Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act Debate At Supreme Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court convenes in Pittsburgh for its spring session to decide the fate of the Workmen's Compensation Act enacted in 1687 by the Earle administration. The act, challenged as a prohibitive cost on industry, faced appeals from coal operators and was backed by CIO AFL intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Earle Administration
H O
High Tribunal
Commonwealth
William A. Schnader
Supreme Court
CIO
AFL
Sid
Sehnadey
Pennsylvania
Denklax Commission
Roosevelt backs team-work with leaders on social security aid
Washington report says President Roosevelt agreed to a team-work approach with senators to discuss proposed legislation before action. The plan includes extending social security provisions to farm labor, domestic help, and employees of religious and non-profit groups, as part of broader relief and tax measures under consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Schwartz
D-Wye
Ellender
D-La
Lee
Mead
Uso-Afl
Con- Bren
Small Jt
Aislin
Reugiaks
Eliable
Sume Éyelon of
Obituary of Mrs. Mareh dat yahirie Stitler in Smicksburg
Death came unexpectedly today to Mrs. Mareh dat yahirie Black Stitler of Smicksburg born April 9, 112 in Smicksburg. She was a member of Smicksburg Lutheran Church and the Phoebe Warren Missionary Society, served as Sunday School teacher, and is survived by her husband Merle A. Stitler and parents, plus two children Mary Beth and Edward Eugene. The obituary notes a funeral planned with Rev Cay Sale aday at Bloneville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Stiteler
Mareh Dat Yahirie (Black) Stitler
Sricksourg
Merle A. Blackshy
Smicksburg
Stifeler
Seek Youths for Air Service
The army launches a nationwide recruiting drive to train pilots for over 3,000 new war planes. About 4,000 cadets will be trained through civilian flying schools and at Randolph and Kelly fields Texas. Training shortens from twelve to nine months with increased class sizes and two fields acting as training centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Congress
Randolph
Kelly Fields
Texas
Kelly Field
Death notices and funeral details from area obituaries
Obituary notices list deaths and forthcoming funeral services across several communities. Individuals named include Mrs Sarah Catherine Dunmire 63 of Luciusboro with burial at Whitesburg Cemetery, Joan Baker 80 of West Lebanon to be buried at Eldersridge Cemetery after services, and Mary Triehues 52 of Leelin among others with arrangements pending. Survivors and relatives are cited alongside service times and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Triehes
Leelin
Indiana
Robertson Funeral Home
Joan Baker
C. A. Harvey
Lebanon
Eldersvidge
Elders Rvidge Presbyterian Church
R. E Cenighead
Brignels
Huesesy
Loyaliania
Westmoreland County
Salisburg
Greensburg
Latrobe
Berony
Presbyterian Church
Florenze
Bikey
Eldersidge
Jacob Baker
Homeruty
Sarah Coupe
Mount Pleasant
Acquitted in dramatic courtroom farewell
Rich spoke of keeping a vow of protection. She testified she fired four times after being threatened and struck. Jury foreman Edward M. Rolly read the verdict as Judge W. Walter Bell struggled for order. The judge discharged the girl who left weeping, escorted by the sheriff and his wife, amid cheering by the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich
Wuarcage
Cominons
Wealth
Edward M. Rolly
Walter Bell
Democrats post bond in Dauphin County indictment case
Twelve Democrats including district officials posted 29000 bail on indictments alleging conspiracy to defraud the state. DA Carl B Shell said trial dates are pending. bond was posted by State Chairman David L Lawrence and other party leaders. Accused conspired to steer bonding work, payroll payments, and influence state employees’ political contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrisburg
Nor Farle
Commonwealth
Carl B. Shell
Shelley
David L. Lawrence
Earle
Roy E. Brownmley
Highw
Ralph M. Bashore
Labor and Industry
Frank &. Hean
Parsons
Carl K. Deen
Democratic State Committee
H. H. Temple
Robert M. Fager
Dauphin County
Democratic Committee
Willam B. Freenland
Clyde H. Smith
Wendell Margenthaler
Dophin
Victor Skok
James P. Kirk
Pittsburgh Insurance
Highway Department
Luzerne County
Chamberlain shifts policy to tight European alliance drive
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain pledges closer Britain France and possibly United States cooperation after his appeasement policy failure over Czechoslovakia. He cites Nazi aims to dominate and outlines a cabinet meeting to address European crisis while noting discontent among some Conservatives. Germany seeks economic cooperation with Romania, risking control of industry and oil resources. Russia to be drawn back into democratic councils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittman
