Home accidents and Chicago housing oversupply raise safety and market concerns
A Cony Evening Journal report covers an 18 month period of accidents with 20 deaths in auto, 219 in industry, and 278 in homes due to falls and hazards. The piece notes safety education, laws, and caution as remedies and reports Chicago’s apartment oversupply after a postwar building surge affecting occupancy and rents in the high class market.
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Safety Council
Chicago
Black Diamond
Tuys
Game of Correct English by W L Gordon exercises
A scanned page presents a series of language exercises asking for correct sentence structure pronunciation and word completion. It lists tasks such as supplying missing letters forming vocabulary, choosing word forms, and identifying appropriate words for daily conversation.
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W.L. Gordon
Look and Learn trivia prompts mix Bible, colonies, science
Answers cover biblical Esau sold his birthright for porridge. Lord Baltimore helped found Maryland. Nobel invented dynamite. Tornadoes and hurricanes are different weather phenomena. There was a war between an African nation and the United States at times. The rest list appears as scrambled clues including Anne Nichols, squared number result, Lincoln Highway, hummingbird, Pompeii.
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Lord Baltimore
Nobel
U.S
Anne
Nichols
Lincoln Highway
Pompeii
Mercury Rod and Gun Club catches over 20 000 salmon and perch
The Mercer Rod and Gun Club reports over 20 000 fingerling length salmon and the same number of perch placed in Sandy Lake at Stoneboro during the past season.
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Mercer Rod and Gun Club
Sandy Lake
Stoneboro
Journey of J Russell Clarke Returns from Dawson Yukon
J Russell Clarke, eleven, arrived in Corry on train 12 Sunday at 3 am from Dawson Yukon Canada after leaving October 31 with his mother. Monseigneur Joseph Dunn died at St Titus church Titusville at 4 45 pm aged 58. Dan Grittin suffered a hand injury needing surgeon, Ty Skinner Jr joined Ames Co, Haydon Baker traveled on local business.
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J. Russell Clarke
George
Mary Th. Clarke
Corry
Dawson
Yukon
Canad
Vancouver
Joseph Dunn
St. Titus
Titusville
Ajax
Dan Grittin
Union City Theatre Co expands with Johnsonburg purchase
Union City Theatre Co Inc adds Long's Theatre of Johnsonburg Pa to operations. Deal closed last Saturday with possession Monday. New owners plan extensive interior remodeling wider seats, a new pipe organ, latest picture machine and redecorated foyer. John Friberg, who ran the Union City house, will move to Johnsonburg to manage the new theatre.
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Union City
Unionity Theatre Co, Inc
Long's Theatre
Johnsonburg
John Friberg
Union City Theatre
Our City
Gas stations robbed in Erie hold up case
On Wednesday night two gunmen, a white man and a Negro, held up the Parkway gas station at 3487 East Lake Road, escaping with 2.50 in receipts. The robbers were seen fleeing in a Ford coupe toward Erie after taking the day's takings from owner W I Suplee.
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Erie
W- Olds
Mgnt
Parkway
East Lake Road
W. I. Suplee
Entertain Scouts Banquet Brings Troops Together
Troop 2 of Boy Scouts will entertain the No 1 Girl Scouts troop from Cambridge Springs at a Saturday 7 PM banquet in the Presbyterian gym. The event aims to exchange ideas and share achievements with a program including demonstrations music and games assisted by local girls.
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Cambridge
Girl Scouts
Troop 2
Boy Scouts
Cambridge Springs
Presbyterian Gym
Trent
Freezing Showers Grip Pittsburgh as Snow Arrives
Near freezing air hangs over Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania with rain and snow flurries. Temperatures dip to 28 degrees in Pittsburgh as officials forecast more showers, light snow, and possible accumulations up to six inches in surrounding towns. Kane reports four inches, while Corry, Titusville, Oil City, and Franklin also note their first snow of the season.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Yesterda
U.S
Corry
Hornell
Kane
Titusville
Oil City
Franklin
Two Ridgway Girls Missing From Home Within Day
Two Ridgway girls Sara Horning 10 and Elizabeth Testa 4 vanished within 24 hours. Horning left 119 Main Street Tuesday evening toward the library, last seen on South Street, then disappeared. Testa, abducted recently by Dominic Albanese, left home about two o clock yesterday and has not been seen since, fear of ridicule keeping her from school.
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Ridgway
Sara Horning
Strand
H- B. Horning
Main Street
South Street
Miss Horning
Mildred Wamsley
Wamnsley
Mildred
Elizabeth Testa
Ralph Testa
Dominic Albanese
Albanese
German Heinkel plane leaves for Azores to North America
The Heinkel biplane Q 1220 piloted by Harty Merz departed Lisbon at 0 15 p m for Horta in the Azores en route to North America. Merz had said he would aim for North America from Horta when weather allowed as the craft rose smoothly and disappeared into the clear sky.
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Azores
United Press
Lisbon
Harty Merz
Horta
Payal
North America
Mere
Prohibition Agents Firefight. Deputy Sheriff Shot
In a wooded area near Tington four assailants fired on prohibition agents. Deputy Sheriff John W. Smith was struck in the chest and wounded. Federal agent Sam Burgers, state agents W. Lacey White and S. W. Burness, and other officers were hurt lightly as the attackers fled after the exchange of gunfire. Local sheriff’s patrols intensified searches for four men and the four assailants.
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United Press
Tington
Shieriff
Bubind Sree
Joh W. Smith
Sherif
Sam Burgers
W. Lacey White
S. W. Burness
Detroit Woman Kidnapped by Bandits
Mrs Bob McClellan wife of a Metielian production superintendent was abducted by two bandits who forced her to drive to Chicago She telephoned her mother and was released after the men demanded cash She testified she was shocked but unharmed in the harrowing trip through the night.
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United Crown
Detromn Midh
Bob McClellin
Ies Metielian
Ohmsler Moth Company
Chicago
E. Conner
McClellan
MeClellan
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Cony Evening Journal
Sui West South
Arthur Colsgrove
Ty Skinner, Jr
N. Po Ames, & Co
Haydon Baker
Union City Int
Everett
Kid Teathor
Ladies’ Union
Une Fon
Ladisbestie Supreme
the National Bank OF Corry
Federal Reserve
Heak
Golden Rule Sale
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center Street
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