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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1927
Page
3
Corry Pa newspaper listing shows publisher Arthur Colegrove at West South Street Corry details post office entry as second class mail matter. Subscription by mail sixty six dollars per year and by carrier three cents per copy or fifteen cents per week. Advertising rates available on request.
A University of Edinburgh style tale recounts a student losing a collar button and dressing without a collar. Authorities rebuked him while others imitated the act leading to fines and a petition signed by over 100 students calling for collarless freedom. The piece ends with a satirical warning of a broader move toward no collars.
Questions and answers cover Chinese wartime ports and leaders. Nanking Canton Cantonese ties Shanghai Hankow Nanking Sun Yat Sen and Sun Yat Sen’s movement origins. Foreign officers include Admiral C S Williams and C J V A MacMurray. A separate note mentions a missing daughter of James Long in Tacoma with possible Oil City ties.
A fragment recounts Corry business figures and residents from twenty years prior. Mentions Jacl Frage and John Wit Hiems on Fir Avenue, Fred Shaw of Frederick Street, a wrecked vehicle incident, and Theodore Croaby traveling to New York City. Reports on Keats & Co stores break in by jay fiends and ongoing Pennsylvania flyers service. Claude Rhottes visits Buffalo. Earl Miller, Stacy Baker, and a spring stock delivery valued at 2200 dollars are noted.
Arnold Johnson, 16, of Pennsylvania Avenue chased a dairy milk wagon that bolted from Field Street and leapt onto the wagon, grabbing the reins to stop the runaway horse near Praley Street yesterday morning. A Western Union messenger boy was the unlikely hero in this early morning incident.
Farmers in Corry area plan a campaign against the European corn borer meeting at the Municipal Building at 1 o clock Saturday. County farm agents and agriculture leaders will present draft plans to attack the pest and urge cooperation from all corn growers and dairymen.
A Warren woman driving a Ford coupe escaped injury Wednesday night on Kane Road near Kane Wilcox road when a speeding vehicle forced her off the road. The wreck damaged the coupe and the other car fled, leaving authorities unable to identify the driver. The local DAR chapter’s luncheon followed with guest speaker Mrs. Edward Lindsey of Warren telling humorous early American history.
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