Hitler
Czech
Chamberlain
London
Chamberlin
France
United States
Germany
Munich
Czecho-Slovakia
Birmingham
Adolf Hiller
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Busmnia
Rumania
Legation
Soviet
Russia
Ivan Maisky
Foreign Office
Joseph Kennedy
Charles Corbin
Viscount Halifax
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Girl confronts rival in tense family moment
Angeline publicly accuses Ehner Badger of failing to send her the electric chair. The confrontation ends with her father and brother planning a family gathering to celebrate Angeline's acquittal tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angeline
Ehner
Bill to buy Fulton birthplace for commemoration
Harrisburg March 18 A bill to commemorate Robert Fulton inventor of the steamboat will be introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Rep Norman Wood proposes $28 000 for purchase and maintenance of Fulton's birthplace on the Robert Fulton highway in Southern Lancaster County. The measure aims to take over the landmark next year for Fulton’s 178th birth anniversary. Fulton House attracts tourists between Lancaster and Baltimore and is praised as a sturdy stone structure with broad parlors and a crane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Robert Hulton
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Norman Wood
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Woosf
Fulton
Fulton House
Baltimore
Paris notes challenge German occupation in Czechoslovakia
Paris dispatch notes that France rejects German occupation as legitimate and delivers a formal protest to Berlin. Daladier seeks dictatorial powers to bolster military capacity as his decree powers bill faces approval in the chamber, with possible senate action tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Tocday
Berlin
France
Czecho-Slovakia
Robert Coulondre
Czecho- Slovakia
Nevile Henderson
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Coulandre
Datalier
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Hendi de Kerrillis
Tower House
Chamber Finance Committee
Chamber
Senate
Dalechery
Hygiene course overview and home care principles
The text outlines hygiene via cleanliness sanitation and healthful home arrangement. It covers care of healthy individuals including babies, and the Sick as part of the Red Cross Course. Four problems are listed: signs of sickness home environment of the sick prevention of spread and devices for aiding the invalid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Healthy homes build healthier communities says Bailey
Mrs Bailey emphasizes the link between individual health and public health noting that healthy homes create healthier communities and urging action to improve living conditions for all residents.
German Plans for Slovak Citizens and Protectorate Clarified
Munich reports outline Berlin Bratislava relations as differ from Bohemia Moravia protectorate. Key issue is who is a German national in the Czech state, especially Czechs who marry Germans. In Romania, King Carol and the Crown Council weigh Germany’s eastward push and economic demands as London notes they rejected sweeping cooperation tied to territorial guarantees. Military and diplomatic measures are maintained with border points strengthened and leaves canceled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Slovakia
Mitler
Berlin
Bratislava
Bohemia and
Moravia
Greater
Germany
Bucharest
Romania
Carel
Crown Council
General Staff
Rumania
Grigore Gafencu
London
Romanian Legation
Markets round Pittsburgh and Chicago grains notes
Pittsburgh market report shows slow produce demand with steady apples and various fruit prices. Potatoes and Maine Katahdins quoted, Florida stock new. Livestock data include hogs, cattle, and sheep with limited sales and pricing. Chicago wheat and corn futures rise modestly on political tensions and Liverpool firmness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
York Baldwins
Rome
Florida Bliss Triumph
Local Men Urge Appropriation for Bangs Disease Program
A committee of four farmers and County Agent John W Warner joined a district meeting of groups from 18 northwestern Pennsylvania counties in Franklin to press for a state appropriation to sustain Bangs disease control. Indiana County names R D Marshall Beyer Irvin Behm Marchand Roland Smith Marion Center and Ralph Sadler as participants. The region is among the first ten counties fully tested for Bangs disease, but progress could halt without funding as many farms await testing and eradication work continues amid delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Warner
