Francis Rhodes dead at 68 after long illness
Francis Rhodes of Richmond passed away Sunday at age 68 after a prolonged illness. He was a former city resident and Climax Company employee. Survived by widow Irene White Rhodes, two daughters Hals and Charlotte, son Thomas, and five brothers Walter Archie Elmer William Everett. Funeral held Tuesday afternoon in Richmond.
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Francis Rhodes
Richmond
Rhodes
Climax Mrs. Company
Irene ‘White Rhodes
Hals
Charlotte
Thomas
Walter Rhodes
Archie Rhodes
Priend Ship
N.Y
Elmer Rhodes
Buffalo
William Rhodes
Meadville
Everett Rhodes
Oil City
Conference on Labor Bills Faces Prolonged Negotiations
The Senate and House confer on the general short regulation bill and plan to sweat it out this week or next as well. The House resists key provisions on industrial wide bargaining and private on strike injunctions, while the Senate rejected them. Conference may yield a compromise acceptable to both branches, Norris calling it the third house of Congress. House conferees often insist and report deadlock or require further instructions if provisions are dropped or altered.
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Senate
House
Norris
Nebraska
House of
Congress
Twenty Years Ago Skims Through Journal Files May 21 1927
Journal notes highlight Lindbergh’s 31 hour 39 minute transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field Long Island with partial Fortification suspected. Also reported were a fatal car overturn in Union City, a large Erie TB clinic, Rev Father Tracy’s passing, Miss Lindquist’s Syracuse graduation, and Crawford High School diploma ceremonies.
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Charles Lindberg
Roosevelt Wield
Long Island
Lindbere
Goleen
Scotland
Tremors and Trembling Conditions Discussed by Medical Society
The article defines tremors as involuntary rhythmic movements, notes they occur in waking and cease in sleep, and explains tremor is a symptom of nervous system disturbance. It describes tremé or paralysis agitans from mid brain degeneration, often linked to aging or hardened brain arteries, and mentions a typical pill-rolling finger motion with a rate of three to five shakes per second. Some tremors respond to treatment, allowing patients to continue usual work.
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Earth
Buffalo House hotel sold and renamed Seaward House in Titusville
May 21 announcement states Titusville's Buffalo House, the town's oldest hotel near the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station, has been sold by former owner Lester Chambers to Homer N. Seaward and Helen C. Seaward. The Seawards have taken possession and renamed it Seaward House, continuing a 75 year legacy established in Titusville's early days.
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Titusville
Buffalo House
Pennsylvania Rail
Lester Chambers
Homer N. Seaward
Helen C. Seaward
Quiz questions on history and politics
A list of trivia items asks about maritime disasters in 1987 and the Queen Elizabeth. It queries the Father of the United Nations, a Florida senator’s Dardanelles comment, Doberman pinschers, fascinator use, Ford executors, prison uniforms, Truman’s pitching hand, sentence elements, and Britain’s last three prime ministers before Clement Attlee.
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Southampton Harbor
United Nations
U. S
Florida
Senate
Russia
Dardanelles
United States
Panama
Henry Ford
Truman
Washington
Clement R. Attee
Continuing Rain Brings New Fruit Setbacks Brief
May 21 report cites adverse weather in Erie area delaying Spring planting and fruit development. County Agent Paul Grossman notes flooded fields and slow grain planting while cold spells and rains hinder pollenization after the May 10 frost. Carl A. Bittner and extension pomologist from Penn State studied county orchards May 15–16, finding high sour cherry blossom mortality. In W Lake road district buds show 38% alive. among opened buds 68% live, while closed buds survive at 21%.
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Erie
Paul 8. Grossman
Crossman Seid
Crossman
Carla Bittner
Tthe
Pennsylvania State College
W. Lake Road
Aged man with broken hip found in shed near tracks
In Brockton on May 21 a 67 year old man waited in a railroad yard tool shed through the night in pain after a fall on the New York Central tracks. Ami Munson was taken to Dunkirk Hospital where doctors assess a possible hip fracture, noting a prior broken hip.
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Brocton
Brockton
Ami
Munson
Dunkirk
New York Central
Railway worker crawls to shelter after injury in storm
A rail worker named Mr. Mungon was injured when a pile of rails struck him. He could not walk or attract help and crawled to a nearby tool shed to seek shelter from the wind and rain on the lee side of the shed.
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Gorry
Colegrove
Pred Kimball, Inc
Wallly St
New York
Square
Chicago
Mortgage & Bond
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Weightman
Philadelndis
Associated Press
Corry
A. A. McCabe
James
Evie
Union City
James Meade
Erie County Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Father Tracy
Mark Gannon
St. Thomas the Apostle
William Houghton
Fmina Lindquist
Syracuse
Crouse Tvving Hospital
Mabel Lindquist
Paul Siple
Brie
Methodist Church
B.A. Lovelandt
G. W. Patterson
Dewey
Fram
Fram Iton
Providence 16
Vy Oil & Motor Cleaner
the Medical Society of the
State of Pennsylvania
Carl Eisenmans - Florists
North Center Street
Foster
Davis & Son
North Canter Street
Heiman Jewelers
Flatlux
DME
Ruffener’s
N. Worth Street
Corry, Pa
Whitehouse Milk
Tl Boe
Callie
Pha
Carton
Ac Ib
Joan
N. Ceuter St
Loblaw
Sal Finance Co
Perse
THE
Bracken-Keating Company
Morticians
Golden Rule Foundation
Stantly
LIFE
Agee
Dial
E. Washington
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