Indiana County Court House valued at replacement costs
As of May 9, 1941, replacement values total 414,894.05 for Court House, furniture and fixtures, county jail, and warden's residence. Depreciated values on the same date total 212,200.23. Location costs are not included. If Philadelphia street frontage is valued at $1,000 per foot, the value would be about 127,000. Total depreciated value across property is 889,200.23.
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Steele Clark
Court House
Philadelphia
Censorship in a Free Press during an Emergency
An argued position defending uncensored American newspapers in a crisis. It cites Lowell Mellett and George Creel on voluntary censorship, praises Britain’s ban on military data, and asserts that free Americans deserve full information while enemies receive none. It favors restricting cables and shortwave radio rather than domestic newspaper censorship.
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United States
Lowell Mellett
Office of Government Reports
George Creel
Britain
Creel
Death Takes No Vacation in Highway Toll Surge
The piece warns that vacation travel will raise traffic deaths, noting 10,780 people killed in the first four months and 1,500 more deaths than last year. It urges motorists to slow down, conserve vehicles and lives, and praises wartime production workers who sacrifice vacations to build planes and engines.
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Curtins- Wright
United States
The Nations Needs First Rallying Motto for Hard Times
A wartime call urges citizens to put the nation's needs above self interest. It laments past decades as selfish, warns of looming war, and declares salvation lies in collective sacrifice. The speech presses every person to judge actions by the national good.
Retailers pledge to curb price inflation and cut costs
The article praises voluntary price control measures by retailers amid wartime inflation fears. It highlights chain and independent stores pledging to curb profiteering, reduce overhead, narrow marketing spreads, avoid unnecessary buying and scare advertising, and inform consumers to prevent hysterical buying. It argues these actions keep costs down and maintain American living standards while other nations suffer.
Stockpiles grow as war demand spurs reserves
The nation reports slow but steady gains in securing raw material stocks vital to national existence. Chromite, graphite, manganese, mica, tin, and rubber are stocked for a year or more, with opium from Macedonia bought before the Greek collapse. Chile copper output is contracted. Mercury and nickel are produced domestically or secured, while tungsten is studied. A cautious view remains about defense readiness. A separate note warns that lying on the ground in an electrical storm reduces risk of lightning strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macedonia
Chile
Japan
Mexico
Canada
Draft industry bill draws White House clash
The War Department bill to seize nonperforming plants and tighten control of strategic materials drew strong objections from the President who urged narrower scope and a two year limit on property seizure. He favored amending the draft industry law to cover only noncooperating plants, while defense chiefs pressed for power to prevent labor strikes and hoarding of raw materials. Four sick Democratic Senators and notable figures like Alben Barkley and Edward Stettinius appear in the coverage.
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Army-Navy
Barkley
Washington
War Department
Roosevelt
Congress
Taha
San Francisco
AFL
CIO
Army
Navy
Ernest M. Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Wendell Willkie
OPM
Dr. Hopkins
Stettinius
Edward Stettinius
Stettininus
Arthur V. Davis
Aluminum Corporation of America
No Surrender by Dutch Government Cited by Officials
The excerpt quotes Dr. Alexander Louden and Dr. Frank H. Lahey stressing no surrender or armistice by the Dutch government, while warning that a dangerous course could have real advantages. It records calls to defend free enterprise from P. D. Houston and support for the USO drive urged by President Roosevelt, ending with Pope Pius on protecting human rights as a public authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Louden
Netherlands
U. S
Frank H. Lahey
A.M. A
Cleveland
P. D. Houston
American Bankers’ Association
America
USO
Roosevelt
United Service Organizations
Pope Pius
Thought on temptation and aid from God
A brief devotional note cites Hebrews 2 18 on Jesus suffering to help temptations and adds a line from Aeschylus praising divine aid for earnest strivers. The fragment reflects religious reflection and inspirational quotation.
Todays Of Other Years Features Obscure Biographical Snippets
A fragmented page notes events from past years including marriages between Indiana and Delaware residents, a fatality in an automobile accident, and a Cleveland couple's engagement. It mentions a Mexico senator preparing for a new bid, a June wedding, and family fatalities, all dated around June and 1982 to 1998 era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Boyer
Indiana
Mexico
America
Congress
Gilert Smith
Deroy Walhee
Wilmington
Dat
Walker
J. Taylor Boucher
Frank Lowry
Mills
Lafrose Rochester Peffar
Marchand
Finegan
William Roy Baker
Blairsville
Helen Elisabeth Miller
Homer City
Vernon J. Smithers
Cleveland
Helen Suiter
Nocheater Mills
Samuel J. Taggart
India
Floods, Dead Recovered in Salinburg Area Fireworks
In the wake of floods and fires, authorities report 81 dead identified and fears allayed. W V Justun of Punxautawney and John C Cann are among those described, while gas rules and economic conservation measures face review. Military training contracts expand to new air schools as part of a 1932 plan.
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W. V. Justun
Punxautawney
Pera
Cann
John C
Tesa
Fusselloth
Indiana
Putbio
Optician
Salinburg
Navnal
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Mississippi
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Arkansas
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Tennessee
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New York
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Virginia
George Powell
Ralph A. Bard
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