Daylight Saving Debates and Teapot Dome Fallout
A 1920s-style column notes growing daylight saving adoption with rural hardship from earlier hours for farmers and hints at year round reform. It also comments on the Teapot Dome affair, Sinclair's jail term for defying Senate testimony, and a general verdict that Congress has power of inquiry. It mentions Sherwood Simmons leaving Mineway with a fish basket.
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Woilkine
Ohio
Lat
Harry Singlatt
Sinclair
United States
United States Senate
Senate
Congress
Lucila Place
Mabel Issac
Son
Wthel Street
Athletic meet planned as young men organize track event
Corry notes announce an athletic association to hold a track meet in June. Prohibition friends surprise Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Loupe at home. Walter Scott returns from Carbondule job. Miss Marlo Bender of Meadville visits Miss Jane rie Kellhaugh and returns home.
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Corry
R. C. Loupe
Marlo Bender
Meadville
Janerie Kellhaugh
Businessmen attend smoker for opening of new nom building
Twenty years ago a journal note from April 15, 1909 records business leaders gathering for a smoker arranged by a committee to mark the opening of the new building in the Aji block.
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Aji
Game of Correct English Exercises
A readable fragment from a 20th century page presents multiple choice and fill in exercises on pronunciation vocabulary and grammar. It mentions a spring sign and a broken ground breaking sentence about a new residence for Carl on South Center Street and hints at a feature called Answers to Saturday's Exercises including phrases like have gone and pronunciations of certain words.
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Baoill
Phoenix
Fishbery
Carl
South Center Street
Miller Ray Green and Alta Armitage Wed at Fort Erie Congo
Miller Ray Green of this city and Miss Alta Armitage of Columbus quietly married April 8 at Fort Erie Congo. The groom is employed by the Monroe Lilly Co of this city.
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Miller Ray Green
Alta Armitage
Columbus
April Agth
Fort Erie
Congo
Phe Groan
Monroe-Lilly Co
Flying machines and natural forms inspire different flight visions
An air show observer notes airplanes rarely resemble birds and instead echo two distinct groups of living things: flying insects and fish. He compares planes with small wings and dangling gear to mosquitoes, flying boats to fish skittering on water, and worries about birdlike wing tapering. A professor suggests colleges may not grant wealth but fuel ideas for spending it.
Adder A Day Lengthy Prob At Wall Slid By Extension
A math puzzle describes an udder 25 feet long resting against a wall with its foot 7 feet from the wall. By drawing out its base 18 feet, determine how far the top slides down the wall. The yesterday’s answer is 18, with an explanation involving multiplying and converting units.
Corry Club Plans Pittsfield Dinner Meeting
The Corry Business and Professions Women's Club will host a dinner meeting at Pittsfield Inn Pittsfield Pa. on Wednesday at seven o'clock. Members should meet at Hotel Corry at 6 15 pm with Mrs Harold C Cars in charge of arrangements.
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Corry
Waile
Pittsfield
Pittsfield Inn
Anderson Sisters
Hotel
Westweedy
Harold C. Cars
Jamestown Woman Fatally Hurt In Fall
Jamestown April 15 Mrs Grace Rappole Stewart 62 widow of Alexander Stewart of 19 Eleventh Street died at VWCA Hospital at 10 10 last night from a fractured skull after a fall while descending the stairs at her home around eight o'clock Hugo Carlapy rushed to aid and an ambulance took her to YW A Hospital where Dr Thomas H Shanahan attended her The injuries were mainly a fractured skull with severe facial bruising and head trauma
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Jamestown
Grace Rappole Stewart
Alexander Stewart
Eleventh Street
VW. C. A
YW. A. Hospital
Thomas H. Shanahan
Kane Signs Contract For New Factory In Kane
Kane April 15 A contract for erecting a Phillips Jones factory in Kane was signed by 16 local guarantors who underwrote individually rather than as Chamber of Commerce members Ground breaking is expected within weeks The site at Wetmore Road and Out Street is being acquired from the Pennsylvania Railroad and Clarenne L Kendall the companys building engineer will consult with local builders on the project The work is to be financed by local businessmen and the community Householders and officials anticipate swift progress
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Kane
Phillips-Jones Corporation
Focal
RB. W. Albertson
HG Bentley
A.B. Cohn
C.C. da Chas
L. Bekman
F. ©. Hogan
F. P. Holmes
J. H Gills
Pottsville
Wit
Albertson
Bentley
Hogan
Longshore
Phillips-Jones
Clarenne L. Kendick
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rstory
Wetmore Road
Outstreet
Kangtoon
Round Up and Other Lardner Tales Seen in April Plans
Writers Guild prepares to release Round Up a collection of three dozen stories by Ring Lardner with several new pieces. The author jokes about preferring not to write but supports his need to feed his family as he has four children and a wife. The item notes Powell’s India Nepal trip and a critical view of Hinduism in The Last Home of Mystery and mentions a 1959 census based reapportionment bill reintroduced in Congress.
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Paul W. White
United Press
New York
Io Ring Lardner
Literary Guild
Nébir Lardner
Gok
Maysville Minstrel
Scribner
Lardner
India Chamber of Commerce
Silrendy
Mils
Katherine Mayo
H. Alexander Powell
India
Nepal
Powell
Unites Frew
Washington
Syracuss
I.N
Chevy Chase
Houze
South
IATS WHY Compiled for the United Preas fiction notes
A compilation list from a 1930s publisher catalog noting fiction titles with authors and retail prices. Entries include Dank Hester, Dodsworth, Duskin, The Buffer, Work Star, and The Cradle of the Deep among others with publishers and price points.
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United Preas
Baker & Taylor Co
Dank Hester
Anne D. Sedgwick
Houghton-Meffin
Dodsworth
Sinclair Laws
Harcourt-Brave
Grave L. Wil
Lippincott
Alive H. Rice
Century
Lorna Moon
Bobbe Merrell
Tyan Lowell
Simon and Schuster
Robert L. Pipiey
Truest Dlanet
Simon van Schuster
Elizabeth
Bysex
Lytton Shachey
John Brown
Stephen V. Benet
Doubleday-Donan
Fragmented Life Notes and Gossip from the Era
A literary snapshot mingles hobbies and travels with brief notices about figures like Bute Grey, Gre gorley Callaghan, and George Selfles. It references Winkle Bar placer diggings near Gold Hill, Europe trip, and a New York speakeasy under new management, plus curio about Ford Maddox Ford and a Cherokee sland line.
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Bute Grey
Gold Hill
Gregorley Callaghan
Europe
George Selfles
Nice
Robert J. Casey
New York
Fie
Casey
Chicago
Ford Maddox
Ford
Oskinson
Elizabeth Deane
Ser
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Pxease West South
Ities i Rad Ald
Ngurgags
Arthur Coley
National Advertising
Fred Ing
Mie
York Chamber of Oe
Post Oxies
Sherwood Simmons
Mineway
Nelson Waters
Harrisburg
Eugene Miller
D. H. Hasbrouce
Pierce
Ray Skift
White House
Arthur
Bates
Mendiville
North American
Hurriaburg
Great Britain
George’ Washington
Cain
Walter Scott
Carbondule
W. L. Gordon
Oni
The
Arkansas Gazette
Eniabai
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center St
Phillip-Jones Corporation
Ing Kane
Journal
Gulf
Samarkand
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Board of Directors
M. C. O'Keeffe
British Columbia
Hammond Elevator Company
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