Rally of Business Strength and a Possible Recovery
Business Week argues the six month slide may be ending and a sustained upturn could carry through most of 1948. It notes rising steel and electric output, rail shipments, textiles, and appliance trade in Australia, with consumer income and spending up while retail sales for the first half are lightly under last year only due to price drops. Personal savings hit record levels, suggesting broad purchasing power.
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Miid
Business Week
Local factory shifts, groundbreakings and layoffs noted
Bam Irvine resigns as handles manager and moves to Dayton to head National Steel Products. Frank Parsons and Son break ground on a new modern factory for L. and W. Aver leather valve cup makers on East Wayne near Congress. Hagedown Construction to start work immediately on four mile Spartansboro road project. Firefighters battled two freight car fires at Standard Automatic Products. bowling league elected officers with Ray Burr as president. Economic outlook cites limited price declines and potential boosts from wage demands and government spending.
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Bam J. Irvine
Prank Parsons and Son
General Contractors
W. W. Aver
East Wayne Streat
Congress
Framlis Harvey
Roundup of Corry area notes and city updates
Roaming column reports a city plant restricted medicinal supplies after an employee drank alcohol from a medicine bottle. Oil City conductor George Band, long known to residents, was involved in a freight train incident near Petroleum Center. Auto makers push large inventories, dealers brace for pressure and higher trade ins. Gas service delays in the eastern city area due to a new main replacement, with the Smith North Center sign and chamber of commerce directing traffic. Street work at Wright and Smith may delay paving this year, awaiting sewer chamber, likely three weeks to build. No charges expected in an assault case outside a fraternal club. Perry Collier and A. G. Buller noted as sidewalk superintendents at the East Smith street storm sewer project. Cory Days sales draw strong retailer participation. Perry Follett reports to Lackland Air Force Base for 18 weeks of training. Jed Kibble, film actor and Kay Kyser collaborator, is cousin of Ajax Iron-Works chief accountant. Elks Chorus plans new talent for fall and winter season. Employment office data for National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week shows about 4,000 in the Corry-Erie area with impairments.
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Rock and Key
George Band
Oil City
Petroleum Center
Perl Harmon
South Second Ave
Nue
Smith
North Senter Streets
Chamber of Commerce
Wright and
Perry Collier
A. G Buller
East Smith Street
Roger L. Follett
Hazen
Ajax Iron-Works
Elks' Chorus
National
Corry-Erie
Corry notes on employment, law, and local events
Local organizations back hiring the physically handicapped as good business practice. Charles P. Keating marked another birthday on Wednesday. A Corry man drove an unlicensed car across the state without police stopping him until arrival. Officials report a string of counterfeit or worthless papers turned in by a local merchant. 31 Pennsylvanians joined the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, the world’s largest dairy registry. Paul Phelps awaits bar exam results while clerking in Attorney Walter Scott’s office. A U S All fore flyers may be coming to town for a speaking engagement in November. A chiropractor contemplates opening in Corry. Wesley Allen joins Smiley dry goods in Union City. Rumor circulates about “one armed” slot machines being seized in Jamestown. Harold Thompson faced investigation for real estate license issues. Thompson’s trial allegedly involved mayoral confidants and threats of exposure.
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Howard Emerson
Pennsylvania
Arthur Morris, Corry
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Paul Phelps
Walter
Scott
U. S
Pacific
Rade Rickenbacker
Christian Service Organization
WSO
Wesley Allen
Union Jolly
Smiley Dry Goods
Union City
Jamestown
Harold Thompson
Thompson
Stroth
How's Your I. Q. If You Can Answer All 10 Questions Correctly
A reader asks about IQ ratings and scoring, listing ten questions from a classifieds page. It questions the nursery rhyme figure who met the pieman, asks where Waterloo was fought, and whether rat snakes and cobras are poisonous, prompting readers to turn to the classifieds for answers.
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Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Napoleon
Language quiz and historical questions batch
A set of questions asks about phrases meanings capitals and saints. It includes asking the president called Father of the Constitution and the patron saint of Scotland, along with inquiries about John Paul Jones, Union blockade bases, and a 1977s ship.
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Tina
United States
Mame
Scotland
John Paul Jones
France
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