Twenty Years Ago Highlights From Journal Files
A collage of local business moves and civic notes from twenty years ago. New plumbing firm forms with Kinney Spleamen Waller as partners opening April 10. Brownell Shoe Co. manager Carl W. Smith buys into St. Pierre and Johnson. High School auditorium renovation plans submitted to labor officials. Hammond Elevator buys and sells properties, affecting nearby firms. J. J. Hotchkiss dies. noted sheep authority. Boy Scout troop training courses planned under Harry E. Frayer. Legislative history notes compare Congress activity across years 1943 1945 1947 with party control influences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl W. Smith
Brownell Shoe Company
Hiram Johnson
St. Pierre and Johnson
Daily Dozen From the Medicat Enelety of the Biele of Pennsylvania
The article extols home vegetable gardening with varieties like Kohtrshi Swiss chard kale parsnip and sorrel and discusses tomatoes cherry plum and pear types. It notes common pests such as Japanese beetles chinch bugs and corn earworms and mentions DDT and other sprays.
Comment on Today's Affairs and Labor Policy Debate
A tangled discussion covers steel, auto, and mining unions, with leaders seeking to curb trouble and the Coal Mines Administration planning a conference with operators and John J. Lewis to shape a new contract. If no progress by April end, government control may end, prompting a potential strike before Congress acts on anti-strike measures. The piece questions dropping price controls and contemplates U N role, Greek Turkish ties, and rising living costs illustrated by Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas's grocery basket.
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Auto, Smelter
Mit
Art Restlées
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Dung
Ute Steel
Auto
Bosingudtsies
Gonpress Und Jt
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Coal Mines Administration
John J. Lewis
Cinis
Lewis
Congress
Fire damages Goodrich home eight miles from Panama
An oil burner incident at a residence on Town Line road started a blaze that damaged the living room and sofa with total losses not expected to exceed 50 dollars. Firefighters arrived to find the family had the fire under control.
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Emen Pads
Garamie Petanuchs Oto
Benoa Gehy
Town Line Road
Goodrich
Panama
Titusville Babe Smothered In Flimsy Bed Tragedy
In Titusville on a Sunday morning a month old infant named Theodore Brice Wakefield died, reportedly smothered under heavy blankets. Deputy M. Sonne said the child had been dead for hours. The baby was born January 6, 1907. The family includes parents Theodore H. Wakefield and a brother Willem Edward, along with several grandparents.
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Titusvelle
Titusville
Theodore H. Wakefield
Sonne
Willem Edward
Undue Dawdling in Congress Draws Republican Criticism
Senators Baldwin Bushfield and Van Denberg voice concern over delays in the Republican majority’s legislation. Taft blames Democrats while Van Denberg urges patience, noting slow progress vs earlier Congresses as only two major national measures reached the President in ten weeks through March 15.
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Baldwin
Conn
Man Reece
Republican National Committee
Bushfield
S.D
Senate
Taft
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Vandenberg
Congress
G.I
Quiz questions from classifed page pose a mixed bag
A set of trivia prompts spans politics military history music geography and crime with questions about a House committee veteran affairs Washington crossing and Keflavik Airport plus word puzzles on chamber music and food pairings for mild nuts in creamed dishes.
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House of Representatives Committee On Veterans’ Affairs
George Washington
New York
Italy
Justic
U. S
Keflavile
Norway
Spitabergen
Finland
Teeland
Orkney Islands
Ts Chambray
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Journal
Dare
State Department of Labor and Industry
Hammond Elevator Company
Union Produce Company
North Second Avenue
Corry Wrench Company
Eagle Street
Hammond Company
Wrench Company
Produce Company
J.J. Hotchkiss
Harry E. Frayer
Erie
Pennsylvania
Cerys
Cour
United Nations
United
Russia
Turkey
Sromyko
Gromys Ca
Uel
United States
Greece
United ‘Nations
TNE Preasanun
Con
Truman
Mos
Helen Gahagan Dougeins
House of Representatives
House
Communist Party
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Minnesota
Quick
Kamel
Lanston
South Center Street
Dial
North Corry
Y. L. Armitage
Bates Radio Electric
Sylvania
Columbus, Pa
Ruffner
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Worth Street
Corry, Fa
Ames
Jaunty
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WARDS
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