Willkie's One World Sets Publishing Record
New York May 26 1 110 000 copies printed in first month a record for Willkie s One World published by Simon and Schuster on April 8 in two editions. Paper bound priced 1 00 printed 900 000 cloth bound priced 2 00 printed 200 000 daily sales reported between 98 000 and 50 000. Frederic G Melcher of Publishers Weekly cites two publishing records including rapid public acceptance and non fiction best seller status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willkie
New York
Wendell Willi
ONE World
Simon and Schuster
Frederic G. Melcher
Publishers’ Weekly
One World fastest selling boot in Doubleday shops
George Hecht of Doubleday Doran Bookshops called One World the fastest selling boot in the history of the Doubleday shops. In Texas at Camp Barkeley, Scrut John H Wise was described as dying in three-quarter time during exercises outside his barracks as he quipped about using a larger sprocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hecht
Doubleday Doran
Doubleday Shops
Paris
John H Wise
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Corliss Pir
Willow Run
Arm
2 Tong
Ford
Ager
Althoug
Probe Riceville Crash Under Police Investigation
Police in Riceville were examining a traffic crash near Riceville Corners. Little information was available this afternoon as officers at the scene did not return to the sub-station. One person was reported injured as a motorist attempted to evade a state policeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riceville
Riceville Comers
City and Vicinity News Highlights and Local Notices
Scraps from City and Vicinity include grocery ad items and patrols of public notices. Discharged patients from Corry hospital list names Don ald Trisket Vera Abbot Judy Coon. Community notes cover meetings, obituaries, church events, school issues, and local commerce.
Wives of Sub Chiefs Christen Two New Craft
Wives of two US submarine commanders, Fenno and Wright, will christen two submarines Sunday at Cramp Shipbuilding Company yards. The Devilfish and the Huckleback will be launched with their husbands attending if possible. Fenno, a Navy Cross recipient, captained the USS Sturgeon and helped rescue government documents from Corregidor. Wright commanded the USS Sturgeon in sinking enemy ships and five merchantmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philadelphia
United States
Frank W. Fenno
Williamsport
Wiliam L. Wright
Corpus Christi
Tex
Wil
Cramp “Shipbuilding Company
Wright
Fourth Naval District
Fenno
Navy
Corresidor
Sturgeon
Train wrecked by washout in Warren area causes floods
A washout washed out 75 to 100 feet of roadbed delaying the Philadelphia flyer and dispatching wreck crews from Warren Renova and Johnsonburg. The Erie locomotive crews escaped injury as two washouts at Tambine near Wilcox flooded flats over 20 miles south. Flood waters reached six feet threatening Johnsonburg houses and businesses while traffic was rerouted and gradually resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Stewart
Erie
C. Wf. Matin
Evie
M. R. Frye
Renova
Faeman
J. W. Moore
Gily
Inn
Corry
Warren
Sheffield
Kane
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pittsburgh
Wilcox
Johnsonburz
Johnsonburg
Ripley Man Struck By Truck In Route 20 Crash
Clifford Hunt apley N was brought by ambulance to Eamey hospital with a compound fracture of the left ankle and severe head injuries after being struck by a truck four miles east of North East on Route 20 shortly before 2 p m today. He was unconscious and in poor condition on admission. Driver identified as Harry Hooper Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Hunt
Apley
Ambulanes
Eamey Hospital
North East
Hush
Harry Hooper
Buffalo
Runt
DuBois boy 11 fatally hurt in accidental gun incident
In DuBois Pennsylvania on a May afternoon an 11 year old boy, Dick Swanson, died after a gun in the hands of a playmate was accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred at the Hibner home on Fourth Street where Swanson and two other children, James Crawford and Richard Hibner, were present. Witnesses could not clarify the sequence of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powell Motors Tulcanizing
Erle
Charles R. Barver
Soldiers and Sailors Home
Bamm
Wayne
George
Kercher
Ridgway
Michael J. Merveley
Center Street
B.& O. Railroad
Hite Long
Elk County
Providence Hospital
Washington, D. C
Wescote Supreme
Western Auto Store
Oil City
Ross J. Sims
Parkers Landing
R. 4
Richard and Irwin Company
Forest Oil Company
Clintonville
Hyde Foster
Bailie
Dubois
Dick Swanson
Richard Swanson
East Second Avenue
DuBois Hospital
James Crawford
Richard Hibner
Delos Hibner
Fourth Street
Hibner
Crawford
Allied air raids sink Axis planes and threaten regimes
Allied fighters and bombers score heavy losses for the Axis with 23 enemy aircraft downed in a day and 355 destroyed in the week. Soviet and Italian targets are hit across the Mediterranean as Churchill urges Italian leaders to abandon fascism while Axis allies show growing dissent and pressure over the Russian campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Cairo
Preveza
Creece
Pantelleria
Tunisia
Pnte
Terranova
Olbia
Licati
Porto Empedocle
Portoscuiso
Bobba di Falco
Sardinia
Sicily
Churchill
White House
Ttalians
Berling
Robert Wagner
Gailloiter
Alsace
Byron
Dte
Navi Party
Europe
Germany
Russia
Rumania
I Sispatches
Ankara
Transylvania
Hungary
Rumaniians
Russians report German setbacks and grim losses on key fronts
Russian dispatches say Germans yield to pressure despite reluctance to suffer more. Casualties mount on the Russian front as Prussian officers claim German revival is not crushed and warn of strong summer preparations. Four settlements northwest of Moscow retaken with over 100 Germans killed. Russian air force raids behind lines to disrupt supply and troop movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grmeans
Stalingrad
Don
Saucasus
Istaken
Moscow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Party Loaf
Can
Scott Tissue
Johnson
Wing-Willi Star Stores
I-Ib
Pillsbury
P&g
Page & Ferry
Corry Hospital
Donald Trisket
Herbert Trisket
West
Washington Street
Vera Abbot
Spring Street
Judy Coon
William Coon
North Center Street
L —Rewila
American Legis Auxiliary
Kutheran Church
Peck
Virginia Mix
St. Luke's Hospital
Cleveland
East Brady
East Benny
Chattanooga
Shambaugh
Dranmestown
Patrick P. Tobin
SS. Peter and Paul's
Jamestown
Ubal
Joseph A. Burke
Brle
Covell
Gale Ross
the Journal
Vaughan R. DeLong
Leigh Hall
Robert Anderson
Grand Valley
John Mangel
Charles Harvey
Plessantville
Turben
Meadville
F.X. Bowman
Cval Manger
West Rides Transportation Company
Meadville High School
Barkgrounds
Stanley Lukavich
Crawford County
Western Penitentiary
Loblaw‘s
Yolanda Trucco
Vincent Pepitelli
Cleols Jolson
Albert J. Bender
Audrey Carrier
Mendville
Louie J. Ie
Allegheny Coltene
Local Nation Board
Thomas J. Poley
Telis
John S. Wyatt
Port Meadville
Powell Motor Co
Rust G. Miller
Cory
North Girard
SS. Vincent Hospital
Titusville
Wilmington
Ripley
Lanston
South Center St
Long
Gabardine
Manhattan
Clototers
Flowerland
Jewell Flower Shop
Dial
THE
Bracken-Keating Company
Morticians
Yale
Walter Sn
Bdsel Fc
iContin Dow and
Denry
Ben Slaughter
Ter
Troit
Paine Rei
Passaic Ave
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!