State Teachers Pension Fund Under Attack
Harrisburg February 17 The Pennsylvania Threshermen and Farmers Protective Association says the state school employees retirement fund is a costly undertaking since 1919. It claims state and local contributions plus investment gains have shifted costs onto employees, spotlighting Edmonds Act salary increases and funding disparities. It argues districts must hire more teachers to maintain ratios or risk losing state aid.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania ‘Threshermen's and
Farmers’ Protective Association
Gebog
Loest
Department of Public Instruction
Taschers
Annual Bird House Contest Announced
The second annual Bird House contest, sponsored by the Rotary Club and led by Joe Huggman, invites boys from North East Union City and Corry to exhibit boxes at the Hotel Corry. Classifications cover nine bird types with prizes for best houses in six divisions, built to US Agriculture Department plans.
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Rotary Club
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North East
Union Cuy
Corry
Hotel Corry
Joe Huggman
United States Agriculture Department
Ebenezer Man Killed at Park Grade Crossing
Ebenezer resident George Frey 82 was killed when his automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at the Orchard Park Road crossing in Hamburg Erie County. The car was carried 200 feet along the tracks as Frey had been making grocery deliveries for his brother’s Ebenezer store and was returning home. Edgar Wallace, British mystery author, died in California. his body was being returned to England aboard the Berengerid, accompanied by secretary Robert Curtis.
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Buffalo
The
George Frey
Ebenezer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Orchard Parke Road
Roast
Hamburg
Erie County
Frey
Bury Wallace
England
New York
Edgar Wallace
California
Robert Curtis
Wallace
Oil City Girl Burned In Home Fire Incident
Nellie Martini aged 17 of 347 Emerald Street Oil City was badly burned when her clothing ignited from a stove in Henry A Spiegelman’s Abbott Street home where she works. She sustained burns to her legs and torso but is not considered in grave danger and is hospitalized at the Old City Hospital.
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City
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Nellie Martini
Emerald Street
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Henry A. Spiegelman
Abbott Street
Old City Hospital
Accident at Spiegelman home injures Miss Marti
Reported this afternoon a fire incident occurred while Miss Marti was at work in the kitchen of the Spiegelman home. The blaze trapped her, but helpers quickly extinguished the fire and she was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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Marti
Teitchen
Spiegelman Hom
Miss Marbin
Boys flogged by policeman in Woodbury theater case
In Woodbury New Jersey three boys Frank Heisler Norman Redfield and William Holt were found guilty of creating a disturbance at a movie theater and sentenced to ten lashes each. Recorder Frank Johnson ordered corporal punishment with a 200 pound sergeant administering the lash to each boy who then had to remove their clothes for the sentence. Heisler cried as the punishment began and two boys fainted while the third was spared on a later verdict.
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United Press
Woodbury
N. J
Frank Helstur
Norman Redfield
William T Holt
Frank Johtigon
Otal
Fobrian Lai
Fants
Lely
Willian
Popih
Norman
Wiliam
Heisler
Criel
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Graylawn
Louse Chase
Hipwell
E. Doane
West Main
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Chickadee—Moor
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Oil City
Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Senate
W. J. Trombley
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Mra
James Macinnes
Lars
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City, Fe
Manutao
Ligeet
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Warehouse
Chesterfield
Ture
Nat Shilhter
Gray
Saleis
Coloihia
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