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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1934
Page
6
A short item notes a Parasrak pair and a warmer feature. It mentions the device or product likely related to climate or heating. No further technical details are provided in the fragment. The piece reads like a minimal product mention or catalog line.
Erie County Sabbath School plans celebrate Attendance Day on May 8 with banners for churches reaching April 2, 1934 enrollment. Gasoline fumes prompted safety calls after sewer leaks near hotels. Local officials report cross-town skating hazards and civic updates from parishes, courts, and police. State Patrol notes February recoveries and vehicle seizures. church events include Knights Templar and Pythian Sisters installations and visits.
City Solicitor cites act 92 1983 and two points in ruling that the promotion of three fire truck drivers from Stanford Hose Company to truck driver positions is constitutional if the act applies to volunteer departments. If applied to volunteers, promotions fall under Section 8 and 9. The opinion concludes the appointments were absolutely legal.
Officials in Corry and the Union City area awaited word from Erie on resuming relief jobs suspended since the Civil Works Administration during the 1930s. A statewide re registration of unemployed workers and re assignment of CWA personnel sped plans to redecorate school buildings and gravel streets. Further project approvals were anticipated within a day or two as the Relief Works Division moved to relaunch stalled efforts.
Mrs Li lian Walla of Erie seeks a state pardon to become a citizen after a 15 year run in and out of jail on a subsistence charge. Born in Finland 32 years ago she was sentenced in February 1919 and paroled four years later. She has since married, according to the petition filed in Harrisburg.
The Corry Board of Education postponed action on the superintendent's salary, scheduling a special session for Thursday evening to gather input from all members. The administration and construction committee proposed a sliding scale: 3800 first year, 4000 second year, 4100 third year, and 4200 fourth year, with other business including coal bids and May tax levy discussion on the agenda.
In Warren on a Pleasant township road early Saturday a crash injured H C Donald of Orchard Street and killed Mrs Willigat Aleti of Lawn Avenue. Donald sustained serious internal injuries while Mae Scheckler was treated and discharged. A coroner's inquest was impaneled for recovery of two survivors. memorial services for Mrs Ellen will be held with interment at Galland Cemetery.
Jamestown forms a five member committee to study the city purchasing gas as a municipal utility. The move follows a message from Mayor Roberts and a Board of Public Utilities referral regarding an offer from George B. Irvine of Olean to supply gas. The group, appointed by President Harry Lindholm, will study distributing gas along with water and electric systems.
The Corry Business and Professional Women's Club met at Lillian Murray's Rome on Mott Street for a social and business session. A tureen dinner served for twenty followed a business meeting led by Mrs. Zelma Mulderick. Members voted five dollars to the hospital linen fund as part of the evening. Short topics from The Independent Woman were discussed and plans made for future events with Miss Ethel McCray hosting on Hast Smith Street.
Pittsburgh April 17 An 82 year old Sewickley physician Dr R J McCready appears in Allegheny county orphans court to challenge his wife’s 1.5 million dollar will. He seeks half the estate and argues a prenuptial agreement he signed should not limit his share to 1000 monthly.
Ex police officer William Jones, who retired a week ago after sixteen years as a trooper, will speak at the Golden Rule Club April dinner at St Edward's hall at 6.1 o'clock. PTA members will serve. The gathering will review Golden Rule Day sales, discuss road improvements, and outline future club activities.
Police sift meagre clues in the death of Arthur Todd the Belle Island reclusive millionaire. Investigators pursue a report he moved 5000 in New York securities before falling from a estate wall. Three theories center on suicide poisoning robbery or accident with a mysterious woman sighting.
The body of a drowned man found in an Erie harbor slip today was tentatively identified as George Smalley, who fell from the Dow Chemical Company steamboat last fall. Decomposition hindered positive ID, but Smalley was the only known missing person in the harbor area and clothing is being checked for confirmation.
Forty Hours Devotions begin at 10:30 a m Sunday at St Thomas church with a morning and evening schedule through Tuesday. Rev Francis J Graves and Rev Francis M OConnell lead. Rev Francis Hassett of Titusville to deliver the Sunday sermon. Mon speaker Rev James Powers of Mercyhurst College. Tue speaker Rev William Smith of Holy Rosary Erie.
Trotzky was ordered to depart France after French authorities conveyed the order through Interior Minister Albert Sarraut. He faced uncertain prospects of finding asylum in the Americas as Nazism and Fascism spread, with his presence causing cabinet tensions. He holed up, writing steadily and stopping deliveries to avoid exposure.
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