Twenty Years Ago From Journal Files December 31 1929
A worm found in snow near Cohen gas station is noted as a harbinger. Construction worker Lawrence Gillooly is hospitalized after a toe injury from site mishap. Two city residents Bhier R. Murray and William H. Spencer die within minutes of each other at Corry Hospital. Frances Edmonds, 13, suffers a leg fracture in a winter toboggan accident. The Woman's Club program on January 2 will feature textile design by Elizabeth King and Rebecca Mackenzie with a marionette history and artifacts from Europe and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Gillooly
Corry-Spartansburg
Corry Hospital
Bhier R. Murray
William H. Spencer
Tee
Woman's Club
Elizabeth King
Rebecca Mackenzie
Mott Street
Miss King
Misa MacKenzie
Java
Munich
Ching
Roaming Round Bypaths of Local News and Incidents
Columbus fire alarm delay delays contact with home. Lt Jack Spiesman on West Coast visit. Lt Carl Carlisch graduates surgical technician school at Fort Sam Houston. Crossings at Maple Avenue cited. church move plan tied to highway widening with bids set Jan 13 in Harrisburg. New Year open houses recalled. liquor store sales strong. burglary cases cited with arrests uncertain. Television reception improving for local sets. James Wolcott returns from Tulsa. game warden case hinted with heavy fines. tax collection above average in Anrabay. fire company open house explains Sunday timing. Police on extra patrols for New Year Eve driving. Mayville furniture backlog. city taxes nearing 90 percent collection. real estate deal hinted. rumors of cooperative law enforcement concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Walter Gordon Tural
Willam Spiesman
West Coast
Jack Spiesman
U. S. Air Force
California
San Francisco
Carl Carlisch
Clymer
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Maple Avenue
Route 5
Starbrick
Highway Department
Harrisburg
Erie
Buffalo
Cleveland
James Wolcott
Corry High School
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Game Commission
Warren Arca
Pennsylvania
Stanford Hose Co
Tony Joy
Tony Litz
Galf Clube
Pittsburgh
John Roush
Rachael
R. D
Robert Loveland
King Street
Findley Lake-Corry
Roush
Pentecostal
North Corry
Eling Furniture
Mayville
Chicago
Tired Forties Bow Out Tonight
Associated Press surveys the closing night of the 1940s as a world-wide transition to the 1950s. The piece weighs war and peace, dead and born, and the era's hopeful but uncertain future. It notes postwar recovery, the birth of the United Nations, television, and changing global promises amid fear and optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rome
Tishomingo
Oklo
Rio
Paris
West 52Nd Street
New York
Hollywood
Moscow
Europe
United Nations
Four Top US Military Leaders to Visit Japan
Four senior officers Omar Bradley J Lawton Collins Hoyt Vandenberg and Forrest Sherman will travel to Japan. They will discuss future occupation forces post peace treaty and the Far East strategy amid Chinese Communist concerns. The plan follows State and Defense Department recommendations and Capitol Hill support for a US military mission to Formosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okinawa
Russia
Formosa
China
State and
Defense Departments
Capitol Hill
Joint Chiefs
State Department
Prison Break Kills Guard In Arkansas Escape
Four young inmates armed with pistols escaped from Tucker Prison Farm in Dee, Arkansas. Guard Bul Bohannon died during the breakout led by James Perry Williams, 24, of Pine Bluff. Williams unlocked the stockade door and freed three others. bloodhounds joined the manhunt as state police issued a statewide alert. Warren Hosmer, assistant to the prison superintendent, said Williams killed Bohannon and disarmed three guards. another convict allegedly helped prevent a riot by locking the stockade door.
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Prion
Prem Tucker
Ark
Dee
Arkansas
Little Rock
James Perry Williams
Pine Bluff
Trusty
Warren Hosmer
W. W. Lewis
Wiliams
Bul Bohannon
Hosmer
Willams
Depletion Tax Cut Seen as Likely to Extend
President Truman is expected to urge Congress in January to cut or remove the 27 percent depletion deduction for oil and gas income taxes. The issue, raised since 1926, has drawn opposition from the Treasury and lawmakers who fear subsidies and want full study in 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
1St Congress
Senate
Treas- Aurghae
Roosevelt
Treasury
Tragic truck crash kills man near Pittsburgh
A trick crash in North Versailles Township killed George Dunseath about 45 of Monongahela R D 1, crushed under an overturned truck. His son, George Dunseath Jr 17, escaped with a cut. Gale Holliday of Elizabeth R D 3 sustained back injuries.
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Pittsburgh
North Versailles
George Dunseath
Monongahela
R. D
Gale Holliday
Elizabeth
New Year Quiz Questions From Classified Page
The page presents a 10 question quiz about calendars and timekeeping for readers to check memory and score, with references to US fiscal year Watch Night services and mythological Janus as symbols. It mentions Old Father Time depictions and the old Roman calendar, plus a note about Ruins of Eridu in Iraq as possibly the world’s oldest city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
N. S
Janus
England
Eridu
Traq
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Gail Smith
West Washington Street
Journal
Cohen
Tobogg
Frances, Edmonds
Corrine Dean Edmonds
North Center Street
Bolly Plisi- Nielsen
Erie County
Corry Evening Journal
West South Brrest
Corry
Ad Golegrove
Betmur Colestove
George Sample
Advertising Representa
Japan
Auer Agency
General Insurance
J. Paul
Barto-Christensen Studia Ass
Washington St
Fostire
Davis & Low
Coulee
I. Q
Frank’s Tavern
Epaghetty Baviole Pizza Shuffleboard
Sweeneies Dem
East Main
Thomas Motors
of Corry, Inc
Cee
Cont
Mar
Jeon Pis
Denn
Rex
Shin En
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