GORRY EVENING JOURNAL FARM IMPROVEMENT DISCUSSION
A Farm Improvement column highlights that most farms in the state are mortgage free. Foreclosures will be far fewer this year as many farmers continue to own their land. The author predicts owners will cover nearly every farm within ten years, aided by industrious farmers and natural market adjustments.
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Familar Agroud, Ua
Jardine
Jabor
West Axiaty
Gabor Department of Petals Sixy
Meanwlife
Francia J "Jones
U. S. Employment Service
Janneney
Irrigation Push for 600000 Acres at $66 Million
The Reclamation Bureau plans to water 600000 acres of wealth land at a cost of 66 million dollars. The article notes the need to settle land after watering, warning that projects take time to become self supporting. It urges easier funding forms and stronger help for homesteaders to avoid early failures.
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Reclamation Bureau
Washington
Uncle Sam Buys Ottawa Town Plot for Legation Site
A Foreign Legation report states Uncle Sam buys a valuable Ottawa town plot likely to yield liberal dividends. Plans include constructing a fine, suitable building to house the U S legation offices and personnel, reflecting national prestige. Cahata has secured a good residence for her minister in Washington as precedent.
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Sam
Ottawa
Can
Titan
United States
Legation
Cahata
Washington
Look and Learn 1 Saturday Questions Answers
Answers include how many red stripes in the American flag and who wrote My Old Kentucky Home. It asks Americas most important crop and the year World War did end. The Great White Way street refers to Broadway. Other items mention Napoleon and Wellington, supply and demand, water power, and the longest river in Ireland at 254 miles.
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Kentucky
America
Napoleon
Phuikke
Wellington
Treland
Diagonal Cut Across Rectangle Problem
A dated brainteaser asks for the distance saved by cutting a diagonal across a rectangular field 216 yards by 196 yards. The solution halves the travel along two sides and replaces it with the diagonal, yielding a savings of 4 feet in the given setup.
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Paul
Interesting sidelights on life in nation's capital
Rodney Dutcher reports on unemployment estimates and the uneven job picture across sectors. He cites the Labor Department and U S Employment Service data, noting shifts in manufacturing, farming, mining, and construction, with weather and industry changes affecting employment prospects.
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Nation’s Capitol
Rodney Dutcher
NEA
Washington
Davis
Nis
Coolidge
Congress
Twenty Years Ago Highlights From the Journal Flies
A look back from February 27, 1908 recalls business in the Chautauqua division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a birthday surprise for Mrs Silas Parker on Essex Street, and assorted small-town notes. The Millsville Herald reports no sighting of a lost robin. a wild geese flight passes over. The Corry WCTU hosts a farewell reception for Mrs Hubburn. Daughters of Isabella hold a well attended yeas dance at Maccabee hall. Lyle Van Vleck returns from Alabama without his overcoat after a train theft, and G B Weeks travels to Grove City for a Milk fete. Lena and Anna Cohen attend the marriage of their cousin Miss Bessie Gohan to Mr B M Kinsburuky in Os City. A windstorm topples a banner in front of the Trae on building.
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Lena
Anna Cohen
Bessie Gohan
Kinsburuky
OU City
Government issues fifteen billion stamps for jubilee
A historical notice reports the release of fifteen billion postage stamps along with six million special stamps to celebrate a national event. The announcement highlights government distribution and the significance of the stamp series for the year.
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Government
Game of Correct English by W L Gordon exercises
Answers to Saturdays exercises cover grammar and spelling tasks. Questions include pronunciaton of news, proper word fills, and usage of praise synonyms. The page lists several items with guidance on pronunciation spelling and word choice.
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W. L. Gordon
Lindy’s Mother Feted in Boston at NEA Meet
Mrs Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh arrived from Detroit in a Ford trimotored plane and attended the National Education Association’s 59th annual convention in Boston. About a hundred guests greeted her and she was presented with a bouquet. Col Charles A Lindbergh was expected to attend to honor his mother with a life membership decision to be voted Thursday.
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United Press
Boston
Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh
Detroit
Séth
National Education Association
Misa Burde] Dawson
Cornelia Adair
Richmond
Edudational Association
Mrs. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Association
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bootlegger Held at Warren in Liquor Case
Floyd Wilbur of Starbrick was arrested by Sheriff Harry Jefferson on a liquor law violation charge. He was arraigned before Justice Clark Nelson and posted $1000 bail for the March term of criminal court. Deputies found two quarts of liquor at his Starbrick home. Later, another suspect was captured in Warren and brought before Justice Watson.
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Warren
Floyd “Rea
Wilbur
Starbrick
Harry Jefferson
Justice of the Peace
Clark Nelson
Sheritt Jefferson
Wither
Mistlée Weteon
Business Conditions Improve Amid Market Shifts
The February Survey from The Guaranty Trust Company of New York notes a surprising stock market rally following bullish business news, while corporate earnings show general weakness due to trade recession and fierce competition. It discusses credit conditions, potential rate hikes, and the gold flow, suggesting easy money may persist unless the Fed tightens. It also analyzes brokers loans in relation to market value, indicating banking liquidity and ongoing speculative activity.
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Guaranty Trust Company
We Guarantye Trust Company of
New York
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Federal Reserve
United States
Europe
Honsig
France
Switzerland
Sweden
London
Amsterdam
New York Stock Exchange
Hastings
Ice Gorge Forms Again in Allegheny River
Kittanning Pa February 27 another ice gorge has formed in the Allegheny River extending 16 miles from Schinley mort to Kite taasting. The gorge is smaller than the February ice jam but growing and has cleared water north of Kittanning of ice packs though river remains tight with ice.
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Unite
Kittanning
Allegheny River
Schinley Mort
Elver
Child Suffers Fatal Burns In New Kensington Accident
Cecil Walden infant son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Walden died in a New Kensington hospital from severe burns after pulling a kettle of boiling water onto his body. The incident occurred as the kettle overturned while on a stove, producing fatal scald injuries.
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United Press
New Kensington
Cecil Walden
Lloyd Walden
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Gorry Evening Journal
South Street
Corry
Colegrove
Arthur Golegrove
C.s
National Advertising
Fred Kimball
INO
New Yorke ‘Tribune
Chicago
Nolin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
Chautauqua Division
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Silas Parker
Essex Street
Millsville Herald
W.ct.u
Jd, Hubburn
Isabella
Maccabee Hall
Lyle van Vleck
Alabama
G. B. Weeks
Grove City
Szos- del
Nordaa: Center Ptréat
Tie ‘Trae
Lindy
National Educational Association
Fea
Klenzo
Condra
Long Ice Gorge
Allegheny
Middles West
Seyere
Frank C. Cuapwy
North Center Street
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