Local photographer faced with client complaints over undelivered portraits
Area families accuse a local portrait photographer of taking down payments and failing to deliver portraits on the promised date. Police action is sought as complaints mount, with prior mentions of discontent from home portrait clients and ongoing parish veterans affairs discussions in the region.
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Veterans’ Affairs
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Health and Welfare Fund
Community Chest
Bigaroy
Corry Board approves school tax installments and local sale ends
The Corry Board of Education approved installment payments authorized by the July special session to fund 1932 school taxes. H. Stennett and Son store, a longtime Corry retailer, announces a closing sale as A. A. Stennett prepares to retire. The district also trims janitor wages as part of a salary retrenchment plan for 1932 38, amid a street scuffle involving two women and nearby police intervention.
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George Wilson
Erle County
Sam Roberts
Cortyltes
Cleveland
New York
Jerry Needham
High School Athlete Association
Hugh O'Hare
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
California
Florida
New Jersey
Michigan
Leo Whaley
Charles E. Whaley
King Street
Indiana University Medical Center
West Inghouse
U.S
Board of Education
Boon in New Power Sources From Gravity to Sun
Babson reflects on evolving power sources from wind and tides to atomic and solar energy in American industry. He notes sun heated homes in the South and New England experiments, while gravity wave research at the Animus Conference imagines free power for farms and cities, urging caution and curiosity about future tech.
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Babson
New England
Gloucester
Atamiza Base
Staatic
Thenel
Conant
Harvard University
Florida
Gravity Research Foundation
New Boston
New Hampshire
Washington Monument
Social Security raises monthly benefits with October checks
Area residents receiving old age and survivors insurance will see automatic increases in October. Congress boosted most monthly payments by amounts ranging from five to several dollars depending on eligibility, with dependents and survivors also gaining. Checks mailed October 3 will reflect the higher totals, increasing total area payments from about 500,000 to 685,000 dollars.
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Congress
Elth
Bernard A. Fernbaugh
Area Social Security Office
Evie
Federal gambling tax stamps face constitutional challenges
The piece details gamblers evading $50 tax stamps on bets, with 92,401 buyers but only 3,950 renewing. Judges Welsh in Philadelphia and a California case deem stamps unconstitutional, while big syndicates remain active. Tax yields fall short, enforcement weak, and Supreme Court rulings lean against immediate invalidation.
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Fgar
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Congress
U.S
Welsh
Philadelphia
Calfornia
2Nd Congress
Senate
Bureau
Supreme Court
The earths atmosphere extends beyond mile markers
A brief note states the earths atmosphere reaches about six hundred twenty miles above the surface. It places the extension at a rough, general distance without precise boundaries, reflecting a common early scientific estimate.
Quake Shakes Paso Robles With Minimal Damage
An aftershock-like quake was felt in Paso Robles, California, last night with no reported damage. The tremor registered near 469 miles west and slightly north of Bakersfield, following earlier shocks in the region. Magellan’s voyage remains noted as completed after his death in the Philippines.
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Paso Robles
Calif
Bakersfield
How's Your I Q 4f You can answer all
A fragmented quiz from a classified page presents ten questions on biblical tales plays American history exploration and language. Items include Lot's wife salt or stone, a Saroyan play, Atlantic settlements dating, Barrymore's fame, U S Virgin Islands, Buena Vista in 1947, word origins, polygamy among Shakers Quakers or Mormons, counting a certain number of legs, and a tropical fruit nicknamed midshipman's butter.
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Lot
Saroyan
Atlantic Seaboard
America
John Barrymore
United States
American Virgin Islands
Spain
Denmark
Netherlands
U. & General
Buena’ Vista
Fiery sky object sparks saucer talk across four states
A fiery streak with a greenish white glow was seen last night over Maryland to Tennessee, prompting saucer chatter. Weather Bureau observers in Baltimore offered no official report, with one anonymous observer noting it likely a meteor. Sightings spread from Baltimore after 8 p m to Frederick Hagerstown Cumberland and beyond, drawing calls to Weather Bureau Naval Observatory and the Pentagon. No radar detections were recorded in Washington.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Tennessee
Weather Bureau
Wesh
Frederick
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Charleston
Wheeling
Parkersburg
W. Va
Washington
Naval Observatory
Pentagon
Washington Area
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Meryl H. Geisking
U. & Steel Company
Witile
Dale Fleming
Kearsarge
Stanley Blair
West County
W. A. Thomas
Dem
Treasury
Veterans Affairs
Erie VA
Reptem
Erie County
U. S. Bureau of Internal
Brié
Babbitt
Musk
Clarence A. Shoop
Gerryite
Clarence Shoop
East Frederick Street
Ita
Kinley Insurance Agency
Beau Ene
Ponsonad al
Cor Finance Co
Chizoun Co
Si, Cobby, Ral
Massayer
Magellan
Phillippines
World
Kinney Plumbing CO
Columbus
Janteen
Jantzen
LEED
RCA Victor Lambert
RCA Victor
PCA
Victor
Southa Lambert
Davis
RADIO
Television
Corry
Fogle Lumber CO
Franklin St. Corry, Ps
Buddy
Loblaws
Orchard Park
Royal Manor
Ajax
Long Island
Thomas Motors of
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