Boy 16 held after string of car thefts across counties
Erie police report Donald Boyd, 16, of Evie, held after arrest for attempting to burglarize Lawrence Tire Co in Lawrence Park. He had stolen five cars since Saturday, swapping between Wattsburg Conneaut and Erie, ending in his capture. Separate Pennsylvania State College survey shows 1949 industrial activity at 176 percent of 1935-30 average, with 1945 prospects bright but reconversion challenges remain due to wages and contracts.
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Erie
Donald Boyd
Evie
Lawrence Tire Co
Iroquois Avenue
Lawrence Park
Boyd
Wattsburg
Marienville
Belle Valley
Wesleyville
Conneaut
State College
James
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Business Research
Pennsylvania State College
George L. Leffler
Hough
Two-Headed Male Infant Born Dead in Norton Hospital
Norton Virginia January 9 A Caesarean delivery at Norton General Hospital produced a dead two headed male infant for Mrs Viola May Matthews Brickey 25 The child had two chests two hearts and four arms with a unusual spine stump described by doctors as an embryonic spine The operation was performed by Dr L Harshbarger after the father Ernest Brickey a miner delivered the feet at the Brickey home The report notes it as the largest such birth on record with a wing span related mention of a white heron elsewhere in the dispatchTools
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Pres Atkins
Associated Press
Atkins
Norton
Norton General Hospital
Viola May
Matthews Brickey
L. Harshbarger
Ernest Brickey
Brickey
Bliley plants separated in Erie organization split
Jol 9 The Bliley Electric Co and Bliley Mfg Co announce an immediate separation of operations. Dawson Bliley will head Bliley Electric in radio crystal manufacture while Charles Soleman becomes owner of Bliley Mfg and will start electric gear production. Bliley purchases Coleman stock in Electric Co and sells his Bliley Mfg interests to Coleman. Top positions announced.
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Coleman
Bliley Elec | Thic Co
Bliley Mig. Co
Famous U S Divisions Reach Normandy and End War
The article notes US divisions landing on Omaha Beach during D-Day and advancing through Isigny Saint-Lô to Vire and Brest with aid from the 2nd Division. They fought the Roer River, aimed at the Rhine, and in five days after the breakout captured 48 towns. Advances continued across Cologne and Munich, ending with U S and Russian forces meeting at the Elbe.
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Omaha Beach
Norabdy
Isigny
St. la
Vire
Brest
Roer River
Rline
Cologne
Dus
Muenchen-Gladaerh
Elbe
Germany
Canning's American Start and Early Tin Can Patents
Commercial canning began in the United States in 1819. The first American patent for the tin can was granted in 1820, though an English patent had appeared in 1810. The article notes the origin of the word an from English usage.
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U.S
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General Motora
Yolande and the Thief
Fred Astaire
Lucille Remer and
Frank Morgan
Crawford M. Woods
N. First Ave
Harry Jewell
Jennie Lawson
Shambaugh
Alton Miller
Franz
A. L. Seholton
Charles Maris Mis
Ely Hinckley
Wing
Willi
Pillsbury Farina
Queenie Maris
John Lillie
THE
Boston House
Lillie
Bank & Agent
Ee All 7S
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Zee Comeepr
Fears
Co. S. Wallace
Walter Moul Vennis Tallent
Guy Rogers
Mrs. Lucilie Quested
Denty Hicks
S. K. Boots
Spiesman
Mrs. Thad Gates
Mrs
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