Twenty Years Ago Notes From Local Journal
A 1930 report recalls Meadville troopers tracing clues in Spartansburg lootings at early hours with losses over 300 dollars across Wallace furniture Bryan general Still billiard rooms Spartansboro Hotel and Torrey Funeral Home. Mrs Eugene Miller a Corry Gold Star mother plans to depart France return trip details. East Columbus avenue improvements include pavement and bridge work due for completion by noon tomorrow with state engineers to inspect later. Community Chest Board met at Municipal building to outline budgets amid expected heavy demand. Local attendees joined Clancy town picnic at Darnott’s Grove near 700 persons.
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Meadville
Spartansburg
Wallace
Bryan
Still
Spartansboro
Torrey
Columbus Avenue
Finst
Titusville Man Rescues Kids as Home Burns
Titusville report says Harold Skelly 26 of Diamond saved his two children from a blaze four miles west on Route 27. A 13 month daughter was unburned while Skelly and his three month old son Harold Jr. suffered serious burns. The infant’s condition was critical. Neighbors and volunteers fought the fire, keeping damage to a minimum. Skelly previously escaped death last January when his parents Chester and Mrs Skelly died in a similar fire at their farm home.
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Titusville
Harold Skelly
Diamond
Skelly
Harold, Jr
Chester Skelly
Pittsburgh Fires Kill Woman and Burn Three Men
Two fires in Pittsburgh and Swissvale last night caused one death and three critical or serious burns. The fatality was Mrs Francis Laffey, 40, trapped on the third floor of a brick building at 1086 Fifth Avenue. Her husband and two tenants, Jack Diegan, 51, and Anthony Noulett, 48, were injured. Diegan remained in critical condition. Total damage was about 75 000 dollars. Swissvale plant, American Industrial Chrome Plating Company, was also destroyed with about 50 000 dollars damage. Fire crews controlled flames within an hour. The report also notes a separate wildlife service line about snow geese, unrelated to the fires.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Swissvale
Francis Laffey
Fifthenue
Jack Diegan
Anthony Noulett
Diegan
Laffey
Noulett
American Industrial Chrome Plating Company
Ross
Potatoes Split Over Federal Marketing Controls
Pennsylvania potato growers weigh a shift to Federal marketing agreements as prices rise and blight risks loom. Critics say controls limit farmers freedom while buyers blame high costs. some call for insurance schemes preserving consumer low prices amid big production. Also notes the U S Bureau of Land Management income in 1949 and Denmark's 500 plus islands.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Pennsylvania
Department, of Agriculture
How's Your I. Q. A Class Quiz From Classified Page
The text asks ten questions with scoring based on correct answers. It mentions memory improvement, monthly averages, and turning to the Classified Page for answers. It includes misspelled items about alloys, tests, translations, a Swedish nightingale, still life paintings, pronunciation of corps, Kodiyk, and various biographical notes including Vincent Hullver and Princess Fatemeh Pahlavi.
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Tollowine
United States
Kodiyk
Aimerican Cueen
Vincent Hullver
Rome
Fatemeh Pahlevi
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Dilworth accuses Fine of a me too political act
Beaver, August 22 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Dilworth charged his Republican rival John Fine with a me too reply seizing about a dozen positions Dilworth supports compared with Fine’s campaign. Dilworth criticized Fine for no public health plan no revival of the Public Utility Commission and no milk control reform. He cited a 19 month old proposal to repeal the soft drink tax and said Fine would replace it with taxes. Dilworth said Fine offered no substantive reply to charges and noted campaign trail stops in Butler and Lawrence counties.
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Beaver
Richardson Dilworth
John 8. Fine
Dilworth
Fine
Philadelphia
Public Utility Commission
Milk Control Board
Maan
Duff
DoWworth
Dhbworthy
Butler
Lawrence
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Journal Fil
Eugene Miller
Corry
France
Community Chest Board
Clancy Town
Darncott’s Grove
U. S. Bish and Wildlife Service
Chevrolet
Fleetmaster
Plymouth
Retiline
555
Thomas Motors
OF Corry Inc
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
Denmark
Desmond Electric
W. Church B. Corry
Roberts
Corry, Pa
Sea
Helen Shoppe
General Printing & Cherry Hardware
Thomas Motors of
C Lobhlaw, Inc
Tunnell’s
Stohl's Jewelry
Meerdink’s
Johnson Brothers
Hammond Elevator
Stewart Hat Shop Corry Wallpaper & McCloskey Self Serv Merritt Appliance
Herman Jewelers Sponsored
W. W. Waterhouse
Phillips Jewelry
Brigham Hardware
Barnes Grocery Nast Ladies Shop
Paul's Men‘’s Wear
Al's Clothes Shop
Willi Star Stores
Katherine
Popovich
Page & Nichols
Pillsbury Flour
Main St
Wwe
Melo
Manto
National Bank of Corry
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sollow
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