Progressive party taps Charlotte Bass as VP candidate
The 1952 Progressive Party names Mrs Charlotte Bass as its vice presidential nominee to attract Black voters unhappy with civil rights in major party platforms. The party previously ran candidates in 1948 and won about a million votes, mainly in New York, failing to disrupt national results.
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Charlotta Bass
Wallace
Progressive Party
New York State
Truman
Newark
Maryland
Michigan
Progressives hold July 1952 national convention in Chicago
The Progressive Party, led by Henry A Hallinan, plans its national convention in Chicago on July 4 and 11 1952. Hallinan, once Wallace's choice and now a jailed figure, previously lost a high profile trial and faces contempt sentences. The article recalls Debs's 1920 jail period and his limited vote share compared with 1912.
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Progressive Party
Republicans
Bridgess
George B. Harris
Hallinan
TS Supreme Court
Halliman
Eugene V. Debs
Quiz style memory test from a classified page
In this exercise a reader is told to score a 10 question quiz from the classified pages. Questions cover university ties to Woodrow Wilson, Braille, a statue coming to life, Friedrich Ebert, the Van Dyke beard, solar zenith in the tropics, Battle of Culloden 1748, Kurile Islands control, Paulownia wood, and odd weights of 19st kijigirons with feeding traits like a horse.
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Dovlor Jom Grier Hibben
Woodraw Wilson
Prirate
Whit Seilptory
Friedrich Ebert
van Dyke Beard
Isame
Pulitzer
Culloden
Kurile Islands
Charges against 3 Butler men dropped in home robbery case
Butler County prosecutors dropped charges against Willie Mendicai Sam Frato and Jack Vergill in the $105000 home robbery of Craig Saul the men were among five charged in the breakin long with North Braddock officer Fred Burdell who remains held on $25000 bond Mrs Saul identified Burdell as the pistol slayer during the attack in which her husband was pistol whipped and the money taken
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Butler
Butler County
Clark Painter
Willie Mendicai
Sam Frato
Jack Vergill
Fred Burdell
North Braddock Poiceman
Craig Saul
Burdell
Icon
Saul
News Briefs From Cutting Vicinity
Cutting vicinity notices report the Cutting Bibis school closing for the day with an average 40 attendance. Social calls include Ruth Wright Kathleen Wright Eleanor Wallace visiting Norman Nellis Jr. family in North East. Local residents Arthur Wallace Minnie Bemis and Will Bemis travel to Waterford and Warren. Sympathy extended to Mrs Clyde Courtwright and Mrs Hiram Beckerink Sr. on Hannah Bennink’s death. Elouise Marsh heads to North East to help with Foster children, Ruth Rouse recovering from measles.
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Ruth
Kathleen Wright
Eleanor Wallace
Norman Nellis Jr
North East
Arthur Wallace
Minnie Bemis
Waterford
Lee Hopkins
Will Bemis
Warren
Byeral Cochran
North Clymer
Donald Willey
Clyde Courtwright
Hiram Beckerink Sr
Hannah Bennink
Elouise Marsh
Robert Foster
Foster
Cherries
Ruth Rouse
Local Social Notes Highlight Hundred Callers and Visits
A crowded week of hospitality and travel across local families with Mr. and Mrs. Max Bemis hosting supper guests, numerous callers including Mrs. Fred Wallace and Mrs. Stella Humphrey, and extended visits by relatives from North East and Diamond. Several residents, such as Miss Carol McCray and Miss Sally Bayle, moved or returned to work, while others faced family illness and hospital stays. The region’s social scene features gatherings at the Bensink and Marsh homes, travels to Buffalo and Chicago outlets, and ongoing family updates from Corry to Bradford.
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Max Bemis
Carr
William Bemis
Linds Proctor
Albert Bayle
Fred Wallace
Stella Humphrey
Dnd
Louie Parks
Frank Bayle
Frank Hulett
Clifford ‘Skelly
Findley Lake
Martin DeFore
Washington, D. C
Bensink
Red Pooney
Titusville
Lester Camper
Carol McCray
Corry-Jamestown
William “Bensink
Howard Alexander
Diamond, Pa
Wills. Moore
Calleys
Carl Marsh
Robert Poster
Clouise Marsh
North East
ER. K. Storer
Joan
Arthur Wallace
Enntth McCray
Clayton McrCray
Corry
R. D
Ernest Dunnewold
W. W. Clancy
Bradford
Clarence Legters
North Clymer
Samuel Dunnewold
Lenore Camper
Chicago
George Camper
Samuel Dusinewald
Ernest Dunnewote
Beckerink Hall
Sally Bayle
Chautauqua
Lafe Willey
Donald Willey
Gordon Shampoe
Jean McCray
Erie
Kenneti McCray
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Corry Evening Journal
Gerry
Frank Litz Jr
Spring Street
Coes
Corty's
Liverpool
Hancvcks
W. Va
William G. Dorsch
New Galilee
Dorsch
Klos
Smiley Burnette
Smiley
Sle
Firestone
Ice
Reg
Barney’s Firestone
South Center Street
Shily
America
United States Defense Bonds
United States
U. S
United States Defense
U. S. Defense
U. S. Defense Bond
Treasury
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