Midterm elections tied to presidential popularity across eras
The article surveys how presidential popularity has influenced midterm outcomes, comparing Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, and FDR. It notes mixed results: gains and losses in Senate and House seats across 1900 to 1954, with current Republican majorities described as paper thin and vulnerable. It also references the Battle of Hampton Roads and the Merrimac at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senate
T. R
GOP
House
Twenty Years Ago in Journal Files October 15 1934
The city plans reveal relief works with over fifty workers within a week and new projects including West Congress street repaying work and sewer construction on West Congress, West Frederick and King streets. A local theater group stages In the Money at the Senior High School October 23 and 24. Radiators freeze as temperatures drop to 16 degrees, the coldest night of fall. A swamp fire near Liberty Street prompts fire department response along with another blaze below Columbus. Mrs. Charles Kinley narrowly escapes injury after a car collision at Bond and Center streets. Sir Walter Raleigh referenced as paving the way for American settlement.
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N. R. Dickson
West Congress Street
West Congress
West Frederick
King Streets
News Happenings On Ravelin Hill Weekend Visiting Noted
Charles Palmer visited his grandparents on Ravelin Hill for a weekend then returned to camp in New Jersey. Numerous relatives and friends in Corry, Wattsburg, Erie, and nearby towns were listed in social calls, dinners, and church events through Sunday. Revival meetings led by Dr. Walter A Knapp in Youngsville were announced for October 11 to 24 with special music by Rev. and Mrs. Jack Marshall.
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Ravelin
Ravelin Hill
Charles Palmer
Ervin Palmer
New Jersey
Michael Peterson
Charles Edwards
Fred Peterson
Corry
Edwards Nn
Graydon Swett
Harold Sweet
Leonard Beckerink
Amos White
Richard Goggins
Dennis
Alton Burdick
Pauline
Harold Bromley
Violet Schutt
Marianette Sweet
Quy Gibbons
Roy Schutt
Syracuse
Dairymen's League
Veattre Dendore
Hédalog
Bertha Moody
Wattsburg
Norman McElroy
Eugene Garfield
Earl Burlingame
Irene Wil
Ams
James
George Hapgood
Carol
Edward Chambers
Carl Martin Jr
Marie Swartz
Panama
Carl Martin Sr
Erle
Garret van Erden
Charles Fardink
van Eden
Fred Martin
Harrington
Del
Carl Martin
Frank Martin
Youngsville
Walter A. Knapp
St. Petersburg
Fla.s
Marks Corners Evangelical United Brethren Church
Jack Marshall
Earl Bromley
Marks Corners
Buffalo Youth’s Past Checked by Police
Buffalo youth Jackson 20 and a 15 year old girl were picked up by city detectives on a tip and held at the county jail while officials determine if Jackson is wanted elsewhere. The girl was returned to her parents. Jackson, an ex convict with prior cases in Placerville Yuma Aziz and Springfield, remains jailed on an open charge.
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Erie
Nota
Wim Jackson
Buffalo
N. J
Alois Skonieczka
Jackson
Ted Voss
John Anthony
Western Union
10Th
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George R. Sample
Yvarice
The
Monitor
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Virginia
Waterford
Square Dancing
By Request
the Three Aces
Tallan - Elnora
Willard
Liberty Street
Columbus
Charles Kinley
West
Bond Street
Bond and
Center Streets
Kinley
Sir Walter Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth
America
Mather Decorators
Center
Ollie Brown
Sunset Ramblers
VFW Club
Meerdink’'S. Fas the
General Electric
Meerdink
House OF Furniture
Katherine
Little Davey
Marie
the National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurstice Corporation
U. N
Red China
Caribbean
Great Lakes
Bermuda
European
Motion Pictures Association of America
Samuel Goldwyn
Eric Johnston
Walt Disney
Louis B. Mayer
Humphrey Bogart
Abba Eban
Washington
Egypt
France
Ireland
Israel
Spain
U. S. Senate
Lebanon
Widmann & Teah
Corry Pharmacy
Orson & Nylon
Dodd
Al’s
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