State Liquor System Given Further Trial
A Pennsylvania House committee recommended the state liquor stores receive a further trial, citing abnormal conditions last year. It faulted Amor tax contracts and board practices, but found no evidence of corruption and praised board integrity. It urged extending floor tax payment relief through July 1, 1937 while acknowledging ongoing issues.
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Harrisburg
JINS
Liquor Control Board
House
George H. Barse
Herbert B. Cohen
York
Liquor Board
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
William A. Schnader
Gifford Pinchot
Spectacular Music Festival at Forbes Field Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph presents a June 29 festival at Forbes Field led by guest artist John Charles Thomas with Governor George Earle in attendance. About 4,000 voices join choirs and 166 piece band plus 1500 piano accordions and 65 harmonicas. Two Indiana residents will participate.
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Forbes Field
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
John Charles Thomas
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Earle
Tri-State
Indiana
Louis W. Sheehe
Water Street
Catherine Whitten
South Seventh Street
Three Indiana Co People Hurt In Auto Crash
Mrs Mary Smith 36 of Washington DC and her 14 year old daughter Ruth were injured Saturday on the Homer City Armagh road near Waterman when their car skidded on a downgrade and hit a truck driven by Russell Smail 26 of Renfrew Butler county. Mrs Smith fractured pelvis and head lacerations. Husband William B Smith 35 unharmed. Smail uninjured. About 1 45 p m. IS. International News Service reported fourteen weekend highway deaths in Pennsylvania with nine in Central and Eastern districts.
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Mary Smith
Washington, DC
Ruth Smith
Homer City- Armagh
Waterman
Russell Smail
Renfrew
Butler County
Smail
Tne
International News Service
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
John Snyders
Williams
Charles Snyder
Maud Chunk
Lehighton
Antone R. Thomas
New York
Fred E. Menke
Harrisburg
Catherine BR. Menke
Stanley Cullison
Gettysburg
Edna Borneman
Limerick
Jonas Wivering
Pine Grove
Lebanon
Suedberg
Harald Mitchell
Jersey Shore
Michael Velna
James Sabo Jr
Conway
Cambridge Springs
Ernest Rose
Wilkinsburg
Portersville
Zeliemple
Anna Forhals
Pittsburgh
Edward
Gunmen Trapped in New Jersey Raid Near Cabin
Police stormed a clearing by the Pompton river cabin trapping armed assailants. A guard was struck and captives told to raise hands as officers seized pistols rifles a bomb gun tear gas grenades and TNT. Seven men from New York plus the Maiwalds were held on open charges with ties to a gang war and murders in New Jersey and New York.
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Fompton River
Omeer
Vincent Coll
New York
Soush
Tommy
Protherse
Grace Moore
Queens
George Keeler
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Frank Fox
James J. (Qing Dong Bell
Edward D. Gaffney
John J. Hughes
Arthur Gaynor
Louis Banner
Joe McCarthy
George Maiwald
Edna
Maiwald
British Nazi pact to stop submarine warfare
British peace views a naval agreement as the start of a practical peace policy. It says Europe has erred by doing too much at once and Germany believes progress must be step by step, breaking the ice of a rigid political situation.
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Europé
Germany
Europe
President Faces Tax Clash and Senate Showdowns
The Roosevelt administration pursues tax measures amid opposition to key New Deal bills. Congress may delay adjournment as blocs push for bonus payments, farm refinancing, and silver legislation. Bank and coal proposals face battles with possible drastic modifications and July 1 actions looming.
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Bram
Roosevelt
Congress
American Legion
House
Mr. Roosevelt
Utilities Holding Company
Fletcher
Florida
Permanent Bank Deposit Insurance
Federal Reserve System
Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Yulily Holding
Wheeler-Rayburn
House Interestate Commerce Committee
Senate
Y House
NRA
Obituary notices from Blairsville and Robinson area
Obituary notices report the deaths of LIDA FENNEL KULL and IDA F DONAHUE LEAR in New Alexandria and Robinson. Lidia survived by relatives in Blairsville and Dixonville, funeral at 2:30 Wednesday from her home. Ida Lear, 60, wife of Frank M Lear, died in Robinson with children Vinla Reed Gilbert Phillip and six grandchildren, burial in Blairsville cemetery after services at the Robinson Evangelical church Tuesday afternoon.
