Revolt at Kronstadt and the NEP’s Quiet Transformations
The Kronstadt uprising against Bolshevism was harshly suppressed after heavy bloodshed, prompting Lenin to push the New Economic Policy. Grain seizures ended in a limited tax, some private industry and small farms were permitted, and staged reforms followed until collectivization began under Stalin in 1929 with millions of private farms still present.
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Kronstadt
Lenin
NEP
Stalin
Usssr
Russia
Lithuania
Alexander II
Alexander
Delayed Erie Strike Involving Hammermill 1200 Workers
A 1200 member Papermakers Union strike at Hammermill Paper Co in Erie was postponed to Sunday midnight. Union says demand is 10 cents more per hour and full contract details will be shared at a 7 p.m. meeting at Gen tal Labor Union Hall. Also reports of a week-old American News Co drivers strike settlement and Bricklayers AFL dispute with Erie Construction Council with a 36 cent raise sought from a $2.90 base.
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Papa Plant
Erie
Hammermill Paper Co
Papermakers Union
AFL
Gental
American News Co
East 17Th Street
Twenty Years Ago Taken From Journal Files July 17 1933
A Franklin street woman tripped on a chair and fractured her right arm Saturday. Walter Sweet, Citizens National Bank assistant cashier, smiles over news of a newborn boy yesterday. Light showers failed to aid crops in Corry while Ty Crandall pitched a decisive 8 1 victory for the Old City Independents amid eight errors by the Merchants. Carl Proctor of Corry is among 22 new Holstein Friesian breeders recommended for American association membership.
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James Makres
Franklin Street
Walter Sweet
Citizens National Bank
Mrs. Sweet
Jin
Corry
Merchants
Howard
Ty” Crandall
Athletic Field
Old City Independents
Carl D. Proctor
Holstein
Scranton
Federal Bureau of Investgation
Third National Bank of Scranton
FBI
Bank of Heluls
Gilbert J McCauley
McCauley
West Scranton
Ray J. Abbottivhio
Specu
Fets
Pennsylvania
Mecau
Merck Oil Properties Sold for 93000 in Venango County
The Merck Oil Company sold 700 acres in Cornplanter and Cranberry Townships with 288 wells to Pleasantville and Bradford investors James M. Bailey Sr. and Jr. and Robert O. Landes with son David E. Landas for 93000. New owners plan to keep five leases and retain former personnel. The deal, recorded in Venango County on Wednesday, includes Cranberry Run leases and Cornplanter properties. The firm traces back to Wesley Merck, a founder, who served as Oil City mayor.
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Clerex
Merck Oil Company
Cornplanter
Cranberry
Venango County
Pleasantville
Bradford
James M. Bailey Sr
James M. Bailey Jr
Robert O. Landes
David E. Landas
Tnellided
Internal Trouble for Uncle Ivan
Russian peasants and workers look westward to resistance in Czechoslovakia Poland and the concessions in East Berlin East Germany and Hungary. The piece notes prior Bolshevik unrest and economic causes from 1917 to 1921 referencing NEP and collapse, with hints of 1941 factory strikes in Petrograd and Moscow.
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Ivan
Czechoslovakia
Poland
East Berlin
East Germany
Hungary
Lenin
Petrograd
Leningrad
Moscow
Million Spectators Watch Shriners Parade in New York
A color parade in Manhattan drew an estimated million spectators as 15,000 Shriners marched along Fifth Avenue and Broadway to Times Square. The event honored businessman Remmile L. Arnold of Petersburg, Virginia, elected Imperial Potentate during the Shrine convention.
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Dy Associated Press
New York
Shriners
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Times Square
Remmile L. Arnold
Petersburg
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
How Smart Are You? A Reader Quiz and Answers
A reader quiz asks 19 questions to gauge intelligence from Genius to Poor with monthly averages and memory notes. It directs readers to the Classified Page for answers. The item mentions Doss Ireland and asks about Guam’s island group and the French term for the English Channel and the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
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Ireland
Pacific Islands
Guam
English Channel
Youth escapes with light sentence at Erie
Donald Steloff twenty one of Michigan pleaded guilty to car theft and possessing a .32 caliber revolver. He received three to six months in Allegheny County Prison and was fined two hundred fifty dollars plus costs on the grand larceny charge. He fled home due to domestic trouble and served one day.
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Erie Erie
Donald Steloff
Wquidotte
Mich
Didge Elmer
Evans
Allegheny County
Sieloff
Als
John ‘Dailey
Girl Killed By Auto In Oniontown Pa
Barbara Jean Lalakulick aged year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Lalakulick of Continental No 2 was struck and killed by a car on a street in Oliver No 3 last night, the incident reported from Oniontown Pennsylvania.
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Oniontown
Barbara Jean Lalakulick
Mishael Lalakulick
Continental No. 2
Oliver No. 3
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Morck Oil CO
Skie
Wesley
William A
Citizens National
Humberdinck
ePimatia
Sofie
U.S. Independence
Martage
E. H. Lecky
Westermarck
Tuffy
Corner of
Center
Washington Sts
Foster E
Davis & Son Trip Insurance
Martin Motor Sales
West South St
Plymouth
Powell Motor.co
North Center Street
Naha
Tony's Food Market
West Main Street
Campbell’s Soups
Lastex
Katherine
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