Public radio talk and holiday notices sweep Pennsylvania
Bi weekly broadcasts from the Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Committee will air on WHP Harrisburg on April 20 at 2 p m to inform the public and farmers about the farm program. Banks and gas offices will close for Good Friday. schools recess until April 25. Erie Railroad reports a 32 percent drop from last year. Charles J Denney cautions stockholders.
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Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Committee
WHP
Harrisburg
Erie Railroad
Charles J. Denney
Erie Mayor Opposed to Site for Big Stadium
Erie Mayor Charles R. Barber stated there will be no municipal stadium or race track on the Peach and Cherry streets circus lot. He argued the area is a fine residential block and market values would fall, preferring athletic facilities be placed in other city sections where demand exists. The remarks mark his first public stance since Erie Citizens raised the issue two weeks prior.
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Barber
Peach and
Cherry Streets
Charles R. Barber
Erie Gitizens
Mrs Foster 84 Dies in Corry After Illness
Mrs Elly V Foster 84 widow of Charles Foster died early today at her son Ralph Foster's home on East Washington street. Born Meadville December 10 1861 or 194, she lived much of her life in Corry area. Survived by four grandchildren Blaine Ralph Jacke Jean and two sisters Mrs George Perry and Mrs Maude Daugherty of Saginaw Michigan. Body removed to Bracken Keating funeral home awaiting Saturday 11 am services at Bracken Keating chapel with interment Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Mira
Elly V. Foster
Charles Foster
Ralph Foster
East Washington Street
Meadville
Corry
Haseen
Pine Grove Cemetery
Pennsylvania federation orders C I O council from capitol HQ
Harrisburg April 14. The first shot in the fight for clear title to a $28,000 labor headquarters building facing the capitol was fired today by the reorganizing Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. The new federation chartered by A F of L President William Green ordered the CIOs Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council to vacate the donated property by Monday.
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Harrisburg
L-C
Capitol
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
William Green
Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council
John J. Lewis
Maple Syrup Crop Seen Below Half the Normal
John Wiggers of North Clymer a large maple producer reports the 1938 crop will run less than one half the regional average. He just loaded four carloads for Cary Maple Sugar Co of St Johnsbury VT, noting this is the shortest crop in about twenty years with darker quality and about fifty percent No 1 and fancy. Reports from Carter Hill corroborate the weak season, as unusually warm March weather disrupted production.
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Beller
John Wiggers
North Clymer
New England
Wiggers
Journal
Cary Maple Sugar Co
St. Johnsbury
Carter Hill
North Clymer Shipper
Missing Boy Orcutt Searched For In Allegheny River
WAIRREN April 14 Officials report no trace yet of 5 year old Rodney Orcutt son of Mr and Mrs Everett Orcutt who vanished near Clark Street Island around 4 20 Tuesday afternoon Police firemen and volunteers used grappling hooks through the night and at daybreak to locate the child with searches concentrated near the home and later at Newmaker Island backwater near the swollen river in hopes of finding the body
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Wairren
Rodney Orcutt
Everett Orcutt
Clark Street
Allegheny River
Olivier James
Newmaker
Catholic Daughters of America to Welcome Twenty New Members
Plans were completed by the members of Court Conception No. 35 Catholic Daughters of America at last evening's meeting in the Knights of Columbus hall for the reception of twenty new members on April 28. Invitations were issued to Mrs. Laure B. Hesh state regent Kane, Mrs. Laure B. Hesh district deputy Titusville, and Miss Mable Schell Meadville past district deputy to be present for the occasion.
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Court Conception No. 35
Catholic Daughters of America
K. of C
Mixa Frances Maher
Kane
Laure B. Hesh
Titusville
Mable Schell
Meadville
Columbus Boy in Hotel Business
Columbus April 14 Frank Vincent Patric, former Columbus boy and seven year student in sculpture, accepts a typist position with his brother W. W. Patrick, manager of the Congress Hotel in Tucson Arizona. He will leave Los Angeles after thirteen years to learn the hotel trade on his birthday. He is a Southwestern University Los Angeles graduate in business administration and secretarial studies and studied spelling, business law and bookkeeping at Jamestown Business College. He also studied sculpture at USC Otis Art Institute and the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles. His sculptural work for the Federal Art Project in Los Angeles includes a life size Lincoln hen at Lynwood High School and other pieces at Castelar High School Gardena High School and Gardena High School desk sculpture The Worker.
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Columbus
Frank Vincent Patric
W. W. Patrick
Congress
Tucson
Arizona
Los Angeles
Patrick
Southwestern University
Jamestown Business College
Holy
University of Southern California
Otis Art Institute
Chouinard School of Art
Federal Art Project
Abraham Lincoln
Lynnyword High School
Lynnwood
Cal
Lincoln
Castelar High School
Tone
Whiteley
Gardena High School
Adam Cat
the Worker
Johnstown Faces Time Change Trouble in Standard Time Debate
Johnstown Pa on April 14 faces a long running question whether to adopt daylight saving time. Bethlehem Steel says its local office and operating personnel will observe fast time to align with New York and out of town offices. Standard time has been observed for years as steel workers opposed clock changes. Opposition cites that most nearby communities stay on standard time, and clock changes caused schedule confusion harming business.
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Johnstown
Bethlehem Steel
New York
AWAIT INFORMATION FOR BALLOT NAMES AT STANFORD HOSE
Erie county officials expect election candidate lists to be released soon to prepare voting machine labels and sample ballots. Stafford Hose Company plans to elect new officers at 7 PM tonight at the First Ward station with Raymond Sandburg as president. TheCorry Firemen’s Relief Association will also meet to elect officers. Charles Kinley leads the Relief Association.
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Stanford Hose Company
Firemen’s Relief Association
Stafford Hose Company
Wand Tre
Raymond Sandburg
Hie
Corry Firemen’s Relief Association
Charles Kinley
Relief Association
Duel Policy Sparks Action in Early DC Trade
Action against dueling arose after a fatal 1800 duel between Rep. William J Graves of Kentucky and Rep. Jonathan Cilley of Maine. The clash triggered scrutiny of District of Columbia establishments with wide trade in distant districts as reform efforts gained momentum.
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William J. Graves
Kentucky
Jonathan Cilley
Maine
District of Columbia
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