Defamatory book attack prompts court rebuke in New York
Supreme Court Justice Peter Schmuck denounced supporters of the book The Strange Career of Mr Hoover Under Two Flags for fabrications and exaggerations about President Hoover. He defended the work as fair and questioned the authors sincerity and motives in a broadside ruling.
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New York
Carter
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Ustice Schmuck
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Postage Rates Debate Sparks Restoration of Two Vent Rite
Postmaster General Walter J. Brown is seen as backing lower drop mail rates while a three cent first class increases retain revenue gains. He emphasizes recent postal receipts show mixed results from the 1 cent increase, with projected annual income around 100 million from new rates despite a two-year decline.
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Walter J. Brown
Postal Department
Mc Brown
Brown
Jamestown Municipal Lighting Plant Cuts Rates and Expands
A report on Jamestown's municipal lighting plant notes years of tax backed growth from a $32,000 bond in 1892 to a $4 million system serving city light and power. Rates fell from seven cents per kilowatt hour to about 2.9 cents, with profits funded by the plant rather than bonds, except for $100,000 of the $750,000 paid in 1931 to a private electric company.
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Jamestown
Vlvy
Tre
Twenty Years Ago From the Journal Files
A public update on a new trolley fire position by Frank J. Weeks reports The Eevie Cambridge line shows interest and an early project conference is expected A wreck near Temple Avenue involved a broken broke ped Used at emall wreck om the Hire Railroad A. M. Kent elected president of the Corry Chait Company J. W. Stennett named vice president G O King treasurer J H Ring secretary The Corry Lily Electric Light Company plant option expires today The Ladies of Ute NGC held a banquet at the Phoenix hotel Thirty-two members and guests dined The New Era Club met with Miss Hole Gbenes on West Franklin Street Mrs Jewell Mount hosted the Ray monil block bridge group A January baseball game drew local spectators at the vacant National Hotel East Washington Street War ren Pepe arrived to attend a Christian Science lecture at Library Theatre Frank H. Leonard spoke Capt M B Webb progresses in Silver City New Mexico for his health
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Frank J. Weeks
Eevie-Cambridge
Ead
Hope May Aid Search For Missing Hinkler
London Jan 14 Captain W L Hope offers to fund half the cost of locating Bert Hinkler missing long distance flyer. He would pilot his own plane if the rest of funds are raised. The search effort, tied to the Kilks Cup race, draws on substantial funding and backing from local sources.
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United Briss
London
W. L Hope
Thaas Wise
Bert Hinkler
Australi
Book Reviews Highlight Mowrer, Van Dine, and Paterson
A literary roundup notes Edgar Afisel Mowrer’s Germany Puts Thy Sock Back and praises his Berlin reporting, while B S Van Dine’s The Kennel Murder Case is acclaimed for a clever dog‑clue mystery with a tight plot. Gordon Sinclair’s What Looses India is a vivid travelogue, and Isabel Paterson’s Never Let Me Be finds absorbing, if uneven, Paris-set stories and social portraits.
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United Press
Wattiers
Ding
Edgar Afisel Mowrer
Germany
Moreaw
Mowrer
Chicago Daily News
Berlin
8. S. van Dine
Scribners
Reading Ladies Furnishing Store era a city fixture
The item recalls the Ladies Furnishing Store as a prominent local reading establishment in the citys commercial life. It notes the store as a longstanding fixture among reading ladies’ shops and references its role in the local business scene.
Bradford Man Quickly Freed in Hold-up Case
Bradford Pa Raphael D Ertz, 32, was cleared by Judge Clifford McLaughlin after police misidentified him as the Buffalo holdup suspect. Insurance man El was charged but testified he was in Bradford at 2:30 a.m. when the robbery occurred. Fifteen Bradford supporters vouched for his alibi. The judge dismissed the case as improbable. Entomologist Dr Bealeole McEvan MacGregor, 43, died in Cobham Surrey. He married Marguerite Muncey in 1919.
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Cliford Mcraughlin
Buffalo
Raphael D. Ertz
Bradford
Franc MacDonald
Pennsylvania
Ertz
Paul M. Dimglas
McLaughlin
TL Seridividius
Britz
London
Bealeole MsEvan MacGregor
Atp
Price Raising Measures Face Protests Across Regions
Central Press report notes economists split on proposed price raises. Critics warn measures worsen inflation, while supporters urge global talks to stabilize markets. The piece cites farmers and unemployed workers questioning the impact on livelihoods amid chaotic world economy and trade disruptions from past conflicts.
International economists urge removing trade obstacles
Industrial economists advocate removing barriers to trade as chief farm aid and beyond. They warn that tariffs and non productive spending by nations push production past need and fuel distrust. Debased currency fears arise. the cure is removing world obstacles so trade normalizes and currency regains value.
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United States
Great Britain
Public Service Commission Casts Freight Rate Reduction
Harrisburg January 1 The Public Service Commission ordered a rate reduction from 3 60 to 2 52 on freight charges for shipments of lay in minimum carload weights of 49000 pounds from New Brighton to York The action narrows the cost of transporting steel and other bulk goods between the two Pennsylvania cities.
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Harrisburg
Public Service Commission
New Brighton
York
Card of Thanks for Baby Carl Lee and Mrs Orrle Cook
We extend sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for their help kindness sympathy and flowers during our bereavement for the death of our baby Carl Lee IF and Mrs Orrle Cook.
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Carl Lee IF
Orrle Cook
Reconstruction Corporation May Change Activities With Relief
Reconstruction Finance Corporation faces debate over relief as meaning shifts between president of the corporation and Senator Wagner. The article traces plans for federal building funds and state welfare supports, with discussion of unemployment and emergency measures and the potential for a two year extension and allocations to states.
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Reconstruction Corporation
Hollywood Film Shop Toasts and Kisses Highlight Screen Era
Hollywood gossip notes film stars trading toasts and a classic on set kiss scene between George Arliss and Marjorie Gateson during The King's Vacation. Meadville High plans graduation for 47 students next week contingent on exams.
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