order
Fragmentary note appears to quote I Jt Miller on happiness and daily tasks. The readable part suggests a recipe or method for joy, mentioning transfigured moments and faithful cheerful living. No clear event, person, place, or organization beyond Miller appears.
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I. Jt. Miller
Americans Honored by Roumanian Monarch
United Press reports King Carol II of Roumania awarded The Order of Merit Nautique to Col. Charles Lindbergh Rear Admiral Richard Byrd Dr Hugo Eckener commander of the Graf Zeppelin Gen Italo Balbo and Dieudonne Cosles with Maurice Beltonte for their trans Atlantic Paris New York flight Evelyn Trout and Edna May Cooper received the gold cross of the same order.
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United Press
Bucharest
Roumania
Carol II
Charles Lindberge
Richard B. Byrd
Hugo Eckkener
Italo Batho
Dieudonne Cosles
Maurice Beltonte
Paris
New York
Evelyn Trout
Edna May Cooper
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oFsion of
Appomattox Diy
Corry Wair
Driving Park Association
J. J. Desmond
J. B. Brown
W. W. Morgaridge
G. Hi. Barlow
J. Walter Clough
Summer Bentley
BN. Whitmore
Dan Alexander
Dell Darling
Bliss
England
Ward Powell
Carnegie
Jheck
Pittsburgh
Eranklin
FL S. Galagin
State Highway Department
Gahagan
Franklin
Ute
P.A.R
Erintendent of Stations and Transfer, of
Beneficial Loan Society
South Center ST
Corry
Pau
Chapin’s
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center St
New York State
Pennsylvania
Downey's Drug Store
Model Dairy CO
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City, Be
Citizens National
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