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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1931
Page
3
An advertising expert notes that bankrupts often keep poor inventories and overspend on credit. Seventy five percent of failures lack stock inventories. The piece argues business mood reflects underlying weaknesses and that health returns when individuals and organizations fix weaknesses, adopt better methods, and prepare for renewed prosperity.
The article notes stocks fluctuating yet generally rising as trustworthy business accounts show improvement. It highlights a slow climb from bottom and optimism that the worst is behind us, with retail and wholesale gains aided by a rebound in key industries like steel, building, and motors. It also discusses a debate over dining rooms in homes, with experts arguing for preservation, citing a Department of Commerce study that the dining room is not vanishing.
A brief from W L Gordon teaches daily English tips with misused words mispronunciations and synonyms. It defines feasibility as the quality of being practicable and notes a sentence about doubt in a plan’s feasibility.
The first U S president to leave the country while in office was Theodore Roosevelt. The Pacific end of the Panama Canal lies farther east. Popcorn pops when the kernel turns inside out from steam pressure inside the grain. There are nineteen amendments to the U S Constitution. Rome sits on the Tiber River.
A reprinted note from the Journal Files recalling events twenty years past dated April 2 1911 mentions a government report describing the dining room as the heart of the home and notes the stomach and heart are closely connected.
County commissioners will take no steps to buy a site for the proposed Tuberculosis hospital until Judge William Parker of Venango County rules on an injunction petition tied to construction. Hearing occurred three weeks earlier with no court decision yet. attorney Harold J. Mook could not estimate when a ruling would come. Davis said that if funds are available a site may be purchased this year.
At the Alathian Society of the Methodist Episcopal church the group completed plans for a chicken dinner to be held in the church dining room on Wednesday April 1. Mrs Albert Anderson and Mrs Frank Jones will supervise arrangements. Thirty two members attended the meeting and the hostesses were Mrs Eugene Smith Mrs Albert Anderson Mrs H S Jadestrom Mrs Gertrude Armitage and Mrs L C Wright. Warm syrup biscuits pickles cake and tea were served after the meeting.
A historical teaser asks for a number diminished by 28 percent of itself resulting in 1050, and the same reduction applied to another amount. The page also notes yesterday’s answer and shows a sequence of arithmetic steps including division, subtraction, and square roots, written in compact puzzle shorthand.
The marriage of Moss wsther Anne Whitlock, daughter of Mrs. Bessie L. and the late George W. Whitlock of Olean formerly of Corry, to Rederick Davidson Martin of Olean took place today at one oclock. Rev Hugh Boyd officiated at the Methodist parsonage. The bride wore cocoa peige suit with fur, bouquet of sweetheart roses and sweet peas. The groom was supported by his brother Donald Martin. Miss Storey of Bradford attended the bride. dinner for twelve followed at the Stratton Hotel.
A New York woman claims a second bottle of Kruschen Salts helped her lose 14 pounds and feel less tired after work. Advertisement touts a four week supply for 86 cents at Condra Pharmacy with instructions to take half a teaspoon daily in hot water and avoid fatty foods.
A Corry High School class of 1930 graduate brides the couple, as Mr. and Mrs. Martin will reside on Haskell Road, Olean, with plans for a Florida trip then time in New York City and Rantoul City.
The text notes a graduate from Olean High School who became one of Olean’s most popular and successful young businessmen. It mentions the bride being feted with delightful pre matrimonial affairs, indicating a wedding context surrounding the local figure.
The American Petroleum Institute reports that state gasoline collections for 1930 rose to 522,110,961 dollars, up by 79,927,712 from the 1930 figure, with earlier 1929 totals cited and a 270940 shore reference noted in the data, indicating a substantial year over year increase.
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