Huge Sum Paid in Jobless Insurance in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg June 6. Benefit payments by the State Division of Unemployment Compensation and Employment Service have topped 95 million dollars. More than eight and one half million benefit checks have been issued since February 1938. After the $95,000,000 payout a balance of about $86,000,000 remains in the Unemployment Trust Fund for future claims. An inserted remark notes a political digression about dignity and money.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Hines
Acrodynia in Children A Rare Early Life Illness
The article describes acrodynia as a disease of early life, usually in the first or second year. It links onset to infection histories, with symptoms including loss of appetite, irritability, weight loss, light sensitivity, a measle like rash, cold blue red hands and feet, and frequent infections risking pneumonia. Treatment focuses on eradicating infections, with cautions about vitamins and the potential help from new antibacterial drugs. Prevent exposure to colds to shield children.
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Australia
Names Of Students Passing High School Entrance Test
Perry Township and Pulaski Township reveal a large pool of students who passed the recent high school entrance examination. The list includes Richard Pfeifer Bill Cather Beulah Remaley James Reasman Robert King and many others across both townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Township
Pulaski Township
John C. Syling
Richard Pfeifer
Bill Cather
Beulah Remaley
James Reasman
Robert King
Francis Hazen
Paul Harper
Robert Newton
Raymond Miller
Walter Wright
Siegfried Amundsen
Geraldine McDevitt
Jack Stickle
John Tindall
Jack Duncan
Louise St. Clair
Doris Stickle
Anna Bailik
Sam Bridwell
Margaret Kaufman
Ruth Hillberry
Twila Morris
Dorothy Snyder
Charles McCreary
Joe Onestak
Jane Nottingham
Martha Miller
Katherine Byler
Kathryn Hrycyk
Dahl Zedaker
Dorothy Partch
June Spensler
Anna Ilich
Kathryn Fisher
Class Night At Union High Is Planned Tonight
Annual class night program for the seniors at Union Township high school will be held tonight at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Seventy four members of the senior class participate in a program featuring an overture, speeches, class history, prophec y, poems, songs and multiple musical numbers performed by the school orchestra and choirs.
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Union High
Union Township High School
Jay G. Rudolph
Overture
Mosquitoes blamed for destroying Greece and Rome
The Medical Society warns mosquitoes thwart progress and spread malaria. Malaria costs over 100 million dollars yearly in the South. Female Anopheles carry the microbe. Pennsylvanians fear cross border spread from the South and note outbreaks in Ohio and Michigan.
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Greece
Rome
United States
South
Pennsylvania
Mason- Dixon Line
Ohio
Michigan
McBride Post to Meet on Wednesday Evening
Harry L. McBride Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold an important meeting this Wednesday evening. Commander Frank Concilla announces that several topics on future activities will be discussed.
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Harry L. McBride
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Frank Concilla
Local Young Man Wins Knox Medal for Coast Artillery
Private First Class Thaddeus M. Colchiski of Fort Monroe Virginia tops Coast Artillery men for 1938 earning the Knox Medal. A New Castle Pennsylvania native age 23 he enlisted in 1935 and trained at Coast Artillery School since 1936. Staff Sergeant Wayne H. Lewis of Hoxie Kansas is the Field Artillery winner.
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War Department
Thaddeus M. Colchiski
Coast Artillery School
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Knox Medal
Coast Artillery
Colchiski
New Castle
Mary Colchiski
Preston Avenue
Regular Army
Field Artillery
Wayne H. Lewis
Hoxie
Kansas
Moravia Pioneer Descendant Reunion Planned at Moravia Church
Descendants of Moravia and West Pittsburg pioneers gather Thursday June 15 at Moravia Presbyterian Church on Wampum highway for a basket picnic at noon followed by games contests and social activities. An invitation is extended to all descendants with committees led by Myrtle Miller and George McConnell coordinating reception general table and coffee duties.
