Amtrak Reports Record January Passenger Rise in 1974
Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, announced January ridership above 1.4 million, up 28 percent from January 1973, with a system load factor around 52 percent and gains across major routes. Edel said June projections may push load factor toward 55 percent as schedules adapt.
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Washington
Amtrak
National Passenger Train Corporation
Edwin E. Edel
Amtrakrains
Cumberland
Chicago-Detroit
Chicago-Oakland
Calif
Washington-Montreal
New York
Florida
Edel
Boston-Worcester-New Haven
Advertisers Told to Warn of Shortages Under Pact
A Pennsylvania consumer protection agreement with Atlantic Zayre Inc requires clear disclosure when advertised items are in short supply. Filed in Allegheny County Court, the pact aims to prevent misleading ads for Zayre’s seven stores in Bridgeville Baden Pittsburgh McKeesport and Butler.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Zayre Inc
Framingham, Mass
Bureau of Consumer Protection
Allegheny County Court
Pittsburgh
Zayre
Atlantic Zayre
Zayre Discount
Bridgeville
Baden
McKeesport
Butler
Local social notes from Cutting and surrounding towns
A string of brief visits and gatherings across Cutting, Jamestown, Corry, Wattsburg, Erie, and nearby areas. Residents share weekends with relatives at Bear Lake and Clymer Center, visit veterans at Buffalo, attend a Toronto flower show, and a Maple Sugar Festival at Peek n Peak is announced for March 23. Bernice Marsh, Merton Bayle, and Paul Spink appear among those noted.
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Bernice Marsh Jr
Clifford Aikens Jr
Mats Arzidsson
Sweden
Cleveland
Clifford Aikens Sr
Theodore Nakoski
Elma
N.Y
Edward Prugar
Erie
Joseph Nakoski
Nellie Oakes
Gerald Wassink
Clymer
Bernice Marsh
Elouise
Glen Evans
Lee Nichols
Meadville
Frank Bayle
Ripley
Alice Camp
Charles Camp
Pittsfield
Helmer Fornell
Jamestown
Albert Bayle
Robert McDonald
Wattsburg
Paul Spink
Hampton
Merton Bayle
Gail Davis
Leon Morton
McDonald
Lillian Wallace
Morton Bemis
Cutting
Hatch Hollow
Max Bemis
Amos VanEarden
George Morton
Bear Lake
Carl Bayle
Ronald Willey
Buffalo
Veterans Hospital
Merton Bemis
Anna Nelson
Sherman
Myron Wallace
Helen Rouse
Ruth Thompson
Orpha Hapgood
John Sheehan
Corry
Marion Nellis
Mary Pettengil
Virginia Luke
North East
Toronto
Canada
Merton Bernis
Joseph Klip
William VanEarden
Clymer Center
State Gas Allotment Won't Last Into April Says Shapp
Pennsylvania will receive 10.1 million gallons in March but the Shapp administration says it won’t suffice through April. The FEO overestimated using 1970 72 auto data and Pennsylvanians demand 56 million more gallons, with farmers needing fuel for spring plowing. More than half of stations plan March 25 shutdowns over allotments and wholesale prices. Executive director Thomas Anderson was unavailable for comment.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Shapp
Federal Energy Office
FEO
Fed
William Wilcox
Thomas Anderson
Early American sugar making recounted in East Branch tale
Vivian L. Bailey reflects on maple syrup kits and historic sugarhouses. The piece recalls Stephen Cobb’s farm sugarhouse built after 1916, the evolution of boiling vessels, weather impacts on sap runs, and notes Crops, geese, robins, and wild horseradish inquiries mark the season in East Branch.
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Vivian L. Bailey
Stephen Cobb
Stephen
Cobbs
Joe Eastman
East Branch
Fay Eastman
Karen Robbins
Columbus
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Lee Hopkins
Pearl Bemis
Beverly Albright
David Albright
Nellie Jakes
Niobe Baptist Church
Andrew Horvath
Eisenhower High School
R. D
Russell, Pa
Dodge
Dodge Boys
Chrysler
Corry, Pa
Duwen
Quyeeans
Armstrong
BLACK
Queeans
Séri
Morflo Gas
Warren
East Branch News
Corry Group
Corry Memorial Hospital
Corry. Pa
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