Winter weather, pandemic toll, and wartime notes
A condensed late holiday report notes ideal winter weather on Christmas Day with rain and slush overnight. Insurance data show mortality up about 6 percent from the prior health year. Corry escaped the steel storm’s worst, but Pennsylvania posts holiday deaths totaling 31, plus 14 misc accidents and 13 highway fatalities. Relief caseloads stall, with 152,485 people on general assistance. Measles and chickenpox surface in Erie and surrounding towns. State Defense Council bans New Year gongs or whistles to avoid air raid confusion. Local incidents include a brown doe killed by a car and noisy disturbances in North Center and Fairhaven. Military listings show Pennsylvania ties in missing in action and wounded in the European theater, with several named personnel. Gas shortages threaten Kane and Metown. blending materials supply the crisis. Mayville’s draft group includes eleven fathers. a for-induction delegation contains eight volunteers. The wartime season contrasts with 1893’s Christmas amid financial panics and cancelled events.
YMCA Fund Drive Seeks Community Support This Year
The local YMCA conducts a year end fund drive mainly via mail solicitations led by Secretary Clyde Shotwbarger to cover upcoming programs. Goals include YMCA clubs in schools, gym classes at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, and a Sunday School basketball league. cooperation from churches helps balance books for the new year and avoid indebtedness.
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Young Men's Christin Association
Clyde W Shhotzbarert
YMCA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Shotwbarger
Ymca Fund
Tocal Ymca
Six Bradford residents die during holiday period
Six Bradford area residents die in late December illnesses and hospitalizations. Archie J. Little age 67, painter, dies at home after long illness. Mrs Lucy M. Williams age 82 dies in hospital after years of ill health. Mrs Dolly Plimmer dies at Bradford Hospital after three weeks illness. Mrs Lidia Brock Manson age 71 dies at home after months of illness. William Manheime age 78, Smethart businessman, dies after long illness. Thomas P. Slavin age 73, Gold Eagle Hotel proprietor at Eldred, dies after two weeks illness.
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Bradford
Archie J. Little
Lucy M. Williams
Beng
Dolly Plimmer
Thomas P. Slavin
Gold Eagle
Eldred
Fire destroys dozens of boardwalk buildings in Wildwood
Wildwood New Jersey on Christmas morning suffered a fire that destroyed more than 30 buildings along two blocks of the boardwalk. Investigators estimated one million dollars in damage as flames spread under strong winds. A 14 year old boy, Frank Dougherty, was found dead amid the debris and another youth died as a result of the blaze. A fire department lieutenant collapsed from a heart ailment during the response.
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Associated
Kies
Wildwood
W. J
Atlantic Ocean
Frank Dougherty
Dougherty
Fire Department
Beware Coughs From Common Colds Creomulsion Ad
An advertisement claims Creomulsion relieves lingering coughs from colds by soothing bronchial membranes and loosening phlegm. It urges readers to ask their druggist for Creomulsion to treat coughs chest colds and bronchitis.
Services in Memory for Rose Miller Held at Bracken-Keating
Services in memory of Rose Miller were conducted at the Bracken-Keating chapel at 4:30 PM Friday with Rev. P. A. Galbreath of the Methodist church officiating. Interim burial was in Pine Grove mausoleum. Bearers included Andrew Jones Harold Anderson Ray Anderson and Willis Anderson. Relatives attending from away included Tromes Mahaffy Chaves Miller David Miller Welter Anderson Clarence Miller from Lansing Mich Carl Anderson from Wilcox and Melvin Davis from Northeast Pa.
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Ars. Hose Miller
Bracken-Keating
P. A. Galbreath
Methodist Church
Pine Grove Mausoleum
Andrew Jones
Harry Powers
Walter Anderson
Heald Anderson
Ray Anderson
Willis Anderson
Tromes Mahaffy
Chaves Miller
David Miller
Welter Anderson
Harold Anderson
Warren
Clavence Miller
Lansing
Mich
Ype
Edward Morley
Erie
Carl Anderson
Wilcox
Kirkendall
Clinvenon
Melvin Davis
Neith Est
Services Held in Elgin for Frank A. Ladd
Services conducted Friday at 2 pm in Elgin for Frank A. Ladd. The funeral followed at the home with many neighbors and relatives attending. Beaverdam Cemetery received the burial. Attendees traveling from away included Edwin McLean and Marion, Harold of Erie, Anna and George Patterson, Marjorie Hurst of Corry, Lee Faulkner of leveland, Dora McCullough, and James Leslie family of Watteburg.
