Jury Ponders Fate of Death Car Driver Thurston
Jury weighs involuntary manslaughter charges against 46 year old Floyd D Thurston of Cambridge Springs in the death of Andrew Durasa 30 of Saegertown after a stop light incident at 1th and Sassafras Streets. Durasa was thrown from a vehicle that struck another car and halted about 50 feet from the crash. Witnesses testified as the state pressed its case Thurston contends he did not run the light. The case carries a $10 000 figure partly covered by insurance.
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Erly
Suv
Floyd D. Thurston
Cambridge Springs
Thurston
Andrew Durasa
Saegertown
1Th
Sassafras
Durase
Corry Post Office Rates Notice
Public notice from Corry Post Office outlining second class mail rates and display advertising deadlines. Details include annual and per-copy charges, mail by carrier and advance options, with rates applicable to restricted territory and a note on advertising rate inquiries.
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Corry
Agus Fabrication
City hears rumors of shooting in business district
Reports spread of an early morning shooting with twelve shots heard in the business district. A patrolman could not locate a source and a local doctor rumor proved false. A not guilty verdict was returned for two youths in a county court case involving breaking and entering and larceny. A robbery claim at Grand Confectionery Shoppe was debunked when missing money was found in a showcase. A new home is planned on Wright street, and five people escaped a fire that destroyed a farm home near Concord Gormers on Spartansboro road.
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Allor
Erte
Grand Theatre
Lawrence Kirenmen
Thomas Ingram
Concord Gormers
Spartansboro
State Health Dept Releases Smog Report
Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania Health Department ties Dahora’s location and warm weather to last year’s deadly smog. The 26 page document notes 20 deaths and more than 5000 sickened as the fog first enveloped the area October 27, 1948, mirroring U S Public Health Service findings.
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Harrisburg
Dahora
Pennsylvania Health Department
Pennsylvania
Joseph Shilen
Department
Bureau of Industrial Hygiens
U. S. Public Health Service
Rug theft at Rashid's Store offers 500 reward
A $500 cash award is offered for information leading to arrest and conviction of the thief or thieves who broke into Rashid's Store in Chautauqua between October 8 and October 10. Five rugs including gold embossed pill rug and several Sarouk pieces are missing. Police and sheriff investigated. shipment records briefly halted the probe.
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Chautauqua
Mayville
M. Rashid
Rashid
Pennsylvania
Clarence D. Bell
Sheriff's Department
State Police
I Q Test and World War II Era Economic Controls
A fragmented old page presents an IQ quiz with scoring tiers and a stray wartime note on price controls in the United States. It mentions figures like Ilse Koch and mentions postwar policy steps including controls lapsing and reimposition to curb inflation.
Record-breaking instalment credit rise in postwar period
Instalment credit jumped 774 million in the July to September quarter, bringing outstandings to 9.883 billion. The total exceeds 1948 year end by 1.289 billion and tops the 1941 prewar peak by 4 billion, with Christmas purchases yet to be included.
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Lay
United States
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Doris Garberry
Piercefield, N
Corry Hospital
Gladys Murray
W. M. Sandburg
Wright Streets
Smith and
Frederick
State Health Dept
Pittsburgh
W. Ath St
New York
Vornet Answers Square
Detroit
Pentelat Aea Ie & Band
Cleveland
Bis
Pittsburgn
Phiadelphia
Ilse Koch
Congress
Precius
VanCise
Yas Motor
Amith
Ine Mae
Buster
Center St
Powell
North Center Street
Topp
Smart Women's Shop
North Center Straat
Meerdink's Home
West Main and
Spring
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