Truman Campaign Tour Highlights and Local Changes
The Corry Evening Journal reports on Truman era campaign activity with notes on past tours and political twists, plus local developments. It notes the hospital training school suspension, Kiwanis urging job relief, Pinchot visiting Corry, a new warehouse for Sam Baumgarten, Brooks Studio remodeling, and a high scoring junior baseball game led by Sheets Baressi with Corry Beavers defeating Youngsville 17 to 10.
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Sheets Baressi
Corry High Beavers
Youngsville
Finland averts walkout with 15 cent wage rise offer
Socialist led Trade Union Council accepts government mediation to suspend a planned general strike just hours before onset. Labor negotiators agreed to a 15 cent wage increase and will vote on the proposal after May. A casualty, Miss Gardner, was rushed to Hamet Hospital in critical condition with little hope of recovery.
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Hellivl Yinland
Trade Union Council
K. A. Fagerholm
Social Democratic
TUC
Hamet Hospital
St Marys Pair 15 Hurt by Lightning Strike
Fred Decker and his son Harriven Decker of Trout Run were struck by lightning while sheltering in a garage. They escaped serious injury after a narrow escape, as the bolt hit near them and caused a chaotic moment in St Marys on May 8.
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ST. Marys
Marys
Fred Decker
Harrivén
Decker
Trout Run
Young Decker
Truthan’s campaign reach mirrors 1946 Democratic strategy
Truthan had traveled 22 000 miles and given nearly 300 speeches. This week the Democratic leader aims for similar impact with a renewed push toward victory next fall. In 1946 he endorsed three candidates who all lost as Republicans swept the general election.
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Truman
Washington
Republican Gon Congress
Sith Congress
Thaddeus Stevens
Congress
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Neha
New Yorker
Republican Party
National Association of Manufacturers
Fouth
Truthan
Rep. Slaughter
James Mead
Herbert Lehman
How's Your EQ Genius or Superior? A 10 Q Fun Test
A quirky self assessment asks ten questions to rate memory and reasoning from Poor to Genius. It mentions checking a Classified Page for answers with items about stamps, ice cream, iceberg color, Marshall Plan dollars, grammar fixes, Salzburg geography, Catania location, and a 1725 knights order.
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England
EGA
Marshall Plan
United States
BCA
Salzburg
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Mediterranean
Catania
George of
Services Saturday for J Owen Fullom
Rev George Mulvin led the final rites for J Owen Fullom at 4 15 PM at Bracken Keating Funeral Home. Bearers were nephews Carl Fullom Ralph Bailey Clair Fenno Arthur McChesney Jack Lloyd and George Buntenbach. Interment was in Beaverdam Cemetery with out of town mourners listed including Annie McDonald George Mulvin George Bunterbach Bertha Hanlin Garrett Fullom R Lamb and others from Jamestown Union City and Elgin.
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J. Owen Fullom
George Mulvin
Bracken- Keating
Carl Fullom
Ralph Bailey
Clair Fenno
Arthur McChesney
Jack Lloyd
George Buntenbach
Loo
Beaverdam
Annie McDonald
George Bunterbach
Bertha Hanlin
Garrett Fullom
R. Lamb
Jamestown
Cusit Smith
Belle Harris
Paul Smith
Union City
R. D
Mary McMahon
Ann McMahon
Hartington
Elgin
Area Musicians Perform At Union City Spring Music Festival
About 500 elementary students from Corry Edinboro Summit Union City Waterford and Wattsburg will perform at Union City High School auditorium for the countywide Spring Music Festival. The program runs from 9 30 a m with vocal groups rhythm bands tonette bands and folk dances then a 1 30 p m concert by 100 junior high instrumentalists and a 2 p m chorus of about 150 fifth and sixth graders. Admission is free and seating is available 9 30 a m to 12 noon and 1 30 to 2 p m.
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Union City
Eris County
Corry
Edinboro
Summit
Waterford
Wattsburg
CERTA VIN touted as gas remedy in Corry ads
An advertisement claims CERTA-VIN relieves gas after meals by expelling gas and improving digestion. It touts ten herbs with vitamin B and iron to enrich blood and boost nerve energy, urging sufferers to buy at Widmann & Teah Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Certa-Vin — Widmann &Teah Drug Store
Adv
Union City Woman Dies After Incinerator Gas Explosion
Miss Sara B. Gardner, 78, died at Hamot Hospital Erie after burns from a Thursday garage explosion in Union City. Coroner investigates. she is sister to Union City Burgess Thomas R Gardner. Gas buildup leaked and ignited as she tended to home chores, trapping her before neighbors could help.
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Union City
Ld S
Sara B. Gardner
Hamot Hospital
Erie
Warren W. Wood
Erie County
Thomas R Gardner
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