July holiday notices and varied local economic updates
The Journal notes a Monday closure for Independence Day and delays to July meetings. It reports Dun and Bradstreet on retail gains and copper and zinc moves, plus a police alert about suspected magazine solicitors in Union City and Corry. Packard car deliveries hint at a sales rebound, and local window displays celebrate a garden basket. Weather forecasts, political speaking plans, liquor license revocations, and several local obituaries, council changes, and CCC/PWA updates are included along with relief caseloads and highway garage approvals.
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Swinlets
Union City
Corry
Governor urges Pennsylvanians to observe World's Poultry Congress Day
Governor George H. Earle urges Pennsylvanians to learn about the state's $50 million poultry industry and its role in the World’s Poultry Congress in Cleveland 1939. He notes eggs, chicks, and turkeys production rankings, a $10,000 1987 exhibit appropriation, and July 28 as World’s Poultry Congress Day with educational meetings and a national radio hookup.
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Earle
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Poultry Congress
Cleveland
Ohio
Censtal S
State Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth
Harman Cox 24th Annual Family Reunion Held in Red Oak
The Harman Cox families held their 24th annual reunion at the A E Cox home in Red Oak on Saturday June 25 with seventy eight relatives attending. Officers were re elected and six births were noted along with one marriage and one death. The next reunion will be at Corry in late June 1988.
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Spartansburg
R. D
Anna Rasy
Winifred Mitchell
Howard Johnson
Spring Creek
Bradley Harmon
Orry
Tt Wag
B. A. Cox
Corry
Buffalo
Sheridan
Portland
Sherman
Erie
Wesleyville
Union City
Titunville
Miceville
Joinity
Peach Bow boosters plan mail campaign for canned peaches
California peach boosters propose sending 8 ounce cans of peaches by mail to households nationwide. Mailing costs are cents per can.
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Marysville
Cal
California
Peach Bow
United States
Rotary Phone System to Add to Fire Protection
Director of Safety Richard Joss- Bacher announces a double protection for fire alarms at the First Ward fire station using a rotary call system. Beginning Tuesday July 5 at 9 am calls will be received on 35 401 instead of 36 031, with a second line ensuring immediate transmission if the primary line is busy. A second ward station update will switch its number to 36 9 on the same date.
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Richard Joss- Bacher
Calta
First Ward
Police Enix
State clubs face license revocations under PA law
In Bkus Pennsylvania on Friday a state crackdown led to one club license revoked and five others suspended. Several clubs and taverns were cited or to appear for hearings as authorities pursue compliance with the state liquor code.
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Erie
Bkus
Pennsylvania
Howard McKenna
Pittsburgh
Court House
Greaco-Americas Club
Pesach Street
Ralph F. Knesland
Brie
Polish Foresters Beneficial Association
Parade Street
Circulo Independente di Mutuo Hoccorso di Pratola Peligna Club
Plum Street
Cesare Battisi
German Street
Polish Army Veterans Associaition
Kazimiera Ostromecki
Happy Hour Cafe
22Nd Street
Sharpsville
Independence Club
Florente D. Schieta
12Th Street
Christ Page
Grove City
Iuliante
Medical society seeks cases needing medical care in Erie County
The Erie County Medical Society asks the public to report cases where individuals or groups needed medical care but did not receive adequate treatment. A Pennsylvania bulletin urges county societies to gather information for a nationwide survey, noting claims that one third of people are ill cared for and calling for action to correct inadequacies.
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Erie County Medical Society
Medical Society
Pennsylvania
Liquor tax refunds eyed after high court ruling
Harrisburg July 2 United Press reports the state owes distillers over 7 million in 1988 liquor floor taxes after a supreme court decision ruled the $2 per gallon levy unconstitutional. Officials expect refunds once legislature allocates funds and awaits the 1933 repeal context. The ruling voided about 10.3 million tied to A Co wholesale and Joseph Finch & Co in the appeal.
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United Press
Harrisburg
J. H. Krekstein
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
A. Cowholt & Co
Joseph 8. Finch & Co
Dauphin County
Erie County Democratic Executive Committee named
Arthur Colegrove will represent Curry on the Erie County Democratic executive committee. Chairman Michal Cronin announced the committee includes Arnie Golegrove Norbert Mirzerdy M Mazanowski Owen Burns and others with Cronin Crane Hickey and Thompson as officers. A women’s division will aid campaign work and Cronin said an office opens July 5 in Room 818 Commerce Building with Leon Burkell as secretary.
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Arthur Colegrove
Curry
Erie County Democratic Committee
Am Hinend Raga
Michal J. Cronin
Will Werve
Woyoun
Arnie Golegrove
Norbert J. Mirzeratd
Dy M. M- Mazanowski
Attoney Owen M. Burns
Axiair Palonquiat
Wred Maneval
A. J. Bevilacqua
Arthur Taylor
Comi Nye Campeign
Wafle-Jones-Mundy- Logue-Fitzgerald
Cronin
Commerce Building
Leon Burkell
Earliest Battle of Armageddon Compared Across Eras
The earliest Armageddon battle occurred in May 1979 B C with Thutmose III defeating Asiatic allies. A subsequent 1918 AD defeat near the site saw General Allenby lead a British division against the Turks.
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B. C
Thutmose the Third
Egypt
A. D
Allenby
Nine New College Buildings Excavation Nears Completion
Excavations for nine of ten buildings in Pennsylvania State College five million dollar program under the General State Authority near completion. Foundational work and shell structures advance on the chemistry and physics wing and central Chenisty block. Atherton Hall the 1,000,000 women’s dormitory not in the authority program nears completion with plastering underway and cornerstones laid for the Women’s Activities structure on June 4.
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Pennsylvania State College
General State Authority
Atherton Hall
Postal Service Holiday Hours Noted for July Fourth
The post office will observe July 4 1938 with limited hours. Stamps general delivery and parcel post windows open 9 to 10 am and 4 to 6 pm. Mail will be dispatched and distributed as usual. City and rural carriers are not required to serve routes that day.
Hold St Marys Man on Serious Attack Charge
Chariex Wer de) 27 of Eschbachwond St Mary was arrested at his home on charges of abduction and attempted ravishment of a girl in St Marys. Deputy sheriffs Thomas J Valentine and others placed him in jail. The alleged assault followed a strawberry picking, a medical exam showed no criminal attack.
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ST. Marys
Elk County
Wendel
Ilse
Local Journal Subscription Rates Announced
The notice outlines subscription costs for Brie Crawford Warren and Chau taugue counties at $2.50 per year and $6.00 elsewhere in the United States. It urges readers to subscribe now.
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Journal
Wick Reading
Journal Mail
Brie
Crawford
Warren
Chautaugue
United States
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Robert Fechner
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