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Binghamton
New York
Joseph Hil
Homer City
Robert Hays
Beaver Falls
Leo Burnheimer
Reading
David Burnheimer
Johnstown
Jane Buchanan
Dixonville
Lizzie Fisher
Vandergrift
Sylvester Burnheimer
Indiana
Frank Burnheimer
Liddie Allison
Hunter Funeral Home
Blairsville
George McConnell
North Brady Street
A. Sadaday
First Methodist Church of
Lida Fennel Kull
John Wards
School Street
New Alexandria
L. J. Fennell
Ida F. (Donahue) Lear
Frank M Lear
Robinson
Vinla Reed
Bolivar
Gilbert
Phillip
Ioie Montgomery
B. J. Donahue
A. G. Meade
Evangelical Church of
Lear
Blairsville Cemetery
Hughey Presses President on Share Our Wealth Question
Hughey urges the president to answer six yes or no questions posed Saturday to reveal stance on share our wealth. Critics fear a political gambit if he dodges, warning that a decisive answer or more pressure could shape the 1936 vote.
Martin Brown Nuptials Highlight Local Society
The event details a wedding with corsages and reception at the bride's home. The bride, a Randolph-Macon graduate 1934, and groom from Dickinson College class of 1930, plan a New England trip and home in Merchantville New Jersey. Out of town guests from multiple states attended, including families Brown, Martin, and collaborators from Baltimore Pittsburgh Washington and Kalamazoo. An unrelated note mentions a medical fact about heart placement and a game between Indiana Posters and Chanticleers by Associated Gas & Electric.
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Whs
Brown
Randolph-Macon Women’s College
Pi Beta Phi
Dickinson College
Beta Theta Pi
New England
Merchantville
N. J
C. L. Brown
Dorothy Brown
Audubon
A. B. Brown
Baltimore
Whitfield
Arlington
Knowles
Pittsburgh
Hickox
J. N. Greear, Jr
Washington, D. C
George C. Martin
Edward Martin
L. L. Cooper
Crafton
Mary Alice Shackleton
Kalamazoo
Mich
Edith Basset
Newton Center
Mass
G. C. Basset
Getty Basset
Gettysburg
J. R. Baldridge
Bar Association Convention Debate Opens in Bedford Springs
The Pennsylvania Bar Association expects 1,090 members to debate the forty-first annual convention in Bedford Springs on Wednesday. Topics include police rewarrung a state unit, dishonesty among lawyers, and New Deal governance. The resolutions committee will commend Philadelphia Bar for open court disbarments of prominent attorneys.
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Bedford Springs
INS
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia
New Castle Declares War On Vice Rackets
New Castle and Lawrence county launch a campaign against gambling and liquor law violations. Sponsored by churches and Sabbath School Association with W C T U and County Grange, a law enforcement group will conduct actions after mass arrests of numbers writers, with many cases to be heard in court tomorrow.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
Sabbath School Association
Teach honesty young to form lifelong truthfulness
Olive Roberts Barton argues honesty must be taught in childhood. She says restraint habits build integrity, while overbearing punishment prompts concealment and evasion. Reward and punishment shapes a child's understanding that wrong costs society and the wrongdoer pays a price.
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Olive Roberts Barton
Doll Dance Opens New Hecht MacArthur Film
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur unveil a novelty introduction for Once in a Blue Moon at the Indiana Theatre. Producers say the puppet doll dancing over Manhattan skyscrapers by Jimmy Savo and the writing duo tops the opening shots from Crime Without Passion. Also notes Indian mound ge hazards on some Mississippi Valley golf courses.
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Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Indiana Theatre
Jimmy Savo
Hecht
MacArthur
Mississippi Valley
Indian Mounds
Standup drinking orders rush to lengthen bars in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on June 24 patrons faced standup drinking as carpenters and fixture salesmen raced to lengthen service bars before Gov. George H. Earle could sign the liquor amendment. The new provision would allow sale of beer and liquor over a bar, unlike prior rules requiring table service for most drinks.
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Pittsburgh
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Two Girls Held As Broker Dies
Dorothea, a maid, claims she struck broker Jack Burness with a hammer after a dispute over a $5 tip. Nassau detectives doubt her story but consider possible involvement. Natalie Norton, Burness’s fiancée, defends his innocence and rejects the maid’s accusations.
