Paragram of local notes and updates from Erie area
Dr Edward Deisslen opens offices in Melville with practice planned in the town. Assemblyman John H King to meet in Erie to discuss school shock and county delegation legislation. Rev J B Baker reported resting with fracture after a fall at Erie Hamet hospital, ten weeks or more recovery. Erie Times notes janitors’ $18 000 staff sign cost and county purchase controversy. Harrisburg dispatches flag last minute licenses rush as motorists must carry 1983 cards after February 28.
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J. BE. Baker
Franklin Street
Hamet Hospital
Erie
Erie Times
Lawrence A. Taylor
Taylor
Harrisburg
Taxpayers At Falconer Seek Retranchement Measures
Falconer villagers and Ellicott area taxpayers met to discuss tax cuts. They adopted resolutions to abolish the board of assessors, cut the village budget by 10,000 dollars, reduce board size to five, and trim teachers' salaries to state minimums. M. B. Hale led the session stressing fiscal restraint and education funding concerns.
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Taxpayers’ League
Falconer
Taxpayers League
Pal- Vongy
Ellicott
Las Aight
Board of Assessors
M. B. Hale
Hale
Robert Filliger
Wir
Ana
George Williger
Reich Co Involved in Insurance Suit in Jamestown
In Jamestown, H M Reich Co seeks $50,000 against Stuyvesant Insurance Co in New York. The suit, heard in Supreme Court before Justice Bernard Ackerman, centers on fire damage to Reich stores and disputed losses noted under a blanket $780,000 policy covering four Jamestown area stores.
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Mayville
Harry M. Reich
H. M
Com Ins
Jamestown
Curry
Union City
Wailen
Supreme Court
Bernard B. Ackerman
Belmont
Equity
Rielch
Reich Company
Reich
Aleges
Asurange
Louis Tepper
New York
Gil
Payid L. Bryn
H. M. Reich
Crass
Chancellor Hitler and Wagner Widower Attend Leipzig Ceremony
Report notes if Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Winifred Wagner, widow of Siegfried Wagner, could be courting rumors amid Leipzig ceremony marking the ninth anniversary of Wagner's death. The two reportedly greeted each other cordially at the event.
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Adal Hitler
Brau Winifred Wagner
Siegfried Waz- Ner
Germany
Praw
Leipzig
Ner
Bladder Physic Advertised By Drug Store
An ad touts BU KWTS tablets as a pleasant bladder physic that cleanses bowels, removes impurities and acids, and relieves night urination, burning, leg pains and backache. It promises a refund after four days if not noticeable, claiming Thomas Downey and Keister Drug Store as sellers and praising BU KETS as best seller.
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Menjeyne Tat
Cme Pia Dor Ag Castor
Thomas Downey
Keister
St Pauls Ladies Aid Plans Silver Tea
Members of St Pauls Lutheran Church Missionary Society, fourteen in number, met at Mrs Theodore Swanson's home on South eater street for the regular session. The period studied Young China with Mrs R S Burr reading. A social hour followed with lunch, then adjournment to meet next time with Mrs C V Willard.
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St Paul's Lutheran Church Missionary Society
Lue
Theodore Swanson
Southeater Street
R. 8. Burr
Moet
C. V. Willard
West Church Street
First American World War casualty buried in Pittsburgh
John Welr Tripp, 68, the first American soldier wounded in World War I, died February 15 in Redlands California and will be buried in Pittsburgh. A private in the 101st Engineers from New York, he was wounded by shrapnel September 17, 1917 while aiding a narrow gauge railroad near the Somme for the Fifth British Army.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
John Welr ‘Tripp
Wis
Redfling
Calif
Tripp
One Hundred Eleventh Engineers
New York
Somme
Retain All Records Under Emergency Relief Sales Tax
Harrisburg reports Secretary of Revenue Leon J. Metzger warns taxpayers under the Emergency Relief Sales Tax Act to keep all sales records from September 1, 1938, through February 28, including cash slips, invoices, bills of lading, and resale certificates. Returns are due by April 1, and records must be kept for two years after April 1, 1949, to allow audit access.
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Harrisburg
Leon J. Metzer
Metzger
Apri A
Department of Revenue
Weak Women Take Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Promotion for Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound claims to restore strength in weak women. It asserts headaches and backaches stem from fatigue and cites a 98 in 100 benefit rate. Encourages readers to buy a bottle and observe results.
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Lydia E
Pinkham
Pymatuning Dam Project Makes Progress in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports progress on the Pymatuning spillway canal paving and dam crest road surface. Stone walls and a stone gatehouse are in planning, with bids to be invited by the water resources board. Clearing on embankment work for the flooded railroad is nearing finish in March. The dam began in 1991, creating a 16,000 acre reservoir with 4 billion gallons capacity, slated as the state’s largest artificial lake.
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Harrisburg
Lewis H. Stiley
Department of Forests and Waters
Shenango River
Crawford County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Emergency Religt Board
Pennsylvania
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Toko Sullivan
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Bell [Telephone Company
Gertrude Reed
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Brie County
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Brie
J.B. Jolson
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Hitler
ST. Paul's
WE Are
Citizens National
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