Commencement Week Manages Busy Community Schedule
Local events fill the week with meetings concerts and parades. Notes include a Golden Rule Club dinner at Concord Community House at 6 20 pm, a City Council gathering, a daylight saving reminder, bicycle thefts on North Center Street and near Clings shops, a dog license case on East Main Street, and planned radio broadcasts featuring J Buell Snyder and J Hamilton Lewis. Also listed are a North East Breeze stake in editor addition, a Corry High band concert, a Traction building marquee update, and St Edwards school bee event. Disbursements from unemployment funds reach 29 5 million with weekly checks about 11 83.
Rural Carriers Meet In City Saturday Night
Rural carriers of the Corry post office hosted the Erie County Rural Letter Carriers Association at a dinner and program at First Methodist Episcopal Church. About eighty members and guests attended from Warren Clarion Bull Mercer Westmoreland and Crawford counties. Postmaster James P. Sullivan welcomed guests. Harry Bair spoke on association work. Ernest W. Schuyler presented a lesson on postal history. The evening included songs recitations and a dialogue. Mrs Lawrence Colegrove attended from California where her husband was a veteran carrier.
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Corry
Erie County Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Skve
Warren
Clarion, Bull
Wie County Association
Joe Owes
North East
Philip Lelinard
Butler
Oth
Harry Bair
Pennsylvania Iursl i Letter Carriers Association
Busly Dale
Dan Hamilton
Mercer
Arthur
Squier
Geo. Sheffer
John Kerr
Sandy Lake
Bair
Ernest W. Schuyler
Postal Service
Erie accountants plan spring fiesta at Culbertson Hill Club
June 18 set for the second annual spring fiesta of the Erie chapter National Association of Coat Accountants announced by H. Dillon and Kermit Hampel co chairmen. Golf tournament Bridge and other activities for non golfers at Culbertson Hill Club start at 2 PM daylight saving time. Evening dinner and dancing follow.
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Accountants
Erie
National Association of Coat Accountants
H. Dillon
Kermit Hampel
Culbertson Hille Golf Club
Desperado Behind Bars Seized After Buffalo Bank Threat
Reno Delilbe of Tyler Texas, claimed nephew of the Dalton brothers, was captured after threatening to blow up the Liberty Bank at Buffalo. He allegedly passed a note to a teller demanding $850 and police found two sticks of dynamite in his pockets.
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Reno Delilbe
Tyler
Tex
Dalton Brothers
Southwestern
Erg
Liberty Bank
Buffalo
City water rate plan faces industrial reaction
June 6 coverage notes city council aims to raise domestic water bills by 10 percent and boost meter users by 30 percent. Industrial users expect higher costs, while General Electric may be exempt from the increase. If the 30 percent rise stands, plants pay 5.2 cents per 1,000 gallons, GE would pay 5 cents if exempted.
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Rie
City Council
General Electric
The Feast of Fools described as medieval burlesque rite
The Feast of Fools was a burlesque medieval festival resembling Saturnalia and held around the Feast of the Circumcision. A youth played bishop to lead rites that degenerated into a mockery of church ceremonies.
Relief load shows another jump of cases in Pennsylvania
The report notes a weekly lift in relief cases in Pennsylvania with 19 526 persons affected, bringing total recipients to 680 577. Expenditures rose to 1 430 102 dollars as 16 824 new relief applications were filed, with reasons including loss of private employment and decreased wages.
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Pennsylvania
Weas
Federal Works Program
Speaker’s Daughter Ninth Allegheny Graduate in Robinson Line
Meadeville June 1 at Allegheny College graduation a spectator noted Elizabeth Fowler Robinson, daughter of Dr Samuel W Robinson, as the ninth family member to earn a diploma from Allegheny. Elizabeth, class of 192, follows sisters Margaret (19) and other Robinsons active in campus life. The commencement week features vesper talks and speakers including Dr Hugh Kerr, Bruce Bliven, and President Tolley.
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Meadville
Tineti
Allegheny College
Samuel Worthington Robinson
Robinson
Oval College
Allegheny
Elizabeth Fowler Robinson
Margaret
Rabbiah
de Robison
Fraver
Kechupeh
Vantella
WA Delivey
Hugh Thomson Kerr
Shadyside Presbyterian — Church
Pittsburgh
Bruce Bliven
The
Phi Beta Kappa
Adopted as Child Seeks Parents and Family Ties
Melvin Morutra, 29, formerly adopted from St Josephs Home for Children, seeks his birth mother and siblings. Born in Oil City, Pa, he believes his mother Minnie O Mara and brothers Thomas and Mary may still be alive. A coal stoker at Standard Stoker Plant, Morutra asks anyone with information to contact authorities.
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Brie
Melvin Morutra
St. Joseph's Home
Mordica
Howart O'Mara
Oil City
St. Joseph's
Frank Mordics
Minnie O'Mara
Thomas
Mary
Arrests Made in Warren Strike Disruption
Warren June 6. Strike by Smith Horton Co truck drivers ended after a conference. Two men, both Warren residents, were arraigned by Justice T Richard Evans for throwing tacks on Fourth Avenue and Chestnut Street. Each posted 450 bail for a Wednesday hearing, with dismissal possible if the strike is settled. Drivers seek a 20 percent wage increase.
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Warren
Smith Horton Co
Stith
Horton Company
Hich
Justice of the Peace
T. Richard Evans
Fourth Avenue
Chestnut Street
Justice Vans
Ancient Banbury Cross Destruction by Puritans
Banbury in Oxfordshire once celebrated in nursery rhymes stood as an ancient cross erected in Banbury. It was destroyed in the Seventeenth century by Banbury inhabitants then known as jealous Puritans.
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Banbury
Oxfordshire
England
Olson Likely to Head Soldiers Home in Erie
Two hundred fifty four Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home veterans petitioned Governor Earle to appoint Pi mer Olson as commander to succeed the late Allan MacLean. Olson has led as acting commander since MacLean's death on April 28 and is described as a capable and fair supervisor.
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Erie Home
MacLean Brie
Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors' Home
George H. Earle
Pimer Olson
the Home
Camerine der Allan MacLean
Fuyre
Ola
Olsen
MacLean
Olson
Commney MacLean
History of Horseshoe Use Across Eras and Cultures
The article traces how horses began wearing shoes after domestication and explains hoof protection for work. It notes that unshod horses struggle to run or work hard, cites the Washington Post, and mentions ancient straw slippers used before metal shoes. Japanese use persisted into the 1800s, while metal horseshoes have been common for over 1,600 years.
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Washington Post
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