Profit margins rise with efficiency and lower costs
The article notes improved profit margins across many firms due to increased industrial efficiency and labor saving methods, aided by higher wages and union actions pushing management to adopt new machinery and processes. Raw material costs remain low, sustaining margins even as some industries face capacity challenges and variable wage pressures.
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Babson
Roger Eareon Palm Bhach
Mar
Listic
Fragmentary Industry Prices Note Amid Irregular Deductions
The readable text references pricing movements in steel, motor cars, textiles, and related goods. It notes prices moving lower at times and finishing prices showing reductions, with mentions of new plants lowering costs and overall commodity activity in the late 1920s. Specific figures are unclear due to damaged OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wag Snd
Fragmented OCR: Economic notes on wages and production
Readable fragments discuss why final product prices fall and wages rise with naive assumptions about the system. Another theory mentions wage rates converging with time and the impact of wage dynamics on production costs. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uhm
Rebor
Makog
Tye
Military Measures Urged by State Guard Members
Local Pennsylvanian National Guard members support a package of 26 military bills ready for initial House consideration next week. Key proposal combines adjutant general and state guard commander roles for four years to save 8000 dollars annually. Other measures seek control of unofficial units and a cap on major generals after age 61.
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Company A
Pennsylvania National Guard
Pennsylvania
Adjutant General
House
Capitol
Ray B. Taylor
Dauphin
Commonwealth
Taylor
Samuel M. Rosenfeld
Poland May Join Britain In Anti Nazi Pact
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told Premier Daladier that France and Britain have agreed to act jointly against German expansion. Soviet Russia supports a common declaration awaiting Poland and Romania approval. Britain may begin conscription soon to bolster forces for imminent continental war.
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United Press
Paris
Georges Bonnet
Edouard Daladier
London
Bonnet
France
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Poland
Rumania
Ney Mle Chamberlain
Romania
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Concert repeats tonight by Northwest district All-District Music Fest
A 110 piece band from fifteen towns in northwestern Pennsylvania showcased the Northwest district All District Music Festival at Corry Junior High. Howard from Mansfield State Teachers College guest conducted with strong leadership from Carlton A Chaffee overseeing Corry High Band. The program featured five selections under his direction and drew music lovers from Corry and nearby areas.
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Pennsylvania School Music Association
U Ged
iPennsylvania
Hig
Corry Ans
Cory
Carlton
A. Chaffee
Corry
Muse Festiva
George Side Howanl
Mansfield State Teachers’ College
Howard
Harold Gus'atian
Cornelish Ip
Tarzan Durang Tarzan Durand Tale Ends In Kam Durand Fate
Cody Wyoming March 25 undertaker shaved beard and shaved head transforming Tarzan Durang a savage killer into Earl Durand 26 a simple minded youth. National Guard moved howitzers near Beso root the hunt ended with Durand wounded then captured. Powell county undertaker Ray Ruston filed report describing Durand’s fragile state and the attempt at a plea for mercy before execution by hanging.
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United Press
Cody
Wyo
Undertaker
Tarzan Durang
Earl Durand
Hawlud Iba
Uw Buy
Ubownia
Willy Hur
sAlwaya
Durand
Powall
Wil
Park County Corona
Ray Ruston
Powell Family
Shelly Blvehbuen
Kurt Durand
Tniertaker
Boric
Gaurl House
M Tesson
Sparta Orchestra and chorus aid patriotic program
The Spartansburg Community choirs will present a patriotic program in the Grange Fall at Spartansburg Monday evening. The Centeryle Community Chorus will assist and Mayor Fred Whipple of Meadville will give the address. Sparta Boy Scouts will present colors and Mrs Grice Burner Shields will soloize with selections from the Civic Orchestra and Chorus. Land of Hope and Glory to close. A separate item notes a proportional representation plan for Allegheny county officials was deleted from a preliminary metropolitan government plan.
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Tremmers
Gorry Civile
Spartansburg
Grange
Spartansbure
Piblic
Fred Whipple
Meadville
Sparta
Corry
Pittaburgh
Tneiqll
Allegheny County
Questioned in Long Island murder case
Vernon E wer Oldaker, a Mineola neighbor, was held by police in Chicago in connection with the murder of Louise McKee, a prominent Republican politician, in Mineola, Long Island, on March 6.
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Long Island
Chicago
Vernon Ewer Oldaker
Louise McKee
Republcan
Mineola
Tome
Oldaker
Corrections Sought For Election Laws In Edge of Change
A joint legislative committee on elections backs keeping the 1937 codified laws but seeks minor fixes. They note high candidate filing fees for small offices and propose reducing from 20 to 2 dollars or removing fees, plus a bill to set polling place constable pay at daily 5 dollars.
