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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1939
Page
3
Citizens of Nazareth urged to join a Patron List for a two century history to be published before the 1940 Bi Centennial. Campaign runs Monday through Saturday with canvassing and solicitations to every home, emphasizing civic pride and loyalty to the town and forefathers.
State Treasurer F. Clair Ross announced December was the busiest month in treasury history with 446,653 drafts totaling 53,146,993.60 dollars. Major outlays included 202,004 General Fund drafts for salaries and wages and 193,538 Motor License Fund checks for highway payrolls tied to Blizzard cleanup.
Eddie Singher’s Nazareth YMCA cagers posted four victories last week boosting passing and morale. Victories included Bethlehem YMCA 32 to 96, Bethlehem Edgeboro Moravians 26 to 15, Pburg Keys 28 to 8, and Bethlehem NEC Wanderers 4 and will host Pen Argyl AA and Allentown Gold later this week. The strong ATH WRESTLING notes preview Bath Firemen’s A C vs Germantown YMCA in a key meet with Bath seeking a second straight win after topping Wilkes Barre.
Campaign urges Nazareth residents to have names recorded in the new history and subscribe to a patron list published in the Book of the History. Committees offer easy terms, pledges due in three months, and aim to compile thousands of names to document the district’s past and present.
The Nazareth YMCA junior basketball team routed Stockertown Ramblers juniors 37 to 3 on their floor Tuesday morning, holding the visitors without a field goal and converting two of eight foul shots.
Louie Pedro led Nazareth Unemployed to a 71 42 victory over Fairmont Ramblers on the Nazareth YMCA floor. It marked their second win in three starts in a high scoring tilt, with Pedro fueling the offense and the Nazareth club expanding its early season momentum.
A fragmented city record lists streets Washington Avenue Centre Street Main Street and nearby blocks with numerous resident names including Charles Free Nobert Necker Frank Youns Charten Hough and others. The text reads like a directory or street map with homes and land parcels interspersed among street sides and cross streets.
A parade of marvels and wonders fills New York's fair, from a parachute tower at 250 feet to a 200 foot Perisphere, a Tree of Life from Connecticut 1781, Steve Brodie’s bridge jumps, a diamond display refreshed every three days, 10 million volts of artificial lightning, a floor of cotton, a giant human eye model viewing the scene, and a city of midgets. Also noted are a moving bathysphere, rocket gun to the moon, giant opal, an oil well exhibit, the largest model railroad, and color-changing murals, with fountains, fireworks, and a Venus flight promising future voyages.
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