War era notices and personnel updates across towns
Local items report business tour results at Dresser Manufacturing in Dunkirk, Red Cross blood drive urgency in Kane, Dunkirk nursery school funds, Nathaniel Ross letters from sailors, blackouts in Brocton, crime verdicts in DuBois, Franklin tax changes, a Warren sheriff’s wheat bounty, and community notices on gardens, church events, and civic meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page & Ferry
Bradford
Dresser Manufacturing Company
Dresse Company
Holley Hotel
Red Cross Dressings Room Open in Fairhaven Housing Colony
Community building at North Corry housing development in Fairhaven now hosts a Red Cross surgical dressings department. Mrs Eleanor Mead and Mrs Harriet Clough outline the program to local women at an afternoon meeting. The room is equipped for dressings work and will serve both day and evening groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bair
North Corry
Red Cross
Fairhaven
Eleanor Mead
Harriet- Clough
Margaret J. Swim
Earl A. Alexander
Sunset Heights
Titusville
Dournel
General Assembly
Labor Board orders Curtis Leather to reinstate worker
The National Labor Relations Board orders J. G. Curtis Leather Company of Ludlow Pennsylvania to reinstate Joseph J. Schuster as an employee and pay him 530 representing loss of earnings. The company must also pay George T. Sbikowski 100. John Townley dies in Pittsburgh at 88. He was a long time political writer for the Pittsburgh Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludlow
Washington
National Labor Relations Board
J. G. Curtis Leather Company
Joseph J. Schuster
George T. Sbikowski
John Townley
Pittsburgh
John B. Townley
Pittsburgh Press
Aliquippa Post Office
Hedalin
Frank UN
Tenth
Chestnut Streets
Buffalo
Erie
Marine Corps
Parris Island
S.C
William F. Freiwald
Newton N. D. Picklesiner, Jr
Edwin W. Whitman, Jr
Harry d. Staszewski
George W. Morgam
Thomas ¥. Morisak
Gerald 5. Westman
Albert P. Sarti
Reymond J. de Diontsio
Allied Leaders Plan Action Through India
The piece discusses strategic Allied plans in Asia with Japan, noting Washington talks may yield key decisions. It outlines encirclement aims, Pacific threats from American forces, and Japanese need to shift ships, troops, and bases. Burma operations faltered at Akyab, with monsoon delaying gains and Rangoon as a cautious entry point for a broader Burma to China campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Washington
Resent
Pacific
Kiski Island
Guanalcanal
Solomons
Port Moresby
New Saines
Australis
Dutch Indies
Malaya
Burma
Wavell
Akyab
Tankabe
Gosobe
Rangoon
China
Liberates Iowa Zoo Inmates Amid Wartime Strain
The Iowa state game commission faced wartime constraints as it called to abandon the popular display at Ledges Park. More than 80 animals, many injured in the wild and surrendered to conservation officers, were to be freed under the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Zoo
Ledges Park
Wwar Conditlons
Hos Ted
Iowa State Game Commission
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Borden
Quick Kellogg’s
Mazola
Wesson
LUX Flakes Mh
Piyne
Sakt
Bexley Club
Geneva
Lake Erie
Florida
Calif
Texas
Pascal Celery
YEAS
Crisco
Ean
Willi Star Stores
All-Way Electric Co
Ric
Kane
American Red Cross
May
Toca
Dunkirk
Anthony Johnson
Maft
Republican County Committee
Meadville
Joseph Mr. Bloss
Crawford County
Harrisburg
Lalstock, Powell Motor Co
Jamestown
Ghigh C. Hany Nelson
Roseland Park
Rebekah Rum-Mage Sale
Grand Theatre
John Martyna
Oi! City
Martyna
Franklin
Armed Service
Cerry Grange No
Warren
Richard Follne
Aliteheny
Carl Spiecman
Emma O'Neil
Louis Franklin Street
U.S. 8
Ranger
DuBois
Jasper O. Page
Clearfield County
Page
Sandy Township
Franklin School , Board
R. H. Lohman
Alty
Western Auto Store
Horace A. Crary
Market Street
Corry Hospital
Joseph Spiesman
First Avenue
Richard Tunt
Will Hunt
Spring Creek
Samuel B. Stultz
R. D
Corry
Robert Crosby
South Canter Sheet
Christian Science
Manila Whitehill
Mainstreet
War Department
William
Dinty) Whitehill
North Africa
Bill" Stuart
Sterling Court House
Orvis Lopez
Stuart
Jewell
Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
Thurch
A. L. B. Mac
Frank Morris
M. Nichols
AID Red Cross
Edgerton Nunn-Bush Florsheim
Corry’s Greatest Clothiers
India
Corry, PA
Ny Center Se
Zuckerman
Irry, PA
Pak
Ajamin
Ameri
Coltith
Keystone Jeston
Jordon John
Africa
County Court House
Counsell
Pelege
Familion Station
Unite
Ann Hartford
Cox Aineoringins
Consid
William ‘Ipstaves
Atto Ham
Warren Times
Pennsylvan
Phix
Incu
Ville
Internationa Canada, Ltd
Erie County
Howard Ty
Incine
Floyd Challa Bleven
Pittsburged
Devel
Nv Council
Yest
Beer Hon
the Cotta
Lynn G. Adams
Marat Services
Scranton
Wile War Services
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