August events and real estate in Erie area
Real estate transfers recorded at Erie include Catherine Blehynsiki to Mary Martawicz on Main Street and Corry Building & Loan Association to John Cuvier on Liberty Street for 1850. Notices cover the Northwestern Pennsylvania Ayrshire Club picnic August 14, a Northern Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association convention August 14–16 at Conneaut Lake Park, and a reminder of August 1905 Theodore Roosevelt remarks at Chautauqua. News items mention license revocations, industrial accident trends in Pennsylvania, veteran outings, Harrisburg automobile inspections, and local concerts and store redecorations.
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Erie
Catherline Blehynsiki
Mary Martawicz
Main Street
Corry Building & Loan Association
John Cuvier
Liberty Street
Andrew Paulson
Northern Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association
Conneaut Lake Park
Labor unions oppose WPA wage scale in Pennsylvania
Labor unions and liberal groups in Pennsylvania launch a drive to revise government dictated wage rates proposed for Works Progress Administration projects. They warn that $40 to $68 monthly wages will drive down standard of living and trigger strikes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Downing
United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Works Progress
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
WPA
WIPA
Obit
Pennsylvania Security League
Washington
PWA
Congress
Pennsylvanian 77 Pedals 810 Mile Trip to Visit Ill Wife
Albert Kelley aged 77 proves age no barrier to bicycling as a transport. During a recent heat wave he rode 810 miles round trip to Allentown to visit his ill wife in hospital, completing the journey in five days. He has biked since age ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvanian
United Press
Danton
Albert Kelley
Allentown
Kelley
20-Mile Speed Limit Enforced Around Meadville Area
City officials announce strict enforcement of the 20 mile per hour limit in and around Meadville. Authorities report numerous arrests of motorists exceeding the limit on routes 6 19 98 and area towns including Vernon township Saegertown Cambridge Springs and Sheakleyville. The Crawford County Motor Club and the Automobile Club of Franklin have issued details of the enforcement zones and entering/leaving Meadville points.
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CML
Meadville
Clair H. Allen
Crawford Couunty Motor Club
L. D. Schoppe
Automobile Club of
Franklin
Stewford County
Vernon Township
Conneaut Lake
Saegertown
Cambridge Springs
Sheakleyville
Mercer Co
Federal bureau to finance local playground program
The playground project run by the Parent-Teachers Association in Mane gains federal financing after approval by the emergency education council. Leaders, likely to be sanctioned soon, have run the program for about 100 boys and girls in morning and afternoon sessions. WPA wage rate concerns may trigger higher wages if justified. Pennsylvania aims to place more than 300,000 unemployed people in work through fall and winter as WIA projects move through state and federal channels.
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Mane
Parent-Teachers' Association
Emergency Education Council
Trae
Harry L. Hopkins
Washington
Pennsylvania
August Music Drama Festival Draws Throgs
The sixth week of the 62nd Chautauqua assembly features operas plays lectures and concerts. Five concerts by Albert Stoessel and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra include a Sunday broadcast with cellist Georges Miquelle. Upcoming events include Gilbert and Sullivan’s H M S Pinafore in Norton Hall and lectures by Dr. Lynn Harold Hough and Dr. Harry A Overstreet with topics on critical humanism modern preaching civilized leisure and philosophy.
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Mnvie
Chautauqua
Ita
America
Albert Stoessel
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Naonal Broadcasting Company
WEAF
RED Network
Georges Miquelle
Detroit Symphony
Chautauqua Opera Company
EDST
Norton Hall
Lynn Harold Hough
Drew Pheological Seminary
Madison
N. J
Will Sonnet
Carl 0. Rasmussen
Luther Place Lutheran Memorial Church
Washington, D. C
Harry A. Gyerstreet
College of City of New York
Overstreet
Chautauqua Bird and Tree Club
Thomas Adison
Raymond L. Ditmars
New York Zoological Park
Mias Marison Bauer
New York City
Hartigoh Potten
Juilliard School of Music
Repertory Theatre
Cleveland Play House
Gertrude Torkongy
Marin
Bumper crops predicted after warm weather and July rains
Harrisburg Aug 10 Warming weather and July rain boost Pennsylvania crops say state crop reporters. Yields expected to be favorable across wheat oats barley rye potatoes apples and peaches though harvests hampered by labor shortages and disease in some fields with rot and blight noted in tobacco and fruit crops while pasture remains good and fruit sizing continues.
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United Press Harrisburg
Pennsylvesia
Feetal-State
Perlinett
Real value of FDIC shown in bank report
The FDIC reports prompt payment to depositors in insured banks and only 18 closings out of 14 thousand banks, with an excess income of over four million dollars. It credits insured banks for their insurance payments totaling about 18 billion, notes complete protection for 89 percent of depositors in closed banks, and records total insured deposits at 2.76 billion.
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Washington
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
DIC
FDIC
Leon P. Crowley
Fdic Board of Directors
Insurance Corporation
Missing Child Feared Dead in Greenville Train Tragedy
Aug 10 report from Greenville Texas says Evang H Davis fourteen year old ice boy missing since July 10 is believed killed by a freight train. Davis family disputes the identification while authorities seek a confirming photograph from Greenville to verify death.
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Erin
Greenville
Texas
Evang H. Davis
Polile
Cassinla
M. Davis
West 8Th Street
Richard Pundon
Davis
Eyang
Ridgway Police Drive to Ridboro of Bums
Ridgway police led by Chief Harry Hill and Patrolman Andrew Steis rounded up about a dozen vagrants on Thursday night in a city crackdown. Two were jailed. the rest were ordered from Ridgway. One man was escorted to borough limits and quickly left town. Police vow to wipe out vagrancy as a headquarters issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgway
Harry Hill
Andrew Steis
Utlowen
Laken Inly Huistody
Ely
Hill
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Clio
David G. ‘Thomas
Venungd
Thomas
Gafety Division
Department of Revenue
Ralph M. Bashove
Secretary of Labor and Industry
Cony Legionnaires
American Legion
Wilkes-Barre
Myrtle Puller
Marlon Austin
Warren
American Airways
Newark
Detroit
Erie Railroad Veterans’ Association
Golden Rule Club
Shrine Band
Ity Park
F. . Chapin & Sons
North Center Street
Freeman
Montgomery Ward & Company
Pennsylvania Company
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pennsylvania Bailroad Company
Plotglists
Ederal Bureau
Toledo
Leola Dishon
Belmore
Condra’s Pharmacy
Calico Rock
Ark
Erwin Hall
Hull
Ridboro
Agnes Drought
West Wayne Street
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Corry, Penn
Model Dairy Co
Corry
Penna
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