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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
3
A patriotic piece extols the U S Constitution’s guarantees listing liberty education and self government. It warns against greed for power and bureaucracy and urges the people to defend the founders’ rights against political threats.
The U S Civil Service Commission announced open competitive exams for posts including Public land surveyor at 2000 a year in Field Service and Medical supervisor psychiatric at 5600 a year in the Interior Department. Full details from Marion M Hangen Nazareth post office. A quoted aside muses about Rockefeller Center as desirable office space in contrast to the Empire State Building.
A long biographical tale follows Joe Conlee, a promising boy bent toward the ministry, who enters modernist doubt, quits preaching, becomes editor, and descends into drink. After a failed life, a doctor rescues him, and a Alaska voyage tests his resolve. A child Florence sends him a Bible and a medicine chest as hope rests on a final chance at repentance.
The readable text presents a jumble of place names, dates, and personal mentions. It hints at a river region area around Yadkin and Lee counties with scattered references to trains, payments, and local figures, but lacks a clear, coherent event or outcome.
Fragmented OCR text mentions several names and places with incomplete phrases. It suggests a local obituary or death notices page with scattered references to individuals and regions, including mentions of a bar, a community, and page continuation.
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