Twenty Years Ago From Journal Prels 1936 Highlights
Twenty years ago this week local items, including Robert Ream joining the Cleveland Orpheus Male Chorus sailing for Europe from Montreal, a new north side clothing store opening in Brown Block, a Parkhurst jewelry store theft with a $40 watch, Cory Baking driver Harold Taylor injured in a Findley Lake Mina Comers crash, Carmen Hill notching his twentieth win as Minneapolis fell 1 0, and Columbus hosting its fiftieth annual town picnic at Mather Park with over five hundred attendees.
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Robert Ream
G. M. Ream
Wright Street
Cleveland Orpheus Male Choi
Cleveland
Europe
Montreal
Harold Taylor
Cory Baking Company
Corry Hospital
Findley Lake
Mina Comers
Columbus
Mather Park
Picnic, Association
Columbus Reunion Adds Band Concert and Dance Feature
The Columbus Township reunion announces two new features. The Corry Legion band will perform in the afternoon and a big dancing party at 9 p.m. at White Swan dance hall, Weigutsville, concludes the event. Mrs. Mary Doud will read a history of Columbus township. Attendees need not bring lunch as refreshments will be served at a reasonable charge.
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Pichic
Corry Legion
Corry Legion Band
Weigutsville
Columbus Township
Mary Doud
Rising highway deaths follow lifting of driving limits
After V-3 Day lifting of driving restrictions, highway fatality toll rose markedly. Six months show a 24 percent YoY increase in motor vehicle deaths with elderly men 65 plus up 5 percent, while white men 20 to 24 up 65 percent and white women of the same age 124 percent. Experts blame war restrictions, older cars, and inexperience. Bicycling accidents loom as roads fill, with four-fifths from car collisions and one-fifth from bicycle spills or strikes with streetcars and curbs. most fatal bicycle deaths are 10 to 19 year olds. Caution on wheels urged to improve safety.
Kaneville Youth Killed in Car Crash Near Kaneville
State Police report a late Saturday crash on Route 8 near Kaneville left 18 year old Jin Spence dead. Wet pavement contributed to the car leaving the road, hitting a tree and rolling. Spence, son of Mr and Mrs William A Spence, died instantly from a fractured skull and other injuries.
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Baneville Hill
Spence
Jin Spence
Willian A. Spence
Kaneville
TS. Gabreski
Venango County
Cherrytree
Oil City
William E
Airport GLP Rep Seeks Aviation Fans in Ithaca
A GLP official from Ithaca announced an Aviation GLU membership drive this week aiming for 100 new members to support aviation facility improvements. Gail Bramhall, recently joining the Navy Department in Washington, plans to fly again and return home soon. Henry Prontroth and Walter Cassidy chartered a Corry ship to BuBois for a weekend aviation show with 50 ships reported and no traffic control.
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GLP
Ithaca
Fairchild
Aviation Glu
Sp. Mn “Aei
Ithe
Gail Bramhall
Gail
Navy Department
Washington
Henry Prontroth
Walter Casley
Corry
BuBois
Screwy Land of Plenty and a British View
A Business Week editor quotes a British visitor who found the United States a place where abundance coexists with folly in economic policy. The piece contrasts reconversion optimism with warnings of inflation, unemployment, and deflation fears amid government forecasting and policy.
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Business ‘Week
United States
England
Washington
John Steelman
Steelman
Paul Hoffman
Committee For Economic Development
Steel
Atlantic Charter Five Year Anniversary Reflections
The piece marks the 61st anniversary of Japan's surrender and the fifth anniversary of the Atlantic Charter. It notes Roosevelt and Churchill launched the charter in 1941 as a joint Anglo American pledge for a better world. It laments waning adherence as postwar negotiations proceed and cites debate among experts about wartime aims and postwar peace talks.
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Japan
Roosevelt
Churchill
United Nations
Fey Hive
du Paris
Harola Looters
Wikots
Seven Quiz Questions From Classified Page
The reader is asked to answer seven quiz items listed on the Classified Page. Questions cover topics from military service in WWI to European capitals, animals linked to legends, textile garments, and metal properties. Also included are truefalse style prompts about geography and a pair of postwar geopolitical statements.
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Knights of Ce
Massachusetts
Guam
Androcles
Lausanne
France
California Boy Wins Akron Soapbox Derby
A 14 year old San Diego boy Gilbert Klecan won the postwar all American soapbox derby in Akron with a 27.13 second 1000 foot run. He edged Dick Zoller of Cleveland in the finals representing the San Diego Journal and earned a four year college scholarship from a $9.70 racer and graphite setup. Other notes include Teddy Brosnan of Erie and Jack Campbell of DuBois being eliminated in earlier heats.
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Akron
San Diego
Calif
Gilbert
Klecan
Dick Zolter
Cleveland
San Diego Journal
Zoller
Cleveland News
Teddy Brosnan
Erie
Jack Campbell
DuBois
Erie City Reports Third Typhoid Case Harboring Ill Child
The Erie health bureau announced that a fifth ward eight-year-old boy, stricken July 26, has typhoid fever. Under care of a chiropractor, his condition improved after hospitalization and medical test confirmed the diagnosis. Health Director Dr. James Smith stated the case marks the city's third typhoid instance of the year.
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Wis Alls. .S
Health Bureau
James Smith
Calculating Machines in Racing Use Modern Betting Odds
Notalisators are giant electric calculating machines used in contemporary horse racing. They register every bet and establish the odds on each horse, enabling rapid, precise wagering calculations.
Reckless driving fine for Emory Evans in North East case
Emory Evans aged 59 of North East pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined 25 dollars before Justice Minford Douglas at Westfield. He was arrested by State Police following a property damage accident in Ripley.
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Emory Evans
R. D
North East
Justice of the Peace
Minford Douglas
Westfield
Ripley
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Journal Prels
Northside
Sam Jacobson and Company
Brown Block
North Center Street
Parkhurst
Carmen Hill
Minneapolis
Williard Verlin
Gar
Russia
Poland
East Prussia
Trieste
Venezia Giulia
Italy
California
Corry Instrument Company
East South Street
Lobla AY AE GI C
Eood FC
EOI
Green Peppers
Wieners
Erie City
Widmann
Pennsylvalna Telephone Corporation
Perk’s
Ford & Elncola Service
Struthers Wells Company
Warren, Penna
Montgomery Ward
Wilcox Grocery
East Main Street
Pillsbury Flour
Phab
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