Primary election week ahead and local notices
Primary election looms as voters prepare. McCray church dinner slated for this evening. General Motors reports August sales highest since 1929, with total car and truck sales in the U S reaching 127 46 compared to July figures. Odd Fellows from northwestern Pennsylvania meet in Meadville for IO C Fy Home Association session with reports and trustees elected. Richard W. Schubacker, 36, noted writer and financial editor, dies in New York. private funeral held. Salary boosts and cuts shown at Harrisburg highway department with 16 employees affected. American Legion Post and Columbus Men's Club plan Labor Day review, receipts noted. Giants beat Pirates 4 3 in first game of doubleheader. Castleman and Blanton pitched. Queen of Tonga to broadcast in U S with English translation by Edward W Beattie. John P Bingham campaigns for county commissioner. strong rural support anticipated. Milk distributors in Philadelphia pay 21 1 2 cents premium for milk from Pennsylvania. direct shipment costs discussed. Federal Emergency Relief Agency orders transit relief reductions. no transients after Sept 20. National Rifle Association President’s Match at Camp Perry underway with final at 1000 yards tomorrow. Banana hook news: an 86-pound fish caught with banana bait. roosters ride drive shaft in Orleans, Massachusetts, a truck stowaway tale.
Cochran urges more WPA projects in area
Erie September 10 Bernard Cochran WPA supervisor for northwest Pennsylvania urges field workers to secure more projects to provide work for more men in the district. He notes projects are arriving but weak spots must be fixed so the district can draw needed funds to reduce relief rolls. He says staff stay available beyond normal hours to handle urgent matters.
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Erie
Bernard Cochran
WPA
Pennsylvania
Steps Toward Abolition of Ven. Tax Taken
Oil City Sept 10 Venang County commissioners moved to abolish the four mill real estate tax in 1986. The action aligns with campaign pledges by Commissioners Johr N Marks and John E Ritchey. Ritchey asked Major D I James to convene a sinking fund meeting to transfer 185000 from Crawford estate tax to the sinking fund, and to use 135000 from the general fund for retiring lands and paying interest and state taxes on them. A sinking fund meeting was called for 2 pm tomorrow.
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Oil City
Venang
Johr. N. Marks
John E. Ritchey
James
Sinking Fund Commission
Commission
State Police Open War on Lotteries
Harrisburg Sept 10 Major Lynn G Adams superintendent of state police declared war on promoters of lotteries numbers games and slot machines he said are ostensively patronized by persons on relief rolls He warned against professional gamblers using organizations as fronts The raids in Norristown and Pottsville showed tickets sold over several states with large prizes he called lotteries the biggest racket today patronized by those with money to gamble when they have none for food
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United Place
Harrisburg
Lynn G. Adams
Adams
Norristown
Pottsville
Real Estate Tax Transfer to Meet Bond Payments
The notice states that the mill real estate tax has just sufficed to meet bond payments and that transferring $185,000 will eliminate the need to impose the four mill real estate tax in 1936.
New angles stated in death of Venango man
Franklin Sept 10 Wiley Catshall driver of a taxicab involved in the death of John M Rial 31 of Bleakley Hill said Rial showed no blood on his face or lips when he got into the cab or during the ride home Blood appeared on Rial’s lips according to George Mihlder who spoke near Rial’s home Rial had been drinking heavily for days and vomited blood in Alderman Elioct’s office An autopsy disclosed a small fracture of the skull behind the inner ear Coroner Zerbe will reveal findings at the inquest scheduled for midweek
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Franklin
Wiley Catshall
Foxicab
John M
Jack) Rial
Blealdey Hill
Rial
George ‘Miliéder
Fial
Mihleder
Maurice P. Breene
J. B. Elioct
Irwin Zerbe
Woroner
Zerhe
U S Trains New Type Indian Medicine Man
Washington Sept 10 A new type of Indian medicine man Jet was trained at the government school in Phoenix Arizona. Students returning to their tribes after completing a practical course in Red Grass first aid received first aid certificates. During the past year 476 pupils were certified through the Murray copa County Red Cross chapter.
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Washington
Jet
Phoenix
Ariz
Murrycopa County
Red Cross
New Income Tax Law Non Retroactive Under Roosevelt Act
The fiscal measure signed by President Roosevelt becomes effective with no retroactive application, marking the first revenue act fully prospective. It keeps the 4 percent baseline on individuals, raises top rates to 75 percent after 1995, adjusts corporate brackets, taxes dividends at 10 percent, and shifts capital stock, excess profits, estate and gift tax rules with various implementation dates through 1988 and beyond. The act also introduces estate tax changes, gift tax deferrals, and allows executors to elect estate valuation as of a later date.
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White
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Sessions Planned
Mele gates from state wa counties will attend the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School sessions in Lewistown from October 9 to 11. Dr Harold McAfee Robinson acting general secretary ICREE to deliver the opening sermon. About a dozen denominations expected as delegates. Music led by Walter D. D. Eddowes of Philadelphia.
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United Press
Lewistown
Pennsylvania
Harold McAfee Robinson
International Council On Religious Education
Muisle
Walter D. D. Eddowes
Philadelphia
Needlework art booms Gor ky U S 8 R Women
Women embroiderers in Gorodetz near Gorky toil on needlework for England and France. They create piscin slips table cloths sheets and towels with original designer patterns.
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Gorky
U. S
Gorodetz
England
France
Exoneration in Fatal Kane Auto Crash Six Months Later
Kane reports a coroner's jury cleared two drivers of blame in a three-vehicle crash near Kane last March. Frost died minutes after his sedan collided with a coupe driven by Charles Kannel. New witnesses in the six months case say Kannel's car had been ahead of Ham mar's, with Sennel injured and confined.
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Kane
Kannel
Hammar
Kariel
Watchmen Guard Boot Jack Road Crash on Curve
Ridgway Sept 10 One minor accident reported on Boot Jack at 5 20 yesterday morning a large truck skidded into a ditch no injuries noted two highway watchmen with red flags were on duty guiding traffic one man at bottom of the hill and the other at the top due to the storm
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Ridgway
Boot Jack
Snell Washington Derbyshire City House
A fragmented OCR item mentions Snell Washington and a city house project with unclear attribution and dates. Readable bits point to a local housing or municipal reference, but details are too incomplete to confirm scope, location, or participants.
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McCray
General Motors
United States
Meadville
I 0. C. Fy Home Association
Brie
Richard W. Schubacker
New York
Highway Department
American Legion Post
Men's Club of Columbus
Columbia
New York Giants
Pittsburgh Pirates
Castleman
Giants
Blanton
Bucs
John P. Bingham
North Fast Township
Friends
Bingham
State Milk Control Board
Horace Rhodes
Stonree-Willstones
Aubrey W. Williams
FERA
Camp Perry
Honolulu
Hawaiian
David Soares
Soares
Rooster
Orleans
Mass
Harold Cummings
Cummings
Cochran
Sinkig Fund Commission
Licaerroe
Lynn Adams
Venango
Boot Jack Road
Tomcto Coy
Ues
Ing
Snell T Wash
Dertrand Ity House
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