Plans Mapped to Combat Coal Bootleggers
At Harrisburg a meeting of the Pennsylvania Roll Coat Merchants Association will discuss plans to curb coal bootlegging from mine to consumer. Walter Gordon Merritt will outline enforcement strategies for the Baldy Act. Grover C Talbot will preside. Ralph D B Taggert will speak. topics include public weighmaster slips and a constitutional challenge in Dauphin County court.
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Pennsylvania Roll Coat Merchants Association
Harrisburg
Une
Walter Gordon Merritt
New York
Anthracite Institute
Grover C.talbot
State House of Representatives
Ralph DB. Taggert
Philadelpha and Reading Coal and Iron Co
Dauphin County
McKean County Death Claimed Natural Causes Not Homicide
John S. Sherwood eighty five died in his Turtle Point barber shop from natural causes not a homicide. He was found with a head cut at 8 20 am and died before medical help arrived. Authorities reported heart trouble and believed the fall while lighting a stove caused the injury.
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Port Allegheny
Gordon Potter
Kane
Joseph Schmidt
John Mehallick
Probe Crash Fatal to Two In Vicinity
Titusville reports a fatal automobile crash near Pleasantville claiming David Milton Wright Jr. 18 and Miss Katherine Dunham 25. Coroner J Irwin Zerbe will hold an inquest once Cecil Dunham recovers sufficiently. investigators examine the State and School streets scene and the wrecked two door coupe at Lore's garage.
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Titusville
Yenango County
J. Irwin “Zerbe
Highway
Literary Digest Poll Begins On F D R Policies
The Literary Digest launches a mass mail ballot poll of 10 million people to gauge current support for the New Deal and compare Pennsylvania results with other states. Ballots are secret, prepaid, and printed on tamper resistant cardboard. A prior 1934 poll showed 91.15 percent support. The ballot also asks how voters voted in 1992 to detect sentiment shifts since the last election.
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Corry
Dally
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Needlework Guild Meeting Announced for Friday Evening
Mrs. Foster E. Davis, president, announces a Needlework Guild meeting for Friday at 7 30 in the F B Davis office on North Center street. Members urged to attend and deliver garments to other directors before the date.
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Foster E. Davis
Needlework Guild
F. B. Davis
North Center Street
Will Durant to Lecture at Edinboro State
Noted author and philosopher Will Durant will speak at Edinboro State Teachers College on Wednesday evening November 20 on the subject A Gut Civilization Dying. A large audience is expected as Durant is highly regarded in intellectual circles.
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State Teachers College
Will Durant
Edinboro State Teachers College
Durant
Nan
America
Edinboro
Purpose of FCA to Buy Credit for Farm Co ops
W L Myers RCA governor states the Farm Credit Administration is not to lend government money but to buy credit for farmers from private markets at the lowest possible cost. He warns critics, notes expectation government will retire from lending by 1988, and that FCA will focus on cooperative credit with farmer borrowers eventually owning all permanent FCA institutions.
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Federal Farm Credit Administration
W. L. Myers
RCA
FCA
Venango County Returns to Dry Status in Elections
Venango County, previously dry after prohibition era, gradually voters against liquor. Oil City and Franklin allow beer and liquor sales, Rouseville and Millerton permit beer, four townships remain wet, and the rest of the county stays dry.
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L City
Venango County
Borouzis
Oil City
Franklin
Rouseville
Rnilenton
Farmers Embrace Self Reliance in Credit Cooperatives
The article notes that federal land banks and credit associations are built to stand alone. Farmers accept responsibility to repay government capital and view farm credit cooperation as a cost effective method of doing business, not a magic word.
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Mckean County
Turtle Point
Literary Digest
F.D.R
New Deal
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Corry, Penn
Sharon
W. H. Butemah
Sharpsville
Bateman
Red Cross
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Washington
Augusta E. Burton
Crors
Captain Brown
Chevrolet
Oh Coyle Coe
Fisher
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
G.M.A.C
General Motors
Flint
Michigan
Motor Bear of Elks Club
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