Tourism Soars 15 Percent Over 1937 Amid Highway Upgrades
Des Moines July 14 1938 travel business in the United States shows tourist travel running about 15 percent ahead of 1937. Business Week estimates total travel at five billion dollars for 1938 with autos carrying around 86 percent of expenditures. Transportation, hotels, foods, and retail sectors stand to gain large shares while vacationers spend heavily on amusement. The Roosevelt Highway corridor reports record vacation traffic with improvements planned, including major Pennsylvania road work and Colorado paving and bridging projects.
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Des Moines
Towa
Jily
United States
Business Week
Journal of Business News
Roosevelt Highway
Corry
Provincetown
Atlantic Coast
Los Angeles
America West
Pennsylvania
Colorado
State Highway Commission
Dalrymple to Attend State GOP Meeting
PN, a Republican nominee for west city assemblyman, will attend the GOP nominees meeting convening Thursday in Harrisburg. The session aims to map Republican strategy for November and secure majorities across counties, with Judge Avtar James pushed for governor and broader races key to the plan.
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Wey Oe
Ce Yinis
West City
Harrisbire
Jones M. Torrange
Avtar James
Titusville Shortcut Near Spartansburg Nears Completion
A Journal reporter observed rapid progress on an 8,000 foot segment of a new road south of Spartansburg to shorten the route to Titusville. Gravel base was laid, surfacing machinery spacing, and a bridge over Oil Creek near the confluence with Sparta Riceville concrete is nearly finished. Weather favors work. most construction to wrap up this week or next, with further tasks to follow. Gravel supply delays from Algin slowed progress earlier.
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Merchant's Corners
Spartansburg
Titusville
Journal
Oil Creek
Sparta-Riceville
Son Testifies Against Father in Murder Case
In Smulhcens, Ba, July 14 a 16 year old son testified to strengthen the state’s claim that his father deliberately shot his mother to death. He described how the gun was loaded during a hunting trip prep and demonstrated the position of the weapon as the father aimed at his mother. The testimony followed arrivals of state officials and a photographer at Kane County court as the trial opened for Joe Ferino.
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Smulhcens
Joe Erin, Jr
Delichen
Westline
Perino, Jr
Andrew Hichenko
Kane
J. J. Allison
A. A. Nicholas
Alma Capasino
SheMeld
Joe Ferino
Commonwealth
All Bran the Key to Constipation Relief
A periodical advice piece urges finding the cause of constipation and endorses Kellogg's All-Bran as a daily remedy. It recommends a diet with adequate bulk, water, and frequent consumption of the cereal to improve bowel movements and overall intestinal health.
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Kellogg's
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Smethport Lawyer Challenges State Over Ferina Case Details
Apple contends Ferina was not friendly with the Sheffield woman and even visited the Westline home in the two months between Verino’s arrival from Italy and her fatal shotgun wound at her husband’s hands.
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Westline
Robert Apple
Smethport
Claude W. Shallick
Ferina
Sheffield
Apple
Verino
America
Italy
Conneaut to Consider Record Memorial Industrial School
Connell will meet Friday evening to consider establishing a technical school in Conneaut funded mainly from the estate of the late George J. Record. The will, probated in 1920, directs city support via bonds or annual maintenance funds and envisions a Protestant aligned institution with daily Bible readings and church attendance.
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George J. Record
Conneaut
Connell
Technical School
Cornell
Walter J. Pindley
Mund
Alto
Record Memorial Industrial School
Andy. Church
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New
Pure Fruit Orchard Park Preserves
Tallyg Oun Fiscesi
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Libby
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