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Burness
Dorothea
Nassau County
Natalie Norton
William Norton
Music Box Theatre
New York
Jack
Miss Norton
Stock list and corporate initials from a 20th century index
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous company names and abbreviations across industries including Allied Chemical Ammonia American Can American Car and Foundry American Smelting and Refining Company Tokai Ammonia Anaconda Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Atlantic Refining ATT Band ORR Bethlehem Steel Borden Can Factory Chrysler United States Steel Stipulations Coca Cola Colgate Palmolive Consolidated Oil Continental Can Curtiss-Wright Du Pont Eastman Kodak Erie Railroad Federal Wire Works Pitt Brewing Freeport Texas General Electric General Motors International Nickel International Telephone and Telegraph JC Penney Co Kennecott Copper Lone Star Montague Ward Nash Motors National Dairy Products New York Central Railroad New York New Haven and Hartford Norfolk and Western North American Phillips Petroleum Packard Motor Penn Railroad Pullman Pure Oil Radio Corporation Radio Keith Reading Railroad Reynolds Tobacco Sears Roebuck Sorong Vacuum Southern California Company Southern Pacific of New Jersey Texas Corporation United Corporation United Gas Improvement United States Rubber United Steel Westinghouse Woolworth Cars Cities Service Electric Bud and Shay Ford Limited Pennroad 1.
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Allied Chem
Amn
Anaconda
Atchison T
Atlantic
ORR Beth
Bordens
Chrysler
Coca Cola Columbia Gas Consolidated
Curtiss-Wright du Pont Eastman Kodak Erie RR Fed
Fy Pitt Brew Co
Freeport Texas
Nickle
Penney Co
Kennevott Cor
Lone Star
Monty Ward Nash
Mtrs
Natl Dairy
Nfk
North Amn Packard
Mtr Penn RR
Pullman
Pure Oil Radio Corp Radio Keith Reading RR
Reynolds Tob
Sears Roebuck
Sorong-Vacuum
SO of Cal SO of
Texas Corp
United Corp
United Gas Imp U
Steel Warner Brog
Fic
Westinghouse
Erec
Woolworth Cars
Ele Bud and
Shay Ford
Pennroad
Supreme Court to rule on state borrowing plan
Harrisburg June 24 INS The Earle administration seeks a Supreme Court ruling on the validity of borrowing up to 50 million dollars on tax anticipation notes to pay accumulated bills and fund the emergency budget. The decision will shape whether the state can borrow from banks to cover expenses and repay notes in 1937, affecting a delayed biennial budget after six months of tax wrangling.
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G. Everett Doying
INS Star
Harrisburg
INS
Earle
Supreme Court
High Court
Philadelphia
Mar Riotti
Senate
House
Farle
Pennsylvania
The
Liquor Board
Textile strike rolls through New England mills
Police in Boston and scattered towns monitored a wage strike by 3500 workers from the Uxbridge Worsted Company and related mills in Pascoag, Woonsocket, Lowell, Ambridge, and Putnam. Led by UTW official Horace Riviere, the walkout demands a 20 percent rise after wage studies showed below-average pay, with preparations for potential unrest and intensified policing in Woonsocket.
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Boston
Uxbridge Worsted Company
New England
Executive Council
Worsted and Woolen Department
United Textile Workers of America
Thomas F. McMahon
Pascoag and Woonsocket
R. I. Mills
Lowell
Ambridge
Mass
Uxbridge
Woonsocket
Rhode Island
Mushball Under Lights Tonight At Clymer X-Hi Park
The Clymer X-Hi softballers host Dairy Dell under floodlights on Oakland Avenue at Thirteenth Street tonight. Admission is free and the game starts when darkness falls. If rain returns, the contest will be postponed to tomorrow.
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Clymer X-Hi
Dairy Dell
Indiana
Oakland Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Legislature Ends Session With Sunday Sports Reforms
Gov Earle faces July 22 deadline after legislators push many measures. Sunday movies authorized in towns favoring them and hours for Sunday baseball extended from one to seven p m with a baseball rider. Legalized Sunday tennis and polo during those hours. Child labor restrictions passed, coal and iron police act repealed. Liberal workmen compensation bill largely discarded due to Senate impasse. Brancato law banned heart balm suits except in seduction cases.
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Mouse
Senate
Coal and Iron” Police
Earle
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Hollywood
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Marlene Dietrich
William Haines
Cary Grant
Toby Wing
Mitchel Letsen
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