Local notes include thefts, drama, and community events
A cluttered town roundup reports councilmen, a fire scare at Alexander Laundry, Will Rogers tribute, Erie inspectors, and a social calendar full of gatherings. Mentions Charles H Geiger fall and Melvin Cobbett moving to Massachusetts, plus sports buzz about Corry and Twin City pro eleven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Labor and Industry
Concord
Charles H. Geiger
Uctes Uw
Corty
Cliff Bliss
Kirk‘Burkhardt
Cleveland
al Duke
Third Ward
Melvin
Cobby) Cobbett
Massachusetts
Alexander Laundry
Bernard Cochran
Works Progress
Charley Keating
Erie
Jamestown Vi F. W-corps
Corry
Will Rogers
Ocean Gateways and the Suez Canal Controversy
A discussion of the Suez Canal as a critical global route linking Europe to Asia and Africa. Britain’s control and Italy’s challenge threaten potential conflict if Britain blocks Italian access. Growing calls for internationalization of key sea lanes, including the Panama Canal, reflect American interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Mediterranean
India
China
Japan
West Indies
West Africa
Great Britain
Suez Canal
Britain
Australi
Italy
Mussolini
Rome
Abyssinia
Indies
Mediterranean Sea
League of Nations
Panama Canal
Fascist Sway Over World Problems Urges Britain Italy Pact
Virginia Gayda argues in Journal of Italy that Britain should accept Italy’s designs and join in exploiting Abyssinia and surrounding areas to stabilize democracy. The piece criticizes Britain and other powers, claiming independence wanes and the United States stands nearly alone as guarantor of Allied aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Gayde
Royal
Mussolini
Gayda
Great Britain
Britain
Italy
Abyssinia
Western Hemisphere
United States
Washington's new public buildings surge reshapes the capital
Washington grows rapidly with a wave of monumental public construction. Officials say the city is the nation’s fastest expanding in both new building and population, as massive temples near the capitol rise. Locals note traffic and navigation challenges for visitors amid this architectural boom.
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Athens
Washington
Des Mille
Masalve
Tamoun
Great White City of Athens in Periclean Time
A compact note ties the phrase the great white city to ancient Athens under Pericles, invoking Browning’s praise of its beauty and splendor while noting its less monumental but enduring charm. The line underscores classical grandeur and poetic admiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roman
Athens
Pericles
Browning
Personality tested in Portland street department hiring
George Reis asserts personality as key to civil service tests in Portland Oregon. Street-cleaning applicants scored up to 87.5 on personality ratings, illustrating the idea through a tale of a white wing worker who eloquently extols sweeping duties and the nature of street refuse.
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Portland
Ore
George Reis
Fred Kelly
Billie Burke on staying young through activity and charity
Hollywood dispatch reports Billie Burke, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, urging women to stay mentally active after marriage. She cites a plan to educate mothers and aid motherless children and argues wealthy women could channel energy into child psychology and training. A separate Davenport note covers a dispute over rouge and visitors prompting a petition for attorneys.
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Hollywood
Billie Burke
Tove Plorenz Ziegfeld
Miss Burke
Paris styles Vera Borea sports clothes in fall looks
Vera Borea in Paris favors practical sports clothes with cocoa brown tones. ensembles include a tailored brown jacket, three-quarter sport coat, and belted skirt paired with pale blue blouse. Schiaparelli check wool suit features diagonal checks and a brown jacket with a full cape-like collar.
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Paris
Vera Borea
Coure
Schiaparelli
Higabethan
Star Signals September and November birthdates
Readings list general indications for all, with favorable but not decisive day notes. It warns a very changeable period for those born between February 2 and March 24, 1998 and notes money spending risk from January 1 to February 20, 1936.
Congressmen Drink Over 100 Bottles Of Beer Each
Washington dispatch notes statisticians estimate that in the house restaurant from session start to adjournment night, congressmen consumed about 48 217 bottles of beer, roughly eight cases per day. The figure may be off, and senators may differ in restaurant access. The report also covers Isamu Takeshita returning to Washington with a goodwill delegation of retired Japanese naval officers, his past as naval attaché, and the Japanese view of jiu jitsu as a tactical study. A separate note reports an accident in Kan in which a spark plug blew from a farm tractor, injuring a farmer.
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Uniseo Press
Washington
Congress
Teddy Roosevelt
Isamu Takeshita
Theodore Roosevelt
Takshita
Takeshita
United States
New Orleans
Washingto
Taken from the Journal Files September 4 1915
Seventy seconds of local items include low registration of voters with 887 on two days, a repaired macadam road north of the city praised as top quality, election of Knights of Columbus officers, Patrolman Wagner's motorcycle accident and injury, the Manley family’s summer departure for Dennison Texas, antique restorations by Frank Grice, and a card of thanks from the Sickler family for support during their mother Elisabeth Sickler's illness and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elisabeth Sickler
Hold One for Attack on Erie Negro Woman
Mrs. Rose Fambie a 5 colored boarding house operator in Erie is seriously injured. Slain Young a 48 year old Erie Negro is jailed on aggravated assault and battery charges. Fambie may have a fractured skull a broken arm and facial bruising.
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Erie
Ori
Rose Fambie
Sin
Ion
St. Vincertt's Hospital
Dames ‘Slim Young
Examination After Preschool Clinic In Erie
Dr J Z Strimple of Erie will visit the city Wednesday morning at 1 oclock to examine children vaccinated at the preschool clinic held last week. Unvaccinated children will be treated during this visit, announced by Mrs W L Peake, president of the Corry P T A Council, sponsors of the clinic. In Johannesburg a new circular shaft at Crown Wines reached 390 feet in 31 days, a possible new world record, surpassing the Randfontein record set nine years ago by 4 feet.
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Erie
Walie ‘Powell
Pittsburgh
Corry High
Corry
Charles J. Dutton
Golden Rule Club
Clymer
Company A
Indiantown Gap
Blaine Kincaid
Stanley
H. Nichols
John ©. Love
Jed J. Weaver
Pairview
Bill Swan
Butler
Indiana
Sparta
Journal Press
Arthur Colegrove
Suip
Harrisburg
Chautauqua Lake
Gollanbus
Rice
WEA
Cochran
Emerson Bartlett
W. E. Bartlett
Tarmer
American University At
Washington, D.C
Boake Carter
Hammermi
Clumdheon
Robert Ream
Cleveland, Olio, Orpheus Bmixle
Tniter
Charles 1 Dawe
Ie de France
New York
Moscow
J. Z. Strimple
Strimple
W. L. Peake
Corry P. T. , A. Council
Johannesburg
South Africa
Crown Wines
Randfontein
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Weinsweig
Navy
Kan
Lewis
Tomster
Knights of Columbus
Charles Kinley
John Dempsey
J. J. Murray
Arthur Steele
Walter Blair
M. J. Ressler
John Shields
C. W Lyons
Otto Mulderiel
Darby Dempsey
Carl Sullivan
F. J. McCarthy
W. C. Shields
Wagner
Dirs
Tryin Manley
Robert
Walter
Dennison
Texas
Iain Corry
Grice
Rochester Peaches
North East
Buffalo Road
A. J. Youngs
North East, PA
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NeWhouse
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