Corry Evening Journal Publisher and Address Details
Corry Evening Journal published daily except Sunday at West South Street Corry Pennsylvania. Arthur Colegrove publisher. National Advertising Representatives Fred Kimball Inc 67 West 46th Street New York Tribune Tower Building Chicago Chamber of Commerce Building Pittsburgh. Entered at Corry post office as second class mail matter. By mail five dollars per year by carrier three cents per copy fifteen cents per week. Advertising rates available on request.
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Corry Evening Journal
South Street
Corry
Waterway progress for Illinois Waterway barge canal
Congress supports the Illinois Waterway project from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. The Army Engineers head recommends federal takeover and completion. Illinois has appropriated 20 million dollars. about most already spent. Estimated federal cost to complete the nine foot channel is 7.5 million dollars with annual maintenance of 223 thousand dollars. A flow of 1,000 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan could be used without lowering lake levels. The plan aligns with broader national emphasis on internal waterway expansion and linking Mississippi with the Great Lakes.
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Congress
Lake Michigan
Chief of
Army Engineers
House Pit and Harbors Committee
Mlinois
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Higher Postage Rates Question Post Office Debts
Postmaster General Brown urges raising first class mail to 2 1/2 cents to close a 50 100,000 deficit in the department. He argues the post office should cover costs like a public utility, while critics doubt higher rates will boost mail volume or solve the financial problem.
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Brown
United States Post Office
Congress
Thumbs Down On Thumbers Lawmakers Target Hitchhiking
Resentment against thumbb-jerkers grows as Maine enacts a misdemeanor law punishing begging for a ride with fines and possible imprisonment. Florida cities consider similar rules while other states debate highway hitchhiking bans. An automobile club secretary warns that giving a ride is dangerous and could invite accidents and civil suits.
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Maine
Florida
Highway Post
Automobile Club
Answers to Yesterday's Questions Snapshot
Answers list covers five items: atmospheric pressure at sea level, Texas Governor's deposition over secession and oath, ruby value by color, building in Washington housing Congress, and the Black Republic country. It also provides yesterday's answers: 1 Nathan Hale 2 The Berbers of Africa 3 $70,000 4 Los Angeles 282,085 acres 5 About eight minutes.
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Texas
Washington
Congress
Black Republic
Nathan Hale
Africa
Europe
Los Angeles
Modern Fat Reduction Pill Prescription Promises Results
A vintage health ad touts a tablet method to trim fat without exercise or diet. It claims long usage, millions of boxes, and dramatic dress changes, urging readers to start losing weight now with Marmola at one shilling per box.
Twenty Years Ago From the Journal Files April 8 1910
The item reports new automobiles added to the local list and three new words received by H Whitmore. John Calkins drives a Charmers Detra t 30. J Weaver is elected president of the Stanford Hose Company. Frank D Catlin, once of the city, is praised as a booster by Montrose Cole Daily Press. The Erie express No 9 passes Corry without a stop, an unusual occurrence. Mrs Harriet Raymond returns from Conneaut Ohio where her son Guy Raymond lost a leg in a train fall. Illumination from a gas well on the Allen farm draws attention, with the well down about 1000 feet. Mrs Marvin Wight falls on Frederick street leaving the street car, seriously hurt but no bones broken. Arthur G Felk travels to Curry to install officers at a Corry meeting. Kane Republican.
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H. Whitmore
John— Calkins
Marvin Wight
Frederick Street
A Problem A Day B Shares Plums and Payment
A problem states A bought 10 plums and B shared with F who paid 12 cents for his share. Divide the 12e proportionally among A B and F based on each’s portion. The explanation then shifts to a cube painting puzzle counting corners edges and faces to determine smaller cubes.
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Cubs
Daily Lessons in English by W L Gordon
English lesson notes discuss common misuses pronunciation and spelling. It highlights words often confused such as patients and patience and lists synonyms like impede obstruct and hamper. The daily focus is expanding vocabulary with the word resilient defined as rebounding elastic and illustrated by a sentence about springs.
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W. L. Gordon
William Wallace Atterbury Pennsy magnate and war rail leader
William Wallace Atterbury, a renowned railroad executive and former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, rose from an apprentice at Altoona to its president by 1947. A Yale graduate with a Pi B in 1886, he directed U S military railroads in France during WWI and held many engineering and club honors, born January 31, 1866 in New Albany Indiana.
