Local notes on exams, law, and progress in 1929
Twenty years past items report exam dates for school classes, a Warren lawyer opening offices, Downie Brothers circus performances drawing crowds, a marriage in the Christian Missionary Church parsonage, construction progress on the Erie ten inch line, and budget talks for municipal garbage service. Valedictorian Lois Lyons and salutatorian Catherine McGrath named for Corry High School commencement.
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Lois Jeannette Lyons
Catherine Martha
McGrath
Corry High School
Boy Found Shot to Death in Woodland Near Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh May 23 A 10 year old boy Raymond W Jones was found shot to death in a woodland where he and two companions had picnicked. Police Chief John Jacobs said the wound was fatal and that the shooting followed a shouted moment and several shots. A search party formed for the missing boy and a recluse who had lived nearby for 19 years is sought for questioning.
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Dy Psouousre
Pittsburgh
Pollo
John Jacobsi
North Versailles
Raymond W. Jones
Jacobs
Jones
Re~cluse
Tushut
Erie Political Shakeup Planned
Erie article reports a planned shakeup in the city assessment bureau with Leach slated to leave. Graham L. Marsh will move to the top post and Joe Evans named assistant assessor, amid Democratic party maneuvering and intra party disputes. Governor Duff released from Mercy Hospital after throat ailment.
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Rie Samy
Neerer Leker
Leach
Democratic Party
Inte
Sheypman
Graham L. Marsh
Joe Evans
Martin's
Fred
Hickey
Hearl
Charles R. Barber
Erie GOP aims threefold attack on Democratic city admin
Erie May 23 Republicans prepare a three pronged challenge to the Democratic city administration as mayoral council campaigns loom. After months of quiet probe GOP leadership plans to expose alleged general confusion and day to day mismanagement since Democrats took control. Reports say Republicans have launched a full scale inquiry into city affairs with county confirmation.
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Erie
GOP
Local GOP aims plan for campaign days ahead
Inkling from party chief of what the local GOP has Up'its sleave for cam paigning days ahead As followup: strategy to the GOP, "report on the administration's Tec : brd, Republicans will present their 'yn program operating the city on, American steel mills produced 88, 5 "less expensive, but more efficient 500,000 tons of ingot steel in 1948, basis." The figure on finished steel was als 'ALL of this is counted upon as at most 66,000,000 tons. Chairman Samuel tant
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GOP
Brd
American Steel Mills
Als
Samuel Tant
GOP Slate Forms For City Hall Race In Three Campaigns
Three Republicans announce a unified bid for mayor and two council seats. The slate presents as a coordinated ticket amid tight lipped responses from the campaign on specifics and policy details. The move signals a consolidated approach to city leadership.
Recall of Yalta and Potsdam shapes postwar settlement
An editorial in New Times argues the Yalta and Potsdam agreements should guide Germany’s postwar settlement. It notes leaders at Yalta Roosevelt Churchill Stalin and at Potsdam Truman Attlee and Stalin. It outlines reparations, demilitarization, denazification, and the Allied Control Council, with shifts in Poland and East Prussia and ongoing disputes over totals and asset transfers.
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Yauta
Potsdam
Soviet Union
Paris
Yalta
Potsum
Germany
New Times
Soviet Foreign Affaire Journal
France
Roosevelt
Churchill
Gtalin
Truman
Atlée
Balin
United States
Russia
Poland
Ottier
Allied Control Council
Koettigsbers
East Prussia
Ussr
Se Arcy
Rusia
Bulgaria
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Austria
Cmetakt
Weiler
Yankee Stadium Monument honors famed home run king
A public ceremony at Yankee Stadium memorializes a noted home run slugger. The article asks readers to check the Classified Page for correct answers to a 19-question memory test, including NLRB and other trivia. It lists queries on coffee producers, stenography systems, Ladybugs, a former interior secretary's periodical, an actor in A Connecticut Yankee, a deadly Pacific Northwest event, a Catholic catechism revision, and the author of Oliver Wiswell.
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Homerun Slugger
NLRB
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Pit Main
Gregg
Interior
Harold Icken
Time
New Republic
Daily Worker
Saturday Evening Post
Paramount
Pacific Northwest
Oliver Wiswell
Lydia Bailey
Jewelry Heist Hits East End Home In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh on May 24 reports J. Pennock saying thieves robbed his east end home over the weekend, stealing jewelry valued at 5000 including a 1000 diamond ring. The incident follows an armed theft three days earlier at Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Day’s Shadyside residence, where 10000 in jewelry was taken.
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Pittsburgh
Steel firms refuse pensions amid wage talks in 1937
In Pittsburgh May 23 1937 Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp and other U.S. Steel subsidiaries refused to grant pensions to United Steelworkers. President C R Cox notified Philip Murray of wage and social benefits negotiations to begin June 15. Murray asked pensions from 815 companies employing 700000 steelworkers, while Cox insisted talks cover only wages and social insurance.
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Pipssburgh
Carnegie-Ilinois ‘Steel Corp
U.S
United Steelworkers
C. R. Cox
Philip Murray
Murray
Cox
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Downie Brothers
Clifford Long
Robert Lone
Louise Vanderhoff
Orville Vanderhoff
Lovells
The
Christian Missionary
Alands Church
George Morzan
Guy Stafford
Pennsylvania Gay Company
Corty
Hen F. Starr
City Connell
Erie Gop
Rene
Wallace Garage
First Avenue
BF Goodrich
Silvertown
B.F. Goodrich
B.f.goodrich
Powell Motor CO
Center St
Corry, Pa
Frank E.grafteen
Washington
PRR
North Gorry
HOTEL
Corry
Raymond Schuster
E.ude
Gramed
Turner
Model Dairy Co
West Smith Street
Sunset Drive-In
Waterford, PA
Robert Young
Marguerite Chapman
Pete Smith
Blatterer
Dickey
Topp
Smart Women’s Shop
Morth Center Street
Kant
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