Democrats Cultivate New England for 1950 Elections
President Truman’s lieutenants push a two day New England conference in Boston as Republicans gain ground in the region. The piece notes New England’s mixed past with Hoover and Roosevelt, 1948 electoral splits, and 1950 congressional prospects amid regional voting patterns. It highlights shifts in Senate and House seats, with Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut showing varied loyalties.
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England
Truman
New England
Des Moines
San Francisco
Boston
Hoover
Roosevelt
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Dewey
Congress
Senate
House
OPA
Chester Bowles
Massachusetts
Saltonstall
Twenty Years Ago News Notes November 15 1929
Items from the journal reveal traffic light proposals near Smith Street to shield Third Ward Junior High students, a warm welcome for Rev Ernest Hook and his wife at First Baptist Church, a fox panther hunt yielding a fox pelt, J T Costello leasing 765 East Main for a modern grocery and meat market, a small stove fire at Washington Lunch quickly contained, and Merley Capwell purchasing the East Main confectionery formerly run by O C Kapp to reopen tomorrow.
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J. T. Costello
East Main Street
Merley, Capwell
Corry Young Man
O. C. Kapp
Mr. Capwell
How's Your Q memory test on Sherman and more
A vintage quiz list asks 10 questions from Civil War Sherman to modern topics like copper hardening and patent usefulness. Includes queries on Madeira Islands, Alexander Daniels novel hero, Norden instrument, assay occupations, Labuan Island location, and early Marconi wireless experiments with dates.
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Sherman
Sea
Atlanta
Ga. What Was General Sherman
Washington
Linvolt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Madeira Islands
Edmund Danies
Alexander Danies
U.S
Labuan Island
Thieves Take 1760 From Erie Theater Safe
Erie reports a Monday early morning break in at Shea's Theater where a torn safe was found by porter Ferdinand Raab. Det Sgt Joseph Scully investigated, noting the safe opened with theater tools. Between 12 20 am and 7 20 am the safe yielded 1160 in bills, no signs of external entry observed.
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Erie
Shea
Ferdinand Raab
J. Vance Minton
Joseph Scully
Pair Arrested in Waterford Break-ins Near Erie
State Police arrested Waterford residents Douglas Bruce Ferguson 32 and his twin brother Robert Burns Ferguson 32 and Erie man John W. Hall 20 for a series of burglaries in Indian Head Hill, Waterford area. All pleaded guilty before Alderman William Heisler and are held for court without bond. Bill Robinson in New York veteran dancer 71 ill with heart ailment in hospital. condition serious but not in crisis.
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Waterford
Erie
Intian Head Hill
Waterfort
John Mehallick
Douglas Bruce Ferguson
Trad
Robert Burns Ferguson
John W. Hall
Fergusons
Hall
William Heisler
Bill Robinson
New York
Bill "Bo- Jangles" Robinson
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Robinson
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Board of Education
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Center
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REX Theatre
Paul Douglas
Linda Darnell
Celeste Holm
Goodrich
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DeSoto-Plymouth Dealer
First Avenue
Anthony Cooper
Robert Morton
Aetna Automobile Liability Insurance
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Bette
Cma
Aey
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Barl Haigat
Sibachi
Guy Rogers
Lena Cohen
Ralph Carroll
Rodacolor
Patterson Photo Products
Claud H. Lictus, Clymer
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C.S. Wallace
Gerald Hoyt
C. M. Howard
Moore
Mrs. Allen Gates
C. F. Cook
Johnson Bros
McCormick-Deering
International Harvester
John Bolerats
Leroy Borstortt
Goodrich Litenturs
Spiesman’s Shoe Store
Myx
Leland Wilcox
Mrs
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Studebaker Truck
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