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William Wallace Atterbury
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Wiliam S. Ware
Atterbury
Yale
Altoona
Pennsy
U. S
France
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Masters in 17 divorce cases named in Erie court
Judge A P Ross appointed 17 masters to take testimony in as many divorce cases in Erie County. The list includes May Holby vs Willis Holby, Ray Leinhuis vs Beliska Woloszyn, Andrew Nowale vs Whrico Cozzoli, John Galbo vs Nellie Milner, John Himebaugh vs Chandler W Rees, William Mig Reba vs Sidney Rosenthal, James English vs Ada Goodwill, Blaine Kincaid vs Raymond Thomas, W L Peake vs Myrtle Manke, Charles Mertens Jr vs Salome McCloskey, Paul Rys vs Julia Debkowski, Walter Sennett vs Ida Seidel, Orson M Burns vs Verda Midkit, Louis Schlessinger vs Bernice Gzynski, J O Hertzler vs Emanuel Franklin, John Spaier vs Lillian Miller, Louis Schlessinger vs Merle Tuttle, Irma Tuttle, Fred Camp.
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Brie
A.P. Rosster
Erie County
May Holby
Willis Holby
Ray Leeinhuis
Wiadyslaw Woloszyn
Agaist
Beliska Woloszyn
Andrew Nowale
Whrico Cozzoli
Cozzoli
John Galbo
Nellie N. Milner
Charles B. Milner
John Himebaugh
Chandler W. Rees
Davis Rees
William Mig
Reba
Rosenthal
Sidney Rosenthal
James English
Ada Goodwill
Earl Goodwill Blaine Kincaid
Raymond '. Thomas
Bertha B. Thomas
W. L. Peake
Percy M. Manke
Myrtle Manke
Charles Mertens, Jr
Salome McCloskey
L. R. Mcloskey
Paul Rys
Julia Debkowski
Stanley Debkowski
Walter Sennett
B. Ida Seidel
William Seidel
Orson M. Burns
Verda. Midkit
John Midkit
Louis Schlessinger
Bernice Gzynski
William Musynski
Hertzler
Emanuel Franklin
Martha Tramklin
John Spaier
Lillian Miller
Howard
J. Miller
Merle Tuttle
Agai Irma Tuttle
Fred Camp
Beaten and Robbed by Three Hitch-Hikers
Roy Barnhart of McKeesport was knocked unconscious when stopping to pick up a pedestrian on the Pitcairn Wilmerding road. Two companions of the hitchhiker beat him with a revolver butt and stole $70 in cash, a diamond stickpin, diamond ring, and a watch. He recovered consciousness and believed the thieves fled in a car nearby.
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United Press
Mckeesport
Pitcairn-Wikner
Roy Barnhart
Keesport
Barnhart
Wilmerding
Ted
Funeral Services for Jay Woodworth in Carry
Relatives neighbors and friends attended funeral services for Jay Woodworth, longtime Carry resident, who died at home of typhoid fever. Rev H W Rengle led at United Brethren church. two songs by Mrs Prank Lillie and Mrs Merrill Lillie. Interment at Pine Grove cemetery with pallbearers named. Out-of-town attendees listed from Ashtabula Geneva Madison Cincinnati Akron and other areas.
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United Brethren Church
H. W. Rengle
Jay Woodworth
Prank Lillie
Merrill Lillie
Pine Grove
Cemet
Gearers
Melvin Shamburgh
Herley Grover
Grant Jarton
Dan Culver
Austin Tobnson
Mr. Davison
Out of the Cay
Ray Woiworth
C. R. Masher
William Bonbright
L. B. Masher
George Hayt
Prank Brown
Paul Glink
Som
Wool Oliver Perry
Harley Grover
Nellie Crow
Jal
Ashtabula
Mary Woodworth
Charles Woodworth
Florence
Harriet
Geneva
Chley
Alfred Mosher
Rasey
Akron
Burdett Tasey
Cincinnati
Charles Jones
Thompson
C. Paine
Madison
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J. Weaver
Stanford Hose Company
Frank D. Catlin
City
Montrose Cole, Daily Press
Erie Railroad
Harriet Raymond
Conneaut
Ohio
Guy Raymond
Allen Farm
Amos Williams
Tly Well
Athur G. Felk
Curry
Judge
Kane Republican
Piques
Crepes
Shan-Ray
Percales
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center St
MR. Young Man
Hotel
W. Park Place
Equrr
John W. Lambing
Mutual
Men’s Society
BIG Boys
Kirschbaum and Biltmore
Men's Athletic Union
N. Center St
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