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Elgin
Frank A. Ladd
A. Klopaly
Rey Verl Walker
Lete
Tre Beavers
Clarence Slys
Ivan Miller
Leon Wright
Clayton Troyer
Version Troyer
Amimon Hershberger
Beaverdam
Blin
Edwin McLean
Marion
Som Harold
Erie
Anna Patterson
George Patterson
Marjorie Hurst
Corry
Lee Faulkner
Leveland
Dora McCullough
James Leslie
Watteburg
Invasion Opens Pacific Campaign With Heavy Bombardment
General MacArthur reports a new Pacific invasion with massive aerial bombardments of Cape Gloucester beginning December 1. Daily raids totaled nearly 3500 tons of bombs, crippling enemy air and naval forces at Rabaul and surrounding regions. The Cape Gloucester action is described as larger than Arawe and comparable to Bougainville, signaling expanded air and sea operations toward Truk, the Philippines, and the Netherlands East Indies.
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Coninngy
Cape Gloucester
Whmost
MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Tuisses
Netherlands East Indies
Kavieng
Admiralty Islands
Solomons
City of Corry notice on bill payment deadline
All bills to the City of Corry must be presented for payment no later than December 29 1943 and all accounts due should be settled by the same date Irene M Mullen City Treasurer.
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City of Corry
Irene M. Mullen
North East Lad Cited In Jap Sub Capture
Harold Sonny Allen 21 son of Mrs Wah Allen received the presidents citation for aiding in the capture of a Japanese two man submarine in the Southwest Pacific. He operates an amphibian tractor with the Marine force and is on furlough home in North Bush before heading to Washington. He holds battle ribbons for service in the Southwest Pacific and American theatres.
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North East
Harold
Sonny Allen
Wah Allen
Nis
Southwest Pacific
Sonny
United States Marine Corps
Marine Force
North Bush
Washington
Dr George Durbin Erie's Prominent Physician Dies
Dr George Durbin of Erie, a noted physician and sportsman, died Saturday at 9 90 am in his home after more than two years illness. A physician in Erie fourteen years, he earlier lived in Fairview ten years. Native of Rochester Minnesota he was known in baseball and bowling and served as team physician for the Erie Sailors and led the Kendall Championship team.
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Dev
George
Durbin
Erie
Fairview
Rochester
Kendall Oi
Erie Baseball Federation
Eam
Erie Sailors
Answers to J O Quiz Editorial Page Correct Choices
Answers listed for the newspaper quiz on the editorial page. items include capitals Ankara, a fruit, navy, James Gibbons, France, Johnn Steele, Virginia, a Japanese military commander, Halley's Comet, and the Navajos. The response presents the solution key for the ten questions as printed.
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Qaiz
Palse
Ankara
Fruit
Navy
James Gibbons
France
Johnn Steele
Virginia
The
Erie Soldier Sees Big Three at Teheran Conference
Sergeant Wallace Husterholtz, an Erie native and Army historian, describes meeting three top leaders at the Teheran conference in a letter home. He joined the service in 1932 after leaving the University of Buffalo and served with the Persian Gulf command writing histories of battles in the Mediterranean and Near East. Geologists say Colorado coal could supply the nation for 1,000 years.
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Erim
Wallace Husterholtz
Huper G. Rusterholly
United States Army
Erie
Folles
Austerholtz
University of Buffalo
Persian Gulf
Yaniss
Mediterranean
Near East
Well known Erie insurance man dies at home
John L. Wilson 1 assistant manager of the Erie branch of Metropolitan Insurance Company died at his residence 1158 Brown avenue Saturday at 7 15 am after seven years illness. Funeral from the home Tuesday at 1 with Rev. George F Keyehner of Sarsh Hearn Memorial Church officiating. Interment Woodlawn cemetery Titusville.
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Aires
Wee
John L. Wilson
Erie
The
Metropolitan Insurance Company
Brown Avenue
Olders
George F. Keyehner
Sarsh Hearn Memorial Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
Titusville
Two Hurt as Car Hits Train in Erie Streets
Two Erie men were hospitalized after their northbound car crashed into a freight car on the New York Central tracks at 15th and Cascade. Charles J. Horner, 36, driver, suffered a dislocated tip while Charles A. Zimmer, 30, endured severe lacerations to the forehead chin and left leg. The incident occurred at 12:57 a m.
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Erie
St. Vincent's Hospital
New York Central Railroad
15Th
Cascade
Charles J. Horner
Charles A. Zimmer
Quota Heavy Timat Suit Discusses Art District
Fragmentary text references a lawsuit related to quotas and an art district. Names and specifics are unclear, but the note indicates a legal action or dispute involving regional governance and allocation limits. Further readable details are not available in the fragment.
Unclear text from 18k bus allotment notice
Fragmentary report cites Harris state line approval and next year's allotment timing. Mentions De Gelder and Wilh be Fl for each purchaser. Notes purchases and rationing references, with disjoint mentions of Bur Kill Melbol and various correspondents.
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de Gelder
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Holm
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