Public health and local notices from twenty years ago
Health Officer Milton Tipton reports four contagious cases under quarantine including two scarlet fever and two mumps. John E. Love elected Board of Education president after D. A. Hillstrom. Louis Wojtowicx, 16, injured hunting near Spartensburg, will lose part of a right toe. Erie Railroad seeks to close Columbus station. hearing set tomorrow amid local opposition. Elizabeth Dingfelder dies at her daughter’s home. Bowling alleys to open at Patterson garage, East Main Street. six lanes to be installed by Brunswick Company, ready by December 8.
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Esse
Milton Tipton
Louis Wojtowicx
Joseph Wojtowics
Spartensburg
Gerry Hospital
Marang
Erie Railroad
Columbus
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
Jin Pappas
Patterson Garage
East Main Street
Brunswick Company
News day notes and roving round items across Corry
A scattered page piece notes Rogers on navy duty 1940 45 and a Hughes Aircraft jet demonstration. It mentions traffic fatalities in Erie County 45 this year and Model Dairy considering a milk bottle change. Amusement licenses loom for taverns with TVs and Eleanor Roosevelt as ambassador speculation circulates. ROAMING ROUND highlights include a large football pool win and local Christmas checks, plus Edison Electric Institute says rural electrification near complete in two years.
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Bradford
Gary
Erie County
Allegheny
Philadelphia
Westmoreland
Corry
State Supreme Court
Jeter
Eleanor Roosevelt
France
Avnti- DeGaillists
Queville
Truman Vicrior
Induced voting plan proposes 30 tax deduction for voting
Rep Klein plans a bill to grant a $30 federal tax deduction to every citizen who votes in national elections. A local election board validated certificate would count as the tax credit. Proponents expect turnout to rise beyond 1941 levels, but critics warn it risks undermining democratic participation with bribery or coercion.
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Klein
Auto bodies need more steel than postwar cars
A research report claims postwar passenger cars now require about 1,000 pounds more steel. The average vehicle weight rose from 2,500 pounds 15 years ago to around 3,500 pounds today, while prezzi for a new low priced car approach a high figure. Christmas street lights by Thomas Hickles draw favorable comments for their bough covered strings marking a shift from past lighting. City councilors oppose a cigarette tax though they say it could return if the budget is out of balance at month end.
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Auto~Mobilé
Thomas Hickles
Revere
Two Men Lose 210 in Erie Hotel Thefts
In Erie a daylong investigation followed a report by Roy L Locke a jewelry dealer from Buffalo New York that 211 cash vanished from his hotel room while he slept Det Sgt Chester Whelkwald quoted Locke as securing his door before bed Glenn Bickford of Bickford Paper Co Wilson described waking to find a man fleeing the corridor The case centers on a robbery in a city hotel with one suspect.
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ERI
Vly Agreages
Roy L. Locke
Tom Buffalo
N.Y
Chester Whelkowald
Locke
Glenn Bickford
Bickford Paper Co
Wison
Woodsman Injured By Falling Trees Near Siglairville
George Runer, 48, of Sinelaituttty, was reported in fairly good condition at W A Hospital after two trees fell on him while felling in a swamp between Siglairville and South Stockton. He suffered rib fractures and internal injuries, Swanson Lumber Company employee.
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George Runer
Sinelaituttty
W. ©. A. Hospital
Rauer
Swanson Lumber Company
Siglairville
South Stockton
How's Your I Q Quiz From a 19th Century Page
A fragmented quiz lists questions on electoral votes early presidents and famous quotes. It mixes spelling errors and garbled items about backbones vertebrates memory and a Fox novel, reflecting a damaged OCR page with cultural trivia and peculiar phrasing.
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United States
Washington, D
New Amsterdam
John Fox
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John E. Love
Board of Education
Mr. Love
D. A. Hillstrom
Elizabeth Dingfelder
Sway
Guy Swart
Othe
Rogers
Navy
Richard Merker
Raymond Plant
Merker
al Merker
Wright Street
George Shoop
Buffalo
West
Edison Electric T ™ Institute
America
Herbert Hoover
White House
Goth Congress
Swithin
Congress
Hoover
Geaige P. Rogers
Mayville
Naval Reserve
Dunkirk
John Bensink
North Center Street
State Armory
Loeg
Nimrods
Pete Giros
Giros
Jack Castor
L. B
Umbo" Kaysier
Grand Streeb
Tamarac
Ward
Fealr
ERIE
Woodsman
Tamestows
Automobile Puble
Kinley
Ins. Agency
Tel
Philco
Table Radio
Fis
Franz
Corry Building
Corry Building & Loan Association
Federal Sa
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Homer G. Bulard
South Center Street
Guignon's
Sunbeam
Schick
Hamilton Beach
Keystone VanCise
Noek
Clifford A. Zilch
Lee J. Fred Kinley, Salesman
Ruffener
Worth Street
Diaanas
Cearen
LLS
Missletoe
Heiman
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