Birthday girl Smela Van Sloka Leland dies at Mayville
Mayville, March 16. Smela Van Sloka Leland, who would have turned 16 in three weeks, died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs Milton S Smith. Born April 7, 1848 near Lockport Niagara county she lived in Mayville since 1890. She taught school before her 1865 marriage to Herman J Leland who died in Mayville in 1905.
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Smela van Sloka Leland
Milton S. Smith
Lockport
Niagara County
Evie
Eust
West End
James K. Polk
North Tonawanda
Herman J. Leland
Father of 9 Jailed on Morals Charge in Erie
A 38-year-old father of nine, youngest two weeks old, was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in the Western Penitentiary after pleading guilty to a morals count involving his fifteen-year-old stepdaughter. Judge Burton R. Laub told him he was fortunate not to face additional counts.
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Damian McLaughlin
Divisional Knights Templar Ball to Be Held at State Armory
Twenty years ago reports note a brilliant social occasion planned in Corry's city with the Divisional Knights Templar Ball at the State Armory on April 12. The event is sponsored by Division No. 6 Commanderies and is expected to draw Templar guests from northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York.
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Knights Templar
State Armory
Division No
Templar
Pennsylvania
New York State
Strike Now Enguring Entire Coal Industry
The text describes a nationwide strike affecting roughly 1490 major and independent coal plants, aiming to cut meat supply by half. Pickets appeared in cities including Chicago where 20,000 workers joined. The CIO United Packing House Workers of America ordered the stoppage by a 27 member executive committee, with about 150,000 independent and AFL workers continuing to work. The strike proceeded despite President Truman's telegram urging delay for a board investigation.
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Tom Epee Yyor
Chicago
CIO United Pacing House Workers of America
AFL
Meath Gutters Union
Ackers
Packers Strike Dispute Over Hourly Wages Sparks Negotiations
Doard reports to him on April 1 about a plan under the president’s procedure that would have stretched an 80 day strike. The conflict arose from the GIO union demand for a 19 cent hourly raise while Packers offered a nine cent increase, a boost recently granted to APL workers.
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Doard
GIO
APL
Restore selective service debate shifts with UMT talk
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal may meet Republican leaders this week after invitations from House Republicans. Some supporters of Universal Military Training consider a new Selective Service law as a substitute, while others oppose both options. The prior Selective Service act was passed in an election year, imposing conscription with training period limits.
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James Forrestal
House of Representatives
United States
Universal
Congress
U. M
Asten
Chum
Joe Stalin
Spits
House
How's Your I Q A Monthly Test of Memory and Scores
A quizzical item presents ten questions with scoring like Genius Superior Excellent Good Average Poor. It invites readers to turn to Classified Page for tech answers and cites trivia on capitals, starfish points, CIO president, polo or chess puck, Gandhi middle name, Highland Fling country, magnetism insulator truth, GI bill aid, ice cream palt use, and the saying Talks from little.
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Montreal
Vie
Toni Quebes
Ottawa
Starfish
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Mohandas
Gandhi
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