Twenty Years Ago From Journal Files November 22 1932
City taxes for 1932 based on assessed valuation of 0 297 805 an increase over 1931. PTA Council endorses Christinas Seal campaign and discusses feeding undernourished children next week. Weather and yields in 1952 show high crop and livestock output with government price supports for feed grains. Agricultural outlook notes rain scarcity and price trends. farm indebtedness and assets shift. Police warn motorists about violations at intersections. Dr Hugh A O Hare installs new GE x ray machine. Leonard Frang opens a Tea Room near Spartan store pavement tomorrow evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Tax Revision and Appeal
C. McCray
PTA Council
Parent-Teachers Association
U. S
Agriculture Department
Department of Agriculture
Leonard Frang
Helen T. Mulderick
Paris
United Nations Educafional
Vatican
Rome
Ireland
Tocal
G D. Willett
Bash Main Street
Seal
Tra Wickwire
Concord Street
Local News Roundup Heads Into Holiday Pace
A long string of brief notices from Jamestown and nearby towns covers radio exams, political digs, courthouse quips, and retail shifts. Reports flag a return to old directory formats, rising Christmas spending, and a national drive to revive youth interest in flying amid locally uncertain management tensions and community updates.
Babson Lists 11 Headaches for Ike
A column previews11 challenges facing Dwight D. Eisenhower ten years after World War II. It highlights inflation, stock and real estate declines, congressional hurdles, and corruption as key pains that could affect housing, employment, and national policy in the early 1950s.
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Ike
Congress
Herbert Hoover
House
Washington
Government employment trends and Hoover’s collapse
The passage discusses government employees facing job trends and potential layoffs if taxes fall, noting that mass discharges would raise unemployment. It cites President Hoover as causing a collapse and a resulting low mood.
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Hoover
Ihut
Religion and the Nation's Need for Spiritual Awakening
A speech claims America must pursue a spiritual awakening as hard times fade if the nation sacrifices personal interests for the common good and avoids reliance on an administration, urging collective effort for national welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Quiz questions and mixed trivia from a 1960s page
A fragmented quiz asks about sacred Jewish days, FAWs initials, a nervous condition, Rough Riders commander, island chain, a city with a famous soup, Lusitania, Mecca’s country, Mr Suri buchis historic event, and the actor who played George Apley. It also notes farm land price trends and buying interest in the early 1950s plus convoy slicing in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Rough Riders
Chain of Islands
Areriska
Adak
East Side
West Side
Mecca
Lusitania
Mr. Suribuchis
George Apley
Elks Judge Ted Keefe Dead Notice Highlights Historic Attendance
The obituary notes Ted Keefe died this week, a longtime Elks official who presided at mediation meetings and served as outer guard for over two decades. It mentions rising attendance at sessions and a shift in club funds after slot machines were removed, with an estimated weekly drop of 400 to 500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Keefe
Toval Elks
Abldam
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North Center Street
Hugh A. O'Hare
J News
Jean Field
John Amacher
Trumian
GOP
Jamestown
North Warren
Erie County
Jude
David Thelin
Warren
Nex
Aero and
Raymond
Siume
Ouside Corry
Mead Park
Focal
Tom Burns
Sam Burns
Rex Theatre
Kinann
James L. West
Jamestow
Ths City
Mes
Margaret Hughes
van Buren Street
Babson
Delaware
Maryland
North Dakota
Texas
New England
Rocky Mountain
Northwestern
Pacific Coast
Britain
Loblaws
Cape Cod
Florida
Orchard Park
Loblaw
Tong Island
Morrell
Man Anahal
Vsitys
Thi Christmas Club
Santa
Citizens National Bank
Corry
Thomas Motors
of Corry, Inc
Homestead Chocolates
Whitman
Shrafft
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