Quiz Questions From A Memory Test Page
A mixed set of trivia prompts asks about catalogues meanings in booksellers lists, the city housing Army Medical Center and Walter Reed Hospital, the Balearic group for Majorca and Minorca, fruit edibility order for Persimmons, Arsene Lupin author, the Moonlight Sonata composer, Eisenhower appointments of Byrnes and Ford, Missouri Day date, a department store owner who was Postmaster General under Harrison, and the capital of Virgin Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Medical Center
Walter Reed Hospital
Majorca
Minorca
Arsene Lupin
Eisenhower
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Henry Ford
Missouri
Benjamin Harerison
Virgin
Twenty Years Ago From Journal Files October 12 1933
A Civil War veteran Christopher H Wolford aged 85 dies at his son’s East Main street home after two years of ill health. Two dogs bite locals Vincent Nielson Brook street sustains severe wounds and Robert Auer East Smith street suffers a deep gash. both treated by local doctors. Court Conception No 35 Catholic Daughters of America names officers for the year with Mrs Harold Cragg elected grand regent. Elm trees blamed on something other than Dutch elm disease per Harrisburg Agriculture Department. A. L. Hasbrouck displays a 38 pound squash from his West Wayne street garden, 20 inches long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County
Christopher H. Wolford
Robert
East Main Street
Mr. Wolford
Vincent Nielson
Brook Street
Robert Auer
Walter Auer
East Smith Street
Court Conception No. 35
Catholic Daughters of America
K. of C
Harold Cragg
Department of Agriculture
Harrisburg
West Frederick
North Center Streets
Steel Pricing and Freight Absorption Shape 1954 Market
The Steel weekly notes cost reductions driven by freight absorption and base price cuts. Producers will absorb selectively, with faster action on plentiful products like wire and pig iron, as competition returns and order books open for Q1 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel
Chicago
80000 Catholic Men March in Philadelphia Outdoor Mass
About 80,000 Roman Catholic men marched through downtown Philadelphia reciting the rosary for peace and conversion of the Communist world. A crowds of roughly 250,000 gathered on the Ben Franklin Parkway for the first outdoor evening Mass in archdiocesan history, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima. A glass-enclosed altar was set on the parkway center traffic circle with a 62 foot statue atop it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
United States
Fatima
Russia
Our Iady of Fatima
Covered Bridge in Erie County Destroyed by Fire
A historic 90 year old Law Bridge spanning Conneaut Creek on Ackerley Road in Springfield Township was destroyed by fire. Albion Volunteer Fire Department prevented total loss though flames gutted much of the structure. Cause undetermined. Three other historic covered bridges remain in Erie County near Girard Waterford Keepville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Erie County
Law Bridge
Springfield Township
Conneaut Creek
Ackerley Road
Ohio State Line
Albion Volunteer Fire
Gudgeonville | T Bridge
Girard
Waterford Boro
Keepville
Albion
One Assault Victim Presses Charges In Street Attack
A man identified as Holt, 58, was jailed on aggravated assault and battery after allegedly striking Ralph Flore of Erie with a cane during a confrontational street altercation. Flore required hospital care for scalp lacerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Take Holt
Eric
Ralph Flore
Erie
Arthur Omnits
Holt
Mere
Edward Johnson
Sred Lucas
Johnson
Woman awarded Workmans compensation in shower fall case
Cambridge Springs resident Helen Weiss, a hotel cook, was injured August 34 1947 in the Friedman Hotel shower room. Judge Burton R Laub ruled she was eligible for $5903.41 in compensation because her contract required her to be available on hotel premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Cambridge Springs
Burton R. Laub
Helen Weiss
Friedman Hotel
Laub
Weiss
Dummy Found In Street In Tulsa Police Probe
Tulsa police investigated a reported body in the street. They found a dress maker's dummy dressed in a shirt and khaki trousers, awaiting identification. Separate note mentions North Carolina's 1953 lamb crop estimated at 39,000 head, down from 34,000 in 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
North Carolina
Steel Market Gains Slightly as Demand Holds Steady
For steelmaking, halted last week. A slightly strengthened undertone lifted steel's composite price from the prior week 31.50 to 531.03. Demand remains steady supporting ingot output at high, unchanged levels. For the week ending October 8, production of steel for ingots and castings held at 95 percent of capacity.
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. L. Hasbrouck
West Wayne Street
Borstorff & Fitch
Insurance
Horton J. Davis & Son
Foster E. Davis & Son
N. Center
Manns
American School
Ohio
W. First St
Daytona
Orlon
Topp
Warren
FBI
Walter Whaley
George Gershwin
Woman's Club
F. M
Maore
Keystone
RCA Victorias
Davis
Corry
Pomona
Preasonall Financé Co
Center ST
Harry Hall
Phoenix
NEW Firestone
Barney
South Center Street
Aluel
FORD
Tata
Bnd
Powell Motor CO
Center Street
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