Progress with construction of dam at Tionesta
In Warren on Sept 12 progress on the flood control dam near Tionesta allows visitors to view the project. The diversion tunnel reaches 540 feet, the river shifted to the right bank, and the intake structure stands about 30 feet high. Visitors may walk near the site Sundays but cannot enter the tunnel. Plans call for a hilltop observation platform and a high intake structure rising about 150 feet as snow falls.
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James K. Herbert
Tionesta
Dodge Silver Anniversary to feature Safety Light speedometer
Detroit reports details of the upcoming Dodge Silver Anniversary model with a new Safety Light speedometer. The gauge uses a color changing bead instead of a moving hand, green for 0-30 mph, amber for 30-50 mph, red beyond 50 mph, helping drivers read speed at a glance without looking away from the road. In Boston, Richard Hayes 19 fainted after being hired at a down‑top shop, his job offer shock causing him to collapse.
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Detroit
Dodge
Boston
Richard Hayes
Hanes
Kayak Design and Eskimos Use in Arctic America
A historical note describes the kayak used by Eskimos in Arctic America. It is a wooden frame covered with sealskin and a decklike cover to keep water out. The text also mentions that spelling kayak backward yields yakay, still a kayak.
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Arctic America
Relief Load Continues to Increase in State
The week before Labor Day saw a rise in general assistance in the state Department of Public Assistance with 3,736 new cases affecting 6,814 people. Private industry showed improvement though WPA losses added 872 net new cases. By Sept 3 total general assistance reached 212,391 cases (680,726 people) with expenditures up 12 Bab. Reasons for openings included loss of private or WPA work and cessation of unemployment benefits. closings mostly due to new private jobs or higher wages.
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Department of Public Assistance
Federal
WPA Projects to Start in Erie District
Five WPA projects begin this week employing 255 men in Erie Crawford and Warren counties. Erie project allocates 50 919 dollars to build a sanitary sewer on Hart road and 20th street with manholes. Titusville work includes paving Spruce Place and installing a storm sewer with catch basins and laterals costing 3 800 dollars. Warren projects cover free library maintenance and magazine repair plus a retaining wall and sidewalk on South Park street Warren.
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Erie
WPA
Guy Cleaver
Cleaver
Hart Road
20Th Street
Crawford
Warren
Titusville
Spruce Place
Linden Alley
Warren Covnty
South Park Street
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District Meet of Nurses in Warren District
Warren hosts the District 7 Pennsylvania State Nurses Association gathering on September 17 with Warren General Hospital Alumni Association planning entertainment. District members cover Warren, North Warren, Erie, Sharon, Meadville, Corry, Union City, Titusville, and Oil City. Miss Hulma Pearson chairs the arrangements committee. Unemployment claims caused 1,256 discontinutions and seven discontinued for other reasons.
Detailed Penns Detour Plan Aims Clear Guidance
United Press reports Pennsylvania highway officials plan to place large black on white roadside maps before detours. Maps will show the detour route, miles off the regular road, and road conditions. Follow up signs will guide motorists with arrows and a large you are here arrow at the end of the detour.
Hitler vows to resist suppression as war threat grows
Continuously reported front page notes Germany will not tolerate suppression while preparing for invasion. Belgium plans to destroy roads and railways to slow attackers. Switzerland stocks mine emplacements on the border to blow critical transport routes. Hitler uses an army review at Nuremberg to urge unity against external foes and cites Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. Prague houses a bomb proof shelter for the US legation amid Czech inquiries. Czech government wary of martial law if Sudeten tensions flare. Bucharest hints at possible Soviet troop passage via Romania. Bonnet informs the French cabinet on the war threat.
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Switzerland
Nuremberg
Hitler
Zeppelin Meadow
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Reich
United States
Legation
Prague
Actus
Sudeten
Bucharts
Roumania
Bonnet
Funeral for J. W. Jordan Held in Titusville
Funeral services for J W Jordan formerly of Corry Titusville Grove City Ia and resident of Gaylord Michigan were held this afternoon at 2 20 at the Cummings Funeral Home in Titusville The Masonic Fraternity conducted the service Jordan died in Mercy Hospital Grayling Michigan on Friday September 6th.
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E. W. Jordan
Local obituary fragment reveals survivors and kin
Survived by his wife, one son, Wi bur R. Jorden, of Corey, a author, Mrs. R. J. Garrett, of Cleveland, C., and niece, Mrs. F. L. Allebach, of Emlenton, Pa.
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Bur R. Jorden
Corey
Auutor
R. J. Garrett
Cleveland, C
FL. ‘Allebach
Emlenton
Meaning of Litotes in a Dictionary Entry
The term litotes is a figure of speech in which a strong affirmation is conveyed through the negation of its opposite. Examples include a storm of no small force and a matter of no slight significance to emphasize intensity by understatement.
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