Twenty Years Ago Prom Journal Files March 8 192
Contagious diseases reported to health authorities include two cases of scarlet fever one of measles and one of pneumonia. Mayor Starr orders an audit into city valuation figures amid criticism of City Council. School tax levies due to reduced state aid push Corry District toward tax changes. Council plans street repairs including regrading Gravel Street with downcut and gravel surface. Junior High Principal Harold Wolfe reported snowbound returning from Rochester and Varysburg. An aircraft carried food to marooned motorists as a storm shattered a large storefront window at Donaldson Brothers in Spring Creek.
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Ben F. Starr
Blaine Kincaid
Corry
Harold G. Wolfe
Varysburg
N. Y
Rochester
Donaldson Brothers
Spring Creek
Roaming Round Fragments of City News and Rumors
Rumors claim gambling returns to the city with cards dice and other games under PLCB surveillance on Sundays. Elmer Kincaid writes from London about Tokalon cosmetics and Iris Kincaid scripting endio programs. Mount Union College honors William Gordon. Grove City College to stage See How They Run on March 22. Dentists link fluorine in water to industrial waste from aluminum plants. Ferris wheel at Celoron Park to be dismantled for repairs, potential replacement planned. An auto accident ties to an old raffle debt. missing driver located in a later collision. Berkshire hogs valued over $10,000 donated to Boys Town by Stephen Birth. Mayville plans to keep the local movie theater operating as Blatt Brothers pause management, proposing a non-profit educational corporation idea.
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PLCB
Elmer Kincaid
London
Tokalon Arm
Advertiser's Weekly of
Iris Kincaid
William Gordon
Mount Union College
Alliance, O
Euthie Boag
A. 5
Boag
Park Street
Grove City College
Celoron Park
Boys Town
Stephen Birth
New Jersey
Mayville
Blatt Brothers
Babson Warns Wall Street Inflation Sparks Break in Confidence
Babson argues inflation erodes currency value and trust, turning profits and wages into a lottery. He warns cheap money deceives investors, broad economic planning worsens outcomes, and stock declines reflect a broader break in confidence across pensions, schools, hospitals, churches, and public funds.
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Wall Street
Lord Maynard Keynes
Tenin
Housing outlook for 1952 faces material shortages and slower starts
The Defense Production Administration warns 1952 housing starts may dip to 600000 annually due to shortages of strategic materials, with costs rising and private construction slowing. Public housing and defense measures aim to mitigate the drop, while veterans led home purchases and shifts toward rural non farm areas appear.
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Defense Production Administration
Truman
Congress
Rocky Mountains
F. W. Dodge Corporation
U. S. Barea
United States
Howe
Senate
Fnally
House
Will a magnet function in a vacuum and other quiz prompts
A reader asks a series of trivia questions about magnetism vacuum memory and history. It includes queries on magnet function in space, population in Argentina, water freezing from top or bottom, gregarious animals, a famous ex-train robber author and Oklahoma governor bid, Harold Stassen’s state, which has most teeth among dog man and shark, the 36 48 or 56 signers of the Declaration, slave name of Rosine Bernard, and a spelling correction.
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Argentina
Oklahoma
Harold Stassen
Arcat
Rosine Bernard
Tost
Firm Official Held On Disorderly Count Jamestown
John P. Peterson vice president of Ghedakola Construction Corp faced a disorderly conduct charge after a death at a Bemus Point worksite. Peterson pleaded not guilty before Acting City Court Judge Sanwel Edson, bail set at 25 dollars, case to be scheduled. Two Gack Brothers employees witnessed the fatal dump truck accident and were questioned.
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Jamestown
Bemus Point
John P. Peterson
Ghedakola Construction Corporation
Peterson
Sanwel S. Edson
George Arnold
Siebert L. Danielson
Gack Brothers
Local theatre to become student run education project
Mayville Central schools plan to hand theatre operations to students under adult supervision with profits funding scholarships for two public schools. The initiative aims to make the venue an education oriented, potentially self sustaining enterprise. The piece also notes FBI slot machine raids in eastern Pennsylvania and other regional anecdotes.
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Mayville
Chautaugua
FBI
Pennsylvania
Corry
Marienville
Jess Seybert
Corry Memorial Hospital
Military notices and local updates from Port Jackson to Buffalo
Contents note Sgt Willard W McCray of Garry Bayport area completes field wiremen course with 23rd AAA AW Battalion and 5th Tatar Division. Relatives report Mrs Wilbur Whitehead and sons David and Kenneth joining their husband father in Frint Germany with the 28th Division. Also guidance on rabies fear after recent canine scare in northwestern Pennsylvania and advice to leash dogs 10 days. Peter F Manarano earns dean’s list at Canisius College Buffalo. Harry B Smith recalls Journal anniversary with reprint of Weekly Times and Penny Press issues including 1898 St Patrick’s Day Penny Press.
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Jmany
Willard W. ‘McCray
Garry
B.D
U. S. Femy
Port Jackson
S. C
AAA AW
Sth
Wilbur Whitehead
David
Kenneth
Fr T
Germany
Peter F. Manarano
Canisius College
Bufala
Harry B. Smith
Journal
Weekly Times
Evening Penny Press
Mare
Missing Rochester woman sought by Pittsburgh police
Pittsburgh March 6 The police bureau of missing persons has been asked to join in the search for Mrs. Evenly Rader 21 of Rochester Pennsylvania who has been missing since February 18.
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Hunt
Pittsburgh
Bureau of Missing Persons
Evenly Rader
Rochester
Drop in food prices reported by AP in March
The Associated Press reports a new drop in retail and wholesale food prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes the grocery price index fell two tenths of 1 percent for the 10 days ending February 25, while the overall food price index sits 11.8 percent above June 1950 levels. Wholesale prices declined three tenths of 1 percent in the week ending March 4, with the 1947-49 price base at 111.4, 1.6 percent below January and 3.1 percent below the January 1951 index.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bureau of Labor
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