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Joint Legislative Committee On Elections
Louis H. Parrell
Philadelphia
Senate Elections Committee
Jint Legislative Committee On
House Committee
Hew Hill
Hold Hope For Peace In Labor Struggle
In Washington on March 23 the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations advanced hope for peace. Negotiations extended to an afternoon hour conference with talks to resume in New York on the 30th. prospects for a quick settlement of the labor war remained uncertain despite the invitation from President Roosevelt to renew talks.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Tndustrial
Roosevelt
Lival Strybs
Meir
New York
Man Confesses Killing Wife in Oklahoma City
Roger W. Cunningham, an eccentric member of a prominent Oklahoma City family, confessed early today that he strangled his socially prominent wife on March 6. He directed a sheriff’s party to her body, buried in a freshly dug sewage ditch. workers found the body face up after digging through soft earth on March 7, the day after she disappeared from her suburban home.
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Uinee Frese
Oklahoma City
Roger W. Cunningham
Okdahoma City
Fuul
Hungary Slovakia to Discuss Peace Talks in Budapest
Hungary invited Slovakia to send a delegation to Budapest to discuss ending hostilities on the Carpatho Ukrainian frontier. The same report claimed Slovak planes bombed frontier cities Ungvar Roesyno and Nagy Bereza yesterday and Hungarian fighters shot down seven Slovak aircraft.
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Heregszasz
Slovakia
Michaloven
Hungary
Ung River
Slovaka and
Moravia
Germany
Hungary-Slovakia
Budapest
Slvakia
Ungver
Roesyno
Nagy Berenza
Spanish Civil War End Hints From Frontiersmen
Spanish Nationalist leaders await reply from the defense council on proposals for an immediate end to the civil war. Hostilities may cease at any time as dispatches indicate the Nationalists pressed Republicans to grant safe exit for leaders and followers before the Nationalist troops advance.
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United Press
Hendaye
Republicum Defence Council
Cenaory
Marrid
Columbus West Side to Get Street Lights
West Columbus will gain street lighting within a week to ten days after township supervisors authorized installation yesterday. The Pennsylvania Electric Co. will place lights at key intersections including Turnpike with Route 8, Route 6 near the underpass, Turnpike and Main Street opposite the school, Turnpike and West South, Tyen Pike near Market, and Park and St. Jack's Lane with Market Street. Work begins next week following a residents’ petition.
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Columba
Columbus Township
Columbus
Pennsylvania Eléctric Company
M. Howard
Main Street
Tyen- Pike
Market Street
Park
V E W Advances Plans To Bring Hospital Here
The Lieut Archie S V Thompson post No 204 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars met to push plans for a Pennsylvania Vet Hospital in the city and to discuss the VFW Omnibus bill. Dr Merle Amy outlined provisions including adequate compensation hospital care and medical treatment for disabled veterans and extended benefits for dependents and veterans unable to work. He noted universal pensions are not included and urged veterans over 69 who have filed for Social Security since 1987 to apply for wages under the act when reaching 80.
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Archie SV. ‘Thompson Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Pennsylvania
Thin
Dissol
Congress
Merle Amy
Amy
V. Flw
Irder Socal
Sheriff acquitted but must pay trial costs
Uniontown Pa March 25 Sheriff Thomas Aubrey Fayette county was acquitted of embezzlement charges from 1992 to 1936 while treasurer. A grand jury reported acquittal on all counts but the verdict ordered him to pay trial costs. Also a separate note: murder toll from an insurance syndicate may exceed 100.
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Uniontown
Par
Mar
Thomas Aubrey
Fayette County
Horatio
Aubrey
Crash Victims Reported In Fair City Collision
Ronan Oraioerk Sweet and James Staples, both of this city, were injured in a two vehicle crash on a curve near Ketungle early Friday morning. Staples drove the car which left the highway. Sweet suffered lacerations and a potential brain concussion. Staples had facial and other injuries. They were hospitalized at Waterford hospital later Friday afternoon.
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Ronan Oraioerk Sweet
James Staples
Waterford
Sweet
Stoney
Staples
Ketungle
Lockard Doomed to Die in Electric Chair
Harrisburg report details Foy Lockard, ex Altoona WPA worker, convicted in the railroad pile murder of 3 year old Matthew Karmond Jr., whose two year fight for mercy ends as Gov. James rejects clemency and the Pardon Board again denies commutation. He will be executed early Monday morning following the law.
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Lockard
United Press
Harrisburg
Foy Lockard
Altoona Wpa
Matthew Karmond
Lfe
Arthur H. James
State Pardon Board
Leek
Ard
Dancing Party for Visiting Musicians at Junior High
Upwards of 175 students took part in the All District Band sweat and danced after last night’s concert at the Junior High School. The event ran from 2:80 to 11:30 in the evening, with dancing continuing in the gymnasium.
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Jamestown
Savage Killer
Self
Wyoming
Corry Civic Orchestra
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Hang & McDevitt
Albert Sweet
Erie Hospital
Pittsburgh
Real Estate Board of Filadelphia Today
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