Board of Education set to weigh plans at special meeting
Interest grows as the Board of Education prepares for a special session to address shrinking local school revenues. Superintendent Dewey faces calls to resist external dictates while several members promise independent action. A looming deficit demands radical changes, including trimming bonus salaries and cutting frills and fad courses to fund grade schools.
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Board of Education
Dewey
New Castle
Meadville Mayor Declares Candidacy for Congress Nomination
Meadville Mayor Gill announces his intent to seek the Democratic nomination for representative in Congress from the Erie Crawford district. He hails from a respected Crawford county family and is well known in Meadville and Allegheny College circles. The article notes Republican incumbent Congressman Shreve’s prior tenure.
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Gill
Meadville
Erie-Crawford
Corry
Crawford County
Allegheny College
Shreve
Gill Emerges as United Democratic Hope in City Race
State Chairman Collins and district allies endorse Mayor Gill as a credible Democratic candidate. If nominated he could win broad support beyond Democrats, attracting Republican and other party backing in a general election.
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Bist
Gill
Democratic Party
Collins
Jago
Ion
Congregational church organized here when
The questions list asks when the Congregational church was organized, plus several queries about Tennessee capital, Haymarket riots date, Buffalo mayor, Corry Public Schools cost per pupil, and a page 7 reference to a quote about refuting a sneer.
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Congregational
Tennessee
Haymarket
Buffalo
Corry
Pitt Gifford A Candidate For Delegate To Republican Convention
Erie attorney W Pitt Gifford will seek nomination as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago next summer. Petitions circulating and Gifford said he would accept if nominated, amid initial GOP shakeups as Norman W Wilson declined attendance due to inability to attend. Also noted, Robert Burns, once a noted regional amateur baseball standout, has moved with his family to Portland Oregon for a new position.
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Erie
W. Pitt Gifford
Chicago
Attorney Gifford
West Warren
Robert, Burns
Warren
Jamestown
Corry
Portland
Ore
Bob
W C T U Moves Against All Day Law Straddlers
EVANSTON, Mar 3 A United Press dispatch reports the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union led a broad campaign to oppose proposals to resubmit the prohibition issue. President Mrs Milla A Boole said 25 regional conferences since December have mobilized thousands for aggressive action. She cited petitions and opposition to resubmission to Congress and Senate, noting pledges for abstinence from nearly 1 200 000 young people and calling the effort a major push against wet propaganda.
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United Press
Evanston
Milla A. Boole
National
W. Com
Washington
Commissioners Clash Over Poor Office Addition
County commissioners will act Monday on a request from the directors of the poor for an addition to their office at 130 West Fifth Street, costing between 1500 and 2000 dollars. A heated argument Wednesday led to deferring final action until next week.
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ERS
Directors of the Poor
West Fifth Street
Delegates, Alternates to Republican Convention Named
Petitions circulate in Jamestown for delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention and for Republican State Committee members to be elected in the April 5 primary. District 48 delegates to Chicago will be Brwer D. Phillips, bank president, and M. G. Fitzpatrick, publisher. Alternates are George M. Matthews and John D. Dickerson. Speaker Joseph A. McGinnies of Ripley, a former district delegate, will be one of New York's at large delegates to Chicago.
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Jamestown
Republican Nations Convention
Republican State Committee
48Rd
Chicago
Brewer D. Phillips
Bank of Jamestown
M. G. Fitzpatrick
Clean Times Herald
Phillips
George M. Matthews
Brocton
John D. Dickerson
Wellsville
Joseph, A. McGinnies
Ripley
New York
Shot in foot while cleaning shotgun at home
Mar e Terverick Wright, 50, of Albion, is hospitalized in Hamiet with a gunshot wound to the right foot after police say the accident occurred while cleaning his shotgun. Detective sergeants investigated and noted he remained unconscious briefly before aiding doctors. A separate Crawford county fire at the David Weiss farm near Cochran ton destroyed a large frame building yesterday morning, estimated loss about 10000 dollars with partial insurance recovery.
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Brin
eTeverick Wright
Albion
Hamiet Hospital
Gum
L. R. Unburn
Charles Brown
George Barber
Ford Hastman
David Weiss
Fairfield Township
Crawford County
Cochranton
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del Monte Pineapples
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