Pennsylvania
Franklin
Indiana County
R. D. Marshall
Beyer
Irvin Behm
Marchand
Roland Smith
Marion Center
Ralph Sadler
Trade City
Hysterical claims fly from fascist press over Britain and Hitler
Rome reports fascist outlets accuse democracies of panic as Chamberlain frames Hitler as a breaker of promises. Il Popolo di Roma cites Birmingham speech as proof of deno-plutocracy preoccupation with the future and rearmament. Italy pledges solidarity with Germany while some observers expect Mussolini to wait on Spain before pressing France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Chamberlain
Hitler
Europe
Il Popelo di Roma
Birmingham
England
Czecho-Slovakia
Mussolini
France
Germany
International at a Glance
Bucharest weighs postwar position amid German economic proposals. Reports from London say Romania rejected Nazi guarantee of territorial integrity in exchange for an economic monopoly. Berlin denies wider aims beyond pulling Romania into Nazi orbit. Paris sums up British note and Daladier seeks dictatorial powers to boost French defenses. Berlin appoints Baron Konstantin von Neurath as protector of Bohemia Moravia. Goering announces new air force command. Hungary* notes occupation of Carpatho Ukraine advances. Czech protectorate reorganizes under Nazi law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Rumania
London
Berlin
Britain
Bertin
Munich
Paris
France
Daladier
Czecho-Slovakia
Nonstantin von Neurath
Bohemia - Moravia
Goering
Slovakia
Hitler
Prague
Laturalja Vjely
Hungary
Carpatho-Ukraine
Church Musician Fulfills Again Graveyard Pact With Saloon Keeper
READING March 18 Silver notes of a trumpet echoed across Neversink Mountain as 42 year old Alva Schaeffer fulfilled a half century old graveyard pact with saloon keeper Hanna hoe. Each St Patrick s Day he played Nearer My God to Thee at the grave of Tom Hanna hoe, former Biars and Stripes saloon proprietor, in keeping with the vow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Neversink Mountain
St. Patrick's Day
Alva Schaeffer
Tom ‘Tanna
Biars
Ag ‘Lasa O'dalway
Hannahee
Hannahoe
Schaeffer
College Weather Report From Campus
Cloudy and cold today with a Sunday rise in temperatures. A 24 hour period ended 8 am recorded a low of 1 degree, the month’s low. High reached 21 degrees. Snow totaled 0.4 inch, lifting March to 1.65 inches versus 3.74 inches average. Yesterday’s barometer 29.80, today 29.65.
Unified plan eyed as committees push reform agenda
In Harrisburg March 18 the bulk of the administration's unified Republican program edges toward initial action in the General Assembly. Amusement tax and lower industrial levies drew спорe in committee while a broader reorganization seeks to dismantle the milk commission securities commission and labor relations board and place the turnpike under the General State Authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marrisburg
United Republican
General Assembly
House
Senate
Earle
Milk Commission
Securities Commission
Labor Relations Board
Turnpike Commission
General State Authority
Pennsylvania National Guard
Virginia
James
Pennsylvania
Associated General Contractors of America
Pennsylvania State Building and Construction Trades Council
George Walters
Pittsburgh
Housing Authority
David Kanex
State, County and Municipal Workers Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Campbell Street
Moorhead
Paul
Aleene
Smicksburg Lutheran Church
J. B. Troutman
I North Point Cemetery
Sarah Catherine Dunmire
Pressley Isaav Dunmire
Luciusboro
William Dunmire
Kittanning
Magie Parehi
New York City
Charles Dunmire
David Dunmire
Clarksburg
John
Mery Dunmire
Urothy MuKee
Eelin
Whitesburg Cemetery
Fulton Birthplace
Ats
Chicago
Liverpool
Warner
International
University of Pennsylvania
Fuilaidens
Richard Marshall
Matt McLaughlin
Thomas Townsend
Henry Callahan
Darwin Read
Francis Bosco
Charles Lee
Fred Ballard
Charles Bosanhave
College
al Chem & Dye Allied Strs
Dla
Allisich
Am Rad & St
Aim
Tel & Tel
Armstrong Cork
Wed Dry Goods
Atch
T& SF
Ath Refining Aviation Corp
Bald Loco
Asta Balt & Ohio Barnsdall
Mvintyre
Pore
McClellan Sirs
Mesta Machine
Minn-Moline Montgom Ward
Murray Corp
Nash Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Cash Reg
Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Dept Stores
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow and Stalg
Natl Steel
WNY Central RR
Viva North Ameria
Northern Pacific
Ohio Oil Bie
Otis Steel
Packard Motor Bay Param Pictures
Oty Penn RR
Phillips Pet
Pitt Ser and Bolt
Procter and Gam
N J
Pullnan
Pure Oil Radio Corp of
Am Radion-Keith-Orph Reading Co
Reming Rand
Repub Steel
United Air Lines
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Ino
US Rubber
US Smelt A
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!