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Moravia
West Pittsburg
Moravia Presbyterian Church
Wampum Highway
Myrtle Miller
George McConnell
Blanche Snodgrass
A.T. Eckles
Maggie Wettich
J. C. Leslie
Charles Dungan
Harry Brown
Charles Bannon
Henderson
E. A. Gwin
Sam Crawford
James P. Book
Porter Crawford
William McMahon
George McBride
Lee Gwin
Walter Bannon
Billy McKinley
Arch Snodgrass
Fred Anderson
Wood Anderson
J. P. Dickson
Sam Fowler
James
Home Hygiene Class Completes Course in Lawrence County
Mrs. Ruth Thorn Adams leads a fourteen lesson Home Hygiene class in the Lawrence County Chapter of the American Red Cross as fourteen women including Mary D. Andrews and Catherine Bauman complete the course. A social hour and graduation will follow led by Mary Bell. New classes form for summer. women eighteen plus may contact the Chapter office or Mrs. George Bolinger.
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George Bolinger
Lawrence County
American Red Cross
Ruth Thorn Adams
Mary D. Andrews
Catherine M. Bauman
Ethel Bates
Emma R. Frampton
Catherine E. Feass
Harriet M. Hughes
Henrietta Higgins
Louise E. McConnell
Velma B. McConnell
Erma L. Smith
Mary Bell
Cascade Park Sets Wage Scale for Park Staff
Cascade Park officials and city council announce the wage schedule for park employees. Positions include Superintendent $145 monthly, gardener $110, watchman $85, special officer $85, motor vehicle driver 55 cents hourly, eight laborers 50 cents hourly, life-guards at $15 weekly, ticket sellers at $10 weekly, office girl $10 weekly, amusements attendants $10 weekly, and four auto parkers at 25 cents hourly.
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Park Commission
Cascade Park
State Employment Service reports 1939 job placements near 35000
Harrisburg reports that by May 12 the Pennsylvania State Employment Service had placed 34,947 people in work in 1939. About 28,352 of those, roughly 80 percent, were jobs in private industry.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Employment Service
Secretary of Labor and Industry
Lewis G. Hines
May Temperature and Precipitation Report
May proved unusually warm and dry with a mean temperature of 63.1 degrees, highest 93 and lowest 29. A daily range of 43 degrees occurred on the 19th. Total precipitation 1.79 inches, normal 3.57 inches, deficit 1.78 inches. Normal May temperature is 59.5 degrees.
Weather recap for May 1938 with rainfall and temps
The record notes 0.94 inches of rain on the 9th, nine days with at least 0.01 inch, fifteen clear days, sixteen partly cloudy days, and no cloudy days. May 1938 ran 0.3 degrees above normal on temperature and 1.29 inches above normal for precipitation. Highest May temp 86 and lowest 28.
Sister Sought of Deceased John D Mack in California
Mrs. J. W. Sweet of Highland avenue extension seeks information on the sister of John Dominic Mack who left New Castle years ago and settled in California. Mack died about a year ago at age about 75.
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J. W. Sweet
Highland Avenue Extension
John Dominic Mack
New Castle
California
Mack
City Council Awards Sewer Materials for South First Street Project
City council met Monday and awarded contracts for materials for the South First street sanitary sewer. J. C. Gilfillan company supplies terra cotta pipe four sets of manholes and masonry sand and mortar sand. Carbon Limestone provides limestone and cement. Penn Coal & Supply and Davis Coal & Supply supply coal barrels brick and related items.
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South First Street
J. C. Gilfillan Company
Carbon Limestone Company
Penn Coal & Supply Company
Davis Coal & Supply Company
Addison McGrath apply for Meadville marriage license
James P. Addison of Mercer and Mary R. McGrath of New Castle R D 3 have applied for a marriage license at Meadville.
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James P. Addison
Mercer
Mary R. McGrath
New Castle R. D
Meadville
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