366 Days of Progress promise a New Year of public service
The railroads in our state report higher revenues in 1936 and have reinvested in passengers and shippers, funding mills that supply equipment to keep trains moving. Prosperity benefits citizens, while proposals raising rail costs and reducing traffic harm public service and employment. sincere thanks are extended to railroads Baltimore & Ohio, Bessemer & Lake Erie, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Delaware & Hudson.
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Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co
Bessemer & Dake Erie Railroad Co
New Jersey
Delaware, Lackawanna &, Western Railroad
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation
ITEMS OF INTEREST AND PERSONALS
Mr and Mrs Hal G Donahey and son and Miss Ilene Donahey from Pittsburgh and East Pike visited Christmas with Mrs Donaheys parents Mr and Mrs T H Stanley. Many families shared Christmas with relatives in McKeesport Johnstown and Oak Street. Birth announced: J A Gray Brushvalley couple welcomed an 11 pound son born December 24. Visitors include Doctor and Mrs H F Tomb and Jessie from Johnstown and Mrs Callie Wilson. Guests from Chicago New Kensington and Linesville. Subscribe for the Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal G. Donahey
East. Pike
Ilene Donahey
Pittsburgh
J. A. Gray
Brushvalley
J. N. Elder
School Street
H. F. Tomb
Jessie
Callie Wilson
Johnstown
W. J. Jack
Chicago
Jack Strause
Betsy Wane
New Kensington
George Little
Oak Street
The Card Sharper Emeroch in a Florida Poker Plot
In a Wall Street circle, Milton and Aurelius Smith suspect a mysterious Austrian poker star named Emeroch. Emeroch uses a cane with a hidden mirror to cheat by reading opponents’ hands, while feigning a limp. The group uncovers the deception on a lawn before supper. Indiana Democrat and its advertisers wish everybody a prosperous New Year.
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Ilton
Wall Street
Florida
Multon
Aurelius Smith
America
Europe
Emeroch
Milton
Emerech
Smith
Emeredh
Emerich
Flo
Pemerogh
Indiana Democrat
Home Building Up in Last 10 Months
Washington reports Americans spent 119 percent more on home building in the first ten months of this year than 1935. Perkins notes broad gains across construction, with October permits up over September and year over year increases in residential and non residential sectors. New York City leads with 16.3 million dollars in October building activity.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Perkins
New York
Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Labor Department
Detroit
Milwaukee
Middle Atlantic
New York City
Movies Used to Assist Study in 8806 Schools
California leads in educational film use with 849 projectors and 70 production cameras as audiovisual instruction grows nationwide. New Jersey follows in cameras with 58, while New York tops projector counts at 1,298 and Pennsylvania holds 958 for about 1.5 to 1.9 million students in each state.
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San Francisco
Calif
United States
University of California
California
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan fossil field found by WPA workers
Oscar H. Reinholt, geologist and mining engineer, says the fossil field found by WPA blasting in Iron Mountain places Michigan's Upper Peninsula as older than Saratoga Springs, with ancient life dating about 1.5 billion years ago. The new field lies between the north and south iron veins on the Menominee Range.
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Michigan
WPA
Iron Mountain
Mich
Oscar H. Reinholt
Upper Peninsula
Saratoga Springs
Menominee Range
Wheat to be grown at Cartier landing site in Vimy
Seeds of wheat collected at Vimy will be sown in Canada on the site where Jacques Cartier first landed more than 300 years ago. The plan to plant wheat from Flanders was urged by the Vimy mayor, a World War veteran.
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Cartier
Vimy
France
Canada
Jacques Cartier
Flanders
Jack Rabbits Drain Crops Prompt Statewide Concern
Denver reports a Colorado survey by the biological division shows jack rabbits as major crop pests. The study finds 11.8 rabbits equal the feed of a 120 pound sheep and 58.8 rabbits equal a 750 pound cow. Farmers fight rabbits with poisoned cats guns and drives culminating in large drives that yield piles near 10 000 rabbits.
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Denver
Colorado
Colorado Biological Division
Plans to Restore Fort in Arizona Are Approved
Plans by the National Park Service to restore Fort Lowell eight miles northeast of Tucson to its 1960s and 1970s appearance received final approval in Washington. A CCC camp will be stationed there this winter to reconstruct the commandant's quarters and hospital while preserving remaining buildings. A cottonwood lane once famed at the fort will be replanted.
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Arizona
Tucson
Ariz
Lowel
National Park Service
Washington
CCC
Lowell
Desert Fort
Yachtsmen Annex Isle in Name of King Edward
Four Sydney yachtsmen formally annex a tiny island, named Ellis Island, in the southern Pacific near Elizabeth Reef, about 600 miles northeast of Sydney. The land, formed by a coral reef, rises about ten feet above sea level and had never been chartered before.
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Sydney
Edward VII
New Fand
Pavisle
Elizabeth Reef
Ellis Island
Lights of New York column on Hidden cabaret charges
WPA worker James Leftwich challenges city cabaret practices after a birthday night out reveals unseen location charges. Police scrutiny leads to a hearing, revised regulations requiring clear disclosure of all charges at entrances and on table cards. Other items note columnists’ anecdotes and a duck yielding gold nuggets in Ohio.
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James Leftwich
WPA
Leftwich
Thei
Corn Grows High on Montrose Ranch at 8000 Feet
A fragmentary report notes Mr and Mrs Goss and the Hotchkiss family growing corn at an altitude of 8000 feet on their ranch near Portland Colorado. A stray quote references someone named She speaking about art and a man described as garlic-eating. The item appears mixed with unrelated strings.
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Montrose
Colo
Goss BF
Hotchkiss
Portland
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the Railroads of Pennsylvania
Eeeto
Eeto
Leemon Taila
Associated Railroads of
Erie Railroad
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mt, Railroad
Lehigh & New England Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
New York Central Railroad Co
New York, Ontario & Western Railway
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh & Lake Exile Railroad
Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern
BR. Co
Reading Company
Western Maryland Railway Co
T. F. McCarthy
James Black
McKeesport
Mrs. Black
Mrs. McCarthy
William Short
Linesville
Blaine Short
Short
Linesville High School
Mr. Short
Linesville Hatchery
Harry Hancock
Rochester
N. Y
Ars. A. M. Silvis
Armstrong Township
Hancock
Silvis
Indiana
Democrat
Che
Household Magazine
Needlecraft
Woman's World
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Farm Journal
Pathfinder
Breeder's Gazette
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Tl Farm Journal
Magazi
Plymouth
Better Homes & Christian Herald Flower
Grover McCall's
Magazinotion
M Parents
Magazin
Opportunity Maga Pictorial Review
Weel Romantic Stories
Screen Play Sports Afield
True Confessions Household
Magaz Woman's World
R. Ans
R. Ye
Paula Oh Be
Plymouth ‘Rock
Rhode
Lnland
Tike
R. Vr
Post Office
R.F.D
Lights of
L.L. Stevenson
Seuler
Glasgow
Scotland
Columbus Circle
P. S
Billy Jones
Ernie ‘Hare
Jersey
Hare
Guard
Sandusky
Ohio
Sustop
Hell Syndicate
WNU Serwite
Indiana, Pa
Philco
Emerson
Zenith
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