Patchwork Local Notes From Erie Area School to Courts
Wallpaper notes reflect various local items from 3-6-11 detailing opposition to Main Street school closure in Instileht, upcoming Erie's Thursday ads, Ridgway’s dog chase incident injuring a man, Meadville Health Board modernizing with a new lab at City Hall, Dr. Gamble’s return from Jacksonville, Fla., and peeping case in DuBois with Dilley fined 25 dollars and jailed up to one year. Oil City reports Russo seeking sentence commutation for Drake Theater safe robbery. A M Litz shoe repair date.
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Main Street
Instileht
Erie
Aodate
Gallaher Run
E. B. Gardner
Meadville
Board of Health
Health Department
City Hall
Ri. B. Gamble
Jacksonville
Fla
Eharl Leslie Dilley
Sykesville
Ab DuBois
Oil City
Jacomo Roussolest
Jack Russell
Dack Russo
Venan- 30 Pounty
Drakeheater
Russo Gms
Western Penitentiary
A. M. Litz
Warren Republicans choose Jess G. Smith as county chair
Warren county Republicans reelect Jess G. Smith as compensation referee to head the county organization for another term. He announced appointive officers later as no contests exist and a heavy GOP majority is expected in the county. The report lists local political shifts and upcoming party plans across multiple towns.
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Wheaties
Armour’s
Wilcox Grocery
Warren
Warren County
Jess G. Smith
Smith
Shas
Kane
Jamie
Gidders
Warrén General Hospital
Na Honal Forge and Ordnance Company
Irvine
Wwe
H. J
Grant, DeJean & Cochran
World's Greatest Housekeeper Likely Pullman Company
The Association of American Railroads reports that in a single year the Pullman Company purchased 220,528 sheets 157,710 pillow vases 20,275 tidies 495,029 hand towels E310 headrest covers 1,692 napkins and 13,200 table cloths as a measure of housekeeping prowess.
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Pullman Company
Ase
WPA Relief Bill Allocates Funds for 1941 Program
Washington May 15 The House appropriations committee reported a 1 111 754 016 relief bill for fiscal 1941 including 076 950 000 for the Works Progress Administration The bill authorizes WPA to spend this money if needed in eight months beginning July 1 The total relief fund is 543 075 084 less than the current year and the WPA appropriation is 501 350 000 less than last Congress but spending per month would be about the same if eight months are used.
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Iy Uailer
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
WPA
WEA
Swiss deny records destruction amid Basle evacuation doubts
In Zurich on May 15 British officials in Switzerland denied burning diplomatic and official records. French officials issued similar denials. Swiss army staff rejected reports that Basle evacuation was ordered, though many residents had left voluntarily near the Swiss German French frontier.
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United Ress
Zurich
Switzerland
Staf
Basle
Belgian forces quit canal zone amid Belgian defense shift
Paris reports that Belgian forces evacuated positions along the Albert Canal, a key Belgian defense. Also announced in Paris that Capt. Felix Grat, member of the chamber of deputies, was killed in action. Industrial note explains copper refinery by products including cadmium selenium and antimonial lead from smelting sludge.
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Canal Zone
United Press
Paris
le Temps
Theix
Albert, Canal
Belgium
Felix Grat
Chamber of Deputies
Mayenne
Airce
Heavy bonus payments to war veterans reported in Harrisburg
May 15 report from Harrisburg states bonus payments totaling 44.6 million dollars by May 1 were collected from 321,093 eligible veterans. Lieutenant Colonel Walter A. Hardie, comptroller of military affairs, noted the Soldiers' Compensation Fund payments as Rep. Herford M. Wood seeks 1.509 million dollars for relief uses in final Senate action. Also cited is a vast annual motorist tax bill of about 1.22 billion dollars on oil, gas, and license prizes, per League of Women Buyers and Taxpayers estimates.
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Harrisburg
Walter A. Hardie
Military Affairs Department
Hardie
Herford M. Wood
Sele
League of Women
Gel Fur New Cary Iia
Train collision derailment damages line in Altoona
An automobile struck a Pennsylvania freight train causing $40,000 damage and derailing 17 cars, tearing up 350 feet of track. Three Barrell brothers of Altoona were injured as their wrecked car struck the train’s second car.
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United Press
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Patrick
J. J
J. W. Barrell
R. D